Baseball Classic Replays

 5/23/1929 Washington Senators (15-13) at Philadelphia Athletics (19-10) Teams                  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11         R  H  E -----------              -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --               -- -- -- Senators              0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0            1  8  1 Athletics              0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1            2  4  2 Bump Hadley (WSN) It's not very often that a losing effort is singled out for applause in this Stellar Performances section, but Bump Hadley's n...

 5/23/1929 Boston Braves (11-18) at New York Giants (19-9) Teams                1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9         R  H  E --------                -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --            -- -- -- Braves              0  0  0  0  2  0  0  1  0         3  9  2 Giants              0  0  0  2  0  5  0  0  x         7  9  1 Mel Ott (NYG) The Giants have caught fire and it's hard to think it doesn't directly correlate to Mel Ott breaking out from his slow start to the season.  Today at the Polo Grounds, Ott blasted two solo home runs in leading the Giants to a 7-3 ...

 5/22/1929 New York Giants (17-9) at Brooklyn Robins (15-13) Teams                1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9         R  H  E --------                -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --            -- -- -- Giants              0  3  3  0  0  0  2  0  0         8 10  0 Robins              0  0  0  0  0  0  0  2  2         4  7  1 Travis Jackson (NYG) With Bill Terry hitting at an all-world level, Travis Jackson has flown a bit under the radar this season and had been slumping slightly from his red hot start to the year.  Any slump ended today in Brooklyn, where Jackson hit...

 5/21/1929 St. Louis Cardinals (14-16) at Cincinnati Reds (12-17) Teams                    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9         R  H  E -----------                  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --          -- -- -- Cardinals              0  0  0  2  0  0  0  1  0          3  7  2 Reds                         0  0  3  0  0  2  0  4  x         9 11  0 Ethan Allen (CIN) The Reds have hovered near the bottom of the National League standings for most of the season, but with today's victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, the Reds have now w...

 5/20/1929 St. Louis Cardinals (14-15) at Cincinnati Reds (11-17) Teams                  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9         R  H  E -----------              -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --          -- -- -- Cardinals            0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0         0  5  1 Reds                       2  0  1  2  0  0  0  0  x         5  7  0 Red Lucas (CIN) Another lights out pithing performance today, this time in Cincinnati by the aptly-named Reds ace Red Lucas.  Lucas has remained a fixture near the top of the weekly "Top 5 Pitchers" list in the Na...

 5/20/1929 Pittsburgh Pirates (11-15) at Chicago Cubs (17-12) Teams                1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9         R  H  E ---------                -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --          -- -- -- Pirates               0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0         0  2  3 Cubs                     0  0  0  0  0  2  2  0  x       4  9  0 Guy Bush (CHC) Despite the incredible offensive seasons being put together by a number of players, it seems like the Stellar Performances have been dominated by pitchers as of late.  Today is no different, as Guy Bush was untou...

  The Giants reclaim the top spot in the National League and are currently the hottest team in all of baseball, not losing a single game over the last week.  Their winning streak now stands at 6 games and they have opened a 2 game lead over the Cubs.  The Phillies offense continues to keep them hovering around the top of the standings as well.  As seems to have been the case over the last two weeks, it keeps feeling like the Cardinals and the Pirates are finally going to kick it into gear, but neither has been able to maintain it - the Cardinals remain at .500 while the Pirates continue to struggle to get to that mark. Here is the link to the Baseball-Reference page that shows today's actual standings in 1929.  The Giants are clearly overachieving compared to real life performance, but considering the offensive weapons in their lineup, and the solid pitching being delivered, I don't find it that surprising.  The Robins are also far outpacing their real lif...

  And now we start to see the cream rise to the top, as expected.  The Athletics and Yankees are both catching fire, having won 4 and 5 games in a row, respectively, and both are 7-3 in their last 10 games.  The A's have been flirting with taking over the top spot for the last few weeks and they completely dominated the Senators in their series this week, taking four straight from Washington.  The Senators had surprisingly remained in first place all season, but it looks like the A's and Yankees are going to start to pull away from the rest of the league.  The White Sox, Browns, and Tigers all keep hovering around .500 and trying to stay within striking distance, but Philly and New York look like they are clearly the class of the American League this season. Here is a link to the Baseball-Reference page for this day in the season, which shows what the actual standings looked like.  The A's and Yankees have records very similar to what they had in 1929....

 5/19/1929 Chicago White Sox (14-15) at Detroit Tigers (15-17) Teams             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10         R  H  E -----------           -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --            -- -- -- White Sox       0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  2         2  5  1 Tigers                0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0         0  8  1                   Ted Lyons (CHW)                                            ...