Stat update: Garfields

Batting

Name AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR SB BB BA

Anson 12 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 2 .250

Burkett 13 4 9 2 2 0 0 1 3 .692

JCollins 23 3 6 2 0 0 1 0 1 .261

Connor 21 3 4 3 0 0 0 0 1 .190

Davis 24 1 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 .208

Delahanty 33 5 13 3 3 1 0 0 1 .394

Duffy 22 5 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 .364

Ewing 22 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 2 .227

Jennings 22 3 5 1 1 0 0 0 2 .227

Kelly 13 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 .231

Thompson 30 1 8 6 1 0 0 0 2 .267

Ward 29 5 10 3 0 0 0 1 1 .345

Pitching

Name IP H R ER BB SO W L S ERA

Clarkson 1.6 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 5.63

Galvin 17 11 4 4 2 5 1 1 0 2.12

Keefe 16 19 11 11 4 10 0 2 0 6.19

Radourne 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0.00

Welch 18 19 3 3 5 4 1 0 0 1.50

Young 15 16 8 8 0 5 1 1 0 4.80

Stat update: Ikes

I'm going to take a break for while on the games and start compiling stats. The drudgery of accounting ... I'd rather not do it, but the league will be more fun, and meaningful, if I can say Ty Cobb led in batting average and Babe Ruth in home runs and Josh Gibson in RBIs and Satchel Paige in strikeouts.

I suppose I could say those things anyway, but you get the idea.

So we'll stat here with the Ikes.

Batting

Name AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR SB BB BA

Banks 29 4 6 5 1 0 3 0 1 .207

Berra 20 1 4 2 1 0 0 0 1 .200

Campanella 9 2 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 .333

Doerr 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .100

Kaline 11 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 .273

Mathews 20 3 5 3 1 1 1 0 5 .250

Mays 30 5 3 4 2 0 0 1 4 .100

Musial 31 3 9 5 1 3 1 0 1 .290

Schoendienst 17 2 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 .235

Slaughter 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .200

Snider 22 4 4 5 0 1 3 0 2 .182

T Williams 28 4 10 2 3 0 1 0 5 .357

Pitching

Name IP H R ER BB SO W L S ERA

Bunning 4 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0.00

Ford 9 8 0 0 2 6 1 0 0 0.00

Lemon 3 3 4 4 1 0 0 1 0 12.00

Newhouser 2 3 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 9.00

Roberts 14 18 12 12 5 7 0 1 0 7.71

Spahn 16 15 6 6 7 7 1 0 0 3.38

Wilhelm 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0.00

Wynn 13 9 7 4 5 6 0 1 0 2.77

End of Series 3

The standings:

Division A
Teddys 5 3 .625 ---
Ikes 4 3 .571 .5
Franklins 4 4 .429 1
Obamas 3 4 .429 1.5
Kennedys 3 5 .429 2

Division B
Homestead 6 2 .750 ---
Crawfords 5 2 .714 .5
Hilldale 3 4 .429 2.5
Garfields 3 5 .375 3
X-Giants 2 6 .333 4

Series 4:
Ikes at Garfields(2)
Kennedys at X-Giants(2)
Obamas at Hilldale(2)
Teddys at Homestead(2)
Franklins at Crawfords (2)

Player of the series: Babe Ruth, Franklins
Pitcher of the series: Smokey Joe Williams, Hilldale

Series 3: Ikes, Hilldale split

Ikes 4-3, Hilldale 3-4

Pitcher update: Roberts, Winters need three games, SJ Williams and Wynn one game. Hensley and Bunning each pitched two innings in finale, Dismukes one.

Game 1: Hilldale 4, Ikes 2
WP: SJ Williams (1-1)
LP: Wynn (0-1)
HR: T. Williams (1), Leonard (1), Wells (2)
Game 2: Ikes 7, Hilldale 4, 10 innings
WP: Bunning (2-0)
LP: Dismukes (1-1)
HR: Mathews (2), Campanella (1)

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For six batters, Smokey Joe Williams was ineffective.

For the next 27, he was superb.

The Hilldale righty fave up two run in the first inning on a homer by Ted Williams, but fired a complete-game win, fanning 10 Ikes and allowing just four hits.

Buck Leonard hit a three-run shot off Early Wynn in the third — a rally started with two outs when Duke Snider dropped Cristobal Torriente's fly ball in right field.

In the finale, the Ikes opened a three-run lead on Nip Winters only to see that vanish in the seventh, when Hilldale put together a three-run rally against Robin Roberts for a 4-3 lead.

But Eggie Hensley gave up a tying homer to Eddie Mathews in the eighth, and in the 10th the Ikes racked Dizzy Dismukes for a double, triple and homer (by Roy Campanella) in succession to make a winner of Jim Bunning, who had two hitless innings of relief.

Series 3: Teddys take two of three from Kennedys

Teddys 5-3, Kennedys 3-5

Pitcher use: Marichal, TF Brown, Niekro need three games; Waddell, Gibson need two; Mathewson, Carlton need one. Koufax worked one inning in the final game.

Game 1: Teddys 9, Kennedys 8

WP: Joss (1-0)

LP: Carlton (0-1)

Save: Bender (2)

HR: Lajoie 2 (2), Speaker (1), Aaron (3), McCovey (2)

Game 2: Kennedys 5, Teddys 2

WP: Gibson (2-0)

LP: Waddell

HR: Aaron 2 (5)

Game 3: Teddys 11, Kennedys 1

WP: TF Brown (2-0)

LP: Marichal (0-2)

HR: None

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The Teddys bashed their first home runs of the season in the first game, but that was hardly the limit of the power the deadballers displayed against the Kennedys.

