What a way to make history!
In what will go down as one of the all-time great World Series Game 7s, the Rays scored three times in the bottom of the 9th to come from behind and beat Washington 6-5 to take their fifth straight World Series championship, tying the 1949-53 Yankees for the longest such run. Dave Frick had the game of his life, hitting a pair of 2-run homers and an RBI double including the game-tying round-tripper in the bottom of the 9th and was deservedly named Series MVP. The winning run came after Frick's homer when two batters later Mario Saro singled, stole second, went to third on a bad throw by the catcher, and scored on Seth Williams' sac fly to set off pandemonium at Publix Park. Saro wasn't even supposed to be in the game but was pressed into duty when Dan Gregory was injured (not seriously) in the 1st inning. Until that 9th it looked like more of the same in the home games in this series as Washington was getting all the key hits and keeping the Rays' lethal offense in check outside of Frick. Despite his line, Marc Gibson pitched well as 2 of the 3 runs he allowed came after he left the game, and the bullpen "big 3" of Satoshi Sato, Ben Moses and Willie Minier did their jobs to keep the game in reach.
The win by the Rays was also the first by a home team in this series and the first in the last 13 World Series games the Nationals have played after their experience in 2019.
Here's a look at the scene after the winning run scored, please ignore the Play-by-Play which is still messed up on walk-offs in OOTP23:
