October 2004 in sports Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
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(FIFAWorldCup.Yahoo.com). Next matchday: 17 November.
- NBA pre-season: The Washington Wizards defeat the Charlotte Bobcats, 128-126 in double overtime, despite Jason Hart's game tying three point shot with one second to go in the first overtime.
October 13, 2004
- Baseball:
- American League Championship Series, Game 2: The New York Yankees take a 2-0 lead over the Boston Red Sox. In a 3-1 win, Jon Lieber outpitches Red Sox star Pedro Martinez. John Olerud hits a two-run homer for the Yankees. (ESPN)
- National League Championship Series, Game 1: In the series opener, the St. Louis Cardinals break open a 4-4 game with six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, and hold on for a 10-7 win over the Houston Astros. (ESPN)
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifying
- Qatar 2 - 3 Iran
- Thailand 3 - 0 United Arab Emirates
- Singapore 2 - 0 India
- Hong Kong 2 - 0 Malaysia
- Tajikstan 2 - 1 Kyrgyzstan
- Kuwait 1 - 0 China PR
- Oman 0 - 1 Japan
- Maldives 3 - 0 Vietnam
- North Korea 2 - 1 Yemen
- Iraq 1 - 2 Uzbekistan
- Laos 2 - 3 Jordan
- Syria 2 - 2 Bahrain
- Lebanon 1 - 1 South Korea
- Uzbekistan, Japan, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia clinch first place in their group, and advance to Stage 3.
- FIFA World Cup European Qualifying
- Italy 4 - 3 Belarus
- Netherlands 3 - 1 Finland
- Luxembourg 0 - 4 Liechtenstein
- Armenia 0 - 3 Czech Republic
- Moldova 1 - 1 Scotland
- Lithuania 0 - 0 Spain
- Serbia and Montenegro 5 - 0 San Marino
- Cyprus 0 - 2 France
- Azerbaijan 0 - 1 England
- Portugal 7 - 1 Russia
- Latvia 2 - 2 Estonia
- Kazakhstan 0 - 1 Albania
- Iceland 1 - 4 Sweden
- Bulgaria 4 - 1 Malta
- Andorra 1 - 0 Macedonia
- Ukraine 2 - 0 Georgia
- Norway 3 - 0 Slovenia
- Republic of Ireland 2 - 0 Faroe Islands
- Denmark 1 - 1 Turkey
- Wales 2 - 3 Poland
- Northern Ireland 3 - 3 Austria
- FIFA World Cup South American Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup CONCACAF Qualifying
- Guatemala 1 - 0 Honduras
- Mexico 3 - 0 Trinidad and Tobago
- St. Kitts and Nevis 0 - 3 St. Vincent / Grenadines
- Canada 1 - 3 Costa Rica
- Jamaica 0 - 0 El Salvador
- USA 6 - 0 Panama
- United States, Guatemala and Mexico clinch places in the final stage of qualifying.
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- FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifying
October 12, 2004
- Baseball
- American League Championship Series Game 1: Mike Mussina of the New York Yankees has his perfect game broken up in the 7th inning, and the Boston Red Sox rally to within 8-7, but the Yankees win 10-7 to take a 1-0 series lead. Mariano Rivera, who attended the funeral of two members of his wife's family in Panama earlier in the day, returns in time to record the save. Red Sox key starting pitcher Curt Schilling is markedly off his game, due to an ankle injury which was aggravated during the ALDS. (ESPN)
- American League Championship Series Game 1: Mike Mussina of the New York Yankees has his perfect game broken up in the 7th inning, and the Boston Red Sox rally to within 8-7, but the Yankees win 10-7 to take a 1-0 series lead. Mariano Rivera, who attended the funeral of two members of his wife's family in Panama earlier in the day, returns in time to record the save. Red Sox key starting pitcher Curt Schilling is markedly off his game, due to an ankle injury which was aggravated during the ALDS. (ESPN)
- Basketball
- WNBA Finals: The Seattle Storm defeat the Connecticut Sun 74-60 behind 23 points from Betty Lennox. The Storm won the best-of-three series 2-1, and Lennox was named Finals Most Valuable Player. Storm coach Anne Donovan becomes the first woman to coach a WNBA champion. (ESPN)
- WNBA Finals: The Seattle Storm defeat the Connecticut Sun 74-60 behind 23 points from Betty Lennox. The Storm won the best-of-three series 2-1, and Lennox was named Finals Most Valuable Player. Storm coach Anne Donovan becomes the first woman to coach a WNBA champion. (ESPN)
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup South American Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifying
October 11, 2004
- Baseball:
- National League Division Series: The Houston Astros win a postseason series for the first time in the franchise's 43-year history, crushing the Atlanta Braves 12-3 in the fifth and deciding game of their series. Carlos Beltrán leads the Astros' offense with two home runs. (ESPN)
- National Football League Week 5, Monday Night Football: Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair completes 15 of 26 passes for 206 yards as the Titans give the Green Bay Packers their third consecutive home loss 48-27.
