Week 10 Summary (06/12/1911 - 06/18/1911)

Week Ten is in the books and the 1911 replay marches on. All teams have passed the 50 games played mark, the more-or-less one-third of the season in games played, with the exception of the White Sox. That won't last long though as they are at 48 games played, although I expect that several of the teams will be passed the 60 games played mark by the end of this coming week. With the exception of Memorial Day where everyone played a doubleheader, there have only been three doubleheaders so far. In looking at the schedule over the next few weeks the number of doubleheaders scheduled takes a precipitous rise, so there is more excitement to come.

In the AL, the Philadelphia A's continue to dominate, not having opened an 8.0 game lead over second-place Boston. Chicago had been struggling for weeks, is now playing better, and they sit in third place, 1.5 games behind the currently struggling Red Sox. Cleveland is still holding on with the hopes that Nap Lajoie will be returning soon and that CyYoung will settle their pitching staff down, but the big news of this past week was the resurgence of the previously dormant Detroit Tigers. In fact, Detroit has moved past Cleveland into fourth place, even if only by percentage points. The Tigers could always hit, but their offensive attach was often splinted and not really productive, plus their pitching was floundering. Veterans Ed Summers and Bill Donovan only recently began taking regular turns in the rotation and all of a sudden the Tigers are a new team. Can they catch Philadelphia? Well, let's not get carried away, but everyone is now well aware of Tigers.

 

In the NL, Pittsburgh continues to hold on to their lead over New York. The Giants aren't going to go away, but the Pirates continue to get good pitching and timely hitting. Chicago still remains in third as fourth place St. Louis's recent hot streak has come to an end, giving the fifth place Phillies the hope of possibly moving back up to the upper tier of the standings,

 

Fred Tenney, Player/Manager
Boston Rustlers

Shoeless Joe Jackson is now "only" hitting .509, down from .523 last week. I think we all knew he wasn't going to hit over .500, and he actually hit .408 in 1911, so I think it is safe to say we are seeing this normalize. Ty Cobb is hitting .441 (Actual: .420), so I expect I will see these two fighting it out for the batting title until the last day of the season.

 

As mentioned above there are a large number of doubleheaders on the horizon as teams are still slightly behind in the schedule. The season does spread out to twenty-seven weeks, but still, the games have to get on the schedule and have to get played. I am thinking that with the first third of the season done all teams have had their first major road trip or two, so it is finally time to start squeezing in the missed games from earlier in the season. Rosters and bullpens are not exactly overflowing with players already, so pitching rotations get stretched, more injuries are likely to occur, and any missed playing time as teams head down the stretch will have more of an impact.

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