The .1% Story - How The Washington Nationals Won The World Series 

I'm from DC and trust me we are still in utter shock at what the Nationals accomplished. What an amazing Season.

For the rest of my life that sweet sound of Kendrick's game 7 HR clanging that foul pole will be tattooed in my memory. GO Nats!

The amount of clutchness this team displayed throughout the playoffs is crazy. They were destined to win and the great part is , they were underdogs the whole way.

As a Dodger fan the nlds hurt bad, but I'm so glad that after years and years of trying, Fernando Rodney finally got a World Series ring

I’ve said it, and this video does a good job showing it. This (as a fan) was one of the greatest seasons ever. Not most dominant, but the comeback throughout the regular season, all the fun they had, and the comebacks in 5 separate elimination games in the postseason. Truly amazing

Incredible season. One of the best teams ever put together. They remind me of the 2011 Cardinals. Both teams NEVER gave up! I'm so happy for the Nationals. They deserve this World Series Championship!

7:52 “The *Nationals* have one of the best offenses in the league led by Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, Alex Bregman and so mony more.”

When the Capitals overcame their choking we knew we had a chance. And we still can’t believe we even pulled this off

I've been a Nats fan my entire life, I'm 14 turning 15 next month. I went to the watch parties and one of the actual World Series games. Game 7 was huge. Even though it was raining a lot, people still sat out and watched the game. I myself didn't with my dad and aunt, but went out for the last inning as it had stopped raining. It was amazing, there were hugs, tears, yelling, jumping, everyone was alive. When we were leaving, the cheers on the streets were so loud and it was a really awesome moment, people were even honking their horns to say "let's go Nats!" We also went to the parade, which was also truly amazing aswell. And from that something has stuck with me since, a saying Davey had said, "Bumpy roads lead to beautiful places, and this is a beautiful place." I've been having friend drama, and I always remember that to keep going with my day. Sorry for this being long, but it's just amazing how we actually made it. And I've literally grown with the team since 2005

I’m a nats fan and I live in northern VA so I went to all the World Series watch parties and as you know they won every away game so all 4 times the stadium was lit up but that game 7 was a whole other level

Everybody counted us out after Harper left. Who knew he was the cancer holding the Nationals back.

"It ain't over till it's over." Well, you can't argue with that. Yogi Berra must be proud of the Nats by now.

Bruh, this gave me the chills. Go Nats! 🏛

As a Nats fan here in DC, I went to all the home games in the run up to the World series from Atlanta to Cleveland, to the Wildcard against the Brewers. We lived that 19-31 .1% stat every day. We are STILL in SHOCK!! love this video! Well done!

I'm also a proud DC native. Still celebrating & treasuring the Nats & the 2019 World Series!

Howie Kendrick and Asdrubal Cabrera were two players I admired when they were with The Angels and Indians,respectively. I always wanted them to play with the Nats,I know Cabrera was with us briefly a while back. I love the way they play the game. I think Howie especially, has now become my all time favorite player(along with Frank Howard). He has been everything I imagined him to be as A National.I thank all the Nats for giving me the D.C. championship I have waited all my life for,but Howie gets special thanks,as I'm sure all Nats fans will agree with.

One of the greatest comebacks in professional sports history! Absolutely loved it! Most MLB fans loved it...unless they were Astros fans lol

Also, Greinke (unknowingly or knowingly) tipped the pitch Rendon homered off when he adjusted his hat with the change-up grip. Surprised he was taken out against the guys he had straight up shut down after he walked Soto due to a bad call by the HP ump missing an obvious strike.

Hey guys, I really just can't believe how much traction this video has gotten over the past week. I appreciate all the comments, positive and negative. I really appreciate everyone that has subscribed too. I know there are some things I left out of the video, I know that I still need to grow. It's a process, so I hope you decide to stick around. Thank you to everyone.

I wish Frank Robinson got to see this Nats team win it. I’m glad they honored their first general by never quitting the fight. The orioles couldn’t honor Frank this year with their pathetic play but franks last project grew up to be a champion.

Who’s watching in December

I'm a Cubs fan for life but brah I enjoyed this one a lot, Nationals coughed fyah🔥 at the right time, this is the beauty of baseball .

been a nats fan since they became the nats in ‘05. i still get the chills every single time. amazing stuff. great video man.

