100th Anniversary
BROOKLYN ROBINS
1920 National League Champions
1920 National League Champions
Game #10: Monday, April 26, 1920 - BR
New York Giants vs. Brooklyn Robins
Ebbets Field
Rube Marquard Turns in Vintage Performance Against Former Team; Brooklyn Robins Even Series With Giants.
Giants (1-1) 2
Robins (1-1) 4
Expected to be among this season's first division contenders Giants manager John McGraw knows full well you can't win pennants in April but you can certainly lose them. Down three games in the standings and facing the unlikely Robins in such early competition for first place, the man they call Little Napoleon today in the second game at Ebbets Field wants no part of his struggling albeit ordinarily capable starter Art Hehf. Brooklyn knocks the opposing southpaw out of the box before he can record an out. Third baseman Jimmy Johnston drives home two with a triple, and Zack Wheat and Hi Myers each follow with runs batted in during a four run first inning outburst. Alas McGraw acts too late. His early two run lead is now a two run deficit. But McGraw's regret does not end there. Brooklyn's starter is former Giants virtuoso Rube Marquard whom turns in a vintage performance against his former club. A three time 20-plus game winner during his days with Brooklyn's upper Manhattan rival, the 32-year old Marquard on this day limits the Giants to a pair of first inning runs on just three hits and four walks with four strikeouts through nine complete innings for his first win of the season. None of which strikes Mr. John McGraw as a surprise, for he has seen this all before. Jimmy Johnston is officially 2 for 4 at the plate with a triple, a run scored, and two runs batted in. Zack Wheat goes 2 for 4 with a run scored and a run batted in. Potential heavy rain in the forecast threatens Tuesday's rubber game.
- RECORD: 7-3 (.700)
- 1st place; 0.5 games ahead
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