Ted Williams 1941 .406 BA stats: play-by-play v. game.

Ted Williams BA in 1941 was .406, the last qualifying year for any hitter with a .400 BA. The previous post dealt with incomplete data for Williams in 1941:

Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941: game level data seems correct despite 84 missing plate appearances. Friday, July 19, 2019 1:55 PM

It gets curiouser and curiouser: incomplete data for pre 1974 games...

missG? That suddenly popped up. baseball-reference.com defines it as the number of games where both the pitcher and batter played in a game for which play-by-play is missing or incomplete.
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Because of the previous post, this one will examine:

Ted Williams hit .394 in 1941 against teams not the Yankees. Monday, August 15, 2016

Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941. Williams is the last batter to qualify for league lead in averages with a batting average (BA) of at least .400.

Williams had his highest BA (.471) against the New York Yankees (101-53) who won the American League pennant by 17 games over Boston and then the World Series in 1941... Ironically, the AL BA against Yankee pitchers was the AL lowest: .248. AL BA: .266...

As you can see the biggest culprit was Hall of Famer Lefty Gomez (10 for 14: .714). The other 1941 Yankee Hall of Fame pitcher was Red Ruffing who did not pitch against the second place Red Sox (84-70) that season. Ruffing did pitch against Boston in 1940 and 1942. It may have been an oddity of scheduling. Ruffing started game one of the World Series far more often than Gomez and that was true in 1941 against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Williams may have been lucky against the Yankees in 1941. His BAbip was .492; next highest: .420 against Cleveland. Against all teams his BAbip was .378.

Williams BA:
home: .428
road: .380

His BA against the Yankees was over .400 both home and road.
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Plate Appearances (PA) against the seven other American League teams add up to the correct amount: 606, not the 522 in play-by-play data.

Of 22 possible games against a team Williams played 22 against both the Yankees and Washington. Williams had his most At Bats (AB) against:
Tigers 74
White Sox 69
Yankees 68.

So his high BA against the Yankees helped even more, although more than offset by his two lowest BA against the Tigers and White Sox. Williams 1941 team data sorted by BA:

Split	BA	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	ROE	BAbip	tOPS+	sOPS+
New York Yankees	.471	22	21	92	68	23	32	5	0	2	14	0	2	24	5	.609	.632	1.241	43	2	0	0		1	2	.492	96	267
Philadelphia Athletics	.444	19	18	85	63	19	28	5	0	8	22	0	0	21	1	.588	.905	1.493	57	0	1	0		3	1	.370	130	277
St. Louis Browns	.426	21	18	83	61	17	26	3	0	9	26	1	2	22	4	.578	.918	1.496	56	1	0	0		7	0	.354	129	283
Cleveland Indians	.414	18	18	82	58	20	24	4	0	3	9	0	0	24	5	.585	.638	1.223	37	2	0	0		5	1	.420	93	240
Washington Senators	.381	22	18	81	63	16	24	6	1	3	12	0	0	18	3	.519	.651	1.169	41	2	0	0		1	1	.368	82	211
Chicago White Sox	.377	20	19	86	69	19	26	5	1	7	17	0	0	16	5	.500	.783	1.283	54	2	1	0		2	0	.333	97	268
Detroit Tigers	.338	21	21	97	74	21	25	5	1	5	19	1	0	22	4	.495	.635	1.130	47	1	1	0		0	1	.308	76	217
Totals	.406	143	133	606	456	135	185	33	3	37	119	2	4	147	27	.553	.735	1.287	335	10	3	0		19	6
Teams not Yanks	.394	121	112	514	388	112	153	28	3	35	105	2	2	123	22

Williams hit the fewest of his AL leading 37 home runs against the Yankees: 2; and only 14 RBI. The homers are legit because they are verified in the Home Run Log for Williams. Both were hit in Fenway Park off Gomez and Tiny Bonham.

Williams had his highest BA on balls in play (BAbip) against the Yankees: .492.

Finally, the numbers in the 2016 post for individual Yankee pitchers against Williams in 1941 add up to the Yankee team numbers.

Ted Williams v. Pitchers in 1941: Yankee pitchers, including Ruffing, who did not pitch against Boston in 1941, were individually checked for their numbers generally and specifically for missG. Those are missing games for play-by-play stats. No data seems to be missing for Yankee pitchers against Ted Williams in 1941.

Ted Williams victimized Yankees to hit .406 in 1941. Tuesday, May 24, 2011

If the Yankees had held Williams to three fewer hits: 29 for 68 (BA) .426470588235, ...

Without those three hits Williams would have been 182 for 456: BA .399122807018.
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Those three hits could have been prevented by Hall of Famer Lefty Gomez, who was astonishingly bad against Williams in 1941. That season was the last for the 32 year old Gomez as a full time starting pitcher for the New York Yankees: 15-5, .750, 3.74 ERA, 156 Innings, 23 games, all starts. Gomez did not pitch in the 1941 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Gomes pitched only one more season for the Yankees: 6-4, 80 Innings. His numbers against Williams in 1941:

▲	Year	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SH	SF	IBB	HBP	GDP	missG	missYr
	1941	18	14	10	2	0	1	3	4	0	.714	.778	1.071	1.849	0	0	0	0	0	0

Cr#	Year		Date	Tm	Opp		Inn	RoB	Out	Pit(cnt)	Play Description
1	1941	reg	1941-05-12	BOS	NYY	tied 0-0	b1	-2-	1		Walk
2						ahead 0-5	b2	---	2		Single to RF
3						ahead 3-8	b3	1--	2		Groundout: 2B-P
4			1941-05-24	BOS	NYY	tied 0-0	t1	---	2		Walk
5						tied 0-0	t3	---	2		Single
6						ahead 2-3	t5	---	0		Single
7						ahead 3-4	t7	---	0		Walk
8			1941-07-02	BOS	NYY	tied 0-0	t1	---	2		Single to RF
9						down 1-0	t3	-2-	2		Flyball: LF
10						down 8-0	t6	12-	0		Groundout: 2B-SS/Forceout at 2B; DiMaggio to 3B
11			1941-08-07	BOS	NYY	down 2-0	b2	---	0		Home Run
12						down 2-1	b4	1-3	0		Reached on E3 (Ground Ball); Fox Scores; Cronin to 2B
13						tied 3-3	b6	---	0		Single to RF
14						ahead 4-6	b7	1--	0		Single to RF; Cronin to 3B
15			1941-09-07	BOS	NYY	tied 0-0	t1	---	2		Double to RF
16						down 2-0	t3	---	2		Single to RF
17						down 5-0	t5	---	0		Double to CF
18						down 8-2	t6	123	0		Walk; Ryba Scores; Newsome to 3B; Finney to 2B