» September 26, 1912: Trailing 9–0 going into the 9th inning at Chicago, the Reds stage a terrific comeback against Jimmy Lavender. Lavender gives up five runs and is lifted with the bases loaded. Reliever Fred Toney then walks three straight before Larry Cheney is brought in. The Reds then take an unlikely 10–9 lead as Cheney walks two straight. Reds pitcher Ralph Works catches the fever walking one Cub and hitting another. Reliever Rube Benton quickly relieves and follows suit, walking three batters in a row to give the Cubs the 11–10 decision.

» May 7, 1913: Christy Mathewson relieves Red Ames in the 2nd inning with New York ahead, 3–1, and the bases full of Reds. Matty shuts down Cincy and rolls to a 6–4 win over Rube Benton.

» June 19, 1913: In Cincinnati, the Giants defeat the Reds, 8–7, to sweep four from the Reds. Christy Mathewson allows 12 hits but holds on to beat Rube Benton.

» April 14, 1914: Reds pitcher Rube Benton twirls a 2-hitter against visiting Chicago to win, 10–1.

» June 11, 1915: The Reds finally beat the Robins, 1–0, in 15 innings as Rube Benton pitches a complete game shutout. Tommy Griffith's single drives in the winning run. Yesterday, the two teams battled to a 2–2 tie in 14 innings.

» August 17, 1915: Lefty Rube Benton pitches a 3–2 win for Pittsburgh over Chicago, but both the Cubs and Giants protest the win, claiming Rube belongs to New York. A week later, National League directors agree with them, upholding his purchase by the Giants from the Reds.

» May 12, 1916: The Giants top Pittsburgh, 3–2, to sweep the 4-game series. Christy Mathewson shuts out Pirates for five innings, but Doc Johnston's triple in the 6th helps tie it at 2–2. Rube Benton relieves Matty and picks up the win when the Giants score.

» May 23, 1916: In Cincinnati, Rube Benton pitches the Giants to a 4–3 win over the Reds, New York's 12th win in a row on the road. Benton needs relief help from Jeff Tesreau and Christy Mathewson in the 9th to win.

» June 30, 1916: For the 2nd time in three days, the Braves Ed Konetchy collects the only hit in a game, a single. Today it is Rube Benton of the Giants firing the one hitter.

» September 6, 1916: New York's Rube Benton tosses both ends of a doubleheader against the faltering Brooklyn Robins, winning the opener 6–1 and losing the 2nd game, 2–1.

» September 30, 1916: In the opener of a doubleheader, Giants pitcher Rube Benton takes a no hitter into the 8th inning before Braves 1B Ed Konetchy repeats his performance of two days ago by lacing a hit, the only Boston safety. Benton wins the one-hitter, 4–0 for New York's record 26th win in a row. Boston then wins the 2nd game, 8–3, behind Lefty Tyler to snap the historic streak. Jeff Tesreau, in relief of Slim Sallee, is ineffective. Despite the winning streak, and an earlier skein of 17 victories on the road, New York finishes in 4th place.

» August 27, 1917: In the 4th inning in New York, Pirates swiftie Max Carey beats out a bunt single, and goes to 2B on a single by Tony Boekel. Both runners steal on the next pitch from Rube Benton and, with Boekel entangled with New York 2B Buck Herzog, Carey steals home as well. Wilbur Cooper makes the one run stand up for the 1–0 win. For Carey, it is his 13th steal of home enroute to a NL record 33 steals of home.

» October 10, 1917: The White Sox are stifled by Rube Benton, who becomes the first lefty to pitch a World Series shutout. Dave Robertson, the NL's leading home run hitter with 12, triples and scores the first of two 4th-inning runs for a 2–0 New York win. Robertson will lead all batters in the Series with a .500 average.

» October 15, 1917: After Red Faber and Rube Benton match three scoreless innings in Game Six, Eddie Collins leads off the 4th and hits a grounder to Heinie Zimmerman at 3B. Collins takes 2nd when the throw gets past 1B Walter Holke. Joe Jackson's fly to RF is dropped by Dave Robertson, and Collins goes to 3B. When Happy Felsch hits one back to the pitcher, Collins breaks for home. Benton throws to 3B to catch Collins, and C Bill Rariden comes up the line. But with Zimmerman in pursuit Collins keeps running and slides home safely. Zimmerman will be blamed for chasing the runner, but nobody was covering home plate. The Giants come back with two runs on Buck Herzog's triple in the 4th, but Faber wins his 3rd of the Series 4–2. The winners earn $3,669.32 each; the losers $2,442.21. One-fourth of each team's share, about $4,000, is divided equally among the clubs in each league.

» September 6, 1920: Hal Chase and Heinie Zimmerman are indicted on bribery charges as an aftermath of the investigation into the 1919 World Series. John McGraw testified that he dropped the two after the 1919 season for throwing games and trying to entice Fred Toney, Rube Benton and Benny Kauff to join them. Zimmerman denies the charges, Chase ignores them, but the duo will be banned for life from baseball by Judge Landis.

» September 1, 1924: In the second twinbill whitewash in the National League in two weeks, the Reds shut out the Cardinals, 5–0 and 9–0. Carl Mays submarines the Birds in the opener and Rube Benton coasts in the nitecap.