100 Years Ago Today 7/9/1920: Brooklyn Robins Take Over First Place

From the desk of: FINGERPRINTS OF THE BUMS

100th Anniversary

BROOKLYN ROBINS

1920 National League Champions

Game #74: Friday, July 9, 1920, GAME ONE - BR
Brooklyn Robins vs. St. Louis Cardinals
Sportsman's Park

Cardinals Snap Robins Win Streak at Six

St. Louis takes out their frustrations after yesterday's shellacking on Robins starter Leon Cadore who surrenders five earned runs on ten hits and three walks in just four innings pitched.  The Cardinals didn't stop there, tallying another two runs on four hits and one walk over the final four innings.  St. Louis veteran southpaw and no stranger to Wilbert Robinson, Ferdie Schupp limits Brooklyn to a pair of runs on seven hits and two walks with two strikeouts through nine.  He improves to 10-4 with an otherwise generous 3.41 earned run average.  Zack Wheat is 2 for 4 with a run batted in, and Cadore aids his own cause in the fourth inning with a sacrifice fly to center scoring Ed Konetchy from third base.


Game #75: Friday, July 9, 1920, GAME TWO - BR 
Brooklyn Robins vs. St. Louis Cardinals
Sportsman's Park

Al Mamaux Whitewashes Cardinals; Brooklyn Moves Into First Place

Brooklyn strikes back.  Making his eleventh start Al Mamaux faces just 33 Cardinals batters while limiting them to just seven hits and no walks with six strikeouts over nine scoreless innings.  The Robins score all the runs they'd need in the fourth, but continue piling in the later innings.  After failing to pitch out of the first inning in yesterday's series opener, manager Branch Ricky sends rookie right-hander Jesse Haines right back out to the bump for another go.  He proceeds to surrender eight runs, but only four earned, on ten hits and three walks through eight innings pitched.  Jesse's record levels out at 9-9 with a representative 2.42 earned run average.  Zack Wheat is 2 for 3 with two runs scored.  More importantly he elevates his average above .300 for the first time in a month.  Speaking of which steady Big Ed Konetchy (.326) doubles, scores two runs, and drives in a pair.  Even Al Mamaux comes to his own aid with two hits and a run batted in.  The Reds bow to the Boston Braves and so the Robins take over first place by one-half game over Cincinnati.

• RECORD: 42-32 (.567)
• first place; 0.5 GA