Chicago White Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks celebrates win over Houston Astors in Game 4 of Major League Baseball's 2005 World Series in Houston, Texas October 26, 2005. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Jermaine Dye's late run-scoring single was enough to give the Chicago White Sox a 1-0 victory over the Houston Astros on Wednesday and a first World Series title in 88 years with a four-game sweep.

The outfielder's eighth-inning hit, a ground ball through the middle off Houston reliever Brad Lidge, drove in Willie Harris from third to break a scoreless tie.

Dye earned Most Valuable Player honors for the series.

The starting pitchers, considered the fourth-best options from two talented starting rotations, turned in the finest mound duel of the series.

Houston's Brandon Backe and Chicago's Freddy Garcia, who earned the win, each struck out seven batters and yielded no runs in seven innings.

The Astros finished the 44-year-old franchise's first World Series by going scoreless in their final 15 innings as they became the 19th team to suffer a championship sweep.

The White Sox had not appeared in a Fall Classic since 1959 and last won the title in 1917.

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