Roger's 1911 APBA Replay: Week 15 Summary (07/17/1911

1911 Detroit Tigers

Week 15 of the 1911 BBW replay is in the books and the season marches on. Cleveland is the only team that has reached or passed the 90 games played mark, but all teams are now past 80 games played so we are well into the second half of the season at this point.

In the AL, the A's recently saw their lead slip to "only" 7.0 games over Boston, but they are currently on a six-game winning streak, so they will be just fine. Boston just had a seven-game winning streak ended during which they really were unable to dent the A's lead. Cleveland, Detroit, New York, and Chicago are all within 2.5 games of each other as they continue to slap each other around, thus preventing anyone from making a move upwards. Boston has somehow missed this madness, but I suspect they will cool off and get sucked back into the mid-level standings maelstrom. The surprise team in the AL right now is Washington. They have been on a hot streak of their own as they have gone 21-6 over the past three weeks and now have the same number of wins as sixth place Chicago.

Detroit Manager
Hughie Jennings

In the NL, the Pirates are just relentless. They are currently riding a five-game win streak and have opened a 5.0 game lead over the second place Giants. New York just completed a trade for infielder Buck Herzog from Boston in hopes that he can provide that necessary boost as they head towards the final days of the season. The Giants still lead the league in hitting, are second in pitching, and actually have the best fielding as well, but each time they start to get close to Pittsburgh they blink and the Pirates grow back their lost lead. Pittsburgh just took 2-of-3 games in New York, but these two teams have eleven games remaining, so anything can still happen.

Shoeless Joe Jackson ended Week 15 by only (only?) hitting .510, so the inevitable slide that I have long been expecting might actually be happening. Jackson has accrued 181 hits, Cleveland has 91 games played, so my thought that Jackson might have 200 hits by the time Cleveland reaches the 100 games played mark may not happen, but it will be close. He is on track for roughly 288 hits for the season though, still an impressive mark.

Bennett Park 1910 Digital Art by Gary Grigsby (pixels.com)