Joe Cronin, the major leagues' best shortstop, who'd given no evidence in this World Series of being anywhere near that status as a manager, came up to bat with two down in the bottom of the tenth and, worse still, with no one on base. Luque had already disposed of Goslin and Manush, but Cronin got his second straight hit off him, the only Washington player to get on base against "The Pride of Havana." Fred Schulte, who'd gone from hero to goat in a single inning, looked at four straight pitches and bumped Cronin along to second. Everything would rest on the shoulders of the lefthanded-hitting Joe Kuhel, a potent .322 slugger with 107 runs driven in during the season. Kuhel had entered the game batting .067 but had managed two hits in this contest. It wasn't to be his moment, though. He struck out, and the season was over.
For the old Giants manager, John McGraw, who'd been in professional baseball since 1891, the victory of the young manager, Bill Terry, was also his. Not well enough physically to continue to occupy his place in the dugout, McGraw nonetheless thought of this Giants team as his own. Before the beginning of the next season, he would be dead at age 60. As for the Senators, the players received their losers' share of $3,019.86 per man (it was $4,256.72 for the Giants), as receipts were the lowest for a World Series since 1922. The Series had been witnessed by fewer fans than any since 1918 despite the fact that, since that time, four Series had gone just four games.
As for the supporters of the losing side, they knew in their hearts that the favored team, the Washington Senators of 1933, was indeed the best team in all of baseball and should have won the Worls Series. The everlasting sentiment among the fans of the nation's capital was that the Nats had been victimized by bad breaks, ill-advised decisions, and worse umpiring. It was a cruel fate for what history shows was the best Washington Senators' baseball club ever. (The Washington Senators by Tom Deveaux.)
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