The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-11
BOSTON RED SOX
GOOD F|N|Sn[RS
BOSTON AMERICANS HAVE PLAY
ED MORE EXTRA INNING
GAMES THAN ANY OTHER
TEAMTHIs YEAR

Extra inning games of the season to
date present interesting figures for
students of the national game.
The Boston Americans lead the
clubs of both leagues in extra inning
games played. They have been involv-
ed in no less than eighteen and have
had their troubles with them, win
ming only eight of that number. Their
extra inning contests represent 217
innings, or more than twenty-four
ordinary games The Clevelands have
been in sixteen extra inning games,
for total of 1888 innings, and have
won ten of the sixteen. The New York
Americans have played fifteen such
games and won nine of them, their
total innings being 165. White Sox too
have played fifteen extra inning games.
u total of 100 innings i'm their case,
and won six. The Athletics have won
four out of ten, the Washingtons two
out of eight and the Detroits four
out of nine. There have been several
ties.
The total extra inning games are
thirty-six in the National league and
fifty-one in the American. 1t is
worth while to note that so far as
the results this year are of value
home team has no advantage in an
extra inning battle. In the American
league home teams have won only %
games of more than nine innings to
II that have been won by the visit
ing teams. In the National league
visiting teams have won more extra
inning conflicts than home clubs, the
figures being eighteen to sixteen.
Therefore going to bat last has
brought with It no advantage.
The Plttsburg club is the only one
of the major league sixteen that has
won every one of It's extra inning con-
tests. That condition is partly ac-
counted for by the fact that the Pr
rates have had only six games beyond
the conventional nine innings. How
ever. in SO far as they have been COM
PEELED to go I'm extra inning Tits the
Pirates have shown strength to bear
the strain of the prolonged clashes
and to maintain their strength to the
finnish better than their opponents.
The Cardinals have been in fewer
of the long battles than any of the
others. They have played only five
and have won three of them. If there
is anything I'm the theory that the
weaker the team the less likely II is
TO win an extra inning battle 1t re-
ceives support I'm the showing of the
Boston Nationals and st. Louis Amer
leans. The Doves have landed only
three extra inning grapples out of
eleven and the Browns have won only
two out of ten.
The New York Nationals have won
six out of eight, but the Chicago Ma
tionals admittedly the best National
league club at present, have won only
four out of ten. The Phillies have won
four out of II. The Brooklyns have
had more extra inning games to play
by far than any other National league
aggregation. They have had to go
beyond nine innings fifteen times and
in these have come out first best only
six times. Their extra inning games
represent $50 innings, the equivalent
of twenty ordinary games.
As matter of fact the extra In
ming figures tend to show that the |
probable result of such game is less
"A matter in intrinsic strength as be-
tween the competing teams as hap
pening of the momenth. In that stage |
of the game in which one run either
way Is likely to decide the result
single occurrence plays an important
part, much more important than 1t
is likely to play when 1t is known
there are more innings to follow.