Roger's 1949 APBA Replay

Week 23 is in the books and the end of the season is coming up quick. Boston (AL) clinched a week-and-a-half ago and St. Louis (NL) clinched this past Monday, so we are that point in the season where veterans are released or benched to allow the youngbloods to show their skills while both groups are hoping to be on an ML roster in 1950. Some teams have only three games remaining, some have six, and most are somewhere in between. There are only 35 total games left to be played, including ten games on the season-ending doubleheader Sunday. That means the days between now and then are pretty light. Given that I am so close, I am going to skip the normal summary that I have done for the previous 22 weeks and instead I am going to just jump right into Week 24 and start finishing off the final week. Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio

Monday, September 19, 1949 Cleveland 4 New York (AL) (H) 2 New York led 2-1 after the fourth, but Cleveland tied it in the eighth and then pushed across two runs in the ninth to secure the win. Mickey Vernon doubled home the tying run in the ninth and Jim Hegan singled home the eventual game-winner in the ninth. Philadelphia (AL) (H) 4 St. Louis (AL) 1 St. Louis scored once in the top of the first but then Dick Fowler (9-16) got busy and shut the Browns out the rest of the way and picked up the win. Eddie Joost drove in two runs with a homerun and a sacrifice fly to lead the A's offense. Brooklyn 4 Chicago (NL) (H) 3 Rex Barney Brooklyn led 3-0 after the second, but in the third Hank Sauer (#30, 88) and Phil Cavarretta (#9, 53) hit back-to-back homeruns to tie the score at 3-3. Brooklyn immediately responded with one in the fourth, and then the pitchers took over. Rex Barney (11-9) had some help from the Dodgers bullpen but got the win over Bob...