Week Ten on the 1920 BBW Replay is in the books and the fun continues. Only two teams haven't yet reached the 50-games-played mark yet (Pittsburgh and Boston (NL)) and there will be a few teams that will reach the 60-games-played mark before the end of this coming week. That, plus we are in the middle of June, so the season is moving on.
Both New York teams still sit atop their respective leagues, but it is getting more difficult every day. The Yankees currently have a 1.5 games lead over the second-place White Sox but are on a three-game losing streak. Luckily for them, Babe Ruth is having a Babe Ruth kind of season (you will see his name several times in the leaders listed below), but as a team, they are sixth in the AL in team batting and often find themselves struggling when Ruth appears as a mere mortal. For much of the first month of the season they had a team ERA below 2.00, but now, while they still lead the AL in ERA (2.85), the White Sox are in second place here as well (3.03) and are actually leading the AL in hitting and runs scored.
In the NL, the Giants exploded in the month of May to move up from seventh place all the way into first where they have resided ever since. They are hitting over .300 as a team (.303) and are third in Team ERA in a tight race with Brooklyn and Pittsburgh the last few weeks have seen them maintain their lead, but now, all of a sudden, they are having to work for it instead of simply trouncing everyone that got in their way. Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Brooklyn take turns knocking each other down, hence no one team can really cut into the Giants' lead.
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| Philadelphia (AL) Manager Connie Mack |
Batting Average: George Sisler (STB) .442, Buck Weaver (CWS) .417, Babe Ruth (NYY) .410, Baby Doll Jacobson (STB) .406
Runs Scored: Ruth (NYY) 51, Roger
Peckinpaugh (NYY) 45, Sisler (STB) 44, Eddie
Collins (CWS) 44
RBI’s: Ruth (NYY) 66, Weaver (CWS) 62,
Jacobson (STB) 50, Tris
Speaker (CLE) 47
Hits: Weaver (CWS) 98, Sisler (STB) 96,
Jacobson (STB) 82, Harry
Heilmann (DET) 79, Collins (CWS) 79
Doubles: Sisler (STB) 20, Ruth (NYY) 18, Shoeless
Joe Jackson (CLE) 18, Del Pratt
(NYY) 17
Triples: Bill
Wambsganss (CLE) 9, Wally Pipp
(NYY) 9, Harry
Hooper (BOS) 7
Homeruns: Ruth (NYY) 21, Speaker (CLE) 8, six
tied with five, three tied with four
Pitching: Carl Mays
(NYY) (11-2 1.39), Urban
Shocker (STB) (11-2, 2.28), Jack Quinn
(NYY) (10-3, 1.67), Jim Bagby
(CLE) (10-5, 2.60), Lefty
Williams (CWS) (10-7, 3.15)
National League:
Batting Average: Billy
Southworth (PIT) .391, Dave
Bancroft (NYG) .372, Milt Stock
(STC) .370, Jack
Fournier (STC) .360, Rogers
Hornsby (STC) .362
Runs Scored: Stock (STC) 44, Art
Fletcher (PHP) 43, Bancroft (NYG) 43, Ross Youngs
(NYG) 32, George
J. Burns (NYG) 43
RBI’s: Hornsby (STC) 54, Hi Myers
(BKN) 42, George
Kelly (NYG) 39, George
Whitted (PIT) 37
Hits: Bancroft (NYG) 86, Stock (STC) 85,
Youngs (NYG) 84, Fournier (STC) 82
Doubles: Cy Williams
(PHP) 21, Hornsby (STC) 21, Myers (BKN) 20, Max Flack
(CHC) 19
Triples: Myers (BKN) 13, Fournier (STC) 7,
eight tied with six
Homeruns: Williams (PHP) 7, Myers (BKN) 5,
Kelly (NYG) 5, Hornsby (STC) 5, three tied with four
Pitching: Fred Toney
(NYG) (11-2, 1.75), Jesse
Haines (STL) (1-2, 2.34), Wilbur
Cooper (PIT) (10-3, 1.61), Dutch
Ruether (CIN) (10-3, 1.60), Babe Adams
(PIT) (8-4, 1.40)
Week Ten out of a twenty-five-week season means
we are 40% done, so let's go play some more!
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