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Week 15 Summary

Week 15 is in the books and what a difference a week makes. Last week ended with both leagues having multiple teams in close proximity to first place but this week ended with the league leaders enjoying a little breathing room.


1901 Cleveland Blues
In the AL, Chicago continues to play well and any stumble that second-place Boston makes is therefore somehow amplified, plus third-place Detroit, in the middle of a nine-game winning streak has drawn to within three games of second place. The Tigers knocked around the second division for most of the first half of the season but have suddenly had their pitching and hitting come together as they have made their charge up the standings. Baltimore is still holding on to fourth place, but their cracks are starting to show as they still have three starters disabled.

Pittsburgh now has a 5.5 game lead over Philadelphia as the Phillies and third place Brooklyn took turns knocking each other down in the standings this past week. Fourth place Boston will go as far as their pitching will take them, but they have won eight of their last ten and have climbed over the .500 mark and are hoping to not fall backward over the remainder of the season.

Cleveland Manager Jimmy McAleer
Nap Lajoie (.433) continues to lead the AL in hitting, just ahead of Sam Dungan (.399). Lajoie is not second in homeruns (10) behind Pop Foster (11), but Lajoie continues to lead in runs (69) and RBI's (84). John Anderson leads in hits (136) and doubles (41) over Lajoie (132 and 28)

In the NL, Kip Selbach (.393) has a slight lead over Jesse Burkett (.392) even though Burkett has a wide lead in hits (145). Ed Delahanty leads in runs (66) and RBI's (64), although both of these categories are quite tight. Bobby Wallace and Delahanty both have 24 doubles, and Burkett and Bill Dahlen both lead with seven homeruns.

A few more days and we will be in August, and even though the schedule does extend into October there are a lot of teams that have a lot of games left to play in the next two months. A quick glance at the upcoming shows that even Baltimore should be at the 80-games-played mark by the end of next week due to the inclusion of two doubleheaders.

League Park, Cleveland OH


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