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Week 14 Summary

Week 14 is completed and the 1949 Replay marches on. Boston and St. Louis both maintain healthy leads, but lately, cracks have started to appear in their armor. There's a long way to go yet and I do expect things will get tighter before this is done. More than half the teams have reached or passed the 90 games played mark, with the others right behind. Not this coming week, but the week after is the 2/3's mark and all teams will be over the 100 game mark at that point. Dale Mitchell Boston had hit a slow spell for a few weeks but got healthy this week by going to St. Louis to pound the Browns. New York continues to play well and had gotten to within 5.5 games of Boston at one point, but they slid backward a little at the end of the week. Cleveland just finished an eight-game winning streak where six of the eight wins were shutouts and they find themselves only one game behind New York. The more these two knock each other about the better it is for Boston. Detroit held ...

Week 14 Results (07/18/1949 - 07/24/1949)

Monday, July 18, 1949 Chicago (AL) (H) 5 New York (AL) 0 Chicago center fielder George Metkovich hit a two run homerun in the first, the White Sox added two more in the second, and then Bill Wight (9-6) did the rest. Wight allowed only three hits to the powerful Yankees. Cleveland (H) 6 Boston (AL) 0 Cleveland threw their fifth shutout in their past seven games and their second consecutive shutout over Boston. Mike Garcia   (8-5) only allowed four hits with help from Joe Gordon , who went 3-for-4 with three RBI's and a double and a homerun. Detroit (H) 5 Philadelphia (AL) 3 Philadelphia led 3-1 until the sixth when George Kell hit a two-run homerun to put Detroit ahead 4-3. Art Houtteman (9-2) and the Tigers bullpen kept the Athletics off the scoreboard after that for the Detroit victory. Boston (NL) (H) 12 Cincinnati 6 Cincinnati put up three runs in the second to take an early lead, but by the fourth Boston was ahead 4-3 and then Jeff Heat...