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Cuyler's Double in Eighth Beats Walter Johnson in the Rain, Pirates Win World's Series, 9 to 7, October 15, 1925
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 15. The Pirates are champions of the world. Down three games to one, they came back to take the last three, and this afternoon at Forbes Field, under a drizzle that never let up, they beat the great Walter Johnson, 9 to 7, in the seventh and deciding game.
It did not look like Pittsburgh's day at the start. Washington scored four runs in the first inning, three walks and a pair of wild pitches doing most of the work, and Johnson fanned Cuyler and Barnhart in the home half. The Pirates got three back in the third, but the Senators answered with two more in the fourth on Joe Harris's double, and it stood 6 to 3.
From there the old master began to tire on a soggy mound. Carey and Cuyler doubled for a run in the fifth. In the seventh Carey doubled again and Pie Traynor drove a triple to deep right-center, and the score was tied at six.
Roger Peckinpaugh, the Washington shortstop, put his club ahead with a home run into left field in the eighth. It was a hard afternoon for him all the same. He made two errors today, eight for the Series, and the second of them, on a throw to second base with two out in the eighth, left the bases full for Kiki Cuyler.
Earl Smith and Carson Bigbee had already doubled to tie the game again. Cuyler fouled off four pitches, ran the count to two and two, and then lifted a long fly down the right field line that was ruled a double under the ground rules. Bigbee and Eddie Moore came home, and the Pirates led, 9 to 7.
Red Oldham pitched the ninth and struck out Sam Rice and Goose Goslin before a crowd of 42,856. Johnson went the whole way and was hit for fifteen safeties. Max Carey had four of them, three doubles and a single, and stole a base besides.