Roger's 1920 APBA Replay: Week 15 Summary (07/19/1920

Week Fifteen of the 1920 BBW Replay is in the books, and the season marches on. Seven teams have reached or surpassed the 90-games-played mark while Boston (NL) has just reached the 80-games-played mark. That means that in a 154-game season that the Braves have 74 games remaining to be played in the ten remaining weeks of the season … that's better than one game per day over these final weeks … let's all wish good luck and good health to those poor Boston pitchers.

Pennant race aside, the story of the week was one that was more likely the story of the season. Background: Chicago (AL) swept a doubleheader in New York (AL) on Monday to open a three-game lead, and the two teams were scheduled for another doubleheader the following day. Game One of Tuesday's doubleheader on Tuesday featured Red Faber versus Jack Quinn and after nine innings were completed neither team had scored, but more importantly, neither team had even gotten a hit.

The White Sox broke through in the tenth when first baseman Shano Collins got the first hit of the game, a single, and that was followed by a single from shortstop Swede Risberg, but the visitors were unable to score. The Yankees when hitless in the bottom half of the tenth, and then the White Sox also went hitless in the top of the eleventh. Finally, New York broke through when right fielder Bob Meusel singled for the first New York hit. Meusel advanced to second on a groundout, and then third baseman Aaron Ward singled home Meusel with the game-winner.

This actually happened in Major League baseball once back in 1917 (link), and if you search for "double no-hitter" your search engine will turn up a handful of games where this has happened at the Minor League level.

New York (AL) also won the second game of the double header and by the end of the week had reclaimed first place in the AL. The Yankees have played the most games of any team so far this season, so this means they have been on their extended hot streak while playing the most games, so if later in the season they do cool down they will be struggling in a lesser number of games. I think the Yankees will still be in it at the end, so the real question is what Chicago and Cleveland are going to do as the season rolls towards its conclusion.

Boston (AL) Manager
George Stallings

New York (NL) still resides at the top of the NL, but even as they have gone 3-7 over their last ten games, the teams below them in the standings continue to knock each other down and preventing any of their opposition from going from a hot streak that might allow them to challenge the first place Giants.

Now that we have completed fifteen weeks of a twenty-five-week season we are at the 60% mark and by the end of this upcoming week we will move into August. I still think someone is going to get hot and make a big move up the standings, so let's go see if that really is going to happen.

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