Friday, June 30, 2006
Sunday 9/26/54: BoSox win easily in season finale, but Williams goes hitless
Unless Harvey Kuenn (.342) goes 0 for 7 or 0 for 8 in the Tigers' last game of the season against Cleveland, he will end up winning the batting championship over Ted Williams in this Strat-O-Matic replay. Williams entered the season's last game at .341, trailing Kuenn by one point. But Ted went hitless against two Washington pitchers in the last game and ended up the season at .337. The Red Sox won anyway 6-0 as Frank Sullivan pitched a very fine three-hit shutout. Ted went 0 for 3 with a walk against tough Washington lefty Dean Stone. That is not too surprising as Ted has a "BAL" rating of 7R and hit only .250 against lefties in this replay. Ted's best chance for a hit came in the bottom of the 8th against Washington reliever Spec Shea. Shea, a righthander, had an ERA of 4.64 in the replay (6.21 in real life) and had a bad hits-to-innings-pitched ratio. But Williams grounded out to second base and ended the game 0 for 4. |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 1954 Washington Senators At 1954 Boston Red Sox 9/26/1954
Sullivan pitches three hit shutout in last '54 game, but Ted goes 0 for 4
Senators AB R H RBI AVG Red Sox AB R H RBI AVG
J.Levan 3B 1 0 0 0 .500 B.Goodman 2B 5 1 3 0 .279
A-E.Yost 3B 0 0 0 0 .234 T.Williams LF 4 1 0 0 .337
B-W.Terwilliger 3B 3 0 1 0 .202 J.Jensen RF 3 1 2 2 .294
P.Runnels 2B,SS 4 0 0 0 .280 S.Mele 1B 3 0 0 0 .266
M.Vernon 1B 4 0 2 0 .278 D-H.Agganis PH,1B 1 0 0 0 .244
J.Busby CF 4 0 0 0 .305 G.Hatton 3B 4 1 2 2 .244
R.Sievers LF 3 0 0 0 .278 J.Piersall CF 3 1 1 0 .275
J.Lemon RF 3 0 0 0 .188 S.White C 4 1 1 0 .289
J.Tipton C 2 0 0 0 .212 B.Consolo SS 3 0 0 0 .214
S.Shea P 0 0 0 0 .095 F.Sullivan P 3 0 0 1 .095
J.Snyder SS 2 0 0 0 .263
E-H.Killebrew PH,2B 1 0 0 0 .118
D.Stone P 2 0 0 0 .167
C-E.Fitz Gerald C 1 0 0 0 .267
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 30 0 3 0 Totals 33 6 9 5
A-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Levan In 1st Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Yost In 1st Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Stone In 7th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Mele In 7th Inning
E-Pinch Hit For Snyder In 8th Inning
Senators........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 3 2
Red Sox......... 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 - 6 9 1
Senators (72-82) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
D.Stone LOSS(8-12) 6 2/3 6 4 3 4 3 0 109 3.29
S.Shea 1 1/3 3 2 1 0 0 0 29 4.64
Totals 8 9 6 4 4 3 0
Red Sox (67-87) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
F.Sullivan WIN(7-10) 9 3 0 0 1 6 0 109 3.36
Totals 9 3 0 0 1 6 0
ATTENDANCE- 10,578 DATE- Sunday, September 26th 1954 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
T- 2:18
LEFT ON BASE- Senators: 4 Red Sox: 8
DOUBLE PLAYS- Senators: 1 Red Sox: 1
ERRORS- P.Runnels, H.Killebrew, B.Consolo
STOLEN BASES- P.Runnels(3rd)
SACRIFICE FLIES- F.Sullivan
WALKS- J.Tipton, T.Williams, J.Jensen, J.Piersall, B.Consolo
STRIKE OUTS- W.Terwilliger, P.Runnels, M.Vernon, J.Tipton-2, J.Snyder,
T.Williams, G.Hatton-2
GIDP- S.White
Frank Sullivan allowed 3 hits while blanking Washington as the Boston Red Sox
beat the Washington Senators by a score of 6 to 0.
Sullivan(7-10) was simply too much for the Washington batters. He didn't
allow much, just 3 hits and 1 walk in 9 innings. Boston banged out 9 on the
afternoon.
