Week 6 is in the books and the 1957 replay is as fun-filled as ever. All teams have passed the thirty-games-played mark and we have a full week ahead of us, including a Memorial Day full of doubleheaders. The highlight of this past week was a no-hitter by veteran White Sox pitcher Jim Wilson in New York. This was the second no-hitter of the replay, and no, I still don’t understand why I have so many no-hitters.
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1957 Cinncinati Reds |
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Cincinnati Manager Gabe Paul |
Stan Musial (.423) and Ted Williams (.421) continue to lead their respective leagues in batting average. There is another .400 hitter - Reds shortstop Roy McMillan is hitting exactly .400. McMillan actually hit .272, but had gotten to a torrid start at the beginning of the season, spending the first few weeks of the season hitting over .400. He then began the inevitable cool down, but then he went on a tear again this past week and crawled his average back up to .400. A lack of offense is not Cincinnati's problem - they and Boston lead their respective leagues with 200 runs scored - but having your #8 hitter chipping in with a .400 batting average is always nice.
The other statistical oddity is that Washington third baseman Eddie Yost leads all players with 17 doubles. Yost actually only hit 13 doubles for the season, so it is safe to say that Yost is off to a hot start. Yost is going to have several injury-related absences coming up soon so this won't be able to continue, but like McMillan, it seems that every replay has those couple of guys that play way over their head to start the season (this would also include Hank Aaron and his 20 homeruns to date).
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As described above this has been an exciting season to replay so far, and with an upcoming Memorial Day and a Sunday full of doubleheaders, anything can happen in these two pennant races.
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