| Show released by western newspaper union honor and glory be ba belonged SJ longed to the pitchers in 1943 it at was their greatest season since the first world war days of 1918 official averages for the year proved that american league hurlers dominated the competitive picture with dozens of heavy hitters in the ar armed med services the strong arm boys had a succession of field days twenty nine pitchers held opposing teams to fewer than three earned runs per game and that happened since 1918 when 33 pitchers had that distinction last year the total was 20 and the year before only 7 pitchers were included in the list not only was spurgeon chandlers chandless Chand lers the lowest earned run average mm 1 IQ ak v RN mr if L SPUD CHANDLER in the american league since walter johnsons brilliant performance in 1919 but the yankee hurler also led in the won and lost division posting 20 victories against 4 defeats eff effective active stag staff the staff of the yankees was by far the most effective in the league with chandler and ernie bonham running one two among the c circuits i starting pitchers the champions compiled a collective earned run average of bonham averaged chandler is the thirteenth pitcher to lead the league in both departments the only 2 clubs that beat him were cleveland and washington and each team beat him twice he had a winning streak of 7 games was in 30 games pitched innings a total topped by only 3 pitchers pitched to batters allowed hits and 62 runs of which 46 were earned he struck out batters and made 3 wild pitches detroit placed second to the yankees with an average of three earned runs per game paul dizzy trout tiger mounds man was the only other 20 game winner of the league he rang up no 20 on the last day of the campaign losing only 12 games for a second division team his earned run rating was the cleveland indians gave them third place and their stingiest stringiest stin giest pitcher was vern kennedy who allowed only earned runs per game while winning 10 and losing 7 pitchers year although it was a pitchers year only two american league pitchers chandler and tex hughson of boston pitched as many as 20 complete games during the season three other pitchers trout orval grove of chicago and charlie of new york worked 18 complete games bonham pitched 17 jim bagby of cleveland pi pitched ached 16 and luman harris of philadelphia and emil leonard of washington each pitched 15 two of the leagues were contributed by cleveland indians jim bagby pitched the most innings and auie allie reynolds got tile the most strikeouts eouts reynolds record was especially remarkable in that he pitched only innings as compared with for chandler who was third in the strikeout strike out department part ment last in the earned run records of pitchers who worked 45 innings or more was al former indian who finished the season with the st louis browns he gave up earned runs per 9 innings bobo newsom allowed 5 87 the longest winning streak was run up by orval grove of the white sox who won 9 in a row the longest losing streak was that of luman harris of t the he As wh who dropped 13 straight harris lost lost tho the most games for the season too being beaten 21 times |
