Peckinpaugh's Eight Errors

Roger Peckinpaugh was not a clumsy shortstop having a moment. He was the 1925 American League Most Valuable Player, and Washington led the World Series three games to one. Then Pittsburgh won two, and Game 7 was played on October 15 at Forbes Field in a downpour that turned the ball dark and the infield to mud.

Walter Johnson took a 6–4 lead into the seventh. Eddie Moore popped up, the sort of ball Peckinpaugh caught as a matter of course, and he dropped it — his seventh error of the series. Max Carey scored, and Pie Traynor tripled to tie the game before being thrown out at home. Peckinpaugh answered with a home run in the eighth to make it 7–6. In the bottom of the inning he could not handle Carey's grounder, his eighth error, still the World Series record. Kiki Cuyler's double put the Pirates ahead.

Pittsburgh won, 9–7, and became the first team to come back from a 3–1 deficit in a best-of-seven World Series. The rain was real. So was the record.