I absolutely love the fact I'm able to watch this during off season and be so proud of them. CONGRATULATIONS NATS!

Still gives me chills to this day..

The Astros: We WoN fAiRlY the nationals: you sure bro?

As a Nationals fan, I say Thank You! We went to every home playoff game and watched them win the Wild Card game and the National League pennant. Just a thrilling season. So happy they resigned Stephen Strasburg. Great pitching and clutch hitting rules. Bryce who?

Amazing video. As a nats fan, this makes me happy.

Good video. I relocated away from the DC area in June, and it was a thrill to listen to their regular season games from afar, never expecting they'd make it as far as they did.

You've done a great job telling the story. Thanks!!!

Nats are the best baseball team. They proved that they do not need Harper

Yogi Berra said it all..."It ain't over till it's over!"

It's 2022 and I still can't believe it. What an incredible run. Great video.

great video and I love seeing my team in the spotlight! I wish you spent more time discussing the culture of the team this season though. Gerardo Parra coming to the nationals truly changed the entire attitude of the team. He wasn't a crazy player or put up big numbers, but go look at the way we reacted to homers and big plays in past seasons to the 2019 season. Parra front line every time going crazy and the team following him. Kendrick said he never had so much fun playing baseball until he played with para. Shame we lost him but I hope the team keeps the spirit. Confidence makes a huge difference in clutch situations like the postseason

also they weren’t sure if max was gonna be able to pitch in game 7 after being scratched from game 5 with neck spasms and he fought through it and pitched anyway

Dude! Impressive production. Award nomination quality.

At 19-31, it wasn't just that we were losing, it was how we were losing. We were bad. Like really bad. Hope didn't just seem gone, it seemed... like it might never return again. But there was something... odd. Each game, the batters still fouled off balls to keep at bats alive like there was still a chance. Like it all still might mean something. And then it happened. Gerardo Parra knocked a grandslam in Dodger Stadium and the fans who had been sticking around just to see how the young guys looked for the future had a fun moment to remember in a season of brutal depression. An old man picked up after being DFA'd by a bad team hitting a grand slam in his first at bat. The jokes started flying about how Gerardo Parra was the legendary player sent to save the Nationals. Guys started getting healthy again and the wins started to trickle in. Hope... Was alive. It didn't spring eternal, but a spark of hope at least had been found, and the Nats life line suddenly showed activity. And then it happened again. Gerardo Parra brought his daughter to the baseball park. To make her happy he said he would play her favorite song when he was about to bat, that way she would know it was daddy. Our joke player we had picked up when the Giants didn't want him anymore went from clubhouse dynamo, orchestrating dugout dance parties, to regional dynamo, orchestrating mad clapping across the DMV. And that August, as you said, was magical. A lot of fans after the bleak winter of 19-31 refused to even question what it would meant if this team kept doing this. It was too fun to win. Why spoil the fun by questioning it. Questioning it just meant thinking about what it would mean if we didn't keep winning. Just enjoy the fun and be happy. This continued into the playoffs, by which point advancement was no longer about excorsizing the old demons and finally bringing a WS victory to the city for the first time in 95 years, it was about keeping this band of friends together just a little bit longer before the tragedy of the off season struck and we would have to say good bye, including a farewell to the Mascot of the 2019 Nationals, the Daddy Shark himself. Making the world series meant that we had squeezed all of the baseball from this squad of friends, dads, and young players that there was, and then by losing every game at home and drawing out the series to 7 games, all of which requiring the bottom of the ninth be played, the Washington Nationals squeezed out of themselves just a bit more baseball, more than could have been reasonably asked for. Daniel Hudson emotional on the mound in the 9th because saving a world series is the most improbable outcome for him and his two Tommy John surgeries speaks a lot to the fabric of the team that we had. To put into perspective what a bunch of misfits and leftovers the team that won the world series was, this was the oldest team in baseball in 2019 and the following players were all of the players who received a second world series ring: * Trevor Rosenthal * Hunter Strickland This was not a team of young studs, built for each of them to mash baseballs. This was a team of role players. A team where Asdrubal Cabrerra was a key component to the offense. And it was glorious. Was this the swan song of scouting based baseball as the age of analytics washes away the importance of clubhouse chemistry? Or was this a hard counter to the modern home run blast based baseball, a team built to just keep the line moving until the power bats can clear the bases securing a victory. We won't know until the future. But for now... We have the 2019 0.1% Viejo Sharks

Excellent video, very nice work. God Bless

this was amazing

5 Star video...EXACTLY!! what I was looking for!!! Nailed it! Best championship run I have ever witnessed in any sport. My exact thinking in game 7 of the world series.. I was ready to accept the loss and gave the Nats all due respect for coming this far!!

