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Week 13 Summary

1901 Brooklyn Superbas
Week 13 is in the books, but it has been an odd set of delays for me in getting there. I had the first half of the week completed, then I got sucked into a work project for a couple of weeks, and then I took a weird week of vacation impacted by pandemic issues, and now finally this week I am getting back into the groove. Eleven weeks to go in the replay … I am kind of targeting to be done by the end of May, but the point of doing a  replay is not to just finish but to play and have some fun doing it.

In both leagues, we are continuing to see a split between the haves and the have-nots. In the AL first-place Chicago took three consecutive games in Milwaukee and then took Milwaukee for three more at home to put a little space between them and second-place Boston (Note: These kinds of back-to-back series with a location switch in the middle is not an uncommon occurrence in 1901). Boston certainly has the pitching, but their offense still continues to struggle to score runs consistently. Baltimore has been able to rely on their best pitchers so far while playing the fewest game of any team on the league (they have completed only 59 games), but as they get those games made up they will need those "other" pitchers, plus manager-third baseman-leadoff hitter John McGraw is now injured for most of the remainder of the season, so that is going to hurt as well. Detroit has finally started to come out if its slumber and has moved into fourth place, with Baltimore clearly in their sights. Washington leads the AL in homeruns, but is way too inconsistent to hope for anything but the best of the rest. Philadelphia started off with three different hitters batting over .400 and a couple more in the .380's, but once their hitters cooled off their weak pitching got exposed. Cleveland and Milwaukee are both hoping to avoid the cellar, but more likely they are both hoping just to be able to finish the season.

In the NL it is Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Brooklyn are taking turns moving in and out of first place, while all three continue to place distance between themselves and the rest of the league. New York, Boston, and Chicago take up the next three places in the NL, but their individual fortunes seem to rise and fall on a daily basis. You have to figure one of these teams is going to get on a streak, but it hasn't happened yet. St. Louis is avoiding last place only because Cincinnati is so bad, while the Reds have managed to turn over most of their team already in search of someone, anyone,  who can play (although they did end the week by taking two from Brooklyn and otherwise knocking them out of first place.).

No long write-ups this week. I want to get this posted and get back to playing. Most of us are already under house-arrest as I write this, so let's be careful out there and let's get rolling in the meantime.

Washington Park, Brooklyn NY



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