[Carlton]

Tuesday, June 2nd

IN THE NEWS: With Honus Wagner filling in for ailing manager Fred Clarke, reportedly recuperating from a nervous breakdown, the Pirates beat their rivals The Cincinnati Reds (Giants 7-0 IRL) 4-0. Sam Leever goes all the way, striking out 6 batters, including the side in the 5th. Harry Smith is 2-4 with 3 rbis for the Buccaneers. Bill Bergen (Frank Bowerman IRL) is tossed out for protesting calls.

Wednesday, June 3rd

IN THE NEWS: Pirate hitting tees up on Reds pitching. Ginger Beaumont and surprise player Algie McBride a former Red are the heroes 3B coach Noodles Hahn (Christy Mathewson of the Gianst IRL) is tossed for kicking dirt on umpire James Johnstone.

Thursday, June 4th

In their 3rd meeting in 3 years, Cy Young goes to 10-1...with 355 wins he is 5 behind all time win leader Pud "Gentle Jeems" Galvin to become the all time win leader, beats Eddie Plank of the A's who falls to 6-6. The Pilgrims score 4 runs off Plank from 2 Jimmy Collins triples and two Buck Freeman squeeze bunts to bring Collins home. For the 5th consecutive game, Cy Young does not walk nor hit a batter.

Friday, June 5th

Kid Nichols the 3rd winningest pitcher in MLB and fastest to ever get to 300 wins, beats the Pirates and Bill Hoffer in his 1st start. Nichols goes to 10-2 and now has 349 wins...11 behind Galvin and 6 behind Young. Nichols gives up 6 runs including a HR to Algie McBride, who at the end of the day will have 2 HRS, a .370 AVG and 30 rbis to lead in ALL Triple Crown categories
But 3 rbis from Ed Abbacittio, and Duff Cooley is the difference in the 9-6 Beaneater win.

Saturday, June 6th

Sam Leever goes to 10-4 beating the Beaneaters 1-0. Boston pitcher Vic Willis falls to 8-4 as the hard luck loser. Willis gives up just 2 hits and walks none, but a throwing error by Billy Hamilton allows C Harry Smith to score from 2nd on Claude Ritchey's bloop single. RF Tom McCreery goes 3-4 for Boston with no one on base. This is Leever's 2nd whitewash of the year

Christy Mathewson goes one better in his whitewash as he allows only 2 hits, oBB and 5 K's in a 1-0 win over the Cubs and Bob Wicker. Tinker and Evers get the lone Cub hits.


Tuesday, June 9th

IN THE NEWS: Before the start of the Reds (Gianst IRL)-Pirates showdown Reds catcher Bill Bergen (Frank Bowerman IRL) starts a fight with Pirates player-manager Fred Clarke in the Reds office. While the cause of the brawl is unclear, Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss reports it to the NL offices and Bergen is fined $100. Clarke gets no fine, but does take home a black eye. Noodles Hahn (Christy Mathewson IRL) then pitches his 7th victory of the year K'ing 10 Pirates , defeating them 7-3 and beating Bill Hoffer Honus Wagner is the lone pirate bright spot as he hits a 2b, 3b and drives in all 3 runs although only one is earned as Heine Peitz allows 2 errors at 3b.

Veteran SS George Davis, 1900-1901 Giants manager who played for the White Stockings in 1902 and was awarded to them as part of the peace treaty, gets the approval of NL president Harry Pulliam to play for the Giants. After Davis arrives at the Polo Grounds, Chicago's owner Charles Comiskey gets an injunction preventing Davis from playing. On July 20th the NL directors vote that Davis cannot play for any team except the White Stockings. Davis sits out the rest of the season but rejoins Chicago in 1904

With the distraction of George Davis taking his position rookie Charlie Babb
goes 3-5 3rbis and 2 bbs in a 15 -4 win over the Cardinals. Joe McGinnity goes to 4-6 despite a terrible 5.24 ERA. Unlike teammate Mathewson, McGinnity has the highest runs support per game with 8.6. Jack Warner back from his one year stint as a Pilgrim goes 5-5 with 4 rbis


Cy Young gets his 11th win, the 356 of his career to get within 4 of Pud Galvin. A 4-3 victory over Detroit he walks 2 batters one Jimmy Barrett the AL leader in walks, to end his ML record walkless inning streak at 58 innings

Not to be outdone, Kid Nichols beats Bill Reidy and the Superbas 3-2 to win his 11th, the 350th of his career, 10 behind Galvin and 6 behind Young. Both runs are unearned as his Beaneater teammates commit 5 errors, and Kid walks 5 guys

Unnoticed is Tornado Jake Weimer's 3 hit SHO over Bill Duggebly and the Phillies. Harry Wolverton gets all 3 Philly hits and Weimer's fellow ROY candidate Johnny Evers provides the offense going 3-4 2 runs and 2 rbis

Weds, June 10th

Addie Joss falls to 1-5 in a heartbreaking 2-1 loss to the White Sox. Like most of his starts Joss will pitch brillantly for 5 innings then implode in the 6th or 7th.