I will always comeback and relive this moment. Best year ever !

Awesome video!

As a 13 year old kid from the DC area and a massive sports fan watching the caps and nats go back to back was incredible

I am a huge fan of the nationals and I can't stop watching these videos because how amazing it was for the nationals to win!

great video. thank you for taking the time to make it!

I grew up in Washington in the '50s and '60s, when the best of the Nationals / Senators / Nats teams were taken away to Minneapolis after the 1960 season gave us hope. Year after year, they were a disaster, so bad that we spent the 1957 season cheering for Roy Sievers to win the AL home run championship but hardly noticing that the team won only about 55 games. We read Shirley Povich about the 1924 season, the only WS championship. Povich wrote that the entire country, except NY Giant fans, cheered the Nats; the entire country sobbed when Walter Johnson, age 36, lost his first WS start, and then his second. Game 7 was one of the most thrilling WS games ever, as the Nats started well but then fell behind. They rallied in the 8th to tie the game, and Bucky Harris, player-manager 2B and only about 25, called on the Big Train to pitch. And they won, as Johnson pitched four scoreless innings. Incidentally, Harris started a right-handed kid, a spot-starter named Curley Ogden, to get John McGraw to start his left-handed lineup that featured future Hall of Famer Bill Terry. After two batters, Harris called on lefty, George Mogridge, who had been warming up under the stands. McGraw pulled Terry a few innings later. The 2019 Nats seem to have had all baseball fans cheering as they came back from that .1% start, and came back again and again in the playoffs. Max Scherzer missed his start in Game 5 because he had back-neck spasms and could not move. Gloom! Yet he recovered to start Game 7, somehow, and the Nats came back. Oh, and the Nats knew that the Astros had a cheating system built into their ballpark, and the Nats prepared. It took work and practice, and it burdened the starting pitchers and the catchers. Each starter had a different set of signs that changed with each pitch. Here's the stpry: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mlb/sign-stealing-in-the-world-series-the-nationals-had-a-plan-just-in-case/2019/11/13/f8bdce7a-0640-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html

I’m happy you guys won, you needed it. I’m a Met fan btw and I hope we can pull off what you guys did this year. NL East is a stacked division, we almost had 3 teams from the NL East make it to the playoffs. My dad also got a strausberg Jersey when he first played for the Nats but stopped following baseball (he is a met fan too) and showed me the jersey and didn’t know he still pitched for them.

This video gave me goosebumps

GO 1-0 EVERDAY AND YOU WILL DO GREAT THINGS What this team did will forever go down as one of the most amazing sports stories of all time. Oh and thanks for bringing a title back to DC Harp

Great video!! DC-born and love the Nats. You should have highlighted the Mets game where they scored 7 runs in the bottom of the 9th. Amazing!

I love how the nationals just never wore any other jersey but navy 😂

Holy crap this is a good video! I’m impressed!

Cool video ima watch the rest of your others

The Nationals (and the rest of baseball) were quite aware of the Astros's sign stealing, and they devised ways to counteract it. I don't know if that was a factor in their success or not. Oddly, neither team could win on the road.

Thanks for putting together - good job on the vid. And congratulations to the Nationals and their fans on a great season and championship from a Yanks fan. My thoughts - Nationals, with a lot of talent, decided they would step up after Harper was gone; they had relied on him too much. I believe this. Maybe so-called "superstars" are a bad thing. (When Andrew McCutchen went down with his torn ACL this year, he had been posting better stats than Harper for the Phillies).

Awesome video

You deserve so many more subs

This season was crazy. I felt like I was watching Angels in the Outfield but in real life. I've been a fan of the Nats since 2007 (rough years, those were) and I was convinced they'ed blown all their chances. But much like the Capitols who were also facing a possible rebuild in 2018, the Nats beat the odds.

