{"id":9359,"date":"2026-08-19T22:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/?p=9359"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:47:03","slug":"twiwbl-98-4-year-3-week-1-effa-manley-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/2026\/08\/19\/twiwbl-98-4-year-3-week-1-effa-manley-division\/","title":{"rendered":"TWIWBL 98.4: Year 3, Week 1 – Effa Manley Division"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Team<\/strong><\/th>W\/L<\/strong><\/th>Pct<\/strong><\/th>GB<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Homestead Grays<\/td>5-2<\/td>.714<\/td>\u2014<\/td><\/tr>
Philadelphia Stars<\/td>5-2<\/td>.714<\/td>\u2014<\/td><\/tr>
Brooklyn Royal Giants<\/td>4-3<\/td>.571<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
New York Gothams<\/td>3-3<\/td>.500<\/td>1.5<\/td><\/tr>
Ottawa Mounties<\/td>3-4<\/td>.429<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Effa Manley Division<\/em> | 8 April<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Brooklyn Royal Giants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The defending champions won 2 games in walk-off fashion inside 3 days, but both took a while. Duke Snider<\/strong> ended a 12-inning affair with Ottawa with a 2-run homer, 10-8, and Ray Dandridge<\/strong> \u2014 last October’s Whirled Series MVP<\/em> \u2014 finished a 13-inning game with a solo shot, giving the Royal Giants a 4-3 win over Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Guerrero<\/strong> had 4 hits and 4 RBIs, including 2 homeruns, in a 12-5 rout of Kansas City. Jackie Robinson<\/strong> drove in 4 in the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homestead Grays<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gibson<\/strong> seems poised to resist the sophomore slump. He hit a 3-run homer and drove in 5 in a 9-1 win over Indianapolis, then, in the second game of a doubleheader 2 days later, came off the bench to hit a pinch-hit 3-run homer that won it 4-3 \u2014 444 feet, and off the bat at 115 mph, the hardest ball anyone in the division struck all week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Gothams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Christy Mathewson<\/strong> threw the best game of the week: 8 innings, 1 hit, 1 walk, 13 strikeouts, a game score of 88, and a 4-1 win over Philadelphia. The single hit was a Rico Carty<\/strong> home run which travelled a monstrous 465 ft, which is one way to spoil a no-hitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Ray Hart<\/strong> outdid Carty, sending a ball 475 ft off the Stars’ Charlie E Smith<\/strong> in a 9-6 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa Mounties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Carlos Beltr\u00e1n<\/strong> hit 2 home runs, scored 3 and drove in 3 in a 9-4 win at Brooklyn with Gary Carter<\/strong> adding a 2-run shot of 455 feet and Roy Halladay<\/strong> working 7 innings for the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick Monday<\/strong> keeps being Rick Monday, hitting 2 out in a 12-inning loss to Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philadelphia Stars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Charles Rogan<\/strong> continued his brilliance: first, as the DH, he went 5-for-5 \u2014 tying the NL single-game record for hits \u2014 scoring 3 and driving in 4 in a 10-2 win at the House of David. Then he pitched: 7 innings, 6 hits, no runs, 9 strikeouts, and a 4-0 win over Indianapolis. Chase Utley<\/strong> supplied all 4 runs with a grand slam in that one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J.M. Ward<\/strong> was nearly as good \u2014 8 innings, 2 hits, no runs, a game score of 82 in a 3-1 win over Indianapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We mentioned Rico Carty’s blast above; Mike Scioscia<\/strong> matched his distance with his own 465 ft shot in a 3-2 win over the Gothams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Fregosi<\/strong> is back, his 5-game suspension \u2014 carried over from spring training for bumping an umpire \u2014 now served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team W\/L Pct GB Homestead Grays 5-2 .714 \u2014 Philadelphia Stars 5-2 .714 \u2014 Brooklyn Royal Giants 4-3 .571 1 New York Gothams 3-3 .500 1.5 Ottawa Mounties 3-4 .429 2 Effa Manley Division | 8 April Brooklyn Royal Giants The defending champions won 2 games in walk-off fashion inside 3 days, but both took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[416],"tags":[266,704,1476,1599,155,403,801,811,5,115,953,277,593,2174,8,70,151,231,254,187,598,136,935,914,574,948,98],"class_list":["post-9359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twiwbl","tag-brooklyn-royal-giants","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-charles-rogan","tag-charlie-smith","tag-chase-utley","tag-christy-mathewson","tag-duke-snider","tag-gary-carter","tag-homestead-grays","tag-indianapolis-abcs","tag-j-m-ward","tag-jackie-robinson","tag-jim-fregosi","tag-jim-ray-hart","tag-josh-gibson","tag-kansas-city-monarchs","tag-mike-scioscia","tag-new-york-black-yankees","tag-new-york-gothams","tag-ottawa-mounties","tag-pedro-guerrero","tag-philadelphia-stars","tag-ray-dandridge","tag-rick-monday","tag-rico-carty","tag-roy-halladay","tag-wandering-house-of-david"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}