Roger's 1930 APBA Replay

No perfect games this week, but every game continues to exciting, with many going down to the final pitch. It has only been three weeks so far and I do expect things will correct themselves with time, but for the moment the standings are pretty much topsy-turvy. In the American League, both Washington in first and the A's below .500 are a surprise, but the real surprise at this point is that the White Sox have clawed their way into second place. They do have the worst ERA in the AL, so I don't expect this hot streak to be maintained. Detroit is hanging in there, but both the Yankees and the A's are starting to play better - it just may be that they are starting to play teams from the western half of the league. In the National League, Brooklyn and St. Louis continue to dominate, but the Cubs have finally pulled themselves over the .500 mark. They are going to have to improve that ERA of 6.29 to stay competitive though. The Giants are hitting over .300, but are last i...

Monday, April 28, 1930 Philadelphia (AL) 5 Boston (AL) (H) 4 (11) A two-run homerun by second baseman Max Bishop gave the A's an early 3-0 lead, but two run-scoring doubles by Bill Regan helped the Red Sox chip away at that lead and eventually send the game to extra innings. The A's thought they had it won in the eleventh, but again the Red Sox managed to tie it up. The A's scored again in the top of the thirteenth and Lefty Grove shut down the Red Sox to get the win in relief. Detroit (H) 8 Chicago (AL) 3 Bob Fothergill led off the game with a homerun to give the Tigers an early lead, but the White Sox fought back to tie the game at 3 coming out of the fourth. Usually reliable second baseman Bill Cissell booted an easy one to open the door and the Tiger scored four times in the bottom of the seventh to put it away. 22-year-old Whit Wyatt made his first start of the season for the Tigers, got the win, and picked up three hits of his own for the d...