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1906 EOBHR REPLAY GAME 89
'Whitewalsh'
CHICAGO WHITE SOX (6-6/4xT3rd/3 games out of 1st) 5-9-1
Philadelphia A's (4-8/TLast) 0-5-3
1906 EOBHR REPLAY GAME 90
St. Louis Brownies (5-6/6th) 1-2-4
Baseball wisdom would suggest that when a team bungles their way to twice as many errors (4) as it smacks successful hits (2), the prognosis for winning must be considered rather miniscule.... Especially if the opposing team, the mighty 1st place Indians (9-3) collect five times as many hits (10... vs. 2 Brownie Scout hits, the Browns facing the superb Tribal member and hurler Otto Hess, who posts his 2nd shutout of 1906 already, and Hess, well, he'ss now 3*-1/1.39 in 39+ innings of Ottomatic dominance in this 1906 remake).
So clearly baseball wisdom in fact proves correct here even though ten Indian hits plus 4 Brownie errors only add up to 3 Indian runs and a much more squeakerly win than should have been.... But since Otto Hess fires his dashing 2-hitter, all eventually comes up roses for the Indians in this Otto-Manic victory!
CF Elmer Flicks his Bic (glove) a little too dandily on B2nd Tubby Spencer Fly... But there the Brownbagger scoring abruptly ends
1906 EOBHR REPLAY GAME 91
Glossy Bossy!
Detroit Tigers (4-8/3 way tie for last) 6-11-2
Washington Nats (6-6/3 way fie for 3rd) 3-7-1
3B 'Coughing?' Bill Coughlan (.295/ his team-leading 7th RBI) hiccups the go-ahead double (his 3rd 2-ply belt of the 1906 replay) down the RF line with one gone T4th. Then it's case closed, with Casey Patten on the mound, as the Tigues have amassed a 4-0 advantage before the Nats begin to come back. Motor City backstop 'Boss' Schmidt enters the T4th a woeful 2 for 32 for the replay, and the overdue Boss (who ends up 3-4/.143) scorches the single that brings in the game's decisive 4th run (since the Nats manage only 3 talleyrands)..
Tigers Cough and Boss their way to Nat-Swat
1906 EOBHR REPLAY GAME 92
1906 New York Highlanders 13-19-3
1906 Boston Red Sox 4-9-5
Historic Hot Corner Meltdown
Just as the Highlanders > Yankees like it against their Beantown rivals... A blowout in front the rival Bostonian fans, as the Yanks score 9 more runs and have 10 more hits... and, two less (3) errors in this Deadball, small glove, beat-up/stained/worked-over baseballs hit & error hometown horrorathon.
And the Bosox actually hold a sizable, in Deadball terms, 3-0 lead after the 1st frame... Then their starter, Fred (aka Ralph according to other references) 25-year-old Glaze's eye seem to slowly glaze over, perhaps the pressure more than this lifetime 15-21 (actual record) hurler can handle.
In an omen of things to come, starting in earnest in the 1920's, the future Yankees pile up 10 runs in just the 6th & 7th innings against Sox reliever Joe Harris (no relation as far as we know to the wonderful Indians/Bosox.317 lifetime real-world BA (.404OB/.472SA) 1917-28 slugger Joe 'Moon' Harris from Plum Borough PA).
Highlander outfielders Danny Hoffman (2 singles, double, triple, walk, 2 runs, 4 RBI) and Wee Willie Keeler (also 4 hits, 2 runs, sac fly, 12 game hitting streak) lead the comeback... Or was there some other, overlooked, unusual force driving the road Yankees revival?
Yep..one wonders if it all would have happened the way it did.... If the 'Bunny', Bosox occasional 3B John Godwin (0-4/.100)... If 3B John hadn't made 5 errors leading to 7 unearned runs... Certainly one of the worst fielding days I have observed in my 57 years of APBA-playing!!
Hot corner far too hot for Godwin