Dean Stone(8-12) was charged with the loss. He pitched 6 and 2/3 innings and
surrendered 6 hits and 4 walks.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Saturday 9/25/54: Skowron singles in 9th to break up game
In this Saturday night game at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees salvaged a win as Bill Skowron singled with the bases loaded and none out in the bottom of the ninth to break a 4-4 tie. In the top of the frame, Allie Reynolds gave up a three homer to little-used A's rookie Jack Littrell. The blast tied the game at 4 after Reynolds had been cruising for virtually the entire contest. In fact, the Chief had carried a no hitter into the top of the seventh when Bill Wilson broke it up with his 25th homer of the year. The losing pitcher in this game was the snakebitten Johnny Gray. Johnny came into the game in the 8th with his team trailing 4-1. He stood to be a winner in the event the A's could take the lead following Littrell's tying homer, but, alas, it was not to be. Johnny could not get any Yanks out in the bottom of the ninth. Bauer singled, Mantle reached second and Bauer third on a single and throwing error, Berra was purposely passed, then Skowron delivered his game winning hit past a drawn-in infield. Gray will end the season 0-15. |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 1954 Philadelphia Athletics At 1954 New York Yankees 9/25/1954
Littrell's three run homer with two out in 9th ties it, but Yanks get winner in
Athletics AB R H RBI AVG Yankees AB R H RBI AVG
P.Suder 2B 3 0 0 0 .173 G.McDougald 2B 4 1 1 1 .225
C-J.Demaestri PH,2B 2 0 0 0 .217 H.Bauer RF 5 1 2 0 .294
L.Limmer 1B 4 0 0 0 .242 M.Mantle CF 3 0 1 1 .290
J.Gray P 0 0 0 0 .103 Y.Berra C 3 0 0 0 .298
J.Finigan 3B 1 0 0 0 .278 B.Skowron 1B 4 1 1 2 .351
G.Zernial LF 4 0 0 0 .251 B.Cerv LF 4 1 1 0 .272
V.Power RF,1B 4 1 1 0 .231 A.Carey 3B 3 1 2 1 .296
B.Wilson CF 3 2 1 1 .230 E-W.Held PH 1 0 1 0 .333
J.Littrell SS 4 1 1 3 .242 F-W.Miranda 3B 0 0 0 0 .224
J.Robertson C 2 0 0 0 .164 P.Rizzuto SS 4 0 1 0 .177
A-D.Bollweg PH 1 0 0 0 .227 A.Reynolds P 3 0 1 0 .146
D-J.Astroth C 0 0 0 0 .173 B.Grim P 0 0 0 0 .185
B.Oster P 2 0 0 0 .000
C.Bishop P 0 0 0 0 .111
B-E.Valo PH,RF 1 0 1 0 .264
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 31 4 4 4 Totals 34 5 11 5
A-Pinch Hit For Robertson In 8th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Bishop In 8th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Suder In 8th Inning
D-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Bollweg In 8th Inning
E-Pinch Hit For Carey In 8th Inning
F-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Held In 9th Inning
Athletics....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 - 4 4 1
Yankees......... 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 - 5 11 1
Athletics (47-106) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
B.Oster 6 7 4 4 4 3 0 113 8.40
C.Bishop 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 17 5.26
J.Gray LOSS(0-15) 1 4 1 1 1 0 0 17 5.64
Totals 8 11 5 5 6 3 0
Yankees (86-67) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
A.Reynolds 8 2/3 4 4 4 4 6 2 135 3.14
B.Grim WIN(12-8) 0 1/3 0 0 0 2 0 0 11 3.41
Totals 9 4 4 4 6 6 2
ATTENDANCE- 10,181 DATE- Saturday, September 25th 1954 TIME- Night WEATHER- Bad
T- 2:36
LEFT ON BASE- Athletics: 6 Yankees:11
DOUBLE PLAYS- Athletics: 0 Yankees: 1
ERRORS- V.Power, B.Skowron
DOUBLES- E.Valo(15th), W.Held(1st), P.Rizzuto(17th)
HOME RUNS- B.Wilson(25th), J.Littrell(3rd)
SACRIFICE HITS- A.Reynolds
WALKS- J.Finigan-3, B.Wilson, J.Astroth, E.Valo, G.McDougald, M.Mantle-2,
Y.Berra-2, B.Skowron
STRIKE OUTS- J.Demaestri, J.Finigan, G.Zernial, V.Power, J.Littrell,
J.Robertson, H.Bauer-2, M.Mantle
GIDP- V.Power
WILD PITCHES- B.Grim
Allie Reynolds carried a no-hitter into the 7th inning as the New York Yankees
won at Yankee Stadium in dramatic fashion over the floundering Philadelphia
Athletics, the final score, 5 to 4.
