After 17 straight series of either losing or splitting, the 1943 Yankees finally won a series! They won four of six games against the 1951 Yankees to improve their record to 59-91 with just six games left to play in their season. The '51 Yankees dropped to 7-5.

They won this series because their offense had their best series of the season. Despite being no-hit by Ed Lopat in Game Two 7-0, the '43 Yankees averaged five runs a game in the series. They took a 2-1 lead in the series by winning Game Four 4-3 in 10 innings. Johnny Murphy blew the save in the 9th when Johnny Hopp hit a pinch-hit homerun to tie the game 3-3, but Bill Dickey hit a walk-off double with two outs in the 10th to win it. The '51 Yankees won the next game 9-7, but the '43 Yankees won the final two games to win the series. In Game Five, Billy Johnson and Frankie Crosetti each had three RBI in a 9-4 win. Hank Borowy pitched a 2-hit shutout to win the finale 4-0. Johnny Lindell drove in three of the four runs.

Dickey hit .480 in the series with seven RBI to raise his average to .315 with 91 RBI and 39 doubles. Borowy’s shutout improved his record to 7-11 with a 4.66 ERA.

Johnny Mize leads the '51 Yankees in hitting at .348 and RBI with 12. Gil McDougald is hitting .313 with a 1.056 OPS. Lopat’s no-hitter gives him a 2-0 record with a 1.08 ERA. The '51 Yankees will battle with the 38-58 1977 Yankees in the next series.

@APBA-GO-Jeremy Thank you Jeremy! I hope you have a great new year! Cheers.

Here are the NL Stats & All Stars

NL EAST: Philadelphia Phillies 55-29
NL WEST: Los Angeles Dodgers 55-29

Here are some NL notes:
Batting:
Tim Raines/MTL - .352
Dale Murphy/ATL - .339
Jose Cruz/HOU - .333

HR:
Mike Schmidt/PHI - 30
Dale Murphy/ATL - 25
Darrell Evans/SF - 22

RBI:
Dale Murphy/ATL - 79
Mike Schmidt/PHI - 78
Andre Dawson/MTL - 72

SB:
Tim Raines/MTL - 62
Steve Sax/LA - 52

WINS:
Steve Rogers/MTL - 14-1
John Denny/PHI - 12-3
Charlie Lea/MTL - 12-5

ERA:
Bill Gullickson/MTL - 1.67
John Denny/PHI - 1.80
Altee Hammaker/SF - 1.96

SO:
Nolan Ryan/HOU - 154
Steve Carlton/PHI - 147
Mario Soto/CIN - 130

SV:
Bruce Sutter/STL - 30
Steve Howe/LA - 25
Al Holland/PHI - 21

1983 NL All Stars

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When I’m ready to begin my replay will the game let me move the 1961 Yankees into another season like 1964 or 1960 and play in that season? Thanks

@Nooch66 Awesome!

@striker2550 re 1. Yessir.

re 2. I wish.

Enjoy your weekend,
Jeremy

That is cool! Did you use APBA GO? I am just starting 1984 with Replay option.

Thank you, Jeremy

The All Star Break has arrived. Here are the standings; note: A few teams have played a couple of more games than others because coordinating schedules wasn’t easy. :)

**East Division**

1905 New York Giants 59-19
2019 Washington Nationals 40-38
1979 Pittsburgh Pirates 37-40
1969 New York Mets 34-43
1980 Philadelphia Phillies 33-44
1997 Florida Marlins 29-48

**Central/West Division**

1907 Chicago Cubs 45-32
1942 St. Louis Cardinals 43-37
1957 Milwaukee Braves 41-36
1976 Cincinnati Reds 40-38
2001 Arizona Diamondbacks 33-44
1963 Los Angeles Dodgers 31-46

Obviously, the Central/West Division race is more compelling because the '05 Giants are just ridiculous. They have a team batting average of .309. .309!! Their 521 runs scored are over 100 more than the Big Red Machine of 1976 (394). Either their cards are flawed compared to their actual stats, or they are getting the best run of random computer dice rolls ever. Dan McGann, the current favorite for MVP hit .299 in 1905 with 5 homeruns, 14 triples, 23 doubles, 75 RBI, and a .825 OPS. McGann after 78 games? .375, 10 homeruns, 11 triples, 18 doubles, 97 RBI, 1.033 OPS. Oh and 20 stolen bases too. Good grief. Here are the other All-Stars:

2B: Joe Morgan: .281, 16 HR, 62 RBI, 76 runs scored, 41 steals, 1.000 OPS.

3B: Mike Schmidt: .240, 21 HR, 62 RBI, .891 OPS

SS: Bill Dahlen: .277, 45 RBI, 45 runs scored, 24 SBs

OF: Mike Donlin: .436, 70 RBI, 67 runs scored, 19 stolen bases, 1.046 OPS.