Saturday, June 13th

Nichols gains ground on Cy Young, as beats Pop Williams and the Phillies 5-1, he has won 9 consecutive decisions. His career wins stand at 351

Young pitches better than Nichols, but loses 2-0 to division rival The NY Highlanders, who with the win, take over sole possesion of 1st place. Harry Howell, 2nd in the AL with 8 wins gets the whitewash win, as he walks 1, k's 5. Young has 1 earned run and after punching out LF Tommy Dowd for his miscue that allowed Willie Keller to score, he strikes out the 9th. Keeler goes 1-4 but still leads the AL in Batting at .372

Noodles Hahn pitches a 2 hit SHO over the Cardinals walking none and K'ing 10, 3 times for Cardinal CF Homer Smoot. Stan Yerkes, allows 6 hits and 1 ER to fall to 4-5

Sam Leever wins his MLB leading 13th game a 5-3 win over Bill Reidy (5-9) and the Superbas. The Reds and Pirates, like the Highlanders and Pilgrims are deadlocked at the top of their respective decisions

Sunday, June 14th

After 6 perfect innings, Addie Joss falters and allows 5 runs in the 7th and 3 in the 8th to the Nationals, losing 8-2. Happy Townsend goes to 6-6 on the year


Christy Mathewson gets a 3-0 whitewash over the Cubs, but the Goants finally give him run support scoring 7 runs off Jack Taylor.Big Six K's 11 Cubs , 4 by manager Frank Chance in 4 AB's

Tuesday, June 16th

Overcoming 4 errors Tornado Jake Weimer goes to 10-6 in a SHO over the 2nd place Pirates. It's his 2nd SHO of the month.

Weds, June 17th

Cy Young loses his 2nd consecutive game over Mel Eason (8-7) and the last place Tigers. Freddy parent who commits 2 errors that lead to 2 unearned runs is escorted by manager Jimmy Collins to the train station early to escape the wrath of Cy Young. Cy stays stuck at 355 career wins

Kid Nichols wins his 13 of the year to tie Sam Leever for the MLB lead...and to go to 351 wins for his career, 9 behind Galvin and only 4 behind Cy Young. Chappie McFarland who has the worst runs support in the majors, falls to 4-6. Kid Nichols has now won 10 consecutive decisions 5 behind Cy Young's MLB record 15

Thursday, June 18th

NO, I COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP...ULTIMATE IRONY

[B] Jack Taylor of the Cubs loses 9-2 over Deacon Phillippe who wins his MLB 14th game and 7th in a row. This will be the last game Jack Taylor loses until 9/8 a 3-4 loss against th eCardinals. Taylor after this game will ROLL OFF 15 STRAIGHT VICTORIES...to tie Cy Young for the modern MLB record 15 Consecutive wins. All 15 will be CG's. Taylor will end the year at 17-7 with a 3.08 ERA in 25 starts [/i]

Friday, June 19th

Scoops Carey's 11 game rbis streak is snapped 19 rbis during that streak, his 50 rbis leads MLB and he will finish with 97. The NAtionals lose their 12 straight in a 14-4 loss against the Naps, but Ed Delahanty raises his avergae to .371 to take over the AL lead

Rube Waddell has the worst outing of his career, lasting 4.2 IP allowing 3 BB a Grand Slam to Candy LaChance, the first in modern MLB history and 12 runs, 10 earned, as Bill Dineen (9-6) is living up to hype he brought last year.
Candy LaChance goes 4-5 3 runs and 5 rbis off Waddell and reliever Jim Fairbank. Waddell is actually not pulled from the game but chases a firetruck as it zooms by...after arriving late by playing marbles with the kids before gametime and walking through the crowd to the mound 3 minutes before gametime. Connie Mack fines Waddell $500 dollars but Rube will borrow that back in September when he takes off fishing for a week. I actually made this up...but these are true Waddell stories.

Saturday, June 20

Addie Joss shows flashes of his brillance as he scatters 7 hits, walks none and strikeouts 3 in a 1-0 SHO of the Nationals, losers of 13th straight. Davey Dunkle 7-9 gets the loss. SS John Gochnauer hits a solo shot for the winning run. Joss will bounce in and out of the rotation all year. As his inconsistency drives Bill Armour crazy.

