Washington Nationals defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 7-4, to complete a 4-game sweep of the NL Championship Series and bring the nation's capital its first pennant since 1933.
Once the Montreal Expos, the Nats relocated from Canada to the District of Columbia in 2005 where it's flourished. The Nationals have posted eight consecutive winning years and sold an average of 2.5 million tickets in those campaign, consistently top half of Major League Baseball attendance.
Ryan Zimmerman #11 celebrates scoring with Howie Kendrick #47 of the Washington Nationals in the first inning against the St. Louis Cardinals during game four of the National League Championship Series at Nationals Park in Washington, DC on Oct. 15, 2019.The team has captured the imagination of Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia, while encroaching north on Maryland sports consumers who were once overwhelmingly Baltimore Orioles fans.
The Nationals hope to do what their District of Columbia predecessors, the Washington Senators of the American League, could accomplish only once in more than a half-century of existence. The Senators, who moved to become the Minnesota Twins in 1961, won just one World Series, in 1924. The Senators won AL titles in 1925 and 1933 but were almost always distant also-rans to powerhouse Yankees teams of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.famously typed of the Senators:"Washington — first in war, first in peace, and last in the American League."
The Senators perennial losing to the Yankees inspired the book that became Richard Adler and Jerry Ross' iconic Broadway smash,"Damn Yankees."for best musical told the story of a long-suffering Senators fan, who wants to see his team win the AL flag just once against the seemingly invincible Yankees.Another"Washington Senators" team was placed in the nation's capital for 11 seasons between 1961 and 1971 and were even worse than their predecessors.
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