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Week 11 Summary (06/24/1957 - 06/30/1957)

Week Eleven is in the books and it was quite a week. Most teams have reached the 70 games played mark or will be there in the next few days (The Cubs will be there by the end of the week) and with week Twelve being the midpoint of the season it looks like most teams will be right around the 50% mark for their games played. There will be a flurry of doubleheaders on Thursday (Fourth of July) and as usual on Sunday, so there is plenty of baseball yet to be played.

 

The White Sox continue to stumble and the AL has definitely tightened up as Detroit is only 3.5 games out and Boston is only 4.0 behind. The Yankees somehow manage to get swept in a doubleheader by Kansas City on Sunday this week, but they are still only 5.0 out. Chicago is third in runs scored and leads in ERA, but some of that "luck" that they relied on so much throughout the early part of the season has started to level out.


In the NL it was St. Louis that has been making a major move by just having completed a 14-2 homestand that featured four shutouts, including three consecutive. They allowed thirty runs during these sixteen games, with eleven of those runs being scored by New York in game one of the doubleheader on Sunday. Second place is no longer held by Pittsburgh as Milwaukee swept them in a doubleheader on Sunday and now have a half-game lead over the Pirates. The Braves are still 7.5 games behind St. Louis but have managed to climb out of the bottom half of the standings with a half-season remaining to try and make a move of their own.


As you can tell the replay is quite exciting and with the second half of the season looming I don’t think that is going to change. Can the White Sox hold on, or will the Yankees finally fully assert themselves? Where will Detroit and Boston finish, and what will they have to say about how the others in the race finish? Milwaukee doesn’t know it yet, but they are about to get better, and while they have been able to climb the pack to second place, can they stay there? The Cardinals have been on a hot streak recently - too soon? The third through sixth-place teams in the NL are all still dangerous - will one of them (the Dodgers maybe) get on a hot streak of their own? And what will they have to say as to who finished where?



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  1. steveoNovember 7, 2020 at 3:50 PM

    Can u provide data as to win/loss % for double header results?

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  2. Roger L. MillsNovember 8, 2020 at 12:18 PM

    The game doesn't count them and I have resisted the urge to manually count them. When I win that big lotto and decide to invest some of that money for APBA BBW improvements that is definitely on the list though.

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