From the desks of: FINGERPRINTS OF DEM BUMS & LITTLE NAPOLEON'S EMPIRE
100th Anniversary
BROOKLYN ROBINS
1920 National League Champions
New York Giants vs. Brooklyn Robins
Ebbets Field
Uncle Robbie and Rube Marquard Push McGraw's Giants to the Brink
Many times this season when Uncle Robbie needed Rube Marquard to win a big game, his old friend delivered in the clutch. Today in front of a sold out Ebbets Field the soon to be 33-year old hurls what is to date perhaps the most heroic regular season victory in his Brooklyn career. From the visitor's dugout an expressionless John McGraw offers no glimpse into his troubled mind as his former star pitcher helps reduce the Robins magic number to one. Once inside the clubhouse a convivial Wilbert Robinson revels in his rival's defeat. Twenty-one game winner Fred Toney starts for the Giants but comes nowhere near finishing. Down a run, John McGraw pinch hits for Toney in the third. Alex Gaston strikes out, but an error by third baseman Jimmy Johnston and a hits by Dave Bancroft and Ross Youngs tie the game at one. In the Brooklyn seventh, reliever Phil Douglas walks the bases loaded. Ivy Olson follows with a single to right scoring two runs. The teams trade runs in the eighth. Rube Marquard then retires the Giants in order in the ninth. Brooklyn wins their 90th game of the season and an already uproarious Ebbets Field crowd goes wild. Fans spill out onto the field and accompany Marquard on his triumphant march back towards the dugout. The former Giants southpaw allows two runs, none earned, on just five hits and two walks with five strikeouts through a full nine innings. He improves to 10-7 with a 3.31 ERA. Hi Myers drives in two runs giving him 83 for the season. Tomorrow the Robins are idle, while the Giants host a twin bill against the Boston Braves. Anything other than a two game sweep and the Giants are through. Should the Giants win out, they'll host Brooklyn at the Polo Grounds.
- RECORD: 90-60 (.600)
- 1st Place; 5.0 GA
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