Baseball Classic Replays

  The story of the last week: the Chicago Cubs taking over the top spot in the standings.  Honestly, no team in the league really lit it on fire this week, but the Cubs played better than the Giants and now find themselves with a slight lead.  With the Phillies offense, it is no surprise that they are making a push as well.  The real underperformers in the National League are, still, the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Although, while the Pirates did end up finishing second in the NL in 1929, they were only .500 at this point in the season, so there is still time for them to turn it around.  Here is the link to Baseball-Reference with the actual standings on 5/12/29. ***NOTE: It was pointed out to me by Cyrus, the developer of Skeetersoft, that there are a few games that were called as ties up to this point in the season.  I have chosen to go ahead and finish those games, primarily because my games in those situations were not tied at the end of 9 innings. ...

  Miraculous, against all odds, the Senators hold on to the top spot in the American League.  I keep assuming that they are going to start to fade, but they simply haven't done so.  The Athletics got within a half game of the Senators earlier in the week but couldn't get any closer.  It feels like the Athletics and the Yankees will start to pull away from the rest of the league, which is what ultimately did happen in 1929, but at the same time the Senators blueprint keeps working - they score early and enough to hang on to leads through the end of games.  Here is the link to the Baseball-Reference page showing the standings at this point in 1929.  You will notice that the Browns are quite underperforming relative to the real-life standings. The Yankees got hot over the last week, with the bat of Ruth finally starting to come alive.  Ruth and Gehrig have both started the season slow, but fast starts from Tony Lazzeri and Bob Meusel have kept the team g...

 5/11/1929 Chicago Cubs (13-8) at New York Giants (9-7) Teams     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9   R  H  E --------      -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --       -- -- -- Cubs       0  1  0  3  1  0  0  3  0    8 14  0 Giants     0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    0  9  1                         Hack Wilson (CHC)                                                      Sheriff Blake (CHC) After having a Stellar Performance last week and finding himself listed in the NL Top 10 Position Players list, Hack Wilso...

 5/11/1929 Philadelphia Athletics (12-7) at Cleveland Indians (10-12) Teams        1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9   R  H  E -----------      -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --     -- -- -- Athletics    0  6  1  0  0  0  2  0  0   9 12  2 Indians      0  0  0  0  0  0  0  2  0    2  7  1                           Jimmie Foxx                                                                      Lefty Grove Al Simmons and Bing Miller have been spearheading the potent A...

 5/10/1929 Cincinnati Reds (7-13) at Boston Braves (7-9) Teams     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10   R  H  E --------      -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --       -- -- -- Reds         0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0    1  6  0 Braves    1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1    2  6  1 Reds                                ab  r  h bi bb  k  p  a  bvg     ---------------                   -- -- --  --  -- -- --   --  ----     Evar SWANSON cf     5  0  1  0  0  0 ...

 5/10/1929 Boston Red Sox (5-13) at St. Louis Browns (9-11) Teams      1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9   R  H  E ---------      -- -- --  -- -- -- -- -- --       -- -- -- Red Sox    0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  2   2  9  1 Browns     0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0   0  8  2 Red Ruffing (BOS) Red Ruffing pitched a complete game, 8-hit shutout today in St. Louis, to help continue the mini "spark" of life that the Red Sox have shown of late.  While still in last place, the Red Sox have at least gone 5-5 in their last 10 games, and some of those losses have come in close games.  Ruffing was spectacular today, going the distance and striking out 3 along the way.  The game was tied going into the ninth inning, as Browns starter Jack ...