The Bucs, to put it mildly, make heavy work of things before eventually getting home by 4 from the dogged Reds.
You look at these metrics and numbers and, were it any other side you'd be impressed. But, by the Pirates' lofty yardstick, it is more workmanlike than usual. Vaughan's season has been fairly pedestrian for him, same with Elliott, Wright and even Dandridge to some extent. Foxx and Gibson, however, carry the day.
The pitching story remains unchanged: fantastic effort from the rotation, while the BP's struggles continue to the end.
The Yanks cruise and clinch early, ending up with 104 wins.
Batting crowns to Buck Leonard and Barney McCosky, with Charlie Keller's 40 HR and Hank Greenberg's 132 RBI the league highs. Greenberg narrowly misses the NL Triple Corwn, while Ted Williams sets a new single-season mark with 153 walks.
For the first time in MLB history, no pitcher wins 20 games, while Bob Feller is the only one to register more than 200 strikeouts, and him by the barest margin.
Jimmy Foxx makes it to 2500 career hits, Dick Bartell to 2000.
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