100 Years Ago Today 9/25/1920: New York Giants Cut Brooklyn Robins Lead to Four

From the desk of: FINGERPRINTS OF DEM BUMS & LITTLE NAPOLEON'S EMPIRE

100th Anniversary

BROOKLYN ROBINS

1920 National League Champions

Game #150: Saturday, September 25, 1920 - BR
New York Giants vs. Brooklyn Robins
Ebbets Field

Jesse Barnes Whitewashes Robins in Front of Capacity Crowd at Ebbets Field

John McGraw's Giants enter Ebbets Field like gangbusters.  To the great dismay of 28,000 Brooklyn partisans, New York scores early, often and late en route to an 8-0 whitewashing of the Robins.  The Giants waste no time affecting a 3-0 first inning lead against Brooklyn starter Burleigh Grimes with triples from Dave Bancroft and Frankie Frisch, and a home run off the bat of High Pockets Kelly.  Grimes loses his eleventh game of the season, yielding six runs on eleven hits and two walks in six innings pitched.  Giants starter Jesse Barnes allows just four hits and one walk through nine scoreless innings for his 19th victory of the season and a 2.71 ERA.  Frankie Frisch is 2 for 5 with two runs batted in and Ross Youngs is 3 for 4 with two runs batted in.  Ivy Olson, Tommy Griffith, Zack Wheat and Pete Kilduff account for Brooklyn's only hits.  With the victory the Giants cut Brooklyn's lead to four.  The Robins magic number remains at two.

• RECORD: 89-60 (.597)
• 1st Place; 4.0 GA

AMERICAN LEAGUE: BABE RUTH HITS HOME RUN #50 and #51 

Yesterday, while the Robins and Giants were idle, Babe Ruth hit his fiftieth and fifty-first home run of the season during the New York Yankees twin bill against the Washington Senators at the Polo Grounds A feat once unimaginable in the game of baseball, Ruth hits his first of the day in the first inning of game one, then connects again in the first inning of game two.  An uproarious crowd of 28,000 is on hand to witness history.  Today the Yankees bow to the Senators by a score a five to two, but remain three games out of first.  Meanwhile, the showdown in Cleveland between the White Sox and Indians concludes with Chicago taking the rubber game by a 5-1 final.  They now trail the Indians by one-half game.   The White Sox head back home to host the Tigers and the Indians now head to St. Louis.