140 Game Summary
New York.. 72-68
Boston...... 68-72 4GB
New York
Lou Gehrig 11 HR 99 RBI .300 BA
Bill Dickey 6 HR 83 RBI .338 BA
Joe DiMaggio 6 HR 86 RBI .305 BA
George Selkirk 7 HR 71 RBI .248 BA
Boston Red Sox
Tris Speaker 23 2B 79 RBI .326 BA
Duffy Lewis 21 2B 106 RBI .309 BA
Babe Ruth 14-10, 2.52, 200 2/3 innings
Babe Ruth 4 HR 18 RBI .324 BA .634 SA
(Slugging average leads both teams)
The Red Sox have taken 8 of 10 and 15 of 20 to vault themselves back into contention. Duffy Lewis continues to drive in runs in bunches. The Babe has won four straight games. And Boston's superb defense has clamped down. The Yanks scored 2,2,3,2,2,3,3,2,1,and 5 in the last ten games... the five runs coming in a 9-5 defeat where Boston had the game in hand early. Not only did the actual 1915 Boston staff contain five unusually strong starters, they also had Carl Mays, a future 207 game winner, coming out of the bullpen in case things got dicey.
Another young pitcher in the Boston bullpen had little impact in 1915, but would leave his stamp later on, a lefty named Herb Pennock. Pennock would go 16-8 in 1919 - but then would be shipped to New York 'a la Ruth' after the 1922 season as part of the gigantic fire sale Harry Frazee had conducted to turn a once-proud franchise into a New England train wreck.
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