starting in , wheat returned to the league slugging leaders once again, as the baseball began to become livelier, proved by the offensive output by the likes of ruth and rogers hornsby. the robins made their second world series appearance in , this time facing off against the cleveland indians. the robins lost this series as well, 5 games to 2, although wheat's series average was .333. wheat's statistics climbed during this new live era of baseball, reaching double-digit home runs for the first time with 14 in , and again three more times in the next four years. wheat hit .320 or higher every season from 1920 through , topping out with .375 in consecutive seasons. he failed to lead the league in hitting those two seasons, not getting enough at bats in to qualify, and hornsby topped the league with .384, and in , his .375 was a distant second to hornsby's .424.