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The road team won every game in the 2019 World Series. Game 7 was in Houston — and Washington still found a way. Howie Kendrick's grand slam, a 6–2 lead held, and the first championship in Nationals history. The whole night on one scorecard.

2019 World Series Game 7 hand-lettered scorecard — Nationals vs Astros, Howie Kendrick grand slam

Nationals — 2019 World Series · Game 7

The Nationals were 19–31 in May. They fired their hitting coach in mid-season. They went on a run to win the Wild Card, then beat Milwaukee, the Dodgers, and St. Louis to reach the World Series. Game 7 in Houston: the Astros scored two in the second. Howie Kendrick hit a go-ahead grand slam in the seventh — off the foul pole. The Nationals held on for a 6–2 win. The whole game, every at-bat, the comeback inning-by-inning, on one scorecard.

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The comeback no one saw coming

No World Series champion has started a season as poorly as the 2019 Nationals — 19 wins and 31 losses through late May, nearly a game per day below .500. What turned it around isn't fully explainable. They got healthy. They got hot. Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg started pitching the way scouts said they would. Juan Soto, 20 years old, became one of the best hitters in baseball in the second half. By the time they made the postseason, they had all the momentum.

Every game of the 2019 World Series was won by the road team — an occurrence that had never happened before in baseball history. Nationals fans watching Game 7 in Houston somehow believed it was going to happen again. And it did. The Kendrick grand slam off the foul pole in the seventh inning is the moment the whole thing turned, and the scorecard captures it: who was on base, the inning, the sequence of outs, everything that led to it.

Scherzer, Strasburg, Rendon — a team built for one run

The 2019 Nationals were built around Max Scherzer, one of the most dominant pitchers of his era, and Stephen Strasburg, who was so good in the 2019 postseason that he won World Series MVP on a team with Scherzer. Anthony Rendon hit .412 in the World Series. This was a collection of genuine stars who hit their peak at exactly the right moment.

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