1944 FINAL Replay Standings as of October 2, 1944      

Batting Leaders | Pitching Leaders Team Batting | Team Pitching

AMERICAN LEAGUE						NATIONAL LEAGUE
	W	L	GB	Pct			W	L	GB	Pct
New York Yankees	90	64	-	.584		St. Louis Cardinals	110	45	-	.710
Cleveland Indians	86	68	4.0	.558		Cincinnati Reds	94	60	15.5	.610
St. Louis Browns	83	71	7.0	.539		Pittsburgh Pirates	83	71	26.5	.539
Detroit Tigers	81	73	9.0	.526		Chicago Cubs	81	73	28.5	.526
Philadelphia A's	75	79	15.0	.487		New York Giants	69	85	40.5	.448
Boston Red Sox	72	82	18.0	.468		Philadelphia Phillies	67	86	42.0	.438
Washington Nationals	66	88	24.0	.429		Brooklyn Dodgers	59	95	50.5	.383
Chicago White Sox	63	91	27.0	.409		Boston Braves	53	101	56.5	.344

 

 

 

 

 1944 HIGHLIGHTS

May 5 – Cards beat Pirates, 15-22-1/1-6-3.  Hopp 5-6.  Every Card starter, including pitcher Mort Cooper, had at least 1 hit.


May 13 – Bums and Yanks lose. Bums now 7-12, in 6th; Yanks now in last place, 5-12.  Browns and Cards still lead.


May 14 – Yanks and Tribe split as NY takes nightcap, 16-21-1/0-5-0.  NY scores all 16 in 1st 4 innings (3,5,5,3).  Every Yank has at least 1 hit and each

 has at least 2 except for Milosevich and pitcher Donald.  Levy and Etten homer and double and 5 RBI each.


May 16 – Yanks lose 5-4 in 15 innings to Chisox.  Chicago’s Bill Dietrich pitches CG.

May 17 – Cleveland beats Nats, 17-17-2/12/15/3.  Jeff Heath 2 homers, 6 RBI.  Every Nat starter, including Wolff (pitcher) had at least 1 hit.

May 18 – Braves beat Cards, 15-18-1/3-7-0. 

May 19 – Yanks (6-18) and Bums (8-18) lose and both are now in last place.  Giants’ Ewald Pyle no-hits Braves (2 walks), 3-7-1/0-0-2.

May 23 – Bums drop 8th straight and are now 8-22 (last place).

May 27 – Bums (8-24, last place) drop 10th straight, to Reds, in 11, 3-2.

May 30 – Cards beat Braves in opener, 18-17-3/8-12-2.  Every starter except pitcher had at leasr 1 hit.    Reds’ Clyde Shoun no-hits Phils in nightcap,

 4-10-0/0-0-0.  Misses perfect game by 1 walk (to Buster Adams).

June 4 – Phils beat Cards in 15 innings in opener, 4-8-4/3-14-2.  Cards take nightcap, 15-22-2/3-7-2.  Walker Cooper 5-5, 2 doubles.  Kurowski 4 RBI.

June 7 – Giants beat Braves, 19-22-1/6-11-3.  Every Giant starter, except pitcher (Feldman) had at least 1 hit.  Phil Weintraub 6-6, 2 homers, 9 RBI, 2

 doubles, 14 TB, 3 runs.  

June 13 –Bums move past Braves into 7th, as they beat Giants as Boston drops 2 to Phils.  Yanks still last (worst in ’44 at 15-32/.319).

June 15 – Giants beat Bums, 22-27-1/7-12-1.  Every starting Giant except catcher Mancuso had at least 1 hit and so did every starting Dodger

 (except SP Gregg).  Nap Reyes 4-6, 4 RBI, 4 runs, 2 homers, double, 11 TB.

June 22 – Bums beat Giants, 12-14-1/1-6-2, scoring 10 in top of 1st.  Every Bum gets at least 1 hit, except pitcher (Wyatt).  

July 1 – Yanks’ Hank Borowy (8-2/1.41) 1-hits Chisox, 3-7-0/0-1-1(2 walks).  Only hit is Schalks’ 1st inning double. 

July 4 – A’s beat Browns in nightcap, 20-21-2/2-8-3.  Every starter, except SS Busch, had at least 1 hit.  Frankie Hayes 8 RBI, 3-5, 3 runs, double,

 2 grand slams (3rd and 4th innings).

July 6- Yanks beat Tribe as Chisox beat Nats.  NY moves into 1st division (and .500/35-35).  Tribe is 37-37 (3rd).

July 14 – Tigers beat Chisox, 15-17-0/1-13-0.

July 16 – Tigers come back to beat Chisox in opener, in 15 innings, 7-13-0/5-13-1.

July 20 – Yanks Borowy (10-3, 1.67) 3 hits Browns, 4-0, for Yanks’ 3rd straight win over Browns.  NY (43-39, .535) now 1 behind Tigers (46-40, .535)

 and Browns (who drop to 2nd at 47-41, .534).

July 21- Cards beat Giants in opener, 23-21-1/2-10-3.  Every Card starter had at least 1 hit.

