The1933 World Series was thechampionship series of the1933 Major League Baseball season. The 30th edition of the World Series, it matched theNational League (NL) pennant winnerNew York Giants and theAmerican League (AL) pennant winnerWashington Senators. The Giants defeated the Senators in five games for their first championship since1922 and their fourth overall. Key to the Giants' World Series triumph was the pitching of aces "King"Carl Hubbell and "Prince"Hal Schumacher.

This would be the last World Series played inWashington, D.C., until2019. The Giants next won the World Series in1954, their final title in New York City as the franchise moved to San Francisco after the1957 season.

New York Giants majority ownerJohn McGraw retired as manager in 1932 after 30 years at the helm, naming his protégé, young star first basemanBill Terry, recently the last .400 hitter in the National League, as his player-manager successor. Somewhat similarly, former superstar hurlerWalter Johnson also retired in 1932 as Washington Senators manager in favor of young star shortstopJoe Cronin as their new player-manager. (McGraw watched the Series from the stands, and died four months later.)

The Senators were the surprise team of 1933, breaking a seven-year monopoly on the AL title jointly held by theNew York Yankees andPhiladelphia Athletics from 1926 to 1932. But this could also be called a joint 13-year monopoly by all three, since the Senators had also won in 1924 and 1925 and the Yankees won from 1921 to 1923. 43-year-old future Hall of FamerSam Rice, in his last year with the Senators, had only one at bat during the series, picking up a pinch hit single in the second game.

NLNew York Giants (4) vs. ALWashington Senators (1)

Mel Ott had four hits and three RBI in Game 1, hitting a two-run home run in the first and RBI single in the third with two on, all off Lefty Stewart.Travis Jackson scored the Giants' last run on a groundout offJack Russell. Carl Hubbell struck out ten, allowed two unearned runs (on groundouts byJoe Cronin in the fourth with two on andJoe Kuhel with the bases loaded in the ninth) and pitched a five-hitter.

The Giants overcame a 1–0 deficit (as a result of Goose Goslin's third inning home run) with a six-run sixth inning. They loaded the bases with no outs on a single, double and intentional walk off General Crowder beforeLefty O'Doul hit a pinch-hit single that scored two runs. RBI singles byTravis Jackson,Gus Mancuso,Hal Schumacher andJo-Jo Moore each scored a run. Hal Schumacher pitched a five-hitter for a 6–1 victory, giving New York a 2–0 lead.

The Senators scored two runs in the first inning onJoe Cronin's RBI groundout with runners on second and third followed byFred Schulte's RBI double. Next inning,Ossie Bluege hit a leadoff double and scored onBuddy Myer's double. They got one more run in the seventh whenLuke Sewell singled, stole second, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Myer's double. Earl Whitehill held New York to five hits in the shutout. To date, this is the last World Series game in which a Washington team won at home.

Carl Hubbell went all eleven innings in the 2–1 win. He inducedCliff Bolton to ground out into a bases-loaded, game endingdouble play.Bill Terry's home run offMonte Weaver put the Giants up 1–0 in the fourth, but the Senators tied the score in the seventh whenJoe Kuhel reached on an error, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored onLuke Sewell's single.Travis Jackson singled to lead off the 11th, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, and scored the game winning run onBlondy Ryan's single.

In the second,Hal Schumacher's two-run single with runners on second and third put the Giants up 2–0 offGeneral Crowder.Kiddo Davis hit a leadoff double in the sixth and scored onGus Mancuso's double to extend the lead to 3–0. Fred Schulte hit a game-tying three run homer in the sixth after two, two-out singles. for the Senators. Mel Ott's second home run of the series in the tenth offJack Russell won the Series for New York.Dolf Luque earned the win with 41⁄3 shutout innings of relief for Schumacher.

1933 World Series(4–1):New York Giants (N.L.) beatWashington Senators (A.L.)

At the time, the winning margin of five runs was second-lowest for a five-game series (later equaled in1942 and1974); the1915 margin was two runs, and three runs in 2000.

Until winning theNational League pennant in 2019, Washington, D.C., had not hosted another World Series game since 1933. In 2012, theWashington Nationals, formerly theMontreal Expos, brought postseason play back to Washington for the first time in 79 years but lost theNational League Division Series (NLDS) after being one strike away from eliminating theSt. Louis Cardinals after their early 6–0 lead had evaporated. In 2019, the Nationals won their first postseason series since their move—theWild Card Game,NLDS, andNLCS—as their October stints in2014,2016, and2017 had all ended in NLDS losses. (While in Montreal, the franchise made only one postseason appearance, winning the1981 NLDS that was created due to that season'splayers' strike, then losing the1981 NLCS.) The 2019 Nationals went on to win the World Series, which ended a 95-year championship drought for the city, dating back to the Senators' win in1924.

This firstWashington Senators franchise became theMinnesota Twins during the 1960–61 offseason, and would not reach the World Series again until1965 as the Twins—since then, they have won two World Series, in1987 and1991. The secondWashington Senators, inaugurated in 1961 to replace the first edition on its way to Minnesota, became theTexas Rangers in 1972, who were also defeated four games to one in their first World Series ever by the nowSan Francisco Giants in 2010, with both Series 77 years apart starting in the Giants' home park and the Giants losing only Game 3 on the road in each. The Rangers were then defeated again in2011 by theSt. Louis Cardinals, when they had two chances to win in Game 6 when they came within one strike of winning. On their third attempt in2023, they defeated theArizona Diamondbacks, four games to one.

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