San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-15
EIGHTH OF AMERICAN
LEAGUE GAMES LAST
YEAR WERE SHUTOUTS
Pitchers of Tail-end Bos-
tonese Twirled More
Than Yank Staff.
by IRWIN VI. HOWE
Major League StatitiSCian,

In IS Of the 61S American League
games of last season, the losing team
drew a blank, and in twelve of those
the winners made a virtue of necCs-
sity and left the field happy with n
total of ono lone run TO show for the
afternoons labor.
Many odd facts stand out prominent
ly when the shutouts OF the season are
analysed. The eighth place Boston
team engaged in @6 contests in which
the losers failed 10 score and the in
tent of these games the Red Son were
returned winners. Thus the supposed
ly weak pitchers Of tine Duffy clan
succeeded in banking their opponents
more often than the strong staff of
theirs, the Yankee hurlers registering
but seven shutouts the same number
of games that the champions themselves
were let down without a run. Three
of the Boston victories were gained
while the Red Sox batters w,re Scor-
ing a single tally. the winning pitchers
being Pcnnock, Picrcy and Quinn.
Washington BANKED rivals thirteen
games in three of which the Nationals
were held TO one run by opposing pitch
erS. All of these games were won By
Walter johnson, the speed King being
the only pitcher in the league TO win
more than one onC-tO-nothing game.
Washington was in turn hlanked twelve
times, four of these battles being one
run victories for the winners. Shawkey,
Pennock, Morton and Piercy were the
winners. Plainly, failure TO hit in
the pinches' was glaring weakness
of the Washington team.
The Cleveland Indians BANKED on
ponentS fourteen amCS. five Of these
victories going TO the credit Of George
UhlC, three to CovPlcSkiC, three 10
Morton and ono each TO Mails and
Boone.
The White Sox were tied with Wash
ington for tho second largest number
Of victorious shutouts, thirteen, and led
the league in percentage, being blanked
but eight times. Fabcr and LcverettC
turned four of these victories each,
while another was the famous mo hit,
no run. no man 10 reach first" tri-
umph of Robertson over the heavy hit
ting Tigers.
ECaCh of their seven rivals BANKED
the champions once. and no more, while
the Yankee slnbmen cvPned the count
by whitewashinG Cleveland, Washing
ton and Philadelphia each twice and
St. Louis once Hoyt and Shawkry
were on the large end Of the Onc-to-
nothing games.
Only two ot the &C shououts went
more than nine rounds. Boone ot
Cleveland banking Washington in
twelve innings, while Mogridgc of Wash
ington went ten rounds to beat Chi
cago, both scores being two-to-noth'
ing.
Sixty-five Cxtra-inning battles. f"
gethcr with a shoutouts, makes a total
of 100 games in which the result was
either most uncertain in or else con.
stantly featured by team and individual
defensive play that makes baseball
unique among outdoor sports. Two ri
the shutouts we're also pXtra-rOund con-
tests.
The longest games Of the season was
the siXteen-round engagement Of May
II. between st. Louis and Detroit in
which the Browns triumphed By score
Of - to !. Shocker and Oldham started
on the slab for their respective teams
and both were relieved in the fifteenth
inning. young Pruett holding the Tigers
in check, while the Browns found Stoner
for the winning counter in the next
round.