The game was decided in the 9th inning. Hank Bauer lined a single. Mickey
Mantle stepped up next and he lined a base-hit, and an error was also
committed. Yogi Berra then was walked intentionally to load the bases. Bill
Skowron was up next and he stroked a single resulting in an exciting win for
New York and a raucous post-game celebration by the home town fans. New York
had 11 hits for the game and Philadelphia had 4.
Bob Grim(12-8) went 1/3 of an inning allowing no runs for the win. The
right-handed Reynolds lost his no-hit bid when Bill Wilson homered with two
outs in the 7th inning. Johnny Gray(0-15) took the loss in relief.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Friday 9/24/54: Only two days left in the season; Orioles edge ChiSox
Bobby Young squeezed home Eddie Waitkus with the winning run as Buck Jones' Baltimore Orioles beat my Chicago White Sox 2-1 in a NetPlay game. Virgil Trucks, shooting for his 20th win, was lifted for a pinch hitter in the top of the tenth with the score tied at 1. The pinch hitter failed, then in the bottom of the 10th came Young's succesful squeeze off Sox reliever Morrie Martin. In real life Trucks also lost a bid for 20 wins by losing to the Orioles, also by a 2-1 score. |
Strat-O-Matic Report
NEWSPAPER STYLE RECAP FOR 1954 American League Date: 9/25/1954
TEAM WON LOST BATTING AVERAGE HOME RUNS RUNS BATTED IN
1954 CLE 104 48 T.William BOS .344 L.Doby CLE 35 L.Doby CLE 119
1954 CHI 98 55 H.Kuenn DET .342 R.Sievers WAS 33 M.Vernon WAS 109
1954 NYY 85 67 N.Fox CHI .327 T.William BOS 29 J.Jensen BOS 108
1954 DET 78 74 I.Noren NYY .324 J.Jensen BOS 29 Y.Berra NYY 106
1954 WAS 71 81 B.Avila CLE .309 R.Boone DET 29 R.Sievers WAS 106
1954 BOS 66 86
1954 BAL 60 93 WINS SAVES ERA
1954 PHI 47 105 M.Garcia CLE 21 J.Sain NYY 18 M.Garcia CLE 1.81
E.Wynn CLE 20 H.Dorish CHI 15 V.Trucks CHI 2.21
V.Trucks CHI 19 E.Kinder BOS 13 B.Lemon CLE 2.32
B.Lemon CLE 19 D.Marlowe DET 12 B.Turley BAL 2.62
N.Garver DET 18 M.Burtsch PHI 10 N.Garver DET 2.70
CUR HIT STREAK STOLEN BASES STRIKEOUTS
S.Dente CLE 18 J.Rivera CHI 44 B.Turley BAL 214
C.Michael CHI 8 N.Fox CHI 29 V.Trucks CHI 173
T.William BOS 6 M.Minoso CHI 26 E.Wynn CLE 155
J.Jensen BOS 6 J.Jensen BOS 17 J.Harshma CHI 134
B.Tuttle DET 6 OTHERS TIED W 15 M.Garcia CLE 133
YESTERDAY'S GAMES TODAY'S SCHEDULE AND PROBABLE STARTERS
DET 3 at CLE 7 CHI-Pierce(10-8, 4.39) at BAL-Larsen(7-17, 5.78)
PHI 8 at NYY 10 DET-Zuverin(10-9, 3.61) at CLE-Wynn(20-10, 2.74)
WAS 2 at BOS 3 WAS-Schmitz(10-8, 3.64) at BOS-Nixon(13-12, 3.80)
CHI 1 at BAL 2 PHI-Oster(0-0,10.00) at NYY-Reynold(10-5, 3.07)
WAS 3 at BOS 1
YESTERDAY'S BEST PERFORMANCES
BATTER TM OPP AB R H RB BB Ks HR SB
W.Belardi DET CLE 3 2 2 2 1 1 2 0
G.McDougald NYY PHI 5 2 3 3 0 0 1 0
L.Limmer PHI NYY 5 2 2 2 1 0 1 0
R.Sievers WAS BOS 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 0
I.Noren NYY PHI 4 3 3 1 1 0 0 0
PITCHER TM OPP INN H R ER BB Ks HR WLS
B.O'Dell BAL CHI 7.0 2 1 0 0 5 0
V.Trucks CHI BAL 9.0 4 1 1 3 8 0
