Week Twelve of the 1911
BBW replay is in the books. Usually, at the completion of Week Twelve, the replay
has reached its halfway point. Not this time - all of the teams have surpassed
the 60 games played mark by now, but only Cleveland has reached to 70 games
played mark. If 77 games played is the true halfway mark of a 154 game season,
then most teams still won’t be close by the end of next week, even with a full
slate of doubleheaders to be played on the Fourth of July.
It
does look like the AL winner is pretty much decided already. The A's ended Week
Twelve with an 11.5 game lead over second-place teams Chicago and Detroit, with
only a few decimal places separating the two. However, Boston and Cleveland are
both tied, 1.0 games behind Chicago and Detroit, with both teams also separated
by only a few decimal places. The AL pennant race might already be settled this
early, but the race for second place has a long way to go. So far these four
teams have mostly just taken turns beating each other up and in doing so they
have let Philadelphia run away with the lead.
It
is a different story in the NL. Pittsburgh has been on top for a long time and
has shown no sign of letting up. Their strong pitching along with their strong
and timely hitting has made the difference so far. New York is frustrated -
they too have strong pitching and hitting, but they haven't been able to close
that gap between them and the Pirates. They have repeatedly whittled that lead
down, only to fall right back to where they were previously. With ~60% of the
season remaining the Giants aren't panicking - these two teams play each other
fourteen times yet, so John McGraw and crew remain confident.
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Brooklyn Manager
Bill Dahlen |
I
really never intended to provide a weekly snapshot on Shoeless Joe Jackson, but
good gosh, what a season! Jackson is still hitting over .500 (.533) even this
far into the season. Jackson has 147 hits so far and a total of 46 multi-hit games,
and as stated previously, the replay still has ~60% of the season left to be
played.
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