World Series champs Washington Nationals get their parade

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Nationals are getting a hero's welcome home from a city that had been thirsting for a World Series championship for nearly a century.

Tens of thousands of fans are expected for a parade Saturday honoring the Nationals, who won a nail-biting, come-from-behind victory against the Houston Astros in Game 7 to clinch the World Series.

"When they tell you dreams come true, point them toward our @Nationals," Mayor Muriel Bowser tweeted Thursday. "Tell them they do."

She included the hashtag SportsCapital, a reference, too, to the Washington Capitals' Stanley Cup championship in 2018 and the Washington Mystics' WNBA championship this year.

"For the first time in 95 years, the #WorldSeries champions are from Washington, DC," the Nationals tweeted after the Wednesday night win. Before the Nationals, the last Washington team to win a World Series was the Senators in 1924.

President Donald Trump has invited the Nationals to the White House on Monday. The president attended Game 5 of the series in Washington and was greeted with loud boos when he was shown on the giant video screen during a tribute to veterans. They more than overwhelmed a scattering of cheers.

In a capital city divided by politics, race and economics, the Nats were something of a unifier — at least for the time being — as partisans and nonpartisans alike openly congratulated one another on their team's win. There were lines at The Washington Post's downtown office Thursday as fans sought to buy a copy of the day's paper celebrating the win and a 12-page commemorative edition with a single-word headline blazoned across the top of the front page: CHAMPS!

Saturday's parade was beginning on Constitution Avenue and then merging onto Pennsylvania Avenue for a rally just a few...

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