October 10, 2004
- Formula One: In a dominating performance, Michael Schumacher wins his 13th race of the season at the Japanese Grand Prix. His brother Ralf holds off Jenson Button for second. (BBC)
- Baseball:
- National League Division Series:
- The Atlanta Braves even their series with the Houston Astros at two games apiece, ending the Astros' 19-game home winning streak with a 6-5 win. Rafael Furcal scores the winning run in the ninth on a single from J.D. Drew. (ESPN)
- The St. Louis Cardinals win their series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 games to 1, with a 6-2 win. Albert Pujols breaks open a 2-2 game with a three-run homer in the fourth inning. (ESPN)
- New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera returns to Panama City, Panama after two relatives of his wife were electrocuted while cleaning the swimming pool at his home there. (ESPN)
- 1996 National League Most Valuable Player Ken Caminiti dies of a heart attack at age 41. (KGTV via Yahoo!)
- National League Division Series:
- National Football League Week 5:
- The New England Patriots set a record for the number of consecutive NFL games ever won, at 19, after beating the Miami Dolphins 24-10.
- The Seattle Seahawks take their first loss of the season, against the St. Louis Rams. St. Louis scores 17 points in the final six minutes of regulation to tie the Seahawks, and go on to beat the Seahawks 33-27 in overtime.
- The Atlanta Falcons also take their first loss, to the Detroit Lions. The San Francisco 49ers get their first win by beating the Arizona Cardinals in overtime.
- Marathon: Eurasia Marathon: David Kiptanui, (26) from Kenya wins in 2:18:19 before Konstantin Permitin (Константин Пермитин), (36) of Russia (2:18:25) and Yuriy Hychun, (27) from Ukraine (2:18:35). In the womens' category, Russian Svetlana Demidenko (Светлана Демиденко), (28) wins in 2:36:44 before her compatriots Zhanna Malkova (Жанна Малкова), (36) in 2:39:36 and Olga Glok (Ольга Глок), (21) in 2:42:45. (Istanbul Marathon)
- WNBA: The Seattle Storm even their best-of-three championship series with the Connecticut Sun at one game apiece, winning 67-65. The Sun's Nykesha Sales sets a WNBA Finals record with 32 points, but misses a three-pointer at the buzzer that would have won the game. Betty Lennox leads the Storm with 27 points; Lauren Jackson racks up a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds. (ESPN)
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup South American Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup African Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup North / Central American & Caribbean Qualifying
October 9, 2004
- Baseball:
- American League Division Series:
- The New York Yankees win their series against the Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 1, with a 6-5 win in 10 innings. The Yankees come back from a 5-1 deficit with four runs in the eighth inning, capped by a three-run home run from Ruben Sierra. In the top of the 10th inning, Alex Rodriguez scores the winning run on a wild pitch. (ESPN)
- National League Division Series:
- The Los Angeles Dodgers stay alive in their series against the St. Louis Cardinals, winning 4-0 behind a complete-game shutout by Jose Lima. The Dodgers, who now trail 2 games to 1 in the series, get their runs via a two-run double from Steve Finley and two solo homers from Shawn Green. (ESPN)
- The Houston Astros win their 19th consecutive home game to take a 2 games to 1 series lead over the Atlanta Braves, winning 8-5. The Astros' offense is sparked by Carlos Beltrán, who goes 2-for-5 with a two-run homer. (ESPN)
- American League Division Series:
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup European Qualifying
- FYR Macedonia 2 - 2 Holland
- Czech Republic 1 - 0 Romania
- Finland 3 - 1 Armenia
- Albania 0 - 2 Denmark
- Turkey 4 - 0 Kazakhstan
- Ukraine 1 - 1 Greece
- Liechtenstein 2 - 2 Portugal
- Slovakia 4 - 1 Latvia
- Luxembourg 0 - 4 Russia
- France 0 - 0 Rep of Ireland
- Israel 2 - 2 Switzerland
- Cyprus 2 - 2 Faroe Islands
- Slovenia 1 - 0 Italy
- Belarus 4 - 0 Moldova
- Scotland 0 - 1 Norway
- Austria 1 - 3 Poland
- Azerbaijan 0 - 0 Northern Ireland
- England 2 - 0 Wales
- Spain 2 - 0 Belgium
