At Washington:
With Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto delivering runs batted in and pitcher Patrick Corbin striking out 12 batters, the Washington Nationals, who scored seven runs in the first inning on Tuesday, held off the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 at home in game four of the National League Championship Series as the Nats swept the Redbirds in four straight games for their first league pennant in their 51-year history (the former Montreal Expos franchise moved to DC prior to the 2005 season).
The Nationals will make their first-ever World Series appearance, the first Fall Classic appearance for a Washington-based club since the American League's original Senators (now the Minnesota Twins) fell to the then-New York Giants in five games in 1933.
Those same Senators produced the city's lone World Series championship in 1924 when they defeated the Giants four games to three.
The Seattle Mariners are now the only active Major League Baseball club to have never reached the World Series.
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