MONDAY
Q. Which player received the highest
percentage of ballots for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame?
Hint: He also notched the victory for the first
ever National League Championship Series game in large part based on his team
scoring 5 unearned runs in a 9-5 victory.
Twint: He was Terrific.
FCR - Dave Paulson, Columbia, MD
MONDAY DUO
Q. Who is the only Hall of Fame pitcher
with over 3,000 career strikeouts with fewer than 1,000 bases-on-balls?
Hint: During his 19-year career he would lead the
majors four times in complete games.
Hint: In his first All-Star Game appearance, he
struck out Mickey Mantle, Jim Fregosi, Tony Oliva, Harmon Killebrew, Tony
Conigliaro and Rod Carew in three innings of work.
Twint: He also gave up the only run to the losing
American League team when Brooks Robinson sent an 0-1 pitch
over the wall.
Twint: He was Fly.
A. Fergie
Jenkins (3,192 K, 997 BB, Maddux, Schilling and Pedro Martinez have also achieved
this but are not (yet) in the HOF; CG led 1967, 70, 71,74; 1967 ASG NL wins 2‑1)
FCR - Fred Worth, Arkadelphia, AR
TUESDAY
Q. Who tied Greg Maddux’s record for
consecutive Cy Young awards?
Hint: Yovanni Gallardo is the only pitcher to hit
a home run off him in his 22-year career.
Hint: When he made his debut, he was the tallest
player in major league history.
A. Randy
Johnson (Both have 4 consecutive; 08-Apr-2009, 5th
inning 3R shot; 6’10” 1988, since surpassed by
6’11” Jon Rauch 2002; MVP 2001 WS
with Curt Schilling; Raines said “You’re a big unit!” and it stuck.)
FCR
- Jay Berman,
Manhattan Beach, CA
Q. Who was the second person to earn a
total of four World Series victories pitching for three different teams?
Hint: He was the first native of Alaska to be
named to an All-Star team.
Twint: He took the name Red Sox a tad too
literally.
A. Curt
Schilling (WS Ws: G 5 for the 1993 Phillies 21‑Oct‑1993, G 1 for the 2001 D’Dbacks 27‑Oct‑2001, G 2 for the 2004 Red Sox 24‑Oct‑2004 & G 2 for the 2007 Red Sox 25‑Oct‑2007—Jack Morris [84, 91, 92] was the first with
this accomplishment; 1997 ASG; Red sock from injured ankle
pitching in G 6 of the 2004 ALCS)
FCR
- Len Gucwa, Atlanta, GA
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who is the only pitcher to win World
Series rings with the Tigers, Twins and Blue Jays?
Hint: He went 2-0 with both the Tigers and Twins
in those two series.
Hint: In Game 7 of the 1991 series, he threw a
complete game 1-0 shutout that garnered his second ring.
Twint: Next year is his last year of eligibility
for the writers to vote him into the Hall.
Twint: If elected, his career ERA of 3.90 would be
the highest of any pitcher previously inducted.
A. Jack
Morris (’84 Tigers, ’91 Twins, ’92 Jays; Highest current ERA among HOF
starting pitchers Red Ruffing @ 3.80)
FCR
- Frank Workman, Lake Forest Park, WA
WEDNESDAY WILD CARD
Q. Whose 25 complete games in 1976 has not
been eclipsed since in the National League?
Hint: His major league leading 22 victories that
year was achieved despite leading the majors with 22 losses in 1974.
Hint: That same year (1976) he also led in games
started, innings pitched, batters faced, hits and walks + hits per inning
pitched (WHIP).
Twint: He gave up the first inside-the-park home
run of Mike Schmidt’s career.
Twint: He tied Christy Mathewson’s 63 year old
record of 68 innings without issuing a base on balls.
A. Randy
Jones (Career Stats; career 100-123; IPHR first of three
for Schmidt;
BB record eclipsed by Greg
Maddux 2001)
FCR
- Andy Milner, Bryn Mawr, PA
THURSDAY
Q. Who was the first Los Angeles Angel to
win the Cy Young Award?
Hint: The year prior to his award and the two
years after it was won by another Los Angeles player.
Hint: It was also the only year he received even
a single Cy Young vote.
Twint: His four saves that same year were the
highest number of saves for a Cy Young winner until reliever Mike Marshall in 1974.
Twint: Mickey Mantle said of him “Every
time I see his name on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up”.
A. Dean
Chance (CYA 1964, Sandy Koufax of the L.A. Dodgers 1963, 65, 66; Marshall w/21 saves
in 1974; Mantle’s comment due
to Chance’s mastery of the 1964 Yankees giving up only one
run—ironically a HR to Mantle—over 50 innings, winning 4 out of 5)
FCR
- Mel Williams, Elkhart, IN
THURSDAY AGAIN
Q. Who had back-to-back wins for the
Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 World Series?