- Bosnia Herzegovina 0 - 0 Serbia and Montenegro
- Croatia 2 - 2 Bulgaria
- Malta 0 - 0 Iceland
- Sweden 3 - 0 Hungary
- FIFA World Cup South American Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup African Qualifying
- FIFA World Cup North / Central American & Caribbean Qualifying
- Panama 1 - 1 Jamaica
- Costa Rica 5 - 0 Guatemala
- El Salvador 0 - 2 USA
- Honduras 1 - 1 Canada
- FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifying
- Sri Lanka 2 - 2 Turkmenistan (FIFAWorldCup.Yahoo.com)
- Sri Lanka 2 - 2 Turkmenistan (FIFAWorldCup.Yahoo.com)
- FIFA World Cup European Qualifying
October 8, 2004
- Baseball: American League Division Series
- The Boston Red Sox complete a three-game sweep of the Anaheim Angels. The Red Sox take a 6-1 lead after six innings, but the Angels even the game with five runs in the seventh, punctuated by a grand slam from Vladimir Guerrero. The game goes into extra innings; in the bottom of the 10th inning, David Ortiz hits a two-run walk-off home run to win the game 8–6, ending the series. (ESPN)
- The New York Yankees take a 2-1 lead in their series against the Minnesota Twins with an 8-4 win. The Yankees erase an early 1-0 Twins lead with three runs on four consecutive two-out singles in the second inning, and later add home runs from Bernie Williams and Hideki Matsui. Kevin Brown pitches six innings for the win. (ESPN)
- NFL: The league announces that Jamal Lewis, who pleaded guilty yesterday to trying to set up a cocaine deal in 2000, will be suspended for two games without pay, and in addition will be fined two weeks' salary. This action will cost Lewis approximately $760760,000. (ESPN)
- WNBA:
- In the first game of the best-of-three championship series, the Connecticut Sun beat the Seattle Storm 68-64. Sun rookie Lindsay Whalen barely misses a double-double, scoring 11 points and dishing out nine assists. Katie Douglas leads the Sun with 18 points. The Storm are led by Betty Lennox with 17 points and Lauren Jackson with 16. (ESPN)
- Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie is named the league's MVP for the second time. (ESPN) The All-WNBA team is also named; Leslie is joined on the first team by:
- Lauren Jackson, Seattle Storm
- Tina Thompson, Houston Comets
- Sue Bird, Seattle Storm
- Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Mercury
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup African Qualifying
October 7, 2004
- Baseball: National League Division Series
- The Atlanta Braves even their series with the Houston Astros 4-2 in 11 innings. Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal hits a game-winning walk-off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to even the series at one game apiece.
- The St. Louis Cardinals take a 2-0 lead in their series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, winning by the same 8-3 score as in Game 1.
- NFL: Baltimore Ravens star running back Jamal Lewis, who was scheduled to go on trial on federal charges of conspiracy to deal cocaine, pleads guilty to a lesser charge of using a cellular phone to set up a drug deal. Under the plea agreement, Lewis will serve four months in a federal prison and two months in a halfway house after the end of the 2004 NFL season. (ESPN)
October 6, 2004
- Baseball:
- The Houston Astros open their National League Division Series matchup with the Atlanta Braves 8-3. In the later games, the New York Yankees needed 12 innings to defeat the Minnesota Twins 7-6 to even their series at one game apiece and the Boston Red Sox defeat the Anaheim Angels 4-3 and take a 2 games to 0 lead.
- Sammy Sosa is fined USD 87,400 for arriving late to the Chicago Cubs final game of the regular season and for leaving the game early. (ESPN)
- Football:
- FIFA World Cup North / Central American & Caribbean Qualifying
October 5, 2004
- Baseball: The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-3 in the first game of a best-of-five National League Division Series, while the Boston Red Sox defeat the Anaheim Angels 9-3, and the Minnesota Twins defeat the New York Yankees 2-0, in the opening game of their respective American League Division Series. The Twins break a post-season record with 5 double plays and the Cardinals break an NLDS record with 5 home runs.
