Roger's 1949 APBA Replay

While the week one games constitute a small sample size, it would be accurate to say things got off with a bang. There were five instances where players hit two homeruns in a game, four occurrences of players hitting back-to-back homeruns, two different players had six RBI games and another had a seven-RBI game. Both leagues are exceeding their expected batting average by 30 points, and both ERA's are up over 3/4 of a run. The Yankees are hitting .373 as a team but were the last team to hit a homerun (in their sixth game of the season). While I do expect this will level out as the season progresses, the offense has been the name of the game so far. Birdie Tebbetts Thanks to two extra-inning victories Cleveland leads the AL by percentage points over Chicago and Philadelphia, and the two favorites, New York and Boston, are right on their heels. Detroit has the worst ERA by far, but still came away with two wins for the week and sits in sixth place. St. Louis and Washington a...

Monday, April 18, 1949 (Opening Day) (November 25, 2018) It's time for Opening Day of the 1949 season. Let's play ball! Philadelphia (AL) 5 Washington (H) 3 In the season opener, Buddy Lewis got things going for Washington in the bottom of the first with the first homerun of the season, a solo shot to give the Senators a 1-0 lead. The Athletics answered with one in the third, but second baseman Al Kozar knocked a two-run single in the bottom of the fourth to put Washington back on top by a 3-1 score. It looked like that was how the game would end but a catcher's interference call on Al Evans in the top of the eighth brought A's center fielder Sam Chapman to the plate and he responded with a grand slam homerun to put Philadelphia ahead 5-3 and there it stayed. Boston (NL) (H) 4 Philadelphia (NL) 3 The Braves got off to a fast start with two in the first, but Phillies second baseman Eddie Miller hit a solo home homerun in the fifth to cut t...