NL Season Wrap-up
At end of August, St. Louis held a 6 1/2-game lead over Chicago, with San Francisco another game behind the Cubs. The Cubs opened the month of September by winning 2-of-3 games at home against the Cardinals. St. Louis then dropped 2-of-3 to the Pirates while Chicago took 2-of-3 in San Francisco to narrow the lead to 4 1/2 games. The two clubs spent most of the next three weeks playing the bottom teams in the league, but knowing they were set to face off in the season's final week.
After those three weeks had passed, the lead had shrunk by another game to 3 1/2 games. There was just a single week left to play and it began with the Cubs playing a huge 3-game set in St. Louis. The first game of the series saw Cardinals pitcher
Dizzy Dean collect his 13th win against a struggling
Ed Morris (7-15, 4.03 ERA) in a 7-3 victory. That reduced the Cardinals' magic number to just two, and they could clinch with a win in either of the remaining games of the series.
The following day's game was postponed due to rain, so on September 30th, the two teams had to play a double-header. The first game was a heated pitching duel. St. Louis ace
Bill Hallahan came out on top of Chicago's
Bob Osborn by a 2-1 score, clinching the pennant for the Cardinals.
While Dizzy Dean (13-15, 2.62 ERA) had a losing record this season, he posted the 3rd best ERA in the NL and led all of MLHR with 320 strikeouts. In fact, that was the 6th highest strikeout total in MLHR history. In addition, Dodgers rookie
Van Mungo (14-13, 2.79 ERA) recorded 303 K's, which was just the 17th time in history that a pitcher passed 300 K's in a season. Those 17 seasons were achieved by just eight pitchers, including Mungo and Dean for the first time. This comes just one year after Mungo's teammate
Bobo Newsom (14-12, 2.68 ERA) led the NL with exactly 300.
Standings
Batting Leaders
Pitching Leaders
National League Rosters
