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From: Nerdley

Date: 5/13/15

1906 EOBHR REPLAY#38: DAY 8 N.L.

Game 64

Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (4-4/T4th) 1-5-3 

Boston Beaneaters (2-6/T7th) 6-7-1

The Trolley Dodgers finished 20 wins below .500 (66-86) in actual 1906... But their opponents, those Boston Beaneaters were a far more extraordinary 53 wins below breakeven (49-102) in '06.  No matter here. 

The home Beaneaters beltch the Dodgers 6-1 in a one-sided battle of losing teams.  However, from another perspective -- overall W-L -- the Jaywalkers, leaping at the last second out of the way of those Brooklyn trolleys --  are still 2 games ahead of the victorious Beanbelchers ini terms of EOBHR win loss.... Brooklyn at a promising 4-4, but the Beanies just 2-6, where they are tied for last with the surprisingly floppish New York Giants of John McGraw... Giants whom actually finished a mountainous 40 games above .500 in reality.

Yes, you never know what will happen when you try to repeat reality... Like going back in time and marrying your wife a 2nd time to see if any improvements can be made... in yourself, of courset...

C Lew Ritter went 3 for 3 for the Dodge Boys, accounting for most of the team's hits in their losing scenario... But, thru no fault of his own,  none of Lew's safeties  contributed to any bottom line payoff, i.e., tallies.... Since the Bums' one big break was on a game-opening Doc Casey chopper, that shortstop Al Bridwell bobbles, then makes a wide throw (E6) to fancy fielding 1B Fred Tenney.  Dodger CF Billy Maloney then draws a walk, taking a high fastball for Ball 4... On a pitch by starter and winner Big Jeff Pfeffer, who may have been momentarily rattled by the erratic SS Bridwell's early error. 

A Harry Lumley (9-31/3-0-2-8 so far in replay) groundout moves up the runners, then this most pedestrian of uprisings is consumated by a Tim Jordan sac fly.

1-0 Dodgers

But that's it for the road boys, who may have some supporters here in Boston who are brave enough to come into the enemy's lair. 

Guilty about his negative contribution so far, usually sure-handed SS Bridwell works a 2-out bases empty walk B2nd, in part trying to tire out Dodger P Mal 'Malfeasance' Eason.   Then, just when you need him to come thru, Beaneater C Tom Needham in fact smashes a long RBI double down the LF line, to restore the game's scoring equilibrium, 1-1.

But, at a 'safe' moment, 2 out B3rd, no one on, dastardly (?) Mal Eason drills 3-hole batting Beaneater offensive machine, CF Johnny Bates, with a fastball, knocking him right on out of this game and the next two as well... a long time in a 16 game season.

But the Boston boys reply 'We're not afraid of you Bums'.  In the B4th Dave Brain (the brains behind this offensive unit?) smashes a bullet (single) by Dodger SS Whitey 'Alpo' Alperman, Del Howard works an easy walk off P Eason, then Allie 'Strobelight' Strobel sets up more trouble with a sac hit: Beaneaters now on 2nd & 3rd... And Al Bridwell, 1st inning fielding goat, more than makes up for his T1st lapse with a 2-out 2-run go ahead single.... 3-1, Beanies, in a game where Boston will easily top Brooklyn by a convincing 6-1!!  

Al:  Yes, no thanks to me, but I was Brid Well, taught to always try to repay my debts to others as quickly and completely as possible

 

 

 

Game 63 

Cincinnati Reds (4-4/5th) 3-10-0      St. Louis Cardinals (3-5*/5th) 1-5-1

* Same record as AL St. Louie Brownies

The Cardinals see red T3rd when Cincy CF Fred Odwell knuckles an oddwelly zig-zagging drive over angry Bird CF 'Red' Murray ('Who snuck that illegal goophus ball into this regulation game??).   Then Jim Delahanty, thinking, 'I'll never be as good as my HOF brother Ed in these kind of ribby situations' nonetheless surprises himself with a sac fly strategically blooped off the end of his bat down the RF line.

1-0 Reds.

 Then, in the T4th, evasive hitting Cardinal 1B Snake Deal (.321) deals a writhing long-bounce RBI single into RF with one out to double the Deadball Era lead to a comfortable 2-0... 

But hold it there, any rabid 1906 Cincy Red fans in the reading audience... Because in the B5th, any 1906 Cardinal diehards actually watching the EOBHR game on EOBHRVision (consult yore local cabal operator for more information) rejoice  when cleanup batter 3B Shad Barry swims upstream (reverses the tide a bit) with a line triple past a charging Red-faced, straining  LF Joe Kelley, more of a hitter than a fielder.  And then the amazing bottom-of-the-order SS Art Hoelskoetter records his NL leader-list 7th RBI with an RBI groundout to short scoring wee 5'-6" Miller Huggins to at least put the Redbirds on the board with their only run ...  Art known as a batter who makes (or 'cuts') his own holes through the defense. 2-1, Reds: Anyone's game, B5th.

