Just before the start of the 2003 season, the Walt Disney Company sold the Angels for $180 million to business man Arte Moreno. Nevertheless, the 2002 World Series win began the most successful era in Angels franchise history, making six postseason appearances from 2002–2009. Before 2002 they had been to the postseason three times in franchise history (1979, 1982, and 1986). They advanced to the ALCS in 2005 and 2009, but lost those series respectively to the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees, each while en route to their own World Series championship. The Angels were the most recent team to win the championship in its first World Series appearance until the Washington Nationals accomplished the feat in ; between 2002 and 2019, all first-time World Series participants would lose—the Houston Astros in , Colorado Rockies in , Tampa Bay Rays in , and Texas Rangers in .