In 1933, Luque still had a very good curve, and retained the meanness and guile which allowed him to last 20 years in the major leagues. Luke Sewell, who would hit just .176 in these games, was the first to toe in against the 5'7" portsider. Kuhel and Bluege were left stranded at their stations, as Luque got Sewell to ground out to Critz at second. But the Senators were so much better off than they'd been minutes before.
Jack Russell continued to pitch well, and so did Luque. They coasted through the next three innings, with Russell yielding three inconsequential singles and Luque one. For the second day in a row and the fourth time in 12 games dating back to 1924, a World Series game between these two clubs would be decided in extra innings -- and decided suddenly.
After Russell obtained two easy outs, he served up a pitch to Mel Ott that "Master Melvin" expelled with a long arc toward deep center field. Fred Schulte, the Senators' man of the hour, had a bead on the ball, tracked it, and got his glove on it. Just as he did, he came into collision with the wall and when he did, the ball plopped into the first row of the bleachers. It was a home run. Or was it?
The umpire at second base, Charles Pfirman, thought the ball had bounced off the ground and over the fence, and when Mel Ott reached second, Pfirman stopped him there. Bill Terry came storming out of the Giants' dugout, and Pfirman was coerced into consulting with the plate umpire, who happened to be the crew chief, Charley Moran. With the approbation of Moran, who'd been much further from the play than Pfirman, the call was reversed. It was the right call, though, and the Nats faced elimination as never before in this game.
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