100th Anniversary
BROOKLYN ROBINS
1920 National League Champions
Brooklyn Robins vs. Chicago Cubs
Cubs Park
The Great Pete Alexander Out-Duels Burleigh Grimes
It matters not your rooting interest, for this affair is tailored for the greater baseball fan. They call such demonstrations classic pitching duels for a reason. Friday's contest played in front of 12,000 enchanted fans is just that - a game which stands on its own, pennant race be damned. Brooklyn spitballer and emerging star Burleigh Grimes toes the rubber and is opposed by the Chicago's decade long legend Pete Alexander. Catcher Bob O'Farrell leads off the Cubs fifth with a hit. Alexander aids his own cause with a successful sacrifice advancing O'Farrell to second. Right fielder Max Flack then singles to center scoring O'Farrell. Otherwise Grimes and Alexander continue trading goose eggs en rout to a 1-0 whitewashing of the Robins. Pete Alexander allows just six hits and one walk through nine scoreless innings. He improves to 22-12 with a 2.12 ERA. This is the seventh season in which Alexander has exceeded twenty victories. Burleigh Grimes is now 18-9 with 2.13 ERA. In a tough luck loss he allows one run on seven hits and two walks. Otherwise, Cubs Park is treated to a pitching virtuoso. And the New York Giants are now two games out of first place.
- RECORD: 69-52 (.570)
- 1st Place; 1.0 GA
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