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Week 6 Summary 05/20/1957 - 05/26/1957

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.

1957 Cinncinati Reds
All eyes are on the pennant race in the NL. Pittsburgh swept a doubleheader in Philadelphia on Sunday and find themselves tied for first with St. Louis, both teams a half-game ahead of Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Milwaukee may be in fifth place but paced by Hank Aaron's 20 homeruns in only 33 games, are only one full game out of first. I am convinced I couldn’t have scripted this any better even if I wanted to. Even Brooklyn, now out of seventh and back into sixth place, has started to show signs of life recently, so it is still anyone's pennant race to win, or, if you can’t win, perhaps spoil somebody else's fun.

 

Cincinnati Manager Gabe Paul
Chicago continues to play .800 ball in the AL, but the team behind them are doing their best to stay on their tail because no one expects the White Sox to continue at this pace. Chicago and second-place Detroit have gone a combined 21-0 versus Kansas City and Washington so far this season. I am never really sure which Red Sox team is going to show up on a daily basis - sometimes they hit, sometimes they don’t, sometimes they pitch, sometimes they don't. They are going to stick around the upper half of the standings, but then the teams on the bottom half of the standings are pretty bad. New York had a bad week as they have their own level of consistency problems, but with their pitching and power numbers, I expect they will get it together and start to catch up to Chicago.

 

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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