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In the sixth, Roger Peckinpaugh committed his fourth error in three games and it led to another Pittsburgh run, making the score 3-1. After Pie Traynor flied out to Sam Rice about 420 feet to the bleacher fence to open the inning, Glenn Wright bounced to Peckinpaugh, who made a bad relay to first. Wright eventually scored when pitcher Kremer got a base hit which took a freaky high bounce over second base. In the bottom of the inning, however, the Nats got one back very quickly when the lefty-hitting Goslin led off by pulling a home run into the right centerfield bleachers.

Alex Ferguson got out of the seventh inning, and the game, after retiring the Pirates in order for the first time. His departure was hastened because he was due to be the first batter in the next half inning. The veteran outfielder, Nemo Leibold, took a walk and was immediately lifted for pinch runner Earl McNeely. McNeely was now strictly relegated to a reserve role due to the emergence of Joe "Moon" Harris, who was having a great Series. After Clyde Barnhart made a fine catch off of a Sam Rice attempt at the left-field foul line, the Nats' peerless leader, Bucky Harris, beat out a single.

With the score 3-2 and men on first and second with just one out, the Pirates could not have been prepared for what came next. Goose Goslin, the Nats' best slugger, swung from the heels on the first pitch and missed -- the infielders were playing far back. Goslin then caught the defense by surprise, bunting along the third base line and loading the bases in the process. Joe Judge was next up, and his sac fly to center brought in McNeely with the tying run. Joe Harris was next and singled to left to put the Nats ahead for the first time in the game. The inning then ended in odd fashion when Buddy Myer got in the way of his own batted ball while outside the batter's box and was called out.

There was a much more unusual play in the eighth inning -- indeed one of the most bizarre plays in all of World Series history. Firpo Marberry, pitching for the first time in five weeks and yet called upon to protect a 4-3 lead in a World Series game, began wonderfully by striking out the first two Pirates to face him. Then Pirate catcher Earl Smith slammed a monster shot to the right centerfield bleachers. Sam Rice raced to the spot, extended his glove as far as he could, and definitely seemed to get it on the ball. But Rice's momentum carried him into the bleachers, behind the fence, and out of sight. He did not immediately re-emerge, and Pirates manager Bill McKechnie came bounding out of the dugout, protesting that Rice surely must have dropped the ball. Rice only had it in his possession now, McKechnie contended, because it had been handed back to him by a fan.

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