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Originally Posted by kcohen
We long suffering Washington fans have to pinch ourselves to make sure we're not dreaming. A win is a win, but how great would it have been on the final play had Laroche hit a grounder to 3rd with the ball taking a bad hop over Sandoval's head.
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If anyone is wondering what Ken meant by this comment, the Senators were trailing the NY Giants 3-1 in the bottom of the eighth inning of the 7th game of the 1924 World Series when Bucky Harris hit a routine ground ball to third which hit a pebble and took a bad hop over Giants third baseman Freddie Lindstrom. Two runners scored on the play, tying the score at three. Walter Johnson then came in to pitch the ninth, and held the Giants scoreless into extra innings. With the score still 3–3, Washington came up in the bottom of the twelfth. With one out, and runners on first and second,
Earl McNeely (whom the Senators had acquired from Sacramento in early August) hit another grounder at Lindstrom, and again the ball took a bad hop, scoring Muddy Ruel with the Series-winning run, making Johnson the winning pitcher and giving Washington its only W.S. Championship, that is, until 2012 (come October, the Nationals will be good enough to beat the Yankees!).
Val