Nationals win first World Series title, storming back on Astros in Game 7, 6-2. Suddenly, it was all over, and the blue-jersey visitors were spilling and screaming out of every corner of Minute Maid Park – from their dugout along the third base line, the bullpen in left field, the expanse of outfield, all four corners of the diamond – and converging upon the joyous pile of humanity forming near the center. Once the Washington Nationals had no more giant mountains to climb, they took the small dirt hill of the pitcher’s mound, and they hugged and bounced. With one more comeback win, at the end of a comeback season for the ages, the Nationals were World Series champions. A 6-2 victory over the Houston Astros in Game 7 on Wednesday night sealed it, delivering the first baseball title for the nation’s capital since Walter Johnson’s Senators won their only one in 1924. The fight lasted as long as it possibly could, through the final date on the baseball calendar. Washington had waited 95 years for another World Series champion. But the wait is over. The next time anyone sees this team, it will be at the championship parade down Constitution Avenue on Saturday.
