A rewind through the Washington Nationals franchise 

Hearing Zim getting emotional makes me emotional. He’s stuck with the team through all those years and he finally got what he deserved: a World Series championship

How can you not love the story of this team, one of the greatest playoff runs in baseball history

Wow as a Nationals fan it's weird getting all this attention

“But to understand the importance of this moment, we have to rewind”

I've been a fan of the Nationals ever since they moved from Montreal in 2005 when I was living and working in the DC area. I've remembered so many lows for the first several years because the team was that bad. The best players they had were Brad Wilkerson, Chad Coredo, and Ryan Zimmerman. I now live in the Hudson Valley of upstate NY but I still follow them as best as I can. I can't begin to explain the joy that I had when the team won the World Series. I just wish I was still living in the DC area so I can join in on the celebration. Thanks, Nationals for a great season and making me a happy Nationals fan.

This will be one of my fondest memories as a Nationals fan. From going to the games in opening week and seeing Scherzer strike out Harper. Over coming adversity from that 19-31 record. Then finding unity and heart to take them to the World Series for a historic win. This season was something else but one to remember.

imagine going from barely making the playoffs to winning the world series , crazy

Then Baby Shark entered the frame and Nationals suddenly pull off one of the great postseason runs in history. A great underdog story.

Washington Nationals: A Brief History (includes both Senators franchises and Montreal Expos) 1901: Washington Senators becomes a charter member of the new American League. 1905: Club experiments with putting their alternate team name, “Nationals,” on their uniforms. 1924: Washington Nationals wins its first American League pennant, then defeat the New York Giants in seven games in the World Series. 1925: Nats go back-to-back, but fall to the Pittsburgh Pirates in seven. 1933: Washington wins its third AL pennant, but the New York Baseball Giants get their revenge for 1924, beating them in five games. 1954: The Nats are immortalized in a fictional Faustian novel, “The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.” The book would become the inspiration for the Broadway play “Damn Yankees” the following year. 1960: The American League expands to 10 teams. In exchange for a new expansion club in Washington, the original Senators move to Minneapolis-St. Paul, becoming the Minnesota Twins. 1969: Canada’s first baseball team, the Montreal Expos, begin play in the National League. 1971: Upon hearing the club would be moving to Dallas next season, fans trash RFK Stadium during their final home game, forcing the Senators to forfeit. (The relocated team is renamed the Texas Rangers.) Washington would be without baseball for another 34 years. 1981: Montreal comes out on top in their division’s closing half in the strike-interrupted season. They then go on to defeat Opening Half champion Philadelphia Phillies in five, but lose to the LA Dodgers in the NLCS. (A bit of a side note: the St. Louis Cardinals finished ahead of Montreal on aggregate.) 1994: Montreal is one the best teams in baseball that season, but a season-ending strike not only ruins their playoff hopes, but ultimately the franchise as well. 2004: Major League Baseball announces that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington next year. 2005: The newly-christened Nationals begin their inaugural season. 2008: The first game in Nationals Park is played. 2012: Washington experiences playoff baseball for the first time since 1933 as the Nationals claim the East Division title. They lose to the St. Louis Cardinals in a heartbreaking five game series. 2014: Nats win their second NL East crown in two years, but lose to the eventual champion San Francisco Giants in four. 2016: Nationals win their third division title, but still lose in the NLDS to the Dodgers. 2017: Another year. Another division title. Another NLDS exit. 2019: The Nats’ 93-69 record is only good enough for the first Wild Card spot, but not only do they manage to beat the Milwaukee Brewers in the play-in game, they upset the Dodgers in the NLDS, get their first National League pennant by sweeping the Cardinals, and for the first time since 1924, win the World Series in seven games against the Houston Astros.

Not gonna lie being a Dodgers fan myself they had an incredible run for the 2019 season Congrats to the Nationals

Goosebumps all over again! Love seeing my hometown getting things done in my lifetime. Go NATS! Go CAPS! Go MYSTICS!

In May, if you had told me that the Nats would win the World Series, I would have said “you’re nuts.”

Congratulations to them on winning the 2019 World Series it was a fantastic series.!! From a Yankee fan.

Nats definitely deserve this championship

this video made me tear. what an inspiring story. Glad to be in DC from the beginning and experience this. We always knew we could do it and we kept fighting!

Everybody: the Nationals are done. Nationals: hold my beer

I'm a Braves fan and I was very happy the Nats won the energy in that stadium was crazy congratulations Nats

They missed the runner interference before the rendon homer lmao

The Nats were so much fun to watch this postseason

It's just tears. It's a very moving video.

