With men on first and second and just one out in the bottom of the ninth, Ralph Miller hit into a double play. Walter Johnson headed for extra innings, as he'd done in the first game, and walked the first batter in the tenth, Hack Wilson. He then struck put Travis Jackson, who looked at strike three, and enticed receiver Hank Gowdy to bounce to the mound to start a double play. With one out in the bottom of the tenth, everyone's heart surged up to their throats -- Walter Johnson slugged a fly to left center that looked like it had a chance to go out. It didn't, as Hack Wilson pulled it in about ten feet in front of the fence.
After Earl McNeely struck out to send the Nats down in order, Johnson allowed a lead-off single in the top of the 11th to Heinie Groh, who was pinch hitting for starter McQuillan. After Lindstrom sacrificed, Johnson fanned Frank Frisch, one of the toughest men to strike out in baseball history, who took an off-balance swipe at a roundhouse curve which moved far out of the strike zone. To this day one of the all-time best hitters among second baseman, Frisch had struck out only 24 times during the regular season, the second-highest total of his 19-year career. After again walking Ross Youngs intentionally (Youngs' fourth walk of the game), Johnson then struck out the N.L.'s top RBI man, Long George Kelly, once again. Everyone in the park went batty.
Big Jack Bentley came in to try and stop the Nats in the bottom of the 11th. One run of course, and the Nats would be World Champions. The intensity was palpable, and the crowd remained on its feet. Harris and Rice, the first two batters, both flied out -- Rice hit the ball a long way, to Hack Wilson in deep left center. Goose Goslin then deposited a Texas Leaguer into right field for a double. In an odd bit of strategy, John McGraw then instructed his lefthander, Jack Bentley, to put lefty Joe Judge on intentionally in favor of righthander Ossie Bluege. With Bluege up with a chance to win it, the superior-fielding Ross Youngs moved to left, and Irish Meusel went to right. The maneuver had no bearing on what happened next, as Bluege hit the ball on the ground to short, and the potential insurgence was snuffed out.
For the third straight inning, the first Giant got on against Johnson, as Irish Meusel singled to right to open the 12th, and for the fourth straight inning, the Giants would not score, as Barney mowed them down. He registered his fifth strikeout against Hack Wilson. By this point, Walter Johnson conceded later, he'd gotten it into his mind that maybe this would be his day after all.
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