Week 14 Summary (07/14/1941 - 07/20/1941)

Week Fourteen of the 1941 BBW replay is in the books and what a week it was. A lot of doubleheaders, and a lot of games were played, and the result was some serious shuffling in the middle of the standings in both leagues, but both of the league leaders maintained a comfortable lead. Pittsburgh finally reached the 80 games played mark, while Detroit is the only team to have reached the 90 games played mark. There is another busy week coming up, so all teams but Pittsburgh (89) will have reached and passed the 90 games played mark.

1941 Pittsburgh Pirates
In the AL, New York has maintained its comfortable lead plus they get the enjoyment of watching Chicago, Cleveland, and Boston take turns beating each other, all unable to make a charge upwards toward the leader. A week ago, the Yankees took all four games in Chicago, but then White Sox turned around and took 2-of-3 from Boston, the two wins being shutouts. However, Chicago was then swept in doubleheaders on both Saturday and Sunday by lowly Philadelphia and ended the week in fourth place.

Cleveland ended their week in second place, thanks to four wins over Washington on Saturday and Sunday. Boston has been bouncing between second and fourth place for the past several weeks and ended this week in third, mostly due to Chicago's collapse. With Ted Williams still out of the starting lineup, several other Red Sox hitters stepped up and provided some much-needed punch. Washington and St. Louis still have their own private duel to determine who will finish in fifth but in the meantime they both alternate between occasional bottom dwellers and occasional world beaters.

 

Pittsburgh Manager
Frankie Frisch
In the NL, St. Louis still has a more than comfortable lead, but the churn in the NL comes among the next three teams. New York was buried in last place in Mid-May, but their extended hot streak has now found them residing in second place at the end of Week 14, a few percentage points ahead of third place Cincinnati. The Reds have been in third place for much of the season already, looking up at Brooklyn just ahead of them, but now they still find themselves still in third-place but the Giants somehow snuck past them in the dark of night.

Brooklyn isn't playing bad. Rather, they just haven't been able to play consistently. Sometimes they hit, sometimes they pitch, but mostly you never know what you are going to get. They kicked off the season on major hot streak, but since then it has been tough for the diehard Dodgers fans. They are 3-10 versus St. Louis and the Cardinals have been able to hold off several Brooklyn charges so far this season, and now they have been caught from behind by New York and Cincinnati.

 

All in all, this was a pretty exciting week for those watching the standings. Will someone emerge from that mess among the second, third, and fourth-place teams in both leagues to challenge the leaders or will they take turns knocking each other down, meaning that unless the Yankees or the Cardinals have a serious collapse, they may have the pennant wrapped up?

Forbes Field 1947 Digital Art by Gary Grigsby | Pixels




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