95 YEARS AGO: Washington Senators storm back from 3-2 deficit to win Games 6 and 7 to claim 1924 World Series
The Washington Senators, champions of the American League, pose with President Calvin Coolidge on the White House lawn on September 2, 1924. To the right of President Coolidge are Walter Johnson and Clark Griffith, Goose Goslin is in the back row, fo ((Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - The fight isn’t over yet: At least that was the mentality of the 1924 Washington Senators, the only DC team to ever win an MLB World Series.
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Times were a little different then.
That year, Calvin Coolidge became the first president to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. J. Edgar Hoover was appointed the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And the first-ever Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York City.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge shaking hands with Washington Senators Pitcher Walter Johnson at Griffith Stadium in Washington DC. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
But what hasn’t changed is the District’s roaring passion for October baseball and the city’s resolve to never give up the fight.
A line of sleeping men waiting for the sale of World Series tickets at Griffith Stadium in Washington DC, on October 3, 1924 (left) and people lined up at the opening of the World Series in the District in 1924 (right). (Getty Images)
In the 1924 World Series, the Senators dropped a pivotal Game 5 to the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants) as the Giants defeated Washington’s ace and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Walter Johnson.
It was a devastating 6-2 loss against the Giants, a team that had won the World Series two years earlier. Sound familiar?
But Washington didn’t give up. It rebounded and willed its way to a gritty 2-1 Game 6 win.
Stanley 'Bucky' Harris playing for the Washington Senators, lands on home plate after scoring a run during Game 7 of the World Series in 1924. (Photo by APA/Getty Images)
In Game 7, the Senators were down 3-1 in the 8th inning before Bucky Harris, the manager for Washington and future Hall of Famer, tied the game up 3-3 on a lucky ground ball that took a “bad hop” on future Hall of Famer Fred Lindstrom.
Johnson stepped onto the mound in relief and pitched four scoreless innings as Washington scored in the bottom of the 12th inning to win the longest (in terms of innings) Game 7 in World Series history.
Walter Johnson pitches during the 1924 World Series. (Getty Images)
The Senators would make the World Series in 1925 and 1933 but did not win another championship in the District before the team moved to Minneapolis to become the Minnesota Twins in 1961.
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Do the current Washington Nationals have what it takes to win two more games on the road in Houston to claim the team’s first World Series? We’ll find out on Tuesday when Washington battles Houston in Game 6 of the World Series at 8 p.m.
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