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Week 19 Summary

Week 19 is done and after a few more days every team will be below the 30 games remaining mark. In a few more days the schedule will move into September as well, so the replay continues to move along quite well. We have reached that point in the schedule where teams are starting to wrap up either home or road series against opponents and it won't be much longer before they start to wrap up their season series as well. Sam Chapman At the end of last week I figured I was heading into a more-or-less monotonous final quarter of the replay but after all, it is baseball and anything can happen, and often does. Besides a lot of unexpected wins and losses, the highlight of this week was a Perfect Game by Hal Newhouser over Washington, the third no-hitter of the season. In the AL Boston is riding a four-game losing streak. Their lead is still safely in double digits, but it is Cleveland who it sitting behind Boston in second place and not New York. Cleveland finally put toget...

Week 19 Results (08/22/1949 - 08/28/1949)

Monday, August 22, 1949 There is only one game today as it is a travel day. The AL eastern teams are on a train to the Midwest while in the NL it is the Midwest teams heading east. There are not too many road trips left in this season and to won't be much longer before we see teams closing out their season series' against different opponents. Brooklyn 5 Boston (NL) (H) 3 Both teams scored a run in the first, but then the Boston defense committed four errors in the second inning and suddenly Brooklyn led 5-1. Jack Banta (7-1) and Vern Bickford (12-11) buckled down from there and six scoreless innings followed and Banta put down a late Braves rally attempt in the ninth and Brooklyn had the win. Tuesday, August 23, 1949 Notes: The New York Yankees announced they had purchased the contract of first baseman Johnny Mize from the New York Giants. Philadelphia (AL) 2 Chicago (AL) (H) 1 (10) The White Sox gunned down three Philadelphia runners at the p...