As a huge Nats fan, I am so happy to see this.

Nice video. Just subscribed; keep it up!

Max Scherzer having back spasms and not being able to play in game 5 was a gift, so he could pitch in game 7. This coming from a nationals fan.

New kid in town/great expectations. Nice touch hahaha

A .1% chance is not a 0% chance….don’t give up y’all. This is by far my favorite World Series in my lifetime and one I go back to often.

And my goodness Soto is a beast!! And only 21!!! He’s fun to watch!!!

Great job on this video. It's unbelievable how many little plays and moments that happened throughout the postseason that could have changed the outcome of the world series. For example, I believe the injury to Max Scherzer forcing him out of game 5 actually saved the Nats season. They couldn't touch Garrett Cole in game 5 and plus I just don't see Max beating Cole in consecutive starts. That would have left game 7 up to Sanchez or Corbin, who both had already lost in the WS

also bro im a new subscriber btw, and i dont say this really ever, but i love the sound design in this and the background music is perfect.

"Stay in the fight" was more than a statement. It simply became our battle cry that carried us to the finish.

I think what really did it was they decided to have fun. They were a very fun team. The baby shark chants and gestures became a staple for DC. Epic

As a dodgers fan those NLDS clips hurt my soul

As a nats fan this video made me unexplainedbly happy

I grew up in CT. In a place that consists of mainly Yankee and Red Sox fans, I was different. My family took me and my siblings to DC every summer and we would always catch a Nationals game. This was the era when the Nationals were just a below average baseball team. 2019 made me cry. Watching a miracle franchise team comeback in every situation we needed it, and after watching them go from bad to the World Champs, tears of joy. I’ll never forget 2019. I don’t care if I ever see a championship from them ever again. 2019 was the year for me

Dude 💪 dead on and gr8 vid

I was at game 5 of the NLDS. when kendrick hit that grand slam i straight up just got out of my seat and headed for my car

This rotation reminds me of the Cubs 2016 year where everyone was great. Sanchez was their 4th starter and was amazing that year

As a hard core nats fan, watching this video made me tear up and recall of the amazing breathtaking moments of this season! Go nats!!!! Too bad we lost Rendon and Cabrera tho...😢

game 7 MVP should have been the Astros manager who pulled Greinke. The announcer on Hendrick's homer sounded stunned which is exactly how I felt since I had no idea the ball would be anything more than either a foul or a double and then it sunk in that the Nationals took the lead. It was a great time to be a Nats fan.

Historic run. Go nats. This wasn't a team this was a family that's how they did it, for each other!

Somehow this just showed up for me today, and I'm a huge Nats fan. I realize the title and resultant video are based on the tweet from May 25th, but the lowest point of the season was actually May 23rd, when they lost to the Mets to fall to 19-31, 12 games under .500 and 10 games out of first place. Interestingly enough, this was also the first game that season that Gerardo Parra appeared in, before the whole "Baby Shark" thing took over the Nats and the fans. I don't think it can be overstated how much his injection of life, fun, and even silliness contributed to the success of the Nats from that point on. These guys being all badass with their serious walkup songs and he comes in with this....I think it just reminded the guys that this *is* a game and they should be having fun. They lightened up, got their heads out of their asses, and started winning. And they got seriously hot at the right time, finishing the season on an eight-game winning streak, their longest of the season, and 12-3 over their last 15 games. A team of destiny that in May looked like a team of dumpstery.....it was one hell of a ride. My only regret is that I had tickets to the Nats Stadium watch party for Game 7 (was there for Game 6), but the weather conditions (cold and rainy) combined with the fact that I was starting a new job the next morning (having been out of full-time work for 18 months) led me to stay home and watch on TV so I could go right to sleep after it was over.....and guess who didn't go to sleep right after anyway? 😜 The good news is, I'm still at that job, but I still wish I had been there. Now I'm going to go watch all the 2019 Nats videos I can find 😊

I am from DC. I still can’t believe we made it! Thank you for making this video. I just want to say about what you called ‘Bryce Harper era’ I can tell you were not really watching Nat’s games before. We call it ‘Jason Werth era’

ive lived in dc my whole life, and ofc this year i moved to FL 🤦‍♀️but ofc we came up for the parade!

