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Offline welch

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Re: Nationals vs Mets, Game 1
« Reply #250: August 18, 2012, 12:57:37 PM »
Well, I've been tracking the three WS teams in DC history and the 3 best teams in Franchise history in comparison with this one and had been updating once a week or so.  Here's where we stand through 119 games.


1933   78   40   .661
1994   74   40   .649
1925   76   43   .639
2012   75   45   .625
1979   68   51   .571
1924   65   52   .556
1993   62   56   .525


I've also been comparing the '25 team against this, game by game. The '24 team made a strong stretch run to finish ahead of the Yankees, but the '25 team was good all season. Just like this team. One difference: the '25 team had no injuries to key players, like Goose Goslin, Sam Rice, Joe Judge. (Lost the series when Walter Johnson pulled a hamstring stretching a single into a double while dominating the Pirates to win his second game. BUcky Harris still started him in game 7, saying, If you have a game seven, then you pitch Walter Johnson, no matter what (approximately).

There is a fine book about the '33 team: Gary Sarnoff's "The Wrecking Crew of '33". In print and available through Barnes and Noble.