Less than 24 hours after a 14-inning, six-hour affair mercifully ended in a White Sox victory, the 2005 team took the field for Game 4 just one win away from a World Series championship. A commanding 3-0 lead in the series certainly instilled the club with confidence, but the Red Sox 3-0 comeback over the Yankees just a year earlier showed that this series wasn’t over yet.
The White Sox turned to Freddy Garcia to provide some length in Game 4 after a long game exhausted their bullpen the night before. For the Astros, 27-year-old right-hander Brandon Backe took the hill.