When the Nats take on the Houston Astros in Game 7 tonight, it will be just the third winner-take-all World Series game in Washington history. The Nats hope to make it two out of three.
In 1924, the Washington Senators won the city’s only World Series championship, when Walter Johnson came out of the bullpen in the ninth inning to win a 12-inning game against the New York Giants, after losing his two World Series starts.
Unfortunately the magic wore off the next year, in a mirror image for Johnson.
In the 1925 World Series, he won his first two first two starts against the Pirates but lost the seventh game in Pittsburgh, getting rocked for 15 hits and nine runs (five earned).