1916 BBW Summary Week 9 Summary - June 05-June 11, 1916

Chicago (AL_ manager
Pants Rowland and daughter
Week Nine of the 1916 BBW Replay is in the books, and it was comparatively a slow week. There were twenty-four games played this past week, plus one tie. In Week Eight, we had the Memorial Doubleheader holiday, which led to a total of fifty-five games having been played. That is quite a difference … Week Nine (of twenty-five) means that if counting by weeks, we have completed 36% of the weeks in the schedule, but when counting by games played, neither league has reached the 30% mark yet.

The highlight of the week was another No-Hitter, the third of the season. Cleveland had a three-game stretch versus Boston the previous week where they were shut out, no-hit, and then shut out again, and then four days later, Washington's Walter Johnson continued their misery:

 


Cleveland is not a bad team, and Tris Speaker, acquired just before the start of the season, is doing what he can, but the Indians always seem to be able to find a way to lose. Cleveland ended the week playing the last-place Philadelphia Athletics and found themselves fighting to do whatever they could to avoid falling behind a really bad A's team.

 

Chicago White Sox Team
The Philadelphia Phillies in the NL are having a similar problem to Cleveland. After a World Series appearance in 1915, the Phillies fans had high expectations for 1916, but the Phillies have rarely been able to put together a strong hitting and pitching performance. The only saving grace for both of these teams is that they have 100+ games remaining on their schedule and they have plenty of time to turn their season around, but they have both dug themselves a pretty deep hole to begin the season.

 

Chicago White Sox Players

In the AL, Boston has been able to maintain their strong start to the season and remain in first place. They only have a 2.5-game lead over Detroit, however, as the Tigers have been able to match the Red Six step for step to this point, with both teams having won seven of the last ten games played. Pitching was supposed to be the weak spot for Detroit; so far, the pitchers have held up, and Detroit has been able to remain in serious contention for the AL pennant. Hitting was never the problem for Detroit, and with 36-year-old Sam Crawford recently returned from an injury, their confidence is on the rise.

All teams have reached or passed the forty-games-played mark, so the season marches on. In the usual ebb and flow of the pennant race so far, Boston (AL) and Brooklyn (NL) have remained resolute in their positions atop their respective leagues. Can they both maintain their position going forward? There is only one way to find out - let's go play!





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