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Week 19 Summary (08/19/1957 - 08/25/1957)

Stan Musial
Week 19 is in the books and while Chicago and Milwaukee seemed to be secure in their position at the top of their respective leagues, both teams know hat with ~30 games remaining that anything can still happen. All teams have reached and passed the 120-game mark and by the end of Week 20 all of the teams will be hovering right around the 130 games played mark.

In 1954 the Yankees won 103 games and finished second to Cleveland who won 111. The Yankees are currently on target to win 101 games and the White Sox are on target to win 107. Therefore. the Yankees have been down this road before and don’t want to do that again, but even with their current seven game winning streak if that team in front refuses to slow down they may not have much choice. At the other end of the AL standings Washington has managed to climb out of the cellar and pass Kansas City into seventh place.


Nellie Fox
In the NL, Milwaukee has the same 4.0 game lead over second-place St. Louis that they had at the end of last week. The Cardinals will be without Stan Musial for another week or so, but the Braves are missing starting pitcher Bob Buhl and shortstop Johnny Logan, so neither has a real advantage there. The Pirates have slipped back to 8.5 games out of first and find themselves with only a two-game lead over the fourth place Dodgers. The Cubs actually found themselves alone in sixth place for a few days at midweek but by the end of the week they now find themselves tied with Cincinnati (the Reds are ahead by percentage points) and both teams are only 1.0 games the struggling Phillies.

 

Enos Slaughter
In the Ted Williams Triple Crown watch Williams had a good week. He continues to lead all of baseball in hitting (.424) and now has a league leading 113 RBI's (Mickey Mantle has 101), but his 35 homeruns are still well behind Roy Sievers (39). As much as he may be pumped for the possibility of a triple crown, Williams is going to miss a two-week stretch of games coming up here shortly that will severely cripple his chances.

 

Robin Roberts

Week 20 is beckoning and I am beginning to think the finale might be anti-climactic, but that is why we play the games, so let's go play.





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