Week Seven of the 1920 BBW Replay is in the books, and it was a busy week that included a travel day, multiple doubleheaders, and teams spent Sunday preparing the Memorial Day to come on Monday, with every team playing in a doubleheader, sixteen games in all. After a busy week, all teams are well past the thirty-games-played mark, and by the end of next week, all will be at the forty-games-played mark.
The first big story of the week was the Giants and the Robins both on an eight-game winning streak and both teams sitting atop the NL. On May 8, Brooklyn was floundering in last place with a 6-11 record, meaning they have gone 13-3 (.813) since and are now 3.5 games behind first-place New York and 0.5 games ahead of Cincinnati. In general, across both leagues, the "good" teams are starting to play “good” if they hadn't gotten off to a good start, while some of the poorer teams are reverting to the norm as well.
The real highlight of the week was a no-hitter by Babe Adams. Adams had a perfect game back on 05/05/1920 against Chicago, and then twenty-five days later Adams held Cincinnati to only two walks on the day.
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| St. Louis (NL) Manager Branch Rickey |
Robison Field 1919 Digital Art by Gary Grigsby - Pixels
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