100 Years Ago Today 8/13/1920: Brooklyn Robins Forge First Place Tie

From the desk of: FINGERPRINTS OF THE BUMS

100th Anniversary

BROOKLYN ROBINS

1920 National League Champions

Game #110: Friday, August 13, 1920 - BR
Brooklyn Robins vs. New York Giants
Polo Grounds

Burleigh Grimes Thwarts Surging Giants

The Trolley Dodgers arrive in upper Manhattan with a message for their crosstown hosts: the road to the National League pennant goes through Brooklyn.  With less than fifty games remaining in the regular season, Brooklyn continues making it very clear to John McGraw, and even the Cincinnati Reds, that any comparisons made of these Robins to those of 1915-1919 are effectively null and void.  Burleigh Grimes punctuates this notion with today's stellar effort in front of 20,000 confounded cranks at the Polo Grounds.  The spitballer improves to 17-7, with a 2.23 ERA, after yielding just two earned runs on eight hits and no walks through nine complete innings pitched.  At the plate, Brooklyn seems to get the best of fifteen game winner Fred Toney with four earned runs on eight hits and five walks.  But it's Toney who authors his own undoing.  With the bases loaded in the Brooklyn fourth, and Ed Konetchy at the plate, Fred Toney unleashes a wild pitch; Tommy Griffith scores, two runners remain in scoring position.  Konetchy is still in the box when Toney unleashes a second wild pitch; both Zack Wheat and Hi Myers come home.  Pete Kilduff drives home a run in the eighth giving this game its 4-2 final score.  The Reds are idle, hence Brooklyn forges a first place tie.  New York falls three games behind the leaders after losing for only the third time in their last thirteen games.

• RECORD: 62-47 (.569)
• First Place; Tied
• Reds: 59-44 (.573)