OF: George Foster: .299, 14 HRs, 66 RBI, 46 runs scored, 18 stolen bases.

OF: Henry Aaron: .286, 24 HRs, 61 RBI, 51 RBI, .909 OPS

C: Roger Breshnahan: .318, 78 runs scored, 26 stolen bases.

SP: Johnny Beazley: 11-4, 1.98 ERA, .140 OBA

I like it. Keep us posted. I know what you’re saying about three playoff teams vs two. But I think you’ll appreciate how many more games will still be relevant late in your season. And a short 2vs3 playoff will be fun as well…

How did you enjoy 1908? All games played or autoplay?

AL Standings:
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NL Standings:
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Pirate Bats Come Alive, Trounce Cards 10-1
Pittsburgh is 1-2 on the year. Wagner goes 4-5 with 4 RBI. Phillippe throws 9 innings and gives up 0 earned runs while going 3-4 with 2 runs scored and an RBI.

Hello,

I created some steps to help me replay the Rays 2022 season using the collections feature and wanted to share my results. It does require a little work upfront, but it is worth it.

Goals:

Record stats for individual gameplay with the capability of adding notes and real-life results data. Roll up individual game data into a season bucket (Collection). Be able to retrieve any given game by the actual sked date.

Note: You’ll need access to Excel or a spreadsheet to import comma-delimited data. These instructions do not cover the Excel instructions.

I will replay the Rays 2022 season on APBA GO for this example.

Navigate to retrosheet.org and download the 2022 game log data file. Import the file into Excel. I only used the first 13 fields in the dataset – they are described below. Filter for TPA or your team’s 2022 schedule
a. I used the following columns but use what you want.
i. Date, Game #, Day, Visiting team, VT League, VT game #, Home team, HT League, HT game #, VT team score, HT score, # of outs and Day/Night indicator.
b. Save your Excel file. Navigate to APBAGO Create a collection called 2022 Season Replay – TB Rays Create a collection for single gameplay. I added the actual game date and scores to the collection description. This is a copy-and-paste function from the retrosheet excel file to the collection description field. You can add game notes in the description area. Play a solitaire or micromanager game. Upon completing the game, assign your game to the 2022 season replay collection and the individually named game day collection.

I hope this helps anyone trying to organize their gameplay using APBA GO.

Regards,
Sean - RaysFan

@alecotto75 What you provided was kind of what I was expecting as far as game play goes, but what about administration … things like league set-up, reports (standings, league leaders, team and player reports).

I mean I will end up writing a detailed document on all the steps I went through to get my replay started, but that won’t be for another six months (after I finish my BBW 1920 replay). I am just doing some scouting right now.

Thanks again,

rlm

I agree but hopefully the owner of APBA has plans to further develop GO more and more.

Something like League Manager in Go would be amazing.

Thanks. I am going to start a single team replay (as played) with the 1901 Pirates. It will be fun to research the past and learn more baseball history while exploring the dead ball era. I am going to use APBA GO’s collections feature to keep all stats, etc.

WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC Final

Can’t match Ohtani vs. Trout but I did have a thrilling finale for my tournament.

The Dominican Republic, on a roll since its stunning opening game loss to Israel, faced USA Metro, fresh off an upset win over USA West in the U.S. bracket. Johnny Cueto on the hill for the DR with Metro calling on steady southpaw John Tudor.

Metro got on the board in the second with Craig Biggio doubling home Rico Petrocelli.

Back-to-back doubles by Manny Ramirez and Vladimir Guerrero evened things in the top of the fourth.

The bottom of the fourth got wacky. Alex Rodriguez led off with a double and Petrocelli singled him home. Ken Singleton walked to put runners at first and second. Cueto proceeded to hit THREE straight batters — Biggio, Derek Jeter and Mike Trout) to force in two more runs giving Metro a 4-1 lead.

Things stayed quiet until the ninth when David Ortiz hit a three-run homer off Orel Hershiser to tie the game. Pedro Martinez retired Metro 1-2-3 in the bottom half of the inning to send the game into extras.

In the bottom of the tenth with one out, Singleton blasted a home run to right giving USA Metro the WBC Championship. Singleton hit .476 with 3 HRs and five RBI in the tournament and was named MVP for his heroics, edging out USA West’s Jeff Kent (.348-4-10) and the DR’s Ortiz (.250-4-9).

Hiroki Kuroda of Asia threw the most scoreless innings (14), six pitchers recorded two wins (including Metro’s Hershsier and John Candelaria), Joaquin Benoit of the DR posted the most saves (2) and Fernando Valenzuela of Mexico led all pitchers with 17 strikeouts.

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