1919 AL - Final Individual Pitching

Final individual pitching statistics by team . . .

1919 AL - Final Individual Batting

Final individual batting statistics by team . . .

1919 AL - Final Pitching Leaders

Final American League pitching leaderboards . . .

1919 AL - Final Batting Leaders

Final American League batting leaderboards . . .

1919 AL - Final Team and League Statistics

Final American League team and League statistics . . .

1919 AL - Games of Monday, 29 September

Yankees 7, Athletics 2: In the final game of the American League campaign, New York brushed aside the last-placed As in front of a small, resigned gathering at Shibe Park that watched the home team lose for the 95th and final time of a long, painful season. The Athletics took a 2-1 lead in the 3rd when Amos Strunk delivered a two-out, two-run single, but the Yankees scored three times in the 6th (four straight base hits to start the inning) and then again in the 7th and George Mogridge (7-8) finished off the Philadelphians in style by setting down the final eleven hitters. Chick Fewster had three hits for New York, and he and Duffy Lewis each drove home a pair of runs. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Sunday, 28 September

Tigers 12, White Sox 4: Detroit built a slim lead over Chicago and then piled on with a six-run 9th inning that erased any doubt at Comiskey Park. A four-run 4th, keyed by Bob Jones' two-run double, gave the Tigers an early 4-2 lead and they nursed this advantage through seven innings as the two clubs exchanged single runs in both the 5th and the 7th. In the 9th, though, four hits, two walks and a Buck Weaver error conspired to produce six runs and Doc Ayers (6-4) set the home side down in order in the bottom of the 9th. Oscar Stanage had four RBI for Detroit, but the real batting story of the day was Ty Cobb - the Tiger star came to the plate for the final time of the season in that 9th inning batting 0.3993 for the campaign, and delivered his second hit of the game to finish with a .400 batting average for the third time in his career (and the first since 1912). [box]

1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 27 September

White Sox 13, Tigers 7: Detroit pitchers walked sixteen men, and their hitters stranded fourteen base runners, as they fell well short of Chicago at Comiskey Park. The Tigers actually led 6-5 through five-and-a-half innings before getting blitzed by seven Sox scores, with the help of seven bases on balls, over the next two frames. Eddie Collins and Chick Gandil drove in three runs each while Swede Risberg doubled and scored three times. Nemo Leibold set a new big-league record by drawing six walks, breaking the record of five last reached by Tris Speaker in 1912. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Friday, 26 September

Yankees 8, Athletics 1: New York won going away at the Polo Grounds, as they broke open a low-scoring affair with a pile of late runs. It was a 1-1 game when the Yankees came to bat in the 6th but, after one out, they strung together four consecutive singles against Ray Roberts (1-1), and another with two outs to score three times. Four more runs crossed the plate in the home 8th behind Sammy Vick's three-run home run and Carl Mays (12-14) retired the last eight men to keep the As at bay. Vick had five RBI in the game to power the Yanks' attack. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 25 September

Tigers 7, Indians 6: A close, well-pitched contest went to hell in a handbasket in the final inning, as Cleveland used a big outburst to grab the lead and then could not hold off Detroit's rally in the bottom of the 9th. The teams traded single runs on three occasions, resulting in a 3-3 game after Ty Cobb's RBI single in the 7th, but neither starting pitcher would survive the 9th. The Indians loaded the bases with one out in the top half and then Bill Wambsganss "took one for the club", as Bernie Boland's shooter made a bee-line for his hip, to give CLE the lead. Joe Harris scored from third when Elmer Smith grounded back to Boland and the pitcher could not get the ball to the plate in time, and an Eddie Ainsmith passed ball brought Wambsganss home with a third run. That left Elmer Myers (11-7) with three outs to get, and he got exactly none of them. He walked Donie Bush to start the inning and then allowed three straight singles to score two runs and put the tying and winning runs aboard, and then had to face the dangerous Harry Heilmann; "Slug" lived up to his nickname with a two-base hit that tied the scores. This was enough for Tris Speaker, who pulled the dejected Myers in favor of Johnny Enzmann, but the promising youngster had not seen much duty since early in the season, and was probably not at his sharpest when he served up a base hit to Chick Shorten that scored Bobby Veach with the deciding run. Ty Cobb (.401) and Bob Jones had three hits apiece for the Tigers, while Harry Lunte had a forgettable day with three errors at short for the Indians. [box]