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Week 22 Recap

Week 22 is complete and teams are finishing up their yearly series against their remaining opponents. The NL Midwest teams are out east for one more week and the AL East teams are making their final swing through the great Midwest. The Cincinnati Reds have only played 139 games to date,  with the remainder of the league games played in the low 140's so the final two weeks will be action-filled as there are several final standings slots still in question.

The NL is where the eyes of baseball are gazing. St. Louis spent the week alone in first place, albeit slightly, allowing Chicago and Brooklyn to batter each other as they swapped second and third place spots a few times. Both teams have key injuries, but both teams have a series against St. Louis yet to come as well. New York is comfortably settled into fourth place - they aren't going anywhere. Fifth place Cincinnati still maintains a three-game lead over sixth place Pittsburgh as both teams had a bad week. These two teams have games left against each other yet though. Seventh place Boston has a five-game lead over Philadelphia and barring a total collapse feel pretty secure where they are. Lefty O'Doul is still relegated to pinch-hitting duties for the Phillies and he is missed in their lineup.

In the AL the A's have a 6.5 game lead over Washington and their magic number to clinch is six. Washington has had the injury bug hit them, but have a comfortable lead over the third-place Yankees. Similar to the Giants, the Yankees have comfortably settled into their standings location. St. Louis moved into fourth place this week, but only have a one-game lead over fifth place Detroit. The Tigers have lost seven in a row and are desperate to get back into the top half of the standings. Sixth place Cleveland still maintains a hope of moving up but also knows they only have a one-game lead over seventh place Boston. Boston's remaining games are against teams that have aspirations of improving their standings position or are very good, so Chicago knows if they can hold their own over these past two weeks that seventh place is not out of the question.

When it comes to leaders in the AL it's all about Lou Gehrig and Lefty Grove. Gehrig is hitting .422, well ahead of Mickey Cochrane (.409) and Al Simmons (.398), and Gehrig leads in hits (228) over Simmons (208), Joe Cronin (208), and Charlie Gehringer (204). Babe Ruth maintains his lead in runs scored (159) over Gehrig (143) and Cochrane (134), but Gehrig has a slight lead in RBI's (167) over Ruth (161) and Simmons (146). Gehrig has 54 doubles, over Cochrane (50), Red Kress (49), and Gehringer (48). Sam Rice still leads in triples (17), just ahead of Goose Goslin and Gehringer, both with 16, and Tony Lazzeri (15). Ruth has the homerun lead (47) over Gehrig (42), Ed Morgan (36), Goslin (32), and Jimmie Foxx (32). AL pitchers are all about Grove (28-2, 1.53), but Lefty Stewart (24-6, 2.13) and Wes Ferrell (22-11, 2.89) are having good years as well.

Note: I should have pointed out last time that after Week 21 that Lou Gehrig had 101 extra base hits and had 408 total bases. After Week 22 those numbers are up to 108 and 432. In the NL, Hack Wilson is at 90 and 349 and Chuck Klein is at 85 and 392.

In the NL , despite having missed most of the past week, Lefty O'Doul (.409) has taken the lead in the NL batting race, slightly ahead of Chuck Klein (.408) and Bill Terry (.407), while Klein maintains the lead in hits (234) over Terry (219) and Babe Herman (216). The leaders in runs scored are pretty bunched up, with Kiki Cuyler (133) leading Woody English (132), Herman (131), and Klein (130), while Hack Wilson (159) leads in RBI's over Klein (145), Del Bissonette (124), and Chick Hafey (123). Harry Heilmann, Freddie Lindstrom, and Johnny Frederick all have 48 doubles, just ahead of Klein (47) and three others with 46. Adam Comorosky still leads in triples (21) over Cuyler (19) and Paul Waner (17). Wilson (44) has the homerun lead, well ahead of Herman (35), Klein (35), and Wally Berger (33). The Cubs twin towers of Pat Malone (22-8) and Charlie Root (20-8) lead in wins, but the Cubs now they will miss Root in these final two weeks. Freddie Fitzsimmons (19-7), Jesse Haines (18-4), Burleigh Grimes (18-7), and Dazzy Vance (18-7) would like to reach the twenty win mark as well.


The Cardinals, Robins, and Cubs are still on hot streaks and are playing well above their expected WL%. St. Louis has a series coming up in Brooklyn, but none of these three teams seems to be able to pull away. After Brooklyn, St. Louis finishes with Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Dizzy Dean is scheduled to make his ML debut on the last day of the season - if the game was truly on the line for the World Series would the rookie really have started or would the Cardinals have gone with someone else? Dean did pitch well and got the win, and I suppose you could make the argument that the Cardinals had no choice as they had burned out all of the other pitchers just to get to this point, but I am just going to let it play out as is.


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