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Week 22 Summary

Week 22 is in the books and the rush to get those games continues. In the AL the Western teams have completed all of their games against each other and are looking at one final two-week swing through the east to finish their season. In the NL there are a few teams that have completed their seasons versus one another, but most have several games remaining against all the others.


Jimmy Burke
In the AL, Chicago is absolutely running away with it. They are one win away from being the first to 90 wins, but there are no other teams in either league that has even reached 80 wins yet. Their magic number is five and there isn’t much hope for any of their league rivals at this point. Boston and Detroit are tied for second, 10.5 games behind Chicago, although Boston has a slight edge in percentage points. The teams at the top are exceeding their actual win totals, but they are doing that by routinely pounding the teams at the bottom of the standings as those teams are all failing to meet their level of expected wins.

In the NL, Pittsburgh saw its lead slip to only 2.5 games in mid-week, but they rallied back to build that lead back up to 5.0 games by week's end. Pittsburgh is similar Chicago in that both have good pitching, good defense, and a solid offense. The difference between the two is that Pittsburgh seems to like to take days off every once in a while, while Chicago never blinks - they just keep charging ahead. Brooklyn and Philadelphia are still within shouting range of the Pirates, but they are running out of time. They both have games versus Pittsburgh remaining on the schedule, so anything is possible.

Nap Lajoie is still Mr. Everything when it comes to offense leaders in the AL: Lajoie leads in average (.423), hits (208), runs (108), RBI's (128), homeruns (16), and is second in doubles (44), plus he leads in almost every calculated category. Cy Young got his thirtieth win this past week, threw his eleventh shutout, and has an ERA of 1.19 as he had almost single-handedly carried Boston to the finish line. The AL has five other pitchers with twenty or more wins and four more with nineteen.

The NL leaders are little more diverse as Jesse Burkett has decided to flirt with .400 again as he now has his average up to .398. Burkett also leads in hits (215), Topsy Hartsel leads in runs scored (100), Ed Delahanty leads in RBI's (113) and doubles (41), Sam Crawford leads in homeruns (13) and Danny Green leads in triples (18). The NL has five pitchers with twenty or more wins, two with nineteen, and three more with eighteen.

Infielder Jimmy Burke (read more) was picked up by Pittsburgh from Chicago (AL) this past week, who had picked Burke up from Milwaukee earlier in the season, making Burke the only player to appear on three different teams in 1901. Somehow Burke managed to be in the team picture for all three teams though:



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