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Week 18 Summary (08/12/1957 - 08/18/1957)

Week 18 is in the books and we have reached the three-quarters point of the season with only six weeks remaining. This is the point in the season where teams begin wrapping up their home and away series versus their opponents, and soon they will be wrapping up their entire season of games versus those same opponents. The Giants are the only team that has reached the 120 games played mark, but all of the teams will be passed this mark by the end of Week 19.

The Milwaukee Braves started off the week with a 1.0 game lead over the St. Louis Cardinals and by the end of the week that lead had grown to 4.0 games. After Week 12 the Cardinals were hitting .293 as a team, but now they are adown to .277, trailing Milwaukee at .278. The big three in the Milwaukee offense (Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, and Wes Covington) provide the pop and Bob "Hurricane" Hazel (.395) has been a nice addition to the outfield. Warren Spahn, Bob Buhl, and Lew Burdette are dominating from the mound and Don McMahon has settled the bullpen - they are going to be tough to beat. The Cardinals likely had their hot streak way too early in the season and now they seem to be basically just running on fumes.

I am not sure the White Sox hot streak is ever going to end. The Yankees have won eight of their last ten contests and during this time the White Sox have done the same. That's a rough way to live if you play .800 ball and you can’t make up any ground on the team in front of you. If Chicago were to win their next game they will be back to a .700 winning percentage (and with the last place Senators in town). Boston and Detroit have both only won three of their last ten as Boston's suspect pitching and Detroit's suspect hitting have made their unfortunate appearances for the two teams.

Ted Williams Triple Crown Watch: Williams leads with a .416 batting average, is tied with Mickey Mantle in RBI's (100), but Williams (34) still trails Roy Sievers (38) in homeruns. I am pessimistic Williams can make it, especially since he has a two-week injury period coming up. At age 38 William is supposed to lead the AL in hitting (.388) while at age 36 Stan Musial is leading the NL in hitting (.381, Actual:.351). Actually, Musial has a two week injury period coming up as well.

Time to press on. Even if it looks like who the World Series combatants are going to be, there are still plenty of games left to be played, so let's go play.


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