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Week 21 Recap

Week 21 is over and teams jockeying for position in the standings still are starting to run out of games. Cincinnati (133) has 21 games left to play and Cleveland (140) has 14, and everyone else is in between somewhere. There are several instances where some pairs of teams have already completed their season's games against each other. A road trip is currently underway and in the next two weeks, the NL Midwest teams will be visiting their eastern counterparts while the AL East teams will be making a last trip through the Midwest.

St. Louis stayed in first place all week, although they were tied with Chicago for several of those days. Brooklyn currently sits two games behind St. Louis, but know that they have a homestand remaining with both St. Louis and Chicago and still maintain very active pennant hopes. New York isn't eliminated yet, but wouldn't mind employing a little mischief on any other three teams in front of them. Cincinnati is still holding off Pittsburgh for fifth place but both teams know this upcoming road trip will likely decide who will finish ahead in the standings. Boston has been on a roll recently and has taken a 4.5 game lead over Philadelphia. Boston fans are scratching their heads and  saying "Where was that team all year?"

In the AL Philadelphia's magic number is ten and have to be considered a lock after the way they have beaten up on the Midwest teams all year. Washington has been in a little bit of a slump recently, and with only one game remaining against Philadelphia are pretty much playing out the string at this point. New York has been playing much better recently, but are still thirteen games out of second place. Detroit is two games ahead of St. Louis and they have no more games against each other.  Cleveland had games this past week against St. Louis and Chicago and was really looking forward to moving up in the standings, but those plans went terribly awry and they are now 3.5 games behind St. Louis. Boston is still moving in the wrong direction, although a nice long road trip away from Philadelphia, Washington, and New York may be good for what ails them. The White Sox had a good week and would love nothing more than catching and passing Boston in these last few weeks.

In the AL, Lou Gehrig (.421) sits alone at the top, well ahead of Mickey Cochrane (.409), Al Simmons (.398), and Heinie Manush (.397). Gehrig (215) still has a large lead in hits, ahead of Simmons (200), Joe Cronin (199), and Charlie Gehringer (198). Babe Ruth still has the runs lead (147), leading Gehrig (131), Cochrane (124) and Max Bishop (123). Gehrig has the RBI lead (159), with Ruth (191) and Simmons (136) following. Gehrig became the first to reach 50 doubles, with Red Kress, Cochrane, and Gehringer all with 48. Sam Rice continues to lead in triples with 17, but Goose Goslin and Gehringer are right behind with 16. Ruth has 43 homeruns, leading Gehrig (40) and Ed Morgan (33). Lefty Grove (27-2, 1.53) still leads all pitchers, with Lefty Stewart (23-6, 2.20) and Wes Ferrell (21-10, 2.66) not far behind.

In the NL, Chuck Klein (.410) leads in batting ahead of Lefty O'Doul (.407) and Bill Terry (.405), and Klein leads in hits (223) by a wide margin over Terry (207) and Babe Herman (203). Kiki Cuyler has the leads in runs scored (129), ahead of Klein (127), O'Doul (125), and Woody English (124), while Hack Wilson leads in RBI's (153) over Klein (137) and Herman (116). Harry Heilmann has the lead in doubles with 48, but Klein and Wilson are right behind with 46. Adam Comorosky (21), Cuyler (19), and Paul Waner (16) sit on the top of the leaderboard in triples. Wilson (41) had a food size lead in homeruns, and Herman (33), Wally Berger (32), and Klein (31) are bunch behind him. Pat Malone (21-7) and Charlie Root (20-7) lead in wins, but Freddie Fitzsimmons (18-7), Jesse Haines (17-3) and Dazzy Vance (17-7) would all like to reach the twenty win plateau as well.


This week feature featured "The Return of the Pitcher" as there were many low scoring close games, in both leagues, but more so in the AL. Good pitchers pitched good, but several "not good" pitchers had good outings as well. I suspect this will level out over these final few weeks. The Cardinals, the Cubs, and the Robins have all been riding hot streaks as they vie for the NL pennant, but you have to figure all three teams won’t be able to keep it up. Who is going to blink? Will this last road trip burst someone's balloon? Let's go find out.


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