Week Five is in the books and the 1911 replay marches on. Both leagues got off to slow starts as the weather played havoc with the early-season schedule. Most days are seeing a full or almost full slate of games. Cincinnati only has twenty games played, so they have a lot to make up yet. No one has reached the 30 games played mark yet, but by the end of this upcoming week, most teams will be there, or at least very close to it.
St. Louis Browns
The A's are back on top of the AL, but only
by a half-game over the White Sox and game-and-a-half over the Naps. The Red
Sox are only a game behind Cleveland, so the top of the AL is still all quite
close. Detroit is currently suffering through a six-game losing streak, but
they are sure to climb back into the pennant race before things are over. New
York beat up Cleveland this past week to pass Washington into sixth place, while
last place St. Louis, to their credit, came to the realization that they weren't
going to get better with the players they already had, so they have begun the
process of letting go of poor performers and looking for replacements who maybe
can do better.
Pittsburgh is still atop the NL with a two-game
lead over New York, but so far these two teams appear to be the class of the
NL. Pittsburgh right fielder Owen "Chief" Wilson had quite a week -
he hit his second grand slam of the season in one game and in another game he
drove in eight runs. The Cubs have moved into third place based on their
improved pitching as of recent, but are only just ahead of Brooklyn and
Philadelphia. Cincinnati had gotten off to a terrible start, but they ended
Week Five alone in sixth place. Boston plays teams tough but is finding wins tough to
come by while St. Louis has slid into the basement in the NL as their offensive
woes have continued.
New York (AL) Manager
Hal Chase
Having Nap Lajoie out of the lineup might
have slowed down the Cleveland offense, but Joe Jackson is still hitting the
ball hard. Jackson leads the AL in hitting (.553), has 41 runs scored, 17 more
than second-place Ty Cobb, and has 68 hits, 12 more than Cobb. Jackson now
leads Cobb by one in RBI’s (34-33), and Jackson has 21 doubles in only 28 games
played. Lajoie, who didn’t play all week, is still third in RBI’s with 27.
In the NL, New York catcher Chief Meyers is
hitting .471 while batting in the eighth spot in the powerful Giants lineup,
plus Meyers has five triples to lead the league. Hans Lobert and
As much as I don’t care for intentional
walks, I am incorporating them, at least a little, into the replay. Mostly, I
am just trying to pick spots where I think they might be appropriate. Sometimes
they work, and it makes me look like a genius. Sometimes they don’t though, but
that’s baseball. Steals are successful about 70% of the time in both leagues,
while I expected the number to be more around 60%, it’s still not that much
off. I continue to push on the steal attempts to try and get my counts up, but
I fell behind early and it will take me a few weeks (months?) to get caught up.
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