Week 14 Summary (07/10/1911 - 07/16/1911)

Week Fourteen of the 1911 BBW replay is in the books and the season marches on. Only Chicago (NL) hasn't reached the 77-games -played mark and they are at 76 games, so we really have reached the midpoint of the 1911 season. This also means that all teams will have passed the 80-games-played by the end of the coming week if they haven't reached that point already.

 

Batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging numbers between the replay and actual are all falling into line with only minor differences, but both leagues have an ERA that exceeds their actual by about three-quarters of a run. Of course, my number of errors is ~50% below actual still which impacts ERA, but my replay runs scored still exceeds actual runs scored, but not by that much, and that delta is shrinking every week.

 

Philadelphia is still comfortably atop the AL with an 8.0 game lead over second-place Boston, but they did struggle again this past week. Second baseman Eddie Collins is expected to return to the lineup shortly and that will help on both offense and defense. Behind Boston, the next four teams - Cleveland, New York, Chicago, and Detroit - all take turns knocking each other about and swapping spots in the middle of the standings. Seventh place Washington has been on a hot streak recently, much to the annoyance of teams that were looking for some easy wins.

 

Pittsburgh went into New York for three games this week with a 2.0 game lead and promptly won games one and two, both wins coming in extra innings. The Giants did salvage a win in Game Three and gives us a promise of an exciting second half of the season pennant race in the NL. Chicago remains a constant in third place while St. Louis and Philadelphia trade spots below them. Is Brooklyn going to "catch" Cincinnati and Boston on their way down or are Cincinnati and Boston going to "catch" Brooklyn on their way up? Cincinnati is supposed to be the best team of the three, but they just can't put together any sort of consistent play.

 

Chicago (NL) Player/Manager
Frank Chance

And since we are at the halfway point, here is a list of leaders:

 

AL Leaders

Batting Average: Joe Jackson (.520), Ty Cobb (.423), Eddie Collins (.371)

Hits: Jackson (171), Cobb (152), Sam Crawford (120)

Runs Scored: Jackson (87), Cobb (85), Clyde Milan (76)

RBI’s: Cobb (83), Jackson (81), Duffy Lewis (78)

Doubles: Jackson (46), George Moriarty (22), Cobb (21)

Triples: Jackson (15), Cobb (13), and three tied with 11 (Harry Lord, Birdie Cree, Crawford)

Homeruns: Tris Speaker and Lewis (7), three tied with six (Ping Bodie, Danny Murphy, Jackson)

Walks: Harry Hooper (52), Donie Bush (50), Doc Gessler (49)

Multi-Hit Games: Jackson (54), Cobb (45), Crawford (36)

Stolen Bases: Cobb (29), Cree (23), Milan (20), Bert Daniels (20)

Wins: Jack Coombs (18-5), Walter Johnson (15-3), Vean Gregg (13-3), Smoky Joe Wood (13-7)

ERA: Chief Bender (1.43), Johnson (1.45), Russ Ford (1.63)

 

Will Jackson hit over .500? I keep thinking he will cool off eventually, but he hasn't done it yet. Will he get ~300 hits? Who's gonna stop him? Jackson also has 67 XBH's at the halfway point of the season. Again, who's gonna stop him? Will Cobb hit over .400? Well, he actually did, so I think it is likely he will repeat that here.

 

NL Leaders

Batting: Chief Meyers (.394), Honus Wagner (.393), Red Murray (.363)

Hits: Wagner (119), Murray (118), Fred Merkle (106)

Runs Scored: Larry Doyle (69), Murray (68), Wagner (64)

RBI’s: Wagner (85), Chief Wilson (79), Merkle (69)

Doubles: Mike Mowrey (23), Buck Herzog (22), three tied with 21 (Wilson, Bob Bescher, Murray)

Triples: Murray (15), Mike Mitchell (10), Wagner (10)

Homeruns: Wilson (17), Sherry Magee (14), Doyle (13)

Walks: Jimmy Sheckard (73), Johnny Bates (59), Bill Sweeney (58)

Multi-hit Games: Wagner (35), Merkle (32), Fred Tenney (32)

Stolen Bases: Herzog (23), Murray (20), Fred Snodgrass (20), Bescher (20)

Wins: Pete Alexander (17-4), Christy Mathewson (16-7), Lefty Leifield (14-5)

ERA: Elmer Steele (1.58), Nap Rucker (1.93), Slim Sallee (2.21)

 

Meyers had been hitting over .400 all season and only recently dipped back down into the .390's. Wagner and Wilson are #1 and #2 in RBI's and both have provided big hits for Pittsburgh all season. The rest of the NL leaders are littered with New York Giants players - Meyers, Murray, Merkle, Doyle, Snodgrass, and Mathewson - plus Herzog will be joining them in a few more weeks. Philadelphia will miss Magee in the middle of their lineup now that he has been suspended for the remainder of the season after he slugged an umpire.

 

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