100 Years Ago Today 8/30/1920: Cardinals Twin Bill Sweep Drops Brooklyn Robins Into Second Place

From the desk of: FINGERPRINTS OF THE BUMS

100th Anniversary

BROOKLYN ROBINS

1920 National League Champions

Game #124: Monday, August 30, 1920 - GAME ONE/BR
Brooklyn Robins vs. St. Louis Cardinals
Sportsmans Park

Veteran Bill Doak Gives Robins a Birdbath

Cardinals veteran starter Bill Doak, in the midst of one of his best seasons, offers the visiting Robins no quarter.  He faces just 29 batters while limiting Brooklyn to five scattered hits and no walks through nine shutout innings.  He improves to 17-10 with a 2.64 ERA.  Tommy Griffith, Pete Kilduff, Otto Miller and pinch hitter Bill Lamar account for the Robins only hits.  Brooklyn is 0 for 5 with runners in scoring position.  Facing Rube Marquard, the Cardinals break a scoreless tie in the fifth.  The score remains unchanged through the seventh.  But the roof caves in on Marquard during the eighth.  Wilbert Robinson makes no move as Marquard issues a lead-off walk to Hal Janvrin then yields three straight base hits.  St. Louis goes on to tally four runs en route to a 6-0 whitewashing.  Marquard's record now stands at 8-7 with a 3.29 ERA after allowing six runs, five earned, on eight hits and four walks with five strikeouts through eight innings pitched.



Game #125: Monday, August 30, 1920, GAME TWO/BR
Brooklyn Robins vs. St. Louis Cardinals
Sportsmans Park

Leon Cadore Ruins Ferdie Schupp Shutout; Cardinals Complete Twin Bill Sweep

Where'd everybody go ...?

Brooklyn buckles in the late innings as the St. Louis Cardinals complete a twin bill sweep at Sportsman's Park.  Leon Cadore toes the rubber opposed by former New York Giants southpaw Ferdie Schupp.  The two duel through a one-all tie through six.  But similar to Rube Marquard in game one, the roof caves in late in the game atop Leon Cadore.  St. Louis erupts for two runs in the seventh and four more in the eighth.  Reliever Sherry Smith fares no better.  Jimmy Johnston accounts for three of Brooklyn's six total hits, but only Cadore himself can muster the Robins' lone run batted in - a home run, no less, in the third.  Otherwise, Ferdie Schupp effectively shuts out Brooklyn's positional eight.  Cincinnati defeats the Braves at Redland Field and take back possession of first place.  Meanwhile, the New York Giants are swept by the Pirates in their twin bill at Forbes Field.

• RECORD: 69-55 (.556)
• 2nd Place; 0.5 GB