Roger's 1911 APBA Replay: Week 6 Summary (05/15/1911

Philadelphia (NL)
Players

Week Six in the books and the pennant races in both leagues continue to be tight. The White Sox started the week in first but were treated rudely at home by Philadelphia, and by the end of the week found themselves only a half-game of hard-charging Boston. Boston and Chicago ended the week with two rainouts in Chicago, so who knows what the standings might look like otherwise. Cleveland, tied in the standings with Boston, has hung in there without Nap Lajoie in the lineup, but he is due to return to play tomorrow. Detroit has only one win in its last ten games, all of them home games, as their pitching has been particularly ineffective.

In the NL the Pirates maintained their slim lead over the Giants by winning two-of-three in New York to end the week. New York (.318) and Pittsburgh (.306) lead the NL in hitting while Pittsburgh (2.34) and New York (3.38) lead the NL in pitching, making it tough for any other team to make a move to the top of the standings. Among the next group of teams, it is Chicago that has made a move to take over third place, finally shaking off the effects of their slow start. Brooklyn and Philadelphia both toggle back and forth behind Chicago, and St. Louis has shown signs of life recently as well.

Philadelphia (NL)
Manager Red Dooin

When it comes to statistics the talk of baseball continues to be Shoeless Joe Jackson. After six weeks Jackson is hitting .562, slugging .863, with an on-base percentage of .605. He leads the AL with 50 runs scored (second place is Clyde Milan with 31), and Jackson has 41 RBI’s, ahead of Ty Cobb with 35. Jackson also leads Cobb in hits as well, 82 to 63. Cleveland has played 34 games at this point in the season and Jackson has 27 doubles, so throw in three homeruns and four triples and Jackson is averaging an extra-base hit per game so far. Cleveland has played the last two weeks without Nap Lajoie, the other half of their offensive twin towers, and they are expecting to shortly retake what they feel should be their rightful position at the top of the AL standings.

Almost all teams have reached the thirty games played mark by now. Chicago (AL) would be there except that they ended the week with two rainouts, and St. Louis (NL) and Cincinnati had a three-game weekend rained out two weeks ago. Usually, Week Six is the 25% mark for games played in the season, but it has been a rough year weather-wise. Most seasons are 24 weeks long, but looking ahead at the schedule games will spill over in Weeks 25, 26, and even Week 27 (October 20, 1911) - and there is still a World Series to be played after that. I suppose it is early, but there doesn’t seem to be much concern for making up these games sooner rather than later - we have only had one double-header so far, although Memorial Day is coming shortly and the tradition of holiday double-headers is in play.

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