2:40 This is why what the Nationals did in Game 5 of the NLDS in Dodger Stadium was revenge.

As a a nationals fan the past 6 years have been rough but after winning the World Series I broke down into tears

Heart. Chills. Tears. I love you 2019 Washington Nationals.

Congrats on the win Nats fans thanks for finally representing the NL East the right way from a Mets fan. Opening day should be fun

Zim is definitely the FACE of the Nats! Has been for a long time! Great ball player! Great First Baseman! Great Man! Salt of the earth! This TEAM was dynamite this year! They meshed and played fantastic and fun baseball! Great year!

Heck of a team. It motivates

I have loved being a Nats fan for 14 years now! These past 2 weeks have been the best!

What a story! Congratulations to the *Washington Nationals*

You will never witness another team like this. This is the most amazing team of our lifetime. Thank you, Nationals. Thank you!

Man some of those early seasons were difficult to get through, but so so worth it in the end.

I grew up in the DC area, in suburban Maryland, and saw both Senators teams leave. By the time the 2nd one left, though, I was a fan of Maryland's own Orioles. In the 1980s, I moved to a city with a National League team, and they became my new favorite team. They had their ups and downs but did win a World Series. In 2005, I made sure that I was in the stands for the Washington Nationals' first-ever visit to play my adopted home town's team. The Nationals lost that game, but 5 years later, I journeyed to DC to see my team play the Nats, and the Nats won that one. Ryan Zimmerman hit a home run. My team had a disappointing season again this year. Ironically, one of their better players was a former National. After watching the Nats in the postseason, I am almost ready to make them my team. Eleven-year-old me in 1963 never could foresee Washington playing the Colt .45s in a World Series and beating them someday.

The Baseball Gods finally stayed along for the ride!! Thank you for finally answering our prayers!! #fightfinished

Congratulations to the Nationals for an excellent game played. - Houston Astros fan.

I love my astros and it was disappointing losing but i respect what the nats have done this season

Not a Nationals fan but unbelievable job by them all and what they went through to be World Champions ! Amazing series to watch .

imagine winning a ws literally right after immovable neck spasms

It’s a team everyone can feel good about winning! A nationals win was a win for America.

Zimmerman was here for it all

This was such a beautiful tribute to what the Nationals have accomplished. What a historic run they had. I can't think of any other team in the history of the MLB that has overcame as many obstacles as they have to become World Series champions. They should make a movie about this.

Damn underrated this nats team Been involved with the playoffs for a while

I'm really happy to be with Nats! They are fantastic! Max is the heart of Nats!

A stunning turnaround, great for a Hollywood movie, to say the least.

Amazing Nats

For a second I thought this was urinatingtree, I guess this is something like it

Blue Jays fan here, but I remember watching the Nationals going their previous disappointments in October & wondering whether they would ever figure it out. Some of those past teams that fell short could've easily been playing for a World Series beforehand. But yet this year's Nationals got it done when not many gave them much of a chance - myself included. But yet the Nationals overcome all the doubters & skeptics & erased all their past postseason demons this October. Congratulations to the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals!!

A year later and im still watching this on repeat. Non Nats fans will never understand how much this meant

As a die hard Red Sox fan I'm soo happy for the Nats winning the world series I have been watching this team throughout the years and wanted them to win soo bad because like us they went threw alot of hard times losing games going threw defeat but never giving up and playing with heart and pride I wish the Washington nationals nothing but the best Congratulations u guys u are the 2019 world series champions 😀😀👍👍💯💯⚾️⚾️⚾️🎊🎉🎊

THX FOR THE UPLOAD SO EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW

Fantastic video. Go Nats!!

Whenever all was lost, someone stepped up. So much pain went into that triumph. Instead of getting demoralized, they got stronger. They loved and played for each other. Their season hung in the balance every game since May 23rd to game 7 at Minute Maid. A team like this not only makes you feel proud to have loved them since they came back to my home and were selling 35 thousand tickets to see a 50 win team but it inspires you on those days you think you can’t make it. Every Day you gotta go 1-0 is a way of life, not just a baseball philosophy! My friends in the sky thank you Nats. I wish they were here but they died waiting.

Howe Kendrick is God

Thank you MLB!!

“We wanna bring a title back to D.C.” Get out of here Bryce

Wow if they had been the best team in the league for years first and got beat in the playoffs every year, they’d be the capitals! But both teams finally got em a ring. Get up DC!

