[10/16/16] Robins come back and level series with 6-run second

BY JOHN JOHNSON / Grand National Tribune

BROOKLYN (Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1916) — The Chicago White Sox opened the game with three straight runs to stretch their World Series advantage to 18-4, but the Brooklyn Robins responded with 11 unanswered runs to level the series with an 11-3 victory Tuesday at Ebbets Field.

Zack Wheat smacked three hits, including an inside-the-park home run, and drove in three runs, while Casey Stengel had the other three kinds of hits with three runs batted in.

Rube Marquard went the distance on 142 pitches, allowing five hits in the first two innings and two more the rest of the way. He walked one and struck out five.

Happy Felsch’s triple put the visitors on the scoreboard after an Eddie Collins leadoff single in the first inning. Felsch crossed the plate on a Jack Fournier single to run the lead to 2-0 and Shano Collins doubled in Zeb Terry for a 3-0 lead in the middle of the second.

Brooklyn loaded the bases on two hits in the first inning, but the offense came unshackled for a six-spot in the second. The Robins sent ten men to bat and got four singles, a double and a triple in addition to a hit batter and a sacrifice fly.

Wheat’s homer made it 7-3 through four innings before three extra-base hits from Ivy Olson, Jake Daubert and Hi Myers stretched the lead to 9-3 in the fifth. A Wheat single and a Stengel double finished the scoring in the ninth.

Eddie Collins led the White Sox with two hits. They split pitching duties among Eddie Cicotte, Ed Walsh, Red Faber and Jim Scott. The White Sox did not get a runner past second base in the final seven innings.

After the teams travel west Wednesday, game three will be Thursday (Monday) at the White Sox’s Comiskey Park stomping ground. If neither team sweeps the three games there, the series will return to Brooklyn for its sixth and seventh games. Larry Cheney will pitch for the Robins against Chicago’s Mellie Wolfgang. Because Chicago observes Central time, the game will start at two o’clock there and three o’clock on the east coast.