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Week 17 Recap

The AL teams are all right around 110 games played, while the NL teams had a busy week but are still slightly behind in games played as compared to their AL counterparts. These games will all get played, but the NL teams just have more ground to make up. I have two tie games coming up – 08/16/1930 and 08/19/1930, both Phillies at Cubs, both second games of doubleheaders. I have a way to account for these, but I haven’t set it up yet – more to come.

Carl Reynolds
In the National League, Chicago and St. Louis find themselves with identical 66-42 records, tied for second, three games behind first-place Brooklyn. This has happened several times so far – a team or two makes a charge at the Robins, but then the Robins remain resilient and re-expand their lead again. However, Brooklyn just lost four straight to St. Louis though, have one more to play, and then move to Chicago for four games. This could get real interesting real soon. New York has a firm grip on fourth place and just haven’t been able to take advantage of Brooklyn’s recent woes. Cincinnati had thoughts of climbing past New York into fourth, but have fallen back and now see always dangerous Pittsburgh in their rearview mirror again. Philadelphia has been on an offensive tear over the past few weeks, and as long as they hit they can win, and they have currently opened up a four-game lead over eighth-place Boston. The hapless Braves now find themselves with the worst record in the entire replay.

In the American League, second place Washington has moved to within 3.5 games behind first-place Philadelphia. Washington also has a nineteen game lead over third-place New York, so they feel pretty secure that they won’t finish worse than second. The Yankees are currently on a four-game winning streak and are one game below .500, meaning they were five games below .500 when the streak started. Detroit is three games behind New York, having climbed past the faltering Red Sox. St. Louis is in sixth and still leads Cleveland by two games … the nut of this is that third place New York has a nine-game lead over seventh place Cleveland with three teams in between, so there are several teams remaining with a chance to move up in the standings. Chicago is safely in last place, even though they do have a better record than the NL Philadelphia and Boston teams.

In the American League, Mickey Cochrane (.427) leads in average, ahead of Lou Gehrig (.416) and Al Simmons (.410). Cochrane just ended a thirty game hitting streak, the longest of the season in the AL. The runs leaders are Babe Ruth (125), Gehrig (112), Max Bishop (104), Cochrane (103), Earle Combs (103) and Jimmie Foxx (101) – three from New York and three from Philadelphia. Gehrig (182) has a big lead in hits, ahead of Simmons (167) and Joe Cronin (164). Gehrig will probably not get to 200 hits this upcoming week, but it won’t be much longer. Gehrig (142) continues to be an RBI monster, ahead of Ruth (126), Simmons (109), and Foxx (103). Red Kress has 44 doubles, ahead of Cochrane (41), Charlie Gehringer (40), and Gehrig (40). Sam Rice (15) has taken the lead in triples, over Carl Reynolds (13) and Goose Goslin (13). Ruth (40) leads in homeruns, over Gehrig (35) and Ed Morgan (30). Lefty Grove (23-2, 1.63) leads in pitching, over Firpo Marberry (18-2) and Lefty Stewart (18-5).

Adam Comorosky
In the National League, Chuck Klein (.420) and Lefty O’Doul (.419) have continued their reign of terror for seventh place Philadelphia, with Bill Terry (.409) joining them in the .400 club. O’Doul (106) leads in runs, ahead of Klein (103) and Kiki Cuyler (102). Klein leads in hits (185), well ahead of Terry (165) and O’Doul (163). Klein leads in RBI’s (116), over Hack Wilson (112) and Del Bissonette (104). Bissonette is currently on an active 30 game hitting streak. Harry Heilmann and Johnny Frederick both have 39 doubles, just ahead of Klein (36). Adam Comorosky (19) leads in triples, ahead of Cuyler (16) and Bissonette (14). Wilson still leads in homeruns (30), but Babe Herman (27) has moved into second, just ahead of Wally Berger (26). Charlie Root (16-5) and Pat Malone (16-6) have the most wins, with four pitchers tied with thirteen wins and three more tied at twelve.

Note: Hack Wilson has a long way to go if he is going to get to his 1930 numbers of 56 homeruns and 191 RBI’s (30/112). It’s not that he doesn’t have the opportunities – he has left 185 runners on base so far – or that he is having a bad year, he just hasn’t gotten hot and stayed hot and carried the team when they need it. If he was to get on a hot streak now … these final seven weeks could get real interesting for the Cubs and the rest of the National League.


The replay progresses without issues. All teams have several players they will be activating over the next few weeks, which is good because I am starting to run a little tight on relief appearances. Among them will be future Hall-of-Famers Dizzy Dean, Luke Appling and Hank Greenberg making their ML debuts. I have several pennant races setting up nicely, plus teams lower in the standings have opportunities to improve their position as well, so, on to Week 18 and let’s see what happens.



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