What a season! This is a great video

This is something we will never forget #703

Thank you Nationals! You did every Yankee fan a solid. Could not stand seeing the Astros get another WS handed to them by the umps. You overcame their inconsistent strike zones and bad calls that the rest couldn't. What a great story of perseverance and determination

That’s epic man , much respect to this team 👍🏽

I. Can’t. Stop. Watching.

After a long post season i definitely forgot watching the history made with the back to back to back to back home runs! That was crazy to me, even when the season still felt lost! What a story this year was!

So happy for them. Awesome run!

One of the greatest stories in history of sports

As a Nats fan I think what made the World Series so meaningful was all the lows they had before getting to that point. From being the worst team in baseball for about a 4 year stretch, losing to the Cardinals in game 5 up 7-0, missing the playoffs after that, losing to the Giants, Dodgers, and Cubs in the 1st round. I grew up with the Nats so seeing it all come full circle is pretty amazing.

"I wanna bring a title back to D.C." - Bryce Harper 2019

Im a English Cubs fan and you got my respect. Great to see them win it especially when they almost lost the wildcard. What a finish. What a team. Hope we get rendon lol. Top fans as well, well done

Thank you Harper

Most exciting WS I've seen in a long time. Couldn't have had a more turbulent season and a more deserving team to win it all.

I got goosebumps watching this.

Even during the regular season, in just about all the Nats' gutsiest performances, they were wearing their lucky navy blue shirts. The question now is, will they ever wear anything different?

This is much better than the RU-vid 2018 rewind

What a treat to see Souza make that catch again.

Si quieren saber el significado de Épico sólo tienen que ver a los Nacionales este año. ÉPICO

As soon as Harper leaves, they win it all and Philly doesn't even sniff the postseason. That should tell other teams that they don't need to sign enormous crazy deals for one player.

Congrats Nats! Hopefully the Mariners will win a World Series and get one of these videos.

Fun Fact: the 2019 World Series match up could have taken place anywhere between 1962-1971. The only difference would be Washington would be in the American League and Houston in the National. I thought about this during the entire series. However, neither the Astros nor the Senators qualified for the postseason, but what we saw this year could have happened (with a league swap too)

I'm not crying.

Bad edit forgot about a lot of important moments 😂

We finally won!!!!!!!!! 🙏🏽 After 15 seasons of existence we’ve won it all 🔥🔥🔥⚾️🏆

Never. Say. Die.

Can we agree that joe Ross didn’t pitch that bad when his number was called?

legendary

As Thomas Boswell basically said in the Washington Post in a may 22 2019 about Dave Martinez. Dave Martinez is a nice man, but he shouldn't be managing the national. Reminds me of the new York post saying about Joe Torre in late 1995 "clueless Joe." Both men won't he world series. Joe in 1996 and Dave in 2019. Nice to know nice guys do finish first. Especially when they are quietly kicking your (bleep).

Nats are the Raptors of Baseball

I don’t hate Joe Buck like everyone else, but could we please get Vasgersian on the national call of the WS. His voice is absolutely electric

Had to come here after yesterday trades🥺😢😢

As a Mets fan I have to admit I'm kinda happy for them. They earned it with every pitch of the season

Stay in the Fight

Am a met fan and I feel like tearing for these nationals truly amazing I admit I counted them out against the dodgers(beat them) then a sweep against st Lou .. then to the beat the heavy favorites Astor’s Amazing first World Series without the superstar it thought it needed in Harper

Deep down I wish that was the Dodgers, but happy that the Nationals made the Astros pay.

LETS GO NATS!!!!!

A rewind through history? Nah. This is just this year and like 4 highlights from before. Where's the stuff from the down years? Lannan? Livan? Dunn? Soriano 40 40? Even if they sucked back then it did happen. It's part of the history.

Loved how every Astros homerun was danced as a Game 7 game winning HR. Don't think we didnt see that. Pipe down Houston. Go Nats!

Nationals(元expos) ♡♡♡

If you wana go back even further watch the expos

Where was Matty V broadcasting? Hes so much more entertaining to listen to than Buck

When I saw the title of the video I thought they were going to mention the years in Montreal as the Expos but nope way to make Canada mad again 🇨🇦🇺🇸⚾️🏆

The fact that Davey Martinez isn't in the running for manager of the year is crappy and unbelievable at the same time

Robles made the final out of the wild card game. NLDS and NLCS

10:33 hey look ma i made it!

That was a sick pitch to end the game