Roger's 1930 APBA Replay

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 ...

Monday, August 4, 1930 At the beginning of the week, the eastern teams are all still in the east and the midwestern teams are still in the Midwest, but in midweek the NL East teams move to the Midwest while the AL West teams move to the east. The week starts off slow as far as the number of games played, but by the weekend there are plenty of doubleheaders scheduled. Detroit (H) 4 Chicago (AL) 2 Vic Sorrell (11-9) outdueled Ted Lyons (13-12) in a tight low-hit game. The Tigers scored four times in the bottom of the fourth, Sorrell's two-run double contributing the final two Detroit runs. Philadelphia (AL) (H) 4 Boston (AL) 3 A second consecutive game where the winning team scored all four of their runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and it was a pitcher that got the big hit. In this case, it was Lefty Grove (22-2) that not only picked up the win but stroked a three-run double and then scored run #4 to put the A's ahead to stay. Cleveland 7 St....