DODGERS STADIUM MURAL
100th Anniversary
BROOKLYN ROBINS
1920 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
WORLD SERIES: Tuesday, October 5, 1920 - GAME ONE
Cleveland Indians vs. Brooklyn Robins
Ebbets Field
Sporting black arm bands in memory of their fallen shortstop Ray Chapman, the Cleveland Indians take game one of the 1920 World Series by a 3-1 final score at Ebbets Field. Perennial 20-game winner Stan Coveleski goes the distance limiting the Robins to one run on five hits and one walk with three strikeouts. Brooklyn ruins the shutout in the seventh. Zack Wheat leads off with a double into the right/center gap. Hi Myers advances Wheat to third, who then scores on a 3-1 putout of Ed Konetchy. Ivy Olson accounts for two of Brooklyn's five hits. Indians catcher Steve O'Neill gets the best of Robins starter Rube Marquard with run scoring doubles in the second and fourth innings. Marquard yields three runs overall on five hits and two walks with four strikeouts in a losing effort. Al Mamaux and Leon Cadore contribute three scoreless innings in relief.
On August 16 the Cleveland Indians were in New York playing the Yankees at the Polo Grounds. Leading off the top of the fifth against New York's Carl Mays, shortstop Ray Chapman was struck in the head with a pitch. Bleeding from his left ear, a semi-conscious Chapman was rushed to St. Lawrence Hospital where he perished three hours after surgery at 4:40 am. Commissioner Landis immediately ordered all scuffed and dirtied baseballs henceforth be taken out of play and replaced with new ones.
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