Roger's 1930 APBA Replay

Week 19 is completed and at the end of next week we will be at the end of August, with only the four weeks in the month of September remaining. The NL has finally caught up schedule-wise and both leagues are ahead of the (19/24) 79.2% mark for games played, with all teams having right around thirty games remaining to play over these final five weeks. The White Sox and the Browns have completed all 22 of their games against each other already, as have the Indians and the Tigers. Each league has at least one more long train trip left to reach the eastern or midwestern opponents (and back again). The A's maintain a small lead over the Nationals, and the A's have cooled down from their hot streak over the past several weeks, so the Nationals still maintain a hope of grabbing the AL pennant. The Yankees are 19.5 games behind the Nationals and are still struggling to stay over .500. The Tigers are happy to be in fourth place but are only 2.5 games ahead of the Browns. The Browns...

Monday, August 18, 1930 New York (AL) (H) 2 Chicago (AL) 1 (10) The White Sox continue to bedevil the Yankees, but Herb Pennock (7-6) pitched a strong game and got the victory. Chicago scored their run in the top of the first, and the Yankees eventually tied with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly from Ben Chapman in the sixth. There it stood until Lou Gehrig singled home Babe Ruth with the game-winner in the tenth. St. Louis (AL) 3 Philadelphia (AL) (H) 2 Lefty Stewart (20-5) outdueled George Earnshaw (14-7) as the Browns defeated the league leaders. St. Louis took an early 3-0 lead, held off an A's rally or two, and Stewart became the second pitcher to twenty wins. Washington (H) 1 Detroit 0 Bump Hadley (13-6) allowed only three hits and went all the way for the shutout victory. Sam West tripled home Joe Kuhel in the fourth for the game's only run. Chicago (NL) (H) 2 Philadelphia (NL) 1 The Phillies scored in the top of the firs...