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:
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 | 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 |
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