Harris was going to sink or swim with his big man. Johnson, with the rain still driving and the score now 7-7 with two out, walked Johnny Moore. With men on first and second, Max Carey, 4-for-4 in this game, slapped the ball on the ground toward Peckinpaugh. It is easy to guess what happened next. Peck did manage to get his hands on the ball, and to field it cleanly even. He went for the force-out at second to end the inning. His short relay was off line. All baserunners were safe. This eighth error, the most costly of them all, set a World Series record that has withstood the test of time and kept the name of Peckinpaugh, a truly outstanding player, in ignominy as we enter the 21st century.
With the stations all occupied, Walter Johnson worked the count to 2-and-2 on the next batter, Kiki Cuyler, before pouring a ball down the middle which appeared waist high. Walter walked off the mound and catcher Ruel hoisted his mask off as if the inning was finally over. But the pitch was called a ball. The debacle was complete a moment later when Cuyler smoked a ground-rule double, the Pirates' eighth two-bagger of the game, into the crowd in right field. Two runs scored, and hearts were sinking in the Nats' dugout. The sounds of celebration reverberated all around them in raucous Forbes Field. Before anyone knew it, the Nats had gone down in order against Pirates reliever Red Oldham, with both Rice, who hit .364 for the Series, and Goslin, who hit .308, taking called third strikes. The unthinkable had happened. The Nats had dropped an unprecedented three World Series games in a row and lost the World Series.
It was Goose Goslin who had been the closest human being to Kiki Cuyler's game-winning hit. Goslin said that the umpires couldn't see the ball at all, it was so dark and foggy. The ball had fallen two feet foul, Goose maintained. How could he be so sure? The ball, he insisted, had fallen in the mid and stuck there! As Goslin was to point out many years later, the good Lord took, in the 1925 World Series, what He had given in 1924, and what the Goose was talking about was just plain old Lady Luck.
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