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Week 13 Summary (07/08/1957 - 07/14/1957)

Week 13 is in the books and the pennant races continue in both leagues. All teams except for Chicago (NL) have reached the 80-games-played mark and the Cubs will be there shortly. Many of the teams will be at 90 games played by the end of the upcoming week, so the replay marches on.

This week was a short week as it started with a three-day All-Star break. No doubt many players needed a few days off for some mid-season recovery but it wasn't a break for the selected All-Stars as the 1957 All-Star game was played in St. Louis. This was the year that Cincinnati fans flooded the ballot box and five Reds players made the starting NL All-Star squad, requiring commissioner Ford Frick to intervene.

The White Sox had gone on another tear recently and had bumped their winning percentage back up to .700 for a day, but they ended the week by losing both ends of a home doubleheader to the second place Yankees. The Yankees will start the upcoming week only 4.0 games behind Chicago, but they have been there before and immediately fell back once they got there. The Yankees have also managed to place some distance between themselves and third-place Boston as the Red Sox now find themselves fighting for third place with stumbling Detroit. The Tigers are still having trouble scoring, while the Red Sox have problems once you get past their top two starters. Baltimore would love to be able to crack the top four and while that may not happen, perhaps they can disrupt someone postseason plans before the season is up.

 

Chicago (AL) Manager
Al Lopez
In the NL, St. Louis is still holding on to the top but they have definitely cooled off. Milwaukee has moved up into second but had had problems trying to shed Pittsburgh which further prevents them from trying to move up towards the top of the NL standings. To review, the Braves have now lost first baseman Joe Adcock for three months due to a broken ankle, lost center fielder Bill Bruton for the season due to a knee injury, but recently acquired Red Schoendienst from the Giants to cover their hole at second base, recently promoted Don McMahon to help their beleaguered bullpen, just this past week they acquired veteran first baseman Nippy Jones to settle that position,  and their third starter, Lew Burdette, appears to have recovered from his struggles in the first half of the season. All that, plus Bob "Hurricane" Hazle will soon come up to hit .400 for the final third of the season.  Milwaukee is 4.0 games behind St. Louis, the name number as the Yankees are behind the White Sox, so this has a long way to go yet.


We are just past the halfway point of the season and there is a lot of baseball yet to be played, so let me get those electronic dice warmed up and rolling.

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