Week five is in the books as the 1949 replay moves along. More than half of the teams have reached the 30 games level and the remainder will be there in a few days. Realizing it is early yet, but there are pennant races in both leagues as teams take turns beating up on each other and not letting anybody get too far ahead. Teams had gone through a period a few weeks ago where they were dropping players, and they appear to be going through another period right now. There have been different rules about cut down dates through the years and I am assuming this is somehow related. Vern Stephens The Boston Red Sox are still atop the AL. They are averaging more than seven runs scored per game and their pitching has held up so far. Cleveland is a good team and plays like it and they are second behind Boston for the number of homeruns hit. New York finally got its team ERA below 5.00 - no word from the Yankees on a return date for Joe DiMaggio yet, but the power numbers that were lacki...