The Teddys had 12 doubles and three triples — 18 extra base hits in all — for the series. They had 18 hits in the first game, 11 in the second and 15 in the finale. Only the ability of Bob Gibson to get outs with men on base in game two held the Teddys at bay.

And that was with Ty Cobb going 0-for-6, 1-for-5 and 2-for-5 — a 3 for 16 performance only slightly redeemed with a pair of singles in his final two at-bats in a blowout.

Nap Lajoie went 4-for-5 in the opener, with two doubles and two homers. The second homer was part of a three-run ninth inning against Steve Carlton and Sandy Koufax in which the Teddys hit for the cycle and turned a 8-6 deficit into a 9-8 victory.

Tris Speaker had a pair of two-baggers to go with his homer, and Sam Crawford hammered two doubles and a triple.

In the second game, Gibson bent but did not break. Hank Aaron hit a pair of homers, and a revamped lineup — Pete Rose and Luis Aparicio got their first starts of the season — did enough damage against Rube Waddell. The Teddys southpaw did fan eight in seven innings of work.

But the Kennedys reverted to their standard lineup in the finale and were never really in the contest. Three-Finger Brown allowed just two hits, and Juan Marichal gave up four runs in the third and two more in the fourth, when he was pulled. Phil Niekro knuckleballed his way through 4.6 innings of one-run ball before exiting for a pinch hitter — and Koufax promptly surrendered another four runs in his inning of mop-up work.

Series 3: Franklins sweep Obamas

Franklins 4-4, Obamas 3-4

Pitcher use updates: Hubbell, Johnson need one game; Ryan, Feller need two games; Nichols, Vance need three games. Dean threw one inning in final game, Chesbro two.

Game 1: Franklins 5, Obamas 4
WP: Covaleski (1-0)
LP: Gomez (0-1)
HR: Ruth 2 (3), Gehrig 2 (2), Lombardi (2), Mantle (3)
Game 2: Franklins 6, Obamas 4
WP: Feller (1-0)
LP: Walsh (0-1)
HR: Ruth (4), Gehrig(3), Foxx (1)
Game 3: Franklins 6, Obamas 3
WP: Vance (1-1)
LP: Nichols (1-1)
Save: Dean (2)
HR: Ruth (5), Schmidt (3)

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One-sided in results, but close on the field.

Obamas starter Walter Johnson, in his first outing since he opened the season by no-hitting the X-Giants, allowed just five hits in the opener. Three of them were solo homers — by by Lou Gehrig, one by Babe Ruth — and the other two resulted in a fourth run.

The Obamas hit two dingers of their own off Carl Hubbell in a four-run fourth. In the top of the ninth, the Obamas pinch-hit for Johnson with the go-ahead run in scoring position, but Stan Covaleski choked off the budding rally — and Ruth led off the bottom of the ninth with his second homer of the game, this one off Lefty Gomez.

The Obamas led the second game 4-3 going into the bottom of the eighth, but Ruth led off that frame with a home run off Ed Walsh, and the Franklins tacked on two more runs. Bob Feller went the distance in a fastball duel with Nolan Ryan — Feller fanned 10 and walked seven. Seven of the strikeouts came in the final three innings.

The third game went to the Franklins also, but not without a ninth inning scare. Dazzy Vance allowed the first three men to reach, which brought on Dizzy Dean. Dean popped up pinch-hitter Jackie Robinson, then got a double play grounder from Billy Hamilton.

Perhaps the highlight of the series for the Obamas was Charlie Gehringer pulling the hidden ball trick on Joe DiMaggio after the Clipper's seventh-inning leadoff double. Ruth hit his fourth home of the series in the first inning off Kid Nichols.

Series 3: Homestead sweeps Garfields

Homestead 6-2, Garfields 3-5

Pitcher status: Welch and D. Brown need one game each, Galvin and R. Brown two games, Keefe and Manning three games. Wickware and Matlock each pitched less than an inning in the final game.

Game 1: Homestead 3, Garfields 2, 11 innings.

WP: Salmon 1-0

LP: Clackson 0-1

HR: O.H. Johnson (2)

Game 2: Homestead 4, Garfields 3

WP: R. Brown (2-0)

LP: Galvin (1-1)

HR: Scales (2), C. Smith (2)

Game 3: Homestead 7, Garfields 6

WP: Manning (1-1)

LP: Keefe (1-1)

Save: Matlock (1)

HR: Scales (3), McNair (1), W. Brown (2)

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Three one-run wins for Homestead, who got some help from their power-friendly home park.

The first game was taut all the way, with each team scoring twice in the sixth innings and then getting nothing until the 11th, when Cap Anson was thrown out at the plate in the top of the frame and Heavy Johnson hit a two-out homer off John Clarkson in the bottom half.

Dave Brown threw four hitless innings to open the game for Homestead and allowed just six hits in nine innings. He walked two and fanned three. Mickey Welch scattered 13 hits in his nine innings, getting three double plays in the process.

In the second game, the Garfields tallied three times off Ray Brown in the second inning, but Brown held them off the rest of the way, throwing an 11-hit complete game. Tubby Scale's solo homer in the eight provided the winning margin.

The third game was also a pitchers duel pitting Max manning and Tim Keefe, at least until the final frames. Each team scored in the seventh to make it a 3-2 Homestead lead,. Homestead then got a pinch-hit grand slam from Hurley McNair in the eighth to make it 7-2. But Frank Wickware and Leroy Matlock gave all four runs back in the ninth, with help from Willard Brown's two-out error in center, before Matlock finally got George Davis out to end it.

Willard Brown was four-for-four in the finale, with a homer and two doubles.