July 23 – Yanks beat Chisox in 14 innings in opener, 6-15-2/5-8-0.  Yanks drop nightcap as Detroit drops twin-bill to A’s.  NY (45-42) and Tribe (46-43)

 now tied in 2nd, at .517.  Tigers (47-44, .516) now 4th.   Bums sweep Bucs, taking nightcap in 14 innings, 15-23-1/14-20-3.  Cards beat Braves in

 15 innings, 7-15-1/5-11-0.  Every Card starter, except pitcher (Lanier) had at least 1 hit.  Cards take nightcap, 15-19-0/2-5-0.  Every Card starter, except 

pitcher Cooper, had at least 1 hit.  Browns lose to Red Sox and Yanks take over 1st for first time this year.  NY (46-42, .523) is 1 point ahead

 of Browns (48-44, .522).

July 24 – Browns drop their 4th straight and are now 1-9 in last 10.  Tigers beat A’s and are now 48-44, .522, 1 point behind NY.  St. Louis now

 ½  back (48-45, .516).  Cards Cork Wills 1-hits Braves (5 walks), winning 2-5-0/1-1-1.  Only hit is Nieman double leading off 7th.

July 26 – Tigers’ Newhouser wins his 16th (16-3, 1.52), beating Boston to increase Detroit’s least to 1 over Cleveland and Browns and 2 over Yanks.

July 28 – Nats beat Chisox in 19 innings, 3-13-2/2-12-1.  Chicago’s Lopat goes the entire 19 innings.

July 30 – Bums and Cards split.  Cards take opener, 6-5, as Brooklyn comes back to win in 11 innings in nightcap, 13-16-1/12-18-2.   Giants and

 Reds split with Giants’ Harry Feldman 1-hitting Reds (3 walks) in nightcap (only hit was 8th inning, 1 out single by Estel Crabtree.  A’s Mickey

 Harris (0 walks!) 1 hits Chisox in opener, 11-14-1/0-1-4.  Only Chicago baserunners are Curtright (reaches on 9th inning error) and Hodgin

 single to lead off 5th.

August 1- Yanks beat Tigers as Tribe loses to Red Sox.  This temporarily ties the Tribe, Tigers and Browns for 1st (53-47); Yanks 2 back (49-47).  

Browns then beat Nats 2-1 in 12 innings to take over sole possession of 1st.

August 6 – Browns move back into 1st, splitting twin-bill w/Tribe.  Tigers split w/Chisox as Yanks sweep A’s.  Cleve and Browns now 56-48, NY now

 53-48 (.525) and Tigers now 54-49 (.524).


August 14 – Yanks (Bonham) one hits Chisox, 4-6-1/0-1-1.  Only Chicago hit is single by Tucker with 1 out in top of 5th.  Cards’ Mort Cooper (20-3, 1.43) 

becomes 1st ’44 20 game winner, beating Bums, 15-15-2/7-9-2.  Cubs beat Phils 2-1 in 15 innings.  Ken Raffensberger goes first 11 for Phils.

August 15 – Pirates (Cuccurullo) beat Braves, 16-17-1/0-9-2. 


August 20 – Red’s Bucky Walters (18-7/1.92) 1-hits Phils in opener, 1-7-0/0-1-0.  Only hit is Northey’s double in top of 4th, 2 outs.  Yanks take 3rd straight 

from Tigers, 15-13-2/5-6-3.  Hersh Martin 5-6, 3 runs, double.  Stirnweiss steals his 50th.

August 21- Newhouser (20-5,1.45) wins his 20th, snapping Tigers losing streak, as he beats Yanks, 4-3.


August 31 – Yanks beat Nats in opener, 16-13-1/4-7-2.  Lindell triple, homer, 4 RBI; pitcher Mink Dubiel 2-5, 4 RBI, double.  NY wins nightcap as

 Tigers beat Browns 1-0.  Yanks move into 1st, ½ up over Browns.

September 1 – Yanks win 4th straight, beating Nats, as Tigers’ Newhouser beats Browns (lost 3 straight).  Yanks now lead Browns by 2. 

September 15 – Cards (99-40) sweep Cubs and clinch NL.  Cards are 18 ½ up over 2nd place team (Reds).


September 22- Yanks lose to Tribe 3-1 in 10 as Tribe moves to within 2 of NY.  Browns also win (9th straight) to move 1 behind Yanks.

September 23 – Yanks beat Tribe 13-6, with 9 in top of 7th, to move 2 ½ ahead ot Cleveland.  A’s beat Browns in 11, 7-5 as Browns fall 1 ½ back.

  Yanks’ magic number is now 8.

September 24 – Yanks beat Tribe again, this time 6-5, dropping magic number to 7 as Cleveland falls 3 ½ back (Browns are still 2 back).  A’s (Flores)

 beat Browns 1-0, dropping St. Louis 2 ½ back.  Yanks’ magic number drops to 6.  Cards’ Mort Cooper wins his 26th (26-6, 1.29), beating Phils

 in opener, 3-1.  Cork Wilks wins 19th (19-7, 1.30) in nightcap, 4-1.

September 25 – Yanks sweep chisox as Browns lose to Bosox.  NY’s magic number drops to 3.  Tribe beats Nats and are now tied w/Browns (81-67).


September 27 – Yanks (Bevans) beats Chisox, 8-3, giving NY a clinch for AL tie.

September 29 – Yanks clinch as Borowy (20-7, 1.88) wins his 20th in nightcap, after NY dropped opener against Browns.

October 7 – Cards take 2nd straight over Yanks, 17-21-0/3-3-0.  Cards’ Ray Sanders 5-5, Musial 2-6, 4 RBI, double, homer.  Pitcher Cork Wilks 3-5, 4 RBI, 

double, homer.