B.Porterfield WAS BOS 9.0 4 1 0 2 3 0 W
J.McDonald NYY PHI 2.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 W
H.Brown BOS WAS 9.0 6 2 2 2 5 1 W
WHO'S HOT - BEST IN LAST 10 DAYS
BATTER TM AVG AB H RB BB HR PITCHER TM IP H ER BB Ks HR WLS
Y.Berra NYY .321 28 9 13 4 3 B.O'Dell BAL 7 2 0 0 5 0 000
L.Limmer PHI .300 20 6 5 5 2 V.Trucks CHI 18 12 2 4 19 0 100
T.Williams BOS .367 30 11 5 9 2 T.Morgan NYY 9 2 0 2 0 0 100
W.Belardi DET .304 23 7 4 2 3 J.Schmitz WAS 9 3 0 2 2 0 100
B.Cerv NYY .280 25 7 6 5 2 G.Zuverink DET 18 12 3 7 8 0 200
WHO'S NOT - WORST IN LAST 10 DAYS
BATTER TM AVG AB H RB BB HR PITCHER TM IP H ER BB Ks HR WLS
R.Boone DET .121 33 4 1 2 0 J.Gray PHI 11 15 12 11 4 3 020
J.Lemon WAS .194 31 6 1 1 0 A.PortocarreroPHI 15 17 15 11 7 2 020
W.Terwilliger WAS .174 23 4 0 2 0 D.Larsen BAL 5 10 7 2 2 0 011
B.Avila CLE .185 27 5 2 2 0 A.Houtteman CLE 7 10 7 1 4 1 010
J.Finigan PHI .214 28 6 1 3 0 B.Grim NYY 8 15 8 4 7 0 010
INJURY REPORT
No injuries to report
Friday, June 16, 2006
Friday 9/24/54: Ted Williams takes lead over Kuenn in batting race
Swinging a hot bat, Ted Williams has taken over the league lead from Harvey Kuenn in the batting race here in the last weekend of the season in my '54 AL replay. Kuenn had led the league in hitting all season long until now. But today Harvey went 0-for-3 in Cleveland, his average dropping to a season low .342. (He hit .306 in real life in '54.) Meanwhile Ted raised his average to .344 with a 3 for 5 performance in a double header against the Senators in Boston. He also has drawn 132 walks. The Red Sox have two games left, those being on Saturday and Sunday against the Senators. Meanwhile Kuenn and the Tigers must face the tough Indians pitching staff in games Saturday and Sunday at Cleveland, so it won't be easy for Kuenn now to regain the lead over Williams. Interesting note: If Strat used the scoring rules in effect in 1954, Kuenn would still be the leader, because the rules required a player to have at least 400 official at bats to qualify for the batting championship. Ted Williams has only 366 at bats so far in the Strat replay; Kuenn has 669 at bats in the replay. But Williams heads the Strat-O-Matic leader board because Strat uses the modern-day standard requiring qualifiers to have at least 3.1 plate appearances per scheduled game. Williams with all his walks thus easily qualifies. The major leagues have used this criterion ever since the late 1950s. The old rule cost Ted the real life batting championship, because although he hit .345 in real life in '54 to Bobby Avila's .341, Avila was declared official batting champion because he had 555 at bats whereas Williams had only 395. Ted's propensity to draw walks cost him the batting championship. He had 136 free passes in real life in '54. |
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Friday 9/24/54: Majeski, Lemon lead Tribe to 7-3 win in '54 replay game; another "Gray" loss