Another young P Tornado Jake Weimer gets his 3rd SHO in a row...creating ANOTHER RECORD IN JUNE OF 1903!!! Overall 8 records are started or finished this month including
1)Consecuitve win streak-Jack Taylor
2) Consecutive runs streak-Charlie Babb
3) Consecutive HR streak-Buck Freeman
4) consecutive RBI streak-Scoops Carey
5) Consecutive scorless IP streak-Jake Weimer
6) Consecutive SHO-Jake Weimer
7) Scorless ER streak-Jake Weimer
8) consecutive IP w/o a walk or HBP-Cy Young


Weimer beats the Cards and Mordecai Brown, who will be traded to the Cubs after the season along with Mike O'Neill for consecutive win co-holder Jack Taylor.
Tornado Jake sets the scorless Inning streak at 33, he also has not allowed an ER in 37 IP

Sunday, June 21st

Cy Young wins his 12th game, 356 of his career to get within 4 of Pud Galvin over rookie Chief Bender (6-8) who has lost 4 straight. The Pilgrims win 5-1 and Cy Young's ERA drops to 1.72

Kid Nichols wins his 11th straight decision a 6-3 win over Sam Leever (13-5) and the Pirates...Nichol snows leads the NL in wins and is 2nd in ERA 2.22. He now has 352 career wins.

STN rookie P Chappie McFarland the NL ERA leader at 2.12, wins just his 5 win against 6 losses, as the Cardinals score 6 runs, the only time they will in any of his starts. McFarland beats former Cardinal Bob Wicker (6-12) in the 6-1 victory...as Homer Smoot goes to .340 on the year, good for 1st place in the NL race.

Weds, June 24th

Cy Young wins his 13th of the year and now has 357 and 3 behind Galvin ina 5-3 win over the NAtionals

Thursday, June 25th

Kid Nichols wins his 12th straight and 353 of his career, to go to 15-2 on the year in a 7-6 win over Roscoe Miller (5-9) and the Giants

Chappie McFarland allows 3 runs none of them earned as he falls to 5-7 on th eyear but his ERA drops below 2.00. Sunset Jimmy Burke commits 2 errors at SS and Noodles Hahn pitches 8 innnings striking out 9 including 3 times for Homer Smoot who now has 0-12 AB with 9 K's versus Hahn. Amos Rusie comes in for the save

Friday, June 26th

Bill Dineen (11-6) beats Jesse Tannehill (10-6)and NY 4-2. Candy LaChance who will earn the nickname Longshanks for his 'treatment' of the Highlanders with a .365 Avg and 9 rbis and 15 runs during the year...hits a 2b and drives in 3. The Pilgrism will win 2 of 3 to go 2 ahead of the Highlanders in the AL race. Wee Willie Keeler goes 2-4 to raise his AL leading average to .372

Saturday, June 27th

Cy Young beats the Highlanders and Harry Howell (11-4) in a 7-4 victory to win his 14th of the year and with 358 is only 2 behind Galvin. Buck Freeman hits a 2 run HR...Buck will homer the next 3 games setting the HR streak record

Sunday, June 28th

It take Jake Weimer and the Cubs to end Kid Nichols 12 game winning streak...Nichols goes the whole 9 but gives up 15 hits and 9 runs . RF Bunk Congalton leads the charge for the Cubbies going 3-6...LF Davy Jones drives him in all 3 times

Tuesday, June 30th

Cy Young wins his 15th to tie Nichols for the MLB lead in a 4-0 whitewash of the White Sox and Doc White (8-9). Cy is now only 1 game behind Galvin with 359. Freeman hits a long double that barely misses clearing the wall...snapping his HR streak at 4

Dummy Taylor, back with the Giants but rarely starting...wins his 4th in a row, over Ted Lewis (6-6) and the Beaneaters. For the 1st time in 14 games...leadoff man Charlie Babb doesn't score a run. After 2 20 loss seasons Dummy Taylor will finally get some run support and finish at 12-13 for the Giants in his second go round

JUNE AWARDS

American League-Pitcher of the Month:
Cy Young (BOS)!
He had a record of 6-2 in 8 games started, with an ERA of 1.54 and 1 shutouts.

American League-Batter of the Month:
Scoops Carey (WS1)!
He batted .355 in 124 AB, with 0 homers and 27 RBI.

National League-Pitcher of the Month:
Jake Weimer (CHN)!
He had a record of 7-1 in 8 games started, with an ERA of 2.03 and 3 shutouts.

National League-Batter of the Month:
Honus Wagner (PIT)!
He batted .355 in 110 AB, with 1 homers and 21 RBI.


Overall this was the best MONTH...I ever had in a MLB replay or ANY league...so many records...pulling for Nichols and Young...and Jake Weimer...who never amounted to anything before...plus just seeing Addie Joss at 2-8 with a 4.80 ERA is amazing and then getting demoted to the bullpen because of the AI evaluation considering 1903 stats above all else.