Roger's 1930 APBA Replay

Week 14 ended with a flurry of offense - seventeen games with double digits runs for the winner, three with twenty or more. Throw in a smattering of shut-outs, a no-hitter that wasn't ( Bud Teachout no-hit the Robins for eleven innings, but the Cubs hadn't scored either), and it was just another week of the 1930 replay. Most AL teams are approaching the 90 games mark, while most NL teams have just moved past 80 games played. Looking ahead to Week 15 it looks like every NL team plays either 2 or 3 doubleheaders in an already full week of games, so the rush to get caught up to the calendar is on. In the AL while Philadelphia was crushing the White Sox, Cleveland was taking 4-of-6 from Washington, reducing the Nationals lead to one game over the A's. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig went on a binge, and the Yankees moved up from fifth place to third, although they are 14.5 games behind the second place A's. Boston tumbled out of third place and ended the week in fifth, a...

Monday, July 14, 1930 New York (AL) 9 Chicago (AL) (H) 6 (GM 1) The White Sox temporarily took a 6-5 lead in the bottom of the seventh when they scored two runs off starter Hank Johnson , but the Yankees answered back with four in the eighth. Lou McEvoy (3-1) made his first appearance in more than a month and went two-plus innings to pick up the win in relief. New York (AL) 7 Chicago (AL) (H) 6 (10) (GM 2) The White Sox temporarily took a 5-4 lead in the bottom of the seventh when they scored three runs off starter Red Ruffing (6-7), but as before, the Yankees came back to claim the victory and sweep the doubleheader. This time the Yankees plated one in the ninth to send it to extra innings, and then in the tenth Babe Ruth doubled, Tony Lazzeri tripled him home, and then Lou Gehrig singled home Lazzeri and Ruffing and the Yankees had what they needed. Note: Carl Reynolds was HBP in the eighth and had to be removed from the game. Boston (AL) 5 Clevel...