Roger's 1916 APBA Replay

Detroit manager Hughie Jennings Week Six of the 1916 BBW Replay is in the books, and the replay marches on. As we approach the end of May, we can see that approximately half of the teams have reached the 30-games-played mark, and several more will reach this point over the next few days, while some will require another week or so. The Eastern NL teams are still stomping around the Midwest in the middle of their first cross-country road trip, while in the AL, it is the Midwestern franchises running up and down the Eastern seaboard. The only two teams that haven't faced each other yet are Cleveland and Philadelphia (AL), but that will resolve itself tomorrow.  In the AL, Boston remains atop of the standings, currently with a 4.0-game lead over second-place Washington. The hottest of the AL teams is New York, which is sitting on an eight-game winning streak. The Yankees only played two games this past week due to weather, but they won both of those games and are doing what they can ...

Monday, May 15, 1916   Transactions:   Washington catcher Patsy Gharrity made his Major League Debut on 05/16/1916   New York (AL) (H) 5 Cleveland 4   The Indians led for most of the game, but they couldn't get rid of the Yankees, and when New York scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh, they had their first lead of the game. Ray Caldwell (2-4, 2.02) picked up the win in relief, and Allen Russell came in to close the final innings.   St. Louis (AL) 3 Philadelphia (AL) (H) 2   First baseman George Sisler hammered a homerun in the top of the third to give the Browns a 2-0 lead, but the A's rallied back to score twice with two unearned runs in the sixth and tie the score at 2-2. Eddie Plank (2-2, 1.75) helped his own cause when he blooped an RBI single in the top of the seventh and then Plank and Bob Groom held off the pesky A's for the win.   Detroit 3 Washington (H) 1   Harry Coveleski The two teams started...