Week 26 Summary (10/02/1911 - 10/08/1911)

Week 26 of the 1911 BBW Replay is in the books and the American League games have been completed. The Philadelphia Athletics clinched the AL pennant several weeks ago but in the end, even as they were occasionally resting players, the A's continued to pound their opposition, ending the season on a six-game winning streak.

The NL still has several days remaining, ten games in all, before the end of their season. The second-place Giants started this week by losing to the Pirates, cutting Pittsburgh's magic number to three with New York finding themselves a full 5.0 games out of first. Over the next four days, Pittsburgh didn't play a single game and the Giants won all five of their games, leaving the magic number at three still but that lead was whittled down to only 2.5 games. Over the weekend the Giants won again, but the Pirates took two games in Chicago, so heading into Week 27 the Pirates have a magic number of one. Pittsburgh has one game remaining, in Chicago, on Monday, while New York has two games in Brooklyn and two home games versus Brooklyn remaining.

 

Shoeless Joe Jackson ended up hitting .473 for the season, with 275 hits, 69 doubles, 12 homeruns, and 21 triples, a total of 102 extra-base hits. Jackson also led the league in runs scored (137) and came in third in RBI's (137). All that, and he sat out the last three games of the season.

 I will provide a team-by-team review at a later date, as well as a more detailed final leaders report, but for now, I am going to get those last few NL games played. There is a lot that will have to go right for New York to even be able to tie with Pittsburgh, and while I doubt that will happen, you still have to play it out.