- Football: The draw for the group stage of the 2005 UEFA Cup takes place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. (UEFA.com) Results:
- Group A: Basel, Ferencváros, Feyenoord, Hearts, Schalke
- Group B: Athletic Bilbao, Beşiktaş, Parma, Standard Ličge, Steaua Bucharest
- Group C: Austria Vienna, Club Brugge, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Utrecht, Real Zaragoza
- Group D: Dinamo Tbilisi, Newcastle United, Panionios, Sochaux, Sporting Lisbon
- Group E: Egaleo, Lazio, Middlesbrough, Partizan Belgrade, Villarreal
- Group F: Amica Wronki, Auxerre, AZ Alkmaar, Grazer AK, Rangers
- Group G: Benfica, Beveren, Dinamo Zagreb, Heerenveen, VfB Stuttgart
- Group H: AEK Athens, Alemannia, Lille, Sevilla, Zenit St. Petersburg
- Basketball:
- NBA: Scottie Pippen, who starred alongside Michael Jordan for all of the Chicago Bulls' six NBA championships in the 1990s, announces his retirement. (ESPN)
- WNBA: Sue Bird recovers from a collapse the day before, and the Seattle Storm defeat the Sacramento Monarchs, 82-62, to win their series, 2 to 1 and advance to the WNBA Finals, against the Connecticut Sun. (WNBA)
- NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt Jr is fined $1010,000 and penalized 25 championship points for cursing during a television interview after his Sunday win at Talladega Superspeedway. The points penalty knocks him out of the lead in the race for the series championship. (ESPN)
October 4, 2004
- Boxing: Ricardo Mayorga retires from boxing, following his eighth round knockout loss against Felix Trinidad.
- National Football League Week 4, Monday Night Football: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Baltimore Ravens 27 to 24.
- Football: FC Zurich striker Cleonicio dos Santos Silva, better known as Renato, is killed by gunmen attempting to steal his car in Rio de Janeiro. His girlfriend is also injured. (ESPN)
October 3, 2004
- National Football League Week 4:
- The New England Patriots tie an NFL record by winning their 18th game in a row, 31-17 over the Buffalo Bills. (Yahoo/AP)
- The Houston Texans win two games in a row for the first time in franchise history with a 30-17 win over the Oakland Raiders. (Yahoo/AP)
- Baseball:
- On the last day of the season, the Houston Astros clinch a playoff berth with a 5-3 win over the Colorado Rockies at Minute Maid Park, their 18th straight victory at home.
- Seattle Mariners designated hitter Edgar Martinez goes 0 for 4 in his last career game.
- Former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher and broadcaster John Cerutti dies of natural causes at age 44. (Toronto Blue Jays)
- The Montreal Expos play their last-ever game under that moniker, losing 8 to 1 to the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.
- Rugby League: The Canterbury Bulldogs defeat the Sydney Roosters 16 to 13 to win their first NRL championship.
October 2, 2004
- Baseball: The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the San Francisco Giants 7-3 on a walkoff grand slam from Steve Finley. The Anaheim Angels defeat the Oakland Athletics 5-4. The Dodgers and Anaheim clinched the NL West and AL West division titles, respectively. The Athletics were eliminated from playoff contention.
- Boxing: in what some experts are already calling the fight of the year, Felix Trinidad rises from a knockdown in round three and drops Ricardo Mayorga three times in round eight to score an eighth round knockout. (Boxing Central) (See: Trinidad versus Mayorga)
- Former WBO world Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko also recovers from a knockdown, to defeat DaVarrill Williamson by a fifth round technical decision.
October 1, 2004
- Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki sets the major league record for base hits in a season, breaking George Sisler's 84 year old record of 257 base hits. Yahoo! Sports
- Sports magazines: Sports Illustrated releases its 50th anniversary issue.
- Basketball: DeMya Walker of the Sacramento Monarchs sinks a shot as time run out in overtime, to lift the Monarchs to a 74-72 win and a 1-0 lead over the Seattle Storm, in their WNBA western conference finals series. Walker's shot seemed to have gotten stuck on the back of the rim, then the ball moved slightly and went into the basket as time had expired.(WNBA)
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