For a 4-2 week, I would have expected to have lost a couple to St. Louis and to have swept the rebuilding Gothams. It turned out to be the other way around. We swept St. Louis, effectively knocking them out of the race. Meanwhile Pittsburgh has won 6 in a row, and our lead is back to just 5 games. Pittsburgh and Chicago will play each other 5 more times this season. This week there are 3 games in Chicago with Detroit before the club heads to New York for a 4-game series that begins Friday.
8/10 Off day
8/11 vs St. Louis, W, 4-7
8/12 vs St. Louis, W, 2-8
8/13 vs St. Louis, W, 4-7
8/14 vs New York, L, 4-11 (11)
8/15 vs New York, L, 4-7
8/16 vs New York, W, 4-2
Top Performances
Jim Hampton: .400/.483/.600, 2 2B, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 6 R
Ron Rattigan: .292/.370/.750, 2 2B, 3 HR, 4 RBI, 7 R
Pete Layton: .407/.448/.519, 1 2B, 1 3B, 8 RBI, 3 R
Rabbit Day: 1-0, 1 SV, 0.00 ERA (10 IP, 2 H, 9 K)
Both
Ron Rattigan and
Cliff Moss hit 3 home runs on the week. Moss was 4 for 21 (.222) and all 4 hits were for extra bases--1 double and 3 home runs. Moss needs just 10 more home runs for 150 in his career.
Note that we also signed 37-year-old
Joe Masters to a contract after Masters was released by Detroit. Masters is an icon in Chicago. In the pennant winning season of 1928, Masters hit 56 home runs, drove in a 195 runs, and won the Whitney Award. Masters and
Max Morris are the only players to have hit 50 or more home runs in a season (though the Keystones'
Bobby Barrell, who currently has 41, has a really good chance of joining them this season). Masters has 265 career home runs, but he is a shell of his former self, so other than some pinch hitting appearances, he is unlikely to see much playing time. He was signed mainly as a gesture of good will and to add another pair of experienced eyes to the bench as we head into the final stretch of the pennant race. To make room for Masters, we asked
Mose Christopher to move to Fort Wayne, and he agreed.
Rabbit Day is pitching exactly like vintage Rabbit Day. If I were handicapping this year's Allen Award race in the Fed, I'd give a slight advantage to Day at the moment.
