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Week 15 Summary (07/22/1957 - 07/28/1957)

Week 15 is in the books and Week 15 was definitely another interesting week. The Milwaukee Braves will start Week 16 in first place in the NL, finally having climbed to the top of the heap. Maybe not for long, but they finally did make it. Philadelphia starter Jack Sanford threw a no-hitter in Chicago, the fifth no-hitter of the replay. Another highlight form Week 15 was when the White Sox scored twelve runs in an inning, that inning being the top of the seventeenth (you read that right) to defeat the Yankees. 

While it is true that the Braves and the Pirates have up moved past the Cardinals, the truth is that it is more likely it was the Cardinals that moved in the downward direction. St. Louis is only one-half game behind Pittsburgh and one full game behind Milwaukee, so they haven’t dropped off the face of the earth and I expect a full-throttle pennant race between all of these teams to continue through the end of the season. The race for fourth place between Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati remains in full swing as well - someone is going to end the season on a hot streak … I would pick Brooklyn, but I really have no idea who. Is Pittsburgh ever gonna cool off? They currently have 55 wins, they actually had 62 wins … they may end up completing for fourth place as well.


Washington Manager
Cookie Lavagetto
The White Sox remain comfortably ahead of the Yankees (5.5 games) and went 5-2 this past week while having faced two of their tougher opponents so far this season (New York and Baltimore). New York continues in their hot pursuit of first place but Chicago just continues to not fold, to not roll over, and to hold off the Yankees. The Yankees are having a good season (they would be in first place in the NL), but they do manage to occasionally find ways to lose games they really should have won. The Tigers had moved to within one game of second place and the Yankees early in the week but ended the week poorly and are in fourth place, leaving the Red Sox alone in third place.

 

The replay marches on. At the end of this upcoming week we will have reach the month of August and the season will be at the two-thirds point and it is as this point the real serious pennant races will kick-off. Who will get hot? Who will grow cold? Can the Yankees climb to the top? Will the White Sox break? Can Milwaukee stay on top of the NL and maybe even put some space between them and their opponents? Let's go find out.

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