100 Years Ago Today 9/10/1920: Victory Over Cardinals Gives Brooklyn Robins Full Game Lead Over Reds

From the desk of: FINGERPRINTS OF DEM BUMS

100th Anniversary

BROOKLYN ROBINS

1920 National League Champions

Game #136: Friday, September 10, 1920 - BR
St. Louis Cardinals vs. Brooklyn Robins
Ebbets Field

Robins Tie Game in Ninth, Win in Eleventh Inning

This game was not for the squeamish or faint of heart.  Certainly not a good day for pitchers unless your name is Jeff Pfeffer who somehow escapes Friday's action with a victory.  Hi Myers opens the scoring in the first with a triple driving home Jimmy Johnston and Zack Wheat.  After which a passed ball by catcher Verne Clemons plates Myers for a 3-0 Robins lead.  In the top half of the second Rogers Hornsby connects off Rube Marquard for his ninth home.  The game remains a 3-1 affair through the sixth.  In the St. Louis seventh, Clemons drives home a run and first baseman Jack Fournier connects off Marquard for a three run home run to deep right.  Trailing 5-3 in the ninth, Brooklyn rallies against Cardinals starter Ferdie Schupp for three hits and two runs to send the game into extra innings.  Facing Jeff Pfeffer (in relief of Maquard and Sherry Smith) in the top of the eleventh, the Cardinals erupt for three runs.  Pfeffer yields three consecutive hits then walks Mike Knode with the bases loaded.  Right fielder Joe Schulz follows with a hit back through the box and into centerfield plating two.  Facing reliever Bill Sherdel in the home eleventh resilient Brooklyn counters with four runs, Hi Myers drives home the game winner.  Rube Marquard is happy to accept a no decision.  Pfeffer earns his fourteenth win of the season with a 3.05 ERA.  Ivy Olson is 3 for 6 with two runs batted in.  Hi Myers now has 73 runs batted in for the season.  Both the Reds and Giants are idle. 

BABE RUTH HITS #48

In the American League, New York's victory at Cleveland forces a first place tie between the Indians and White Sox with the Highlanders lurking a mere one-half game out.  Facing 18-game winner Ray Caldwell in the first inning at League Park, Babe Ruth (.374) connects for his unheard of 48th home run; with two runs batted in he now has 122 for the season.

• RECORD: 78-57 (.578)
• 1st Place; 1.0 GA