Washington DC Baseball

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Again in the top of the sixth, with the Giants still ahead 2-0, New York's first batter, outfielder Kiddo Davis, got a hit off Crowder, this time a double down the leftfield line. Travis Jackson sacrificed Davis along, but it was unnecessary because Gus Mancuso then slammed a double beyond Schulte's reach in Griffith Stadium's very deep center field. This put New York up three runs and knocked Crowder out of the game. Second-guessing aside, everyone in the park then knew that the Senators really had squandered an opportunity to get on the board in the previous half inning.

Jack Russell, who'd allowed but four hits and no walks in 5.2 innings so far in the Series, was brought in. He threw seven pitches and struck out Blondy Ryan and Hal Schumacher to put an end to the Giants' festivities. The downcast crowd was soon upbeat again. In the bottom of the sixth, after Myer and Goslin made routine outs, Heinie Manush and Joe Cronin hit back-to-back singles. Fred Schulte, 1-for-2 and batting .294 for the Series as he stepped up to the plate, then crunched a Schumacher offering and sent it sailing into the left field pavilion for a three-run homer. It was 3-3, just like that.

Now it was anybody's ballgame, and the Nats were showing signs of wanting to make it theirs. Joe Kuhel followed Schulte with a hard smash along the ground that rattled off second baseman Hughie Critz's legs. The ball was hit solidly enough for Kuhel to be credited with a base hit by the official scorer. Ossie Bluege then shot a hot potato toward third that sent Jackson scrambling, but the veteran came up with it. His throw to first was wild, pulling Bill Terry off the bag and allowing Joe Kuhel to bring the tie-breaking run as far as third.

Terry had seen enough, as Prince Hal had given up five consecutive hits, with the latter three crushed particularly hard. A new player was introduced into this Series. Terry called in 43-year-old Cuban Dolph Luque. A Caucasian, Luque had been a big star in American baseball in the 1920s. Having first come to the States in 1912, he'd had a couple of unsuccessful trials with the Boston National League club before catching on with the wartime Cincinnati Reds. He'd won 189 regular-season games since that time, and had shown consistency despite winning 20 or more only once -- in 1923, when he won 27 and led the league in earned run average, which he did again in 1925.

Washington Senators' 1933 Infield Quartet -- Ossie Bluege (3B), Joe Cronin (SS), Buddy Myer (2B), and Joe Kuhel (1B):

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