100 Years Ago Today 8/5/1920: Pirates Still Causing Trouble for Brooklyn Robins

From the desk of: FINGERPRINTS OF THE BUMS

100th Anniversary

BROOKLYN ROBINS

1920 National League Champions

Game #103: Thursday, August 5, 1920 - BR
Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Brooklyn Robins
Ebbets Field

Look What the Pirates Did to the Robins, Again!

Here we go again, another tussle with the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Brooklyn has now lost five of their last seven games against the Bucs.  Thursday's match is actually an entertaining back and forth affair.  Although, you'll never get Burleigh Grimes to agree.  Try as he might, wielding a triple with two runs batted in, the game ultimately turns against Grimes, and Brooklyn, in the tenth.  The teams trade runs early, on a first inning run batted in Pittsburgh's Billy Southworth, and a second inning triple from Hi Myers, and a sacrifice fly off the bat of Pete Kilduff.  Each team then posts three runs in the fifth, highlighted by Pirates left fielder Carson Bigbee's inside the park home run to straight away center, and Grimes' triple, and Ivy Olson's run batted in.  Jimmy Johnston's base hit in the seventh gives the Robins a 5-4 lead.  But the Pirates even the score again in the eighth on Billy Southworth's second run batted in for the game.  Into extra innings they go.  Wilbert Robinson sits idly by in the tenth inning while Grimes surrenders three runs on four base hits and a walk.  Pitching in relief of Pirates starter Hal Carson, Earl Hamilton completes a third scoreless inning for the victory.  Ed Konetchy's error in the fifth inning winds up proving most costly.  Grimes yields eight runs, but only five earned, on fourteen hits and one walk, with three strikeouts over ten innings pitched.  He falls to 16-7 with a 2.18 ERA.  Elsewhere, the second place Reds whitewash the Phillies, and the New York Giants down the Cubs at the Polo Grounds.  The Giants are winners of four in a row, and are now 21-10 since July 1st.

• RECORD: 58-44 (.569)
• First Place; 1.5 GA