I am born and raised in NOVA, I was in high school when the Nationals new stadium opened, but we werent that good. Of course that all changed when Bryce Harper arrived and I became a casual fan who didnt understand baseball that much and managed to go to a few home games. The 2019 World Series run and eventual run was what made me fall in love with Baseball and made me want to learn more1

Friendly neighborhood Braves fan checking in and requesting you do a video for the more improbable Atlanta Braves run in 2021. Pretty sure the most staggering part about the percentage to win in 2019 was they didn't even tell you how they came to that number and just sort of made it up. Anyone with half a brain looking at the lineup they had that was coming back from injury and thinking they were long shots is lying to you.

Was at the wild card game vs milwaukee when we came back down 3 runs in the 8th inning lowkey best game any sport ive went to

I was at Game 3 and I had a great overall sports adventure since I'm from New England, the Patriots were in Landover playing the Washington "Football Team" then I took the train back to DC to catch a playoff game.

This is as good as any SB Nation video. The only thing they have that this video doesn't is hundreds of millions of dollars of production value, which amounts to little more than sparkle.

CRAZY YEAR !!

my mommy told me that every time a stat and a year worth of watching and planning becomes a video an angel gets its wings.

I'm pleased to be on the record at True Nationals Fans Zone on FB where at the beginning of the 2019 season I predicted a World Series appearance by the Nats and never wavered. Like our ace GM Mike Rizzo, I expect players to achieve the numbers on the back of their baseball cards. Slumps are offset by hot streaks. We need 162 games for slumping or streaking players to regress to the mean. So when the 2019 Nationals started out 19-31, with only Rendon hitting, Max 2-5, Stras 3-4 and Anibal 0-6, I knew they had a team-wide hot streak coming. That's what followed - arguably the greatest hot streak in modern baseball history. What the Nats did in the playoffs was concentrate their poor play in a few games. Clutch is right. They were ready for the pressure because the horrid first 50 games of the season made for must-win games beginning in August. Our manager, Davey Johnson kept saying, "Just go 1-0 today," "Stay in the fight," and "Good things are at the end of rough roads," and the players believed. 2019 NATS FIRSTS: * Stephen Strasburg is the first pitcher selected number one overall to win a World Series MVP playing for the team that drafted him. * Strasburg is the first pitcher to go 5 - 0 in the playoffs. * The Nationals are the first team to win the World Series with all 4 victories coming on the road * The Nationals are the first champion to lose 31 of its first 50 games * The Nationals are the first team to win the World Series by beating 2 teams that won 105 or more regular season games * The Nationals are the first champion to win 5 elimination games in which they trailed

I love Howie Kendrick so much after that postseason. You forgot to mention he was NLCS MVP in addition to the clutch homers in games 5 and 7! It’s really sad he didn’t get to play his last season in front of fans, because the whole city loves him :)

The 2019 Nationals will be remembered like the 2005 White Sox. People didn’t expect them to win anything, and their dominant pitching and clutch hitting won them the series. However, like the 2005 White Sox, I assure you they’ll be overlooked

Still to this day Kendricks clang off the foul pole gives me chills. What a magical run it was

We on top !!!!

Great video! I’m a life long dodgers fan and all my friends were acting like the Nationals were going to be so easy to get thru, and I kept saying “you guys have no idea what you’re saying, if the dodgers don’t take them serious they will get beat”!! And fuck!! We know what happened. Good for the Nats though! It’s a beautiful baseball story!!!!

I like this

Still my life’s happiest moment

Been a fan of the Nats since their inception and can remember when our misprinted jerseys said “Natinals”. How far we’ve come! Go NATS!

9:00 i vividly remember watching this moment unfold. I was enraged when they announced the call

I remember so vividly the 8th inning of that wc game

Just saw this video. Nats were epic in 2019! 1. The season the comeback 2. Taking down the Dodgers who everybody though were a lock for the WS. 3. Taking down the cheaters in the WS. 4. My personal favorite priceless moment - Nats park chanting "Lock him up" when Trump was shown on the video board! I'm a Cub fan and 2016 was the year of Cub - it was huge for them and us fans but I think the Nats out-shined even that.

I like how that in the thumbnail the picture from may 2019 was from the World Series because the WS badge is on there sleeve