100th Anniversary
BROOKLYN ROBINS
1920 National League Champions
Game #118: Tuesday, August 24, 1920 - BR
Brooklyn Robins vs. Pittsburgh Pirates
Forbes Field
Robins Throw Another Game Overboard Against Pirates
It is the Robins who prove to be their own worst enemy. Their greatest folly occurs in the fifth. With a man on first and no outs Jimmy Johnston fails to secure Carson Bigbee's foul pop. Given a second chance Bigbee reaches safely on a fielder's choice then advances to third when second baseman Pete Kilduff throws away the relay to first. Who else but Max Carey drives Bigbee home. But starter Burleigh Grimes by no means is without fault. Back in the first the spitballer unleashes a wild pitch allowing none other than Carson Bigbee to score from third. Trailing 3-2 after seven, Brooklyn ties the score on Jimmy Johnston's leadoff triple and Tommy Griffith's sac fly. After which here comes that name again - Carson Bigbee singles leading off the bottom of the eighth and is bunted over to second by Max Carey. Billy Southworth then drives a Grimes offering to left scoring Bigbee from second with the go ahead run and a 4-3 final. Grimes allows four runs, three earned, on eight hits and one walk through nine innings. He is ponderously outdone by the pedestrian Pirate Hal Carlson who yields three earned runs on eleven hits and two walks and three strikeouts for his eleventh victory of the season. Grimes is now 18-8 for the season with a 2.17 ERA. Cincinnati defeats the Phillies at Redland Field and therefore takes over first place by a full game over the Robins. The New York Giants lose to the Cardinals and remain three games back of first.
- RECORD: 66-51 (.564)
- 2nd Place; 1.0 GB
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