Dead Ball Era Championship Tournament
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I decided to set up something different to test out the new Master Game, so I’m doing a small Tournament. The plan is each team will play each other 6 times (one series at home each). By the time I do that hopefully the bugs will be worked out :)
The participants are the greatest teams of the Dead Ball era (or my favorite ones at least)… I’m going for no players on multiple teams (So no Miracle Braves, sadly). Might be one or two I didn’t catch, but should be close :)
1906 Cubs
1909 Tigers
1911 As
1908 Pirates
1912 Giants
1913 Indians
1912 Red Sox
1913 SenatorsJust had the first game, and it was a NO HITTER by Three Finger Brown to beat the Tigers 1-0.
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that is some project! So many games played! Very interesting!
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This was a fun one… after starting 0-4 Walter Johnson had enough. After the Cubs took an early 2-0 lead (Johnson seemed to not have his good stuff early)… He retired the last 21 guys in a row, striking out 8, and added a solo home run, a double, and scored the go ahead run on a sac fly to lead Washington to a 4-2 win.
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Back at it after the holiday… The Cubs one game 3 of the series over Washington behind 2 solo home runs (Frank Chance and Solly Hofman) Chance in 6 games has 6 extra base hits… 3 doubles, a triple and 2 homers. In the actual 1906 he had only 36 ebhs in 136 games… talk about a hot start!
Also getting a 66/11 combo twice in 2 innings? Someone check those dice!
Coming off his no hitter, Miner Brown managed to get to the 4th before giving up his first hit of the season, and went to 2-0 with his 2nd complete game
the 1906 Cubs as a team managed to go 4-2 through their first 2 series despite hitting .168
Naturally, I expect the league average to be pretty low with all the transcendent pitching seasons in this group, but that’s a bit crazy!
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The 1912 Red Sox start out 6-0 with a 2nd sweep… this time over the 1909 Tigers. Tris Speaker is leading the way on offense with an OPS over 1000 while the Smoky Joe Wood and Tom O’Brien have 2 complete game wins each
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Art Wilson helps John McCraw’s Giants salvage one of three again the Pirates with a Home Run and a double.
Standings after the 1st week:
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Boston hangs onto 1st place after a gutty performance by ace Smoky Joe Wood. Wood did not have his best stuff, but managed to strand 10 Cubs on base to lead the Red Sox to the 3-1 won to salvage the 3rd game of the series. Frank Chance continued his herculean start, with his 3rd home run (matching his 1906 total in 9 games). The Peerless Leader has 7 extra base hits total in 9 games and has score 11 runs and knocked in 6.
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Tough Series for the Senators… they score just one run in a sweep by Connie Mack’s Athletics. That 1 may have been enough for Walter Johnson, but the defense let him down with 5 errors that lead to the 2-1 loss against A’s ace Jack Coombs.
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The Cubs took 2 of 3 from John McGraw’s Giants in a wild series that included alot of offense. Game 2 feature a 6 run 5th for Chicago, and McGraw himself lead his team to clear the bench when John Meyers and Fred Snodgrass were hit by consecutive pitches.
The game almost had to be called when (one suspects) McGraw ordered Frank Schulte hit the next inning, but the police were able to restore order.
Cubs backup Catcher Pat Moran may be a back up no more with 4 Extra Base hits in the series. On the Giants side Tillie Schafer spelled both Art Fletcher and Buck Herzog (who combined are hitting well under .200) and contributed a game winning triple in the final game to prevent the Cubs sweep.
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Finished the 4th round or series… The Cubs, As and Red Sox stand at the top of the standings together at 8-4.
The last game of the cycle saw Cleveland bang out 20 hits in defeat, losing 7-6 to Washington in 12 innings.Cleveland’s Jack Graney has been the undisputed star of the 1st quarter of the season… leading the lead with 21 hits, 8 for extra bases, and a .438 average.
The league batting average stands at .216 (and heading up) while the league ERA is 2.36… which is a little extra low due to some of the early stat issues with tracking earned runs. It should mostly balance out by the end though!
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It took 45 innings for the Cubs to claim first place by beating Connie Mack’s As 2 out of 3 games. Orvie Overall got the win in both extra inning games, including a 22 inning marathon where he pitched 12 scoreless innings to out duel Cy Morgan (who pitched 11 2/3). The win run scored on a wild pitch!
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Perfect game! After the Indians went off for 13 runs in the 1st game of the series, George Mullin spins a perfect game in game 2!!!
[img]https://i.imgur.com/OSgCxHP.png[/img]
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Through 15 games, 6 of the 8 teams are within 2 games of each other as the Giants recover from a slow start to get in the mix.
Ty Cobb leads the league in hitting at .407, the one bright spot in a miserable start for the Tigers. Joe Jackson leads with 18 RBIs in just 15 games, far and away the most. He’s been knocking in Jack Graney, who has been the big surprise on the leader board with .390 average and 18 runs scored. Honus Wagner has an amazing 7 triples already!
Jack Coombs of the As is the only pitcher so far with 4 wins. Rube Marquard leads in Ks with 24, but is only 2-2 despite giving up only 7 runs (5 earned) in his 4 starts.
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looks like series #6 might be big! The Cubs sweep the Pirates… with Pat Moran and Harry Stienfeldt taking over as the hitting stars from Frank Chance and Jake Pfeister throwing another shut out to lower his ERA to 0.68 in 5 starts (he does have a few unearned runs). An even bigger surprise was the Tigers pitching staff got their act together and swept Connie Mack’s As.
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With the Cubs Sweep, they take a 2 game lead over Boston into the last series of the 1st half. That set of games really loosened things up, we’ll see if it sticks or not!
Batting Average leaders through 18 games:
Jack Graney (Cle) .375
Ty Cobb (Det) .371
Danny Murphy (Phi). 347
Joe Jackson (Cle) .328
Ed Abbaticchio (Pit) .323
Larry Doyle (NY) .306 -
This was a neat one… Washington defeated Detroit 8-5… with FIVE triples. The Tigers had 2 of their own, for a total of 7 in the game.
Apparently, the record is 8 for 1 team and 9 for both, so almost!
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The Red Sox sweep Pittsburgh, who after a good start have now lost 8 out of 9. Boston stays within 2 games of the 1st place Cubs on the strength of their pitching.