Ranking every World Series winners in history

By Staff | Nov 3, 2015

UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 05: Brooklyn Dodgers president Walter O'Malley and his manager, Walter Alston, exchange hugs and grins after bringing Brooklyn its first World Series championship in history. Flock did it the hard way, winning the final game in Yankee Stadium. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) /

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Washington Senators, Major League Baseball Team, Team Portrait with Walter Johnson (center), Griffith Stadium, Washington DC, USA, circa 1924. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) /

79. 1924 Washington Senators

92-62, AL Champions, Won World Series 4-3 Over New York

The Washington Senators didn’t have a very prestigious baseball history, and won the American League pennant only three times before the franchise moved to Minnesota prior to the 1961 season. However, the first Senators team to win the AL title also won the World Series (the only World Championship for the club while it resided in the nation’s capital), in a dramatic seven-game showdown with the heavily favored New York Giants.

Though the great Walter Johnson (23-7, 2.72) was his usual tremendous self during the regular season, and won the AL MVP Award for the second time while helping the Senators post a 92-62 record, Johnson lost his only two starts in the World Series. He did, however, pick up a win in relief in Game 7, entering in the ninth inning and pitching four scoreless frames until Washington was able to walk off in the 12th.

With Johnson leading the way on the mound, the Senators posted the best ERA in the AL (3.34), allowed the fewest hits (1,329), runs (610) and home runs (34), which helped a rather mediocre offense (aside from 23-year old future Hall of Famer Goose Goslin, who hit .344/.421/.516 with an AL-best 129 RBI) that finished in the bottom half of the league in runs scored (753) and dead last in homers (22).

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