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.
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 |
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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