Hank Majeski, giving Bobby Avila a day off at second base, came up with three hits to lead the Indians to a 7-3 win over the Tigers. Bob Lemon won his 19th for the Indians as he went the distance, allowing only five hits. Two of the Tigers' hits were home runs by Wayne Belardi. The circuit blasts were his fourteenth and fifteenth HRs of the season (He hit 11 in real life in '54). Ted Gray suffered the loss for the Tigers, and will end up with an ignominious 0-10 record in the replay (He was 3-5 in real life). Ted is not the only Gray to go winless in the replay ... Johnny Gray of the Philadelphia A's is 0-14. |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 1954 Detroit Tigers At 1954 Cleveland Indians 9/24/1954
Majeski, subbing for Avila, has big game at plate for Tribe; Kuenn again hitless
Tigers AB R H RBI AVG Indians AB R H RBI AVG
H.Kuenn SS 3 0 0 0 .342 A.Smith LF 2 1 0 1 .253
F.Hatfield 2B 4 0 0 0 .249 H.Majeski 2B 5 2 3 2 .212
J.Delsing LF 4 0 1 1 .233 L.Doby CF 4 1 1 0 .272
R.Boone 3B 4 0 0 0 .306 A.Rosen 3B 4 0 2 2 .298
W.Belardi 1B 3 2 2 2 .192 V.Wertz 1B 2 1 1 0 .278
A.Kaline RF 4 0 0 0 .255 A-B.Avila PH 1 0 0 0 .309
B.Tuttle CF 4 0 1 0 .254 B-B.Glynn 1B 1 0 1 1 .267
R.Wilson C 3 0 1 0 .290 W.Westlake RF 5 0 1 0 .237
T.Gray P 1 1 0 0 .059 G.Strickland SS 4 0 0 1 .239
C-W.Dropo PH 1 0 0 0 .250 J.Hegan C 3 1 1 0 .246
B.Hoeft P 0 0 0 0 .190 B.Lemon P 4 1 1 0 .219
-- -- -- --- -- -- -- ---
Totals 31 3 5 3 Totals 35 7 11 7
A-Pinch Hit For Wertz In 6th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Avila In 7th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Gray In 7th Inning
Tigers.......... 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 - 3 5 2
Indians......... 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 - 7 11 0
Tigers (78-74) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
T.Gray LOSS(0-10) 6 8 4 3 5 5 0 113 5.54
B.Hoeft 2 3 3 2 1 1 0 37 4.60
Totals 8 11 7 5 6 6 0
Indians (104-48) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
B.Lemon WIN(19-9) 9 5 3 3 2 7 2 130 2.32
Totals 9 5 3 3 2 7 2
ATTENDANCE- 22,168 DATE- Friday, September 24th 1954 TIME- Day WEATHER- Bad
T- 2:34
LEFT ON BASE- Tigers: 4 Indians:12
DOUBLE PLAYS- Tigers: 0 Indians: 0
ERRORS- H.Kuenn, B.Hoeft
DOUBLES- B.Tuttle(18th), H.Majeski(2nd), B.Lemon
HOME RUNS- W.Belardi-2(15th)
STOLEN BASES- A.Smith(2nd)
SACRIFICE HITS- H.Kuenn, J.Hegan
SACRIFICE FLIES- A.Smith
WALKS- W.Belardi, T.Gray, A.Smith-2, L.Doby, A.Rosen, V.Wertz, G.Strickland
STRIKE OUTS- F.Hatfield, J.Delsing, R.Boone-2, W.Belardi, R.Wilson, T.Gray,
H.Majeski, V.Wertz, W.Westlake, G.Strickland-2, B.Lemon
WILD PITCHES- T.Gray
PASSED BALLS- R.Wilson
Bob Lemon was able to finish what he started and was credited with a complete
game as the Cleveland Indians beat the Detroit Tigers by a score of 7 to
3.
Cleveland took the lead for keeps in the 6th inning when they tallied 2 runs
on 3 hits. Cleveland rapped out 11 hits for the afternoon.
Lemon(19-9) picked up the complete game victory, allowing 3 runs. Ted
Gray(0-10) absorbed the loss. He allowed 4 runs and 8 hits in 6 innings.
