100th Anniversary
BROOKLYN ROBINS
1920 National League Champions
Game #55: Thursday, June 24, 1920 - BR
Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Brooklyn Robins
Ebbets Field
Battery of Al Mamaux and Otto Miller Power Brooklyn Over Pirates
Low and behold Brooklyn wins two in a row. The Robins take Thursday's rubber match against Pittsburgh and win the series two games against one. Making his 17th start of the season Al Mamaux improves to 5-3 with a 1.78 ERA. He immediately pitches himself into trouble in the first, yielding a run on three hits and two walks. But then settles in quite well limiting the Pirates to just one more run in the eighth. Hardly enough for Pittsburgh to overcome a Brooklyn outburst in the fifth. Two innings earlier Jimmy Johnston ties the game at one with a base hit scoring Pete Kilduff. After which Brooklyn takes Pirates starter Babe Adams to task. Zack Wheat doubles home a pair of runs. Ed Konetchy singles scoring Wheat. Then with two outs and the bases loaded Otto Miller's base hit drives home two more en route to a 6-2 victory. Pirates right fielder Billy Southworth and second baseman George Cutshaw join together for six hits in ten combined at-bats but fail to score or deliver a single run. Brooklyn's Ed Konetchy however is 3 for 3 with a walk, a run scored, one run batted in, and is now batting .307 for the season. Leading off Pete Kilduff is 2 for 4 with a walk and two runs. Tommy Griffith being afforded consistent playing time in right field continues winning over Uncle Robbie with another two hits, a run scored, and one run batted in. The first place Cincinnati Reds defeat the Phillies at Baker Bowl. Thus Brooklyn who improve to a mere 3-8 in their last eleven games, stand their ground in second place, 1.5 games back of first.
- RECORD: 30-24 (.555)
- 2nd place; 1.5 GB
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