But 'To Make a Long Story Short' (an old Dovells do-wop song)...  Cincy starting P 'Tornado Jake' Weimer (1-2/4.21), out of Ittumwa Iowa (born 1873), slams the door on the Cardinal offense the rest of the way, finishing the game having allowed just 5 hits and 2 walks and one tally-ho.... While the unstoppable Red backstop Admiral Schlei bops a leadoff double B8th off loser Ed Karger to initiate the Reds' 3rd and final one-run rally of the game.

Cardinals stay grounded when facing Tornado

 

 

Game 62 N.Y. Giants (2-6/7th) 0-2-2  Philadelphia Phillies(6-2/T1st) 2-6-0

Well, actually the 1906 96-56 Giants won 18 more games than the 1906 78-67 Philadelphia Phillies.... But that's the reason we play these games... You can't assume that history, with all of its random house luck factors, would even come close to repeating itself.  Besides, isn't 'repeating yerself' a sloppy habit?   

The variant outcomes of these scientifically executed replays indicate what kinds of other outcomes could have easily or, as Pablo Picasso would say, could easelly have been that ellusive one-and-only reality

But the big break here for the Phillies, and the most obvious reason for this 'upset' is that the great Christy Mathewson was scheduled to pitch this game and likely whup these Phils real bad... But Christy's arm tightens up during warmups and he's a no-go as Manager McGraw smashes up the Visiting Manager Orffice upon learning the bad news. 

So Mr. McGraw has to replace HOFer Mathewson on the starting block with the solid but not legendary Hooks Wiltse, who claims:  'By Hooks or by Crooks I Wiltse win this gamer for Christy, Mister McGraw, sir, if you so wish it!!' 

....A brash claim that turns hollow when Phils starter 'Frosty Bill' Duggleby frosts a single over a frantically backskiddlling SS Bad Bill Dahlen for the 1st Phillie marker, then Phil SS Kid Gleason scorches a double that gets by LF George Browne,  allowing Duggleby to slowboat & showboat home with what actuarily proves to be the game-winner.

The Giants have Dugglebeed a deep hole for thmselves!  Mr. McGraw is going to go ballistic!!

 

Game 61 of 128 regular season games

 '06  Chicago Cubs (1st: 6-2) 0-4-0 

'06  Pittsburgh Pirates (3rd: 5-3) 6-10-0

So, herein, the actual record-setting 116-36 1st place Cubs are upset in a jarring 6-0 defeat by the actual/replay 3rd place Pirates (actual/replay: These two clubs at this EOBHR moment have the same places in the standings as they did in actual 1906, back when prububbly you the reader were jest a laddy, walking daily to yer local one-room school house, managing to drag along  all your text books with yer bookstrap.... or givin' 'em a deloox ride in yer squeakilly  wagon.  Really, now, your dad needs to oil those axels fer the good uv the cummewnitty!!

Not only are the Cubs stymied by the Bucs' Vic Willis (now 2-1/1.37), but the Bucs have their way with normally pfeistier and harder-to-hit Cub lefty Jack 'The Giant Killer' Pfiester, pounding Jack for 10 hits and 6 runs, plus drawing 4 walks against the 'Giant Flapper' (of course, just for this game, where Lady Luck or perhaps even Father Hangover may have played big roles.) 

Pfiester's lifetime realworld ERA of 2.02 is the 3rd lowest in MLB history.... And The Giant Killer set an N.L. record with 17 K's in a 15-inning game May 30, 1906....An N.L. record that held until HOF lefty Warren Spahn fanned 18 in a 9 inning game in 1952.  Pfiester's 1.15 ERA in 1907 is the 6th lowest ever in real MLB history. 

Jack once even pfiested a loss on the Giants with a 5-hitter...... when pitching the entire game with a dislocated arm...!!!  <SICK!>  Which made it excrusciating for him to throw his out-pitch, his curve ball...  So he won the game throwing fast balls on all but three offerings.

The Bucs start out slowly, as neither team score until RF Bill Hallman ropes a B4th RBI double by diving Cub 1B Frank Chance scoring winning P Vic Willis (doing at all since no one else is doing anything... with a leadoff single lashed RF, then leadoff man Tommy Leach reluctantly gets in the spirit too and  rips a BTB single up the middle).

7-hole-batting 3B Tommy Sheehan contributes a sac hit and smashes 2 doubles, produces 2 RBI in contest.  LF Dutch Meier is 2 for 4 with 2 runs and a ribby. 

P Willis finishes the game 2-4/R/RBI + 9IP/4H/0R to become the game's undisputed hero.

Vic:  Today I am going to near-binglehandedly Willus to victory

 

 

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