Hint: Both victories came in relief, but he lost
the one game he started.
Hint: In Game 7 of the same series with his team
trailing 3-2 and with Catfish Hunter on 2nd, he came in to issue an
intentional walk to Joe Rudi, and then struck out Mike Hegan to end the inning.
Twint: In his one All-Star Game selection, he with
rotation mate Steve Rogers represented the
first time the Montreal Expos had two all-star selections.
Twint: Rogers threw two scoreless innings
FCR
- Dave Williams, Glastonbury, CT
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first Florida Marlin to win
the Rookie of the Year Award?
Hint: In 2005 he was put 7th in the
lineup, the first player at his position to do so in over 22 years.
Hint: He responded with a single, and he was also
awarded the victory after pitching eight innings of one-run ball.
Twint: Though he announced his retirement in 2011,
in 2013 he signed a contract with the Chicago Cubs and appeared in the
minors with two different teams.
A. Dontrelle
Willis (ROY 2003; 22-Sep-2005 2-1 victory over the
NYM; Encinal High Alameda, CA; 2013 Long Island Ducks & Salt Lake Bees)
FCR
- Bob Chan, Oakland, CA
FRIDAY FREEBIE
Q. Which manager missed 27 games in the
middle of a regular season when he suffered a grand mal seizure during a game?
Hint: He was voted Manager of the Year for the
previous season.
Hint: Prior to and after managing the team for five
years, he was the team’s broadcaster.
Hint: Despite four playoff appearances in five
years, and a winning record over those years, he was fired for failing to
progress in the playoffs.
Twint: As a player in “The Year of the Pitcher”, he
led the majors in wild pitches.
Twint: He attended the same high school as the
Yount brothers.
A. Larry
Dierker (Seizure 13‑Jun‑1999; MOY 1998; 20 WP; Larry Yount, Robin Yount, William
Howard Taft High School, Woodland Hills, CA
FCR
- Derek Norin, Arlington, VA
SATURDAY
Q. Who, in his major league debut, gave up
his first hit to Derek Jeter – a solo shot HR that was #206 for “The Captain”?
Hint: He earned the ALCS 7th game save
that sent his team to their only World Series.
Hint: He also got the win for Game 2 of that
series facing three batters in the top of the 11th with his team
getting a walk-off victory in the bottom half of the inning.
Twint: Other than the win in relief, he has no
other post-season wins, but he has 4 post-season losses as a starter.
Twint: He was the only other pitcher to get a fist
place vote the year King Felix won the Cy Young.
A. David
Price (Debut 14-Sep-2008; ALCS G 7 TBR vs BOS
19‑Oct‑2008; ALCS G2 11‑Oct‑2008; career post-season stats
3 losses to TEX and one to BOS; 2010 CY voting)
FCR
- Dave Serota, Kalamazoo, MI
SATURDAY SPECIAL
Q. Who is the career franchise leader in
pitching victories wins for the Kansas City Royals?
Hint: In Game 5 of the 1976 American League
Championship Series (that ended with Chris Chambliss’ walk-off homer), he took
over in the first inning when Dennis Leonard—who was charged with two runs—failed
to register an out.
Hint: Ironically, he gave up a sacrifice fly and
a groundout to Chambliss that gave Chambliss his other two RBIs for the game.
Twint: The next year, again in the ALCS Game 5, he
pitched eight innings of two-run ball only to see the relievers give up the
lead with three runs in the ninth and, once again, lose the series to the
Yankees.
Twint: And as if that weren’t enough, in the 1978
ALCS he held a one-run lead through 7, only to see his bullpen yield the lead
and take the loss in Game 3.
FCR
- Larry Farin, Plano, TX
SUNDAY
Q. Who was the first Kansas City Royals
pitcher to pitch a home field no-hitter?
Hint: He beat the Texas Rangers yielding one walk
and one hit-by-pitch.
Hint: He led the majors that year in hit-by-pitch,
plunking thirteen batters.
Hint: After receiving a Bachelor’s degree from
the same institution that graduated Richard Nixon and Ila Borders, he was named
All-Scotland in basketball.
Twint: He is currently the Rangers Pacific Rims
Operation Senior Advisor.
Twint: His first impression of Yu Darvish was that
he was “overrated”.
A. Jim
Colborn (KCR no hitters - Steve Busby
pitched 2 no-no away games; 14-May-1977 box; HBP 1977; Whittier College, University of Edinburgh; Scouting comments)
FCR
- Ty Eckert, Loris, SC
WEEKLY
THEME – First pitchers to win twenty games for 20th-century
expansion teams.
Pitcher Team Record 20th
win
COL has not yet had a 20-game
winner.
Schilling
earned his 20th with ARI in 2001 before Johnson earned his 20th
three weeks later 27‑Sep‑2001
the same year.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Stanley Cohen, Washington, DC (following
the Jones question)
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