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Then he threw to first to complete the twin killing.

It was their first such twin killing since June 21, 1969 when Mike Shannon, Tim McCarver and Julian Javier did the trick in a 5-3 win over the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.

The Nationals’ inability to convert a first-inning twin killing sparked a Mets rally that eventually doomed Washington in a 6-2 series-opening loss to New York, its 14th defeat in 19 games.

But it wasn’t enough to overcome the twin killing of offense that was Brynna Maxwell and Maddie Willett for the Tides.

Immediately after the final outs were made on a double play made possible by a Yoenis Cespedes base-running blunder – the first line-drive twin killing to end a World Series game in 43 years – nearly all of the 44,815 spectators filed into the concourse and down the ramps into into the night with the spirit of a funeral processional.