1919 NL - Games of Monday, 7 July

Giants 19, Phillies 7: New York pounded the beleaguered Philadelphia pitching staff for ten runs in the 6th inning and kept on scoring until the final out to bury the home team by a score of 19-7. The Phillies took a fleeting 1st-inning lead on Doug Baird's two-run homer (5), but the Giants got four in the 2nd with the help of two Phillie errors and led 5-2 when they came to bat against Gene Packard (3-9) in the 6th. A single and another error put two men on with one away, and then the next nine Giants reached base safely (six singles, three walks) against Packard and Frank Woodward as all nine positions in the NY lineup scored at least one run in the inning. Philadelphia put up a token resistance in the late innings, helped by Fred Luderus' two-run homer (2), but the Giants kept piling on as well with four more in the 9th. All of these were unearned thanks to Irish Meusel's muffed fly ball to start the inning; the Phils committed six errors in total, leading to a total of eight unearned runs. Every single member of the New York lineup had at least one hit, one run scored and one run batted in, and pitcher Jesse Barnes (11-3) knocked out four base hits, scored four times and drove home a pair while pitching a complete game. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 6 July

Cubs 10, Cardinals 9: Chicago escaped with the victory in one of the wildest games of the season when Rogers Hornsby's baserunning gaffe left a 9th-inning St. Louis rally one run short. Cliff Heathcote's two-out two-run single in the 5th gave the Cards a 5-3 lead, and Hornsby extended that gap to three runs with a run-scoring single in the 7th. But Jakie May's always-tenuous hold on command and control gave way in the bottom of the inning after some rough treatment by the Cubs' hitters. A two-run triple by Lee Magee cut the Chicago lead to a single run and then May (3-6) lost sight of home plate, hitting the next two batters and walking in the tying run before Branch Rickey had seen enough and brought on Oscar Tuero. But the first two batters faced by the young Cuban right-hander singled to produce three more runs that made the score 9-6 in favor of the Cubs. Charlie Pick's RBI single in the 8th made it a four-run lead and Speed Martin took the ball in the top of the 9th after a spotless 8th in relief of Phil Douglas (7-7). Jack Smith reached on Pick's error to start the inning before Dots Miller flied out, but Milt Stock singled and Burt Shotton ripped a triple that scored two runs to cut the score to 10-8. That brought up Hornsby, who hit a line drive to right which Max Flack failed to stop on the short hop; Shotton scored and Hornsby charged around the bases as Flack chased down the ball. Rajah had no intention of stopping at third base with the potential tying run, though, and was cut down at the plate by five feet. The mistake was emphasized when Vern Clemons followed with what would have been a game-tying single, and when Martin then retired Doc Lavan for the game's final out. Flack had three hits for Chicago, while Magee drove home three. [box]

Season Ticket Baseball Showdown 6 - Final Stats

Final team and individual statistics from the sixth Season Ticket Baseball Showdown . . .

Season Ticket Baseball Showdown 6

Four managers came together once again for a face-to-face Season Ticket Baseball showdown, and this time we went WAY back in the time machine. To celebrate the release of the 1910-1917 season sets, we selected the four most closely-matched teams (by winning percentage) from that span - this turned out to be the Cardinals, Cubs, Pirates and Reds of the 1915 National League. So, it's off to the era of the first transcontinental telephone call, the escalation of World War I by the sinking of the Lusitania and Babe Ruth's first career home run, for a double round-robin FTF tournament with no playoffs - winner takes all!

1960-61 NHL ReplayFinal Individual Statistical Leaders and Awards

Final 1960-61 National Hockey League awards and leaderboards . . .

1960-61 NHL ReplayFinal Individual Statistics

Final 1960-61 National Hockey League individual statistics . . .

1960-61 NHL ReplayFinal Team and League Statistics

Final 1960-61 National Hockey League team and League statistics . . .

1960-61 NHL Replay - Stanley Cup FinalsToronto vs Detroit

The Red Wings surprisingly shrugged aside the Canadiens in five games, while the Maple Leafs needed every one of the seven scheduled games to bring to an end the Ranger’s late-season heroics, so the season now comes down to the Stanley Cup Finals between Detroit and Toronto. Who will win out in the end - the high-powered Leaf offense led by 49-goal scorer Frank Mahovlich, or the gritty Red Wing defense anchored by two-way stars Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio? There’s only one way to find out for sure . . .

1960-61 NHL Replay - Playoff SemifinalsToronto vs New York

After languishing in fifth place for much of the season, the New York Rangers ran roughshod over the League for the final month of the season, going 7-1-3 in their final eleven games (outscoring their opposition 54-23) to vault over the Black Hawks and grab the final spot in the playoffs. The Maple Leafs fell just short in their pursuit of Montréal for the top spot, despite going unbeaten in their last four and 7-3-2 in their final twelve. In their head-to-head meetings, Toronto won six games to New York's five and outscored the Rangers 51 to 43, suggesting a closer matchup than would the standings at first glance . . .

1960-61 NHL Replay - Playoff SemifinalsMontréal vs Detroit

The regular-season champion Canadiens face the third-placed Red Wings in the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Detroit has had the third seed clinched for weeks, and stumbled to the finish line, losing their final four games by a combined score of 17-5, while Montréal finished with four wins and a tie in their last five as they engaged in a dogfight with Toronto for the top spot. The media have tabbed Montreal as the heavy favorite, and it would be hard to argue based on their regular-season results; the Canadiens won eleven of the fourteen games between the two clubs, by an aggregate score of 51-31 . . .