MLB saw all seven scheduled games played on April 25, 1920. It was a rather low scoring day, as the Reds beating the Cardinals 7-5 at home produced the most runs. Five of the seven games saw five runs or less scored, with the Senators shutting out the Red Sox 2-0 in Washington the lowest offense of the day.

Jake Daubert of the Reds posted the best offensive game of the day, going four for four, all singles, with a walk. Daubert hit a high number of triples in his career, 165 according to Baseball Reference. That ranks twenty ninth all time. He did not reach the majors until seasonal age 26, so he likely would have ranked much higher with a fuller career. He did not slow down, leading the league in triples in 1918 and 1922 at ages 34 and 38. In addition, he was primarily a first baseman, a position not known for it’s speed.

It makes me wonder how often he was thrown out at third base. In the low scoring era of the early part of the twentieth century, the risk versus reward value of a triple favored the risk. Today, players know that the extra base is not worth it most of the time. But 100 years ago, with error rates very high, an infield bobble with a man on third could easily produce a run.

It was a great day for starting pitchers, eleven of the fourteen producing game scores above 50. The pitching duel of the day belonged to Babe Adams of the Pirates who defeated Claude Hendrix of the Cubs. Both produced game scores of 93 as each pitched a fifteen inning complete game. Adams gave up one run on eleven hits, striking out just two. Hendrix allowed four runs, but just one earned. He allowed eight hits and four walks, striking out six. He also went three for six at the plate with two doubles. Interestingly, the blurb in the newspaper does not mention an error in the top of the 15th inning.

In a great example of how times have changed, there were eleven complete games on the day and no home runs.

Rogers Hornsby led the majors with 20 hits in his first ten games. Everett Scott, however, had the longest active hit streak at nine games. Four pitchers with at least nine innings had yet to walk a batter, Adams’s day putting him at the top of the list with 33 innings.