No late-season machinations this year, so here's a straight recap of the final week of the 1905 FL regular season.
Notable Performances- 1st: Mark Teahen goes 4-for with 2 doubles and 5 ribbies to power the Cards to a 10-2 humbling of Brooklyn.
- 4th: Stan Lopata of the A’s has 6 RBI in an 11-3 trouncing of the Browns.
- 5th: in an otherwise disappointing season for both individual and club, Warren Hacker at least manages to record his 20th win for the year with a fine 3-hit 1-0 shutout decision. His opposing pitcher Andy Messersmith, also going for win number 20, can feel justifiably hard done by, allowing just 6 hits and fanning 9.
- 6th: well it ends up much closer than all those involved with the club would perhaps have liked, but the Cubs finally clinch the NL pennant with a 9-2 win at Pittsburgh.
- 7th: Ernie Broglio goes the distance, allowing just 5 hits in Washington’s 12-inning 1-0 shutout win over the Athletics.
Feats and Streaks- 1st: with his 197th fanned batter for the season, Cubs hurler Lefty Leifield breaks the FL strikeout mark previously set the previous year by Cy Falkenberg. He ends the game with 204 and should have another start or two to extend that even further.
- 2nd: AL PotW – Dave Danforth (Detroit); NL – Harry Gumbert (St. Louis).
- 8th: Leon Durham of the Beaneaters misses his chance to set a new season mark for HR. Having hit his 10th of the year back on August 22nd to tie George Stone’s 1903 mark, Durham then fails to hit another dinger in his last 37 games. Still, what a season he has, missing out on winning the NL Batting Triple Crown by 16 BA points and one would think he’s almost a lock on MVP honours.
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Injuries- 3rd: Giants 3B Pete Ward gets an unwanted early mark, going down with shoulder inflammation.
- 5th: Dave Danforth’s excellent season ends on a sour note, another victim of season-ending shoulder inflammation.
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