1964 End of April AL Report

April is finished in my 1964 AL, and although the Yankees are, to no one's surprise, in first place, the story of the early going is the challenge by the upstart Washington Senators, not to mention the Cleveland Indians as well!

The AL standings through April 30th, 1964: 

NYY  9-3  ---
CLE  9-5  1
WAS  9-6  1.5  (best 1-run record 5-1, best x-inn record 2-0)
DET  7-6  2.5
LAA  8-7  2.5
BAL  6-6  3
CHW  6-6  3
KCA  5-8  4.5
BOS  4-10  6
MIN  4-10  6

Washington began the season 0-3, but have won 9 of 12 to move up to third. It's been a very rough start for the Twins, who can't get anybody out, and the Red Sox, who dealt with a rash of injuries. Roman Mejias is no Tony Conigliaro--that much has been established!

Special for Dave: WAS, DET, BAL, BOS and MIN have yet to toss a shutout. NYY, LAA, BAL, CHI and KCA have yet to be shut out. Interesting, because offense was down in April and yet shutouts stayed low. Just 7 league-wide so far. 

PITCHING (league 3.55)
LAA  2.32
NYY  2.58  (most saves 5, least runs against 34)
WAS  3.02  
CHW  3.20  (least K's 67)
CLE  3.31  (most CG 7, tied for least saves 1)
BAL  3.77  (least CG 0, least HR against 5)
DET  3.80  
KCA  4.00  (tied for least saves 1)
BOS  4.46
MIN  5.14  (most K's 102, most runs against 74, most HR against 19)

BATTING (league .224)
NYY  .249  (least caught stealing 1)
DET  .244  (most runs 62, least GIDP 4)
CHI  .244  (least doubles 9, least HR 6) 
BAL  .238  
CLE  .228  (tied for most steals 9)
LAA  .225  (tied for most steals 9, tied for most GIDP 15)
MIN  .215  (most HR 16)
BOS  .210  (most doubles 26, least steals 0, least runs 41)
KCA  .201  (tied for most GIDP 15)
WAS  .192  

FIELDING (avg is IP divided by errors)
BAL  26.25  (least errors 4, no unearned runs given up)
NYY  18.00
CHW  15.67 (least DP's turned 6)
MIN  14.00
WAS  10.00  
BOS  6.94  (most DP's turned 17)
DET  6.69
LAA  6.48  (tie most errors 21)
CLE  5.95  (tie most errors 21)
KCA  5.57 tie most errors 21)

Errors are high. I had too many pitcher errors in my '67 AL replay, so I made adjustments and my '69 NL came out perfect. But my '56 NL was short on errors, so I tweaked again, and perhaps should not have; so far '64 is looking like '67 again. 10 of LAA's 21 errors have been by pitchers.  Over many replays, even the worst teams clear 6, but here I have two teams below 6.  Stay tuned. 

Check out Rudolph, who barely made the 12 inning requirement. It's Washington magic!

ERA (12 IP):  Chance-la 1.64, Pizarro-chi 1.69, Aguirre-det 1.84, Kralick-cle 2.06, Kline-was 2.13, Rudolph-was 2.13, Downing-ny 2.45, Roberts-bal 2.50, Peters-chi 2.59, Belinsky-la 2.61 

WINS:  Kralick-cle 3-1, Wickersham-det 3-1

LOSSES:  Arrigo-min 0-3, Kaat-min 1-3, Pena-kc 1-3

IP:  Kralick-cle 35, Chance-la 33, Wickersham-det 32, Osteen-was 31

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

CG: Kralick-cle 4, several tied with 2 

K's :  Kralick-cle 29, Kaat-min 23, Wilson-bos 23, Chance-la 22, Tiant-cle 21, Ford-ny 20, Pena-kc 20

SHUTOUTS:  Kralick-cle 1, Newman-la 1, O'donoghue-kc 1, Pizarro-chi 1, Segui-kc 1

"In the mornin'...in the evenin'...ain't we got fun?"

SAVES:  Kline-was 4, Radatz-bos 3, Stafford-ny 3, Wilhelm-chi 3 

BATTING (32 ab):  Piersall-la .465, Aparicio-bal .394, Fregosi-la .392, Maris-ny .375, Hall-min .354, Richardson-ny .327, Howard-ny .308, Whitfield-cle .308, Hinton-was .304, Fl. Robinson-chi .304

A giant astride the Earth.

HR:  Gentile-kc 6, Powell-bal 5, Fregosi-la 4, Killebrew-min 4, Mantle-ny 4, Oliva-min 4, B.Robinson-bal 4 

RBI:  Fregosi-la 14, McAuliffe-det 13, Whitfield-cle 13, Gentile-kc 12, Hall-min 12, B.Robinson-bal 12

RUNS:  Tresh-ny 12, Davalillo-cle 11, Fregosi-la 11, McAuliffe-det 11

"Wingy" terrorizes AL hurlers.

DOUBLES:  Bressoud-bos 6, Piersall-la 6, Whitfield-cle 6

TRIPLES:  7 tied with 2.

STEALS:  Hinton-was 5, Aparicio-bal 4, Davalillo-cle 3, Pearson-la 3

GIDP:  Knoop-la 4, Colavito-kc 3, Jimenez-kc 3, Yaz-bos 3

ERRORS:  Causey-kc 5, Green-kc 5

Coming soon: 1964 NL report.