MONDAY
Q. Whose
lack of run support as a Dodger pitcher may have prompted him to ask, after
hearing that Sandy Koufax had just pitched a no-hitter, "Did he win it?
"
Hint: He
led his 1965 World Series winning team with a season .508 slugging percentage.
Hint: He
twice tied the National League record of seven homers in a season by a pitcher.
Twint: Orlando
Cepeda said the trick to batting against him was to "…hit him before he
hits you".
A. Don Drysdale (After Koufax' 3rd
no-no 05‑Jun‑1964,
although another account has Drysdale responding that way because earlier that
year Ken
Johnson lost despite throwing a no-hitter;
7 HR established by Don Newcombe
1955, Drysdale 1958/1965)
FCR - Chris
Wiseman, Lake Wales, FL
Incorrect answers: Don Newcombe, Claude Osteen
TUESDAY
Q. Which
manager took the New York Yankees to a World Series victory with the help of
Bucky Dent?
Hint: He
had taken over the Yanks mid-season that year.
Hint: Three
years later he did a mid-season takeover again, piloting the Bronx Bombers to
the World Series.
Hint: He
was in center field for Bob Feller’s second no hitter.
Twint: As
a reward for the 1978 series win, he was kept on the payroll with a lifetime
contract which continued in effect when he passed away in early 2000.
A. Bob Lemon (1978 NYY,
Dent's
famous
HR against BOS
and 1978 Series
MVP; 1981 NYY;
30‑Apr‑1946
Feller’s 2nd; 11‑Jan‑2000
Steinbrenner rewarded him until then)
FCR - Doug
Greenwald, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Dick Howser, Billy Martin, Ralph Houk, Gene Michael
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who was the first Cy Young Award winner
to have 200 strikeouts in a season?
Hint: He
was the second Yankee to win the award.
Hint: He
was also the second lefty to take the prize.
Twint: He
shares a nickname with Frank Sinatra.
A. Whitey Ford (CYA 1961 w/209K; Bob Turley
1958;
Warren
Spahn 1957;
"Chairman of the Board")
FCR - Blake Sherry, Dublin, OH
Incorrect answers: Ron Guidry, Lefty Gomez, Bob Turley, Three
Finger Brown, Lefty Grove, Dave Righetti, Don Newcombe
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q: What
reliever converted 48 of 48 saves opportunities one year, including the
postseason, to help his team secure victory in World Series?
Hint: He
was the losing pitcher the time Joba Chamberlain got his only postseason
decision.
Hint: During
his junior year in college, he won the Big East Conference Pitcher of the Year
Award.
Hint: The
bridge to him was not always successful.
Twint: On
12‑Aug‑2013 he signed a one day contract with the Phillies so that he could officially
retire a member of their team.
Twint: There
was no doubt he was "Lights Out".
A. Brad
Lidge (G 4 2009 WS;
Pitched at Notre Dame, 1998 Big East
POY; Brad
Lidge retires a Phillie)
FCR - Samuel
Olken, Chicago, IL
Incorrect answers: Eric Gagne, Brian Wilson, Jonathan Palpebon, Mariano Rivera, Kevin Foulke,
John Franco, Jose Valverde, Jim Johnson
THURSDAY
Q. Who
received the most Cy Young Award votes from 1987-1990 without ever winning the
award?
Hint: Unlike
the winners those four years, he won 20 games in each of those seasons.
Hint: It
was the only four seasons of his 16 year career for which he’d get even a
single Cy Young vote.
Hint: …
or win 20 games.
Hint: In
fact, his 84 wins those four years accounted for half of his career total wins.
Twint: His
glare was beyond compare.
A. Dave Stewart (171 CY votes 87-90; Career stats;
Career 168W-129L; Fearsome
visage)
FCR - Chuck
Durante, Dover, DE
Incorrect answers: John Smoltz, Al Leiter, Mike Mussina, Dick
Martin, Frank Viola, Dave Stieb, Jack Morris
FRIDAY
Q. Who
established (and still shares) the record for most innings pitched in a seven-game
World Series?
Hint: He
held the Tigers record for most wins in a season for 59 years until Denny
McClain won 31 games.
Hint: He
still holds the Tigers record for most innings pitched in a career and in a
single season.
Hint: He
remains the 2nd all-time Tigers wins leader.
Twint: Ty Cobb
claimed no one ever pinch-hit for him, but this player did so and hit a triple.
A. George Mullin (1909 WS,
34 IP. Note that the 1903 WS
went 8 games with 3 P w/34+ IP; 1909 29 W
tied by Hal
Newhouser 1944, broken by McClain
1968; 209 W second to Hooks Dauss‘s
223; 1,904 IP 382.1, Career IP 3,394; 18‑Sep‑1906
PH 3b)
FCR - Mark
Pattison, Washington, DC
Incorrect answers: Hal Newhouser, Paul Derringer, Virgil Trucks,
Jim Bunning, Bill Donovan, Mickey Lolich, Jack Morris, Joe McGinnity
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Whose
medical technique extended the careers of David Wells, Orel Hershiser,
Ferguson Jenkins, John Smoltz, Kerry Wood, and… oh, yes: Tommy John?
Hint: He
once generously said, "I'm not a great surgeon, but I have the best
patients in the world."
Hint: His
concept, previously used on hands and to reinforce joints in polio patients,
had never been applied to pitchers or elbows.
Hint: He
was honored by the Hall of Fame during induction week in Cooperstown in 2013.
Hint: He
was part of the Dodgers organization for the last fifty years of his life.
Twint: In
2012, he was honored by the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation with the
Dave Winfield Humanitarian Award.
Twint: He
was captured by the Nazis in World War II, but earned multiple medals during
his time in the service.
A. Dr. Frank Jobe, who passed
away on Thursday (Check out these two great photographs: Picture #1,
Picture #2)
FCR - Bob
Chan, Oakland, CA
Incorrect answers:
SATURDAY*
Q. Who
was the only pitcher besides Carl Hubbell ever to win either league's MVP
despite double-digit losses that season?
Hint: He
won the pitching Triple Crown that year, and also performed well at the plate
with a batting average of .325.
Hint: His
debut was in 1931, but he didn’t pitch a game until late in the 1934 season.
Hint: Prior
to that, he played almost exclusively third base.
Twint: By
1936—his second year as a full time starter—he led the league with 21 losses.
Twint: Down
3 games to 2 in the 1940 World Series, he staved off elimination when he threw
a complete game shutout and had two RBI on a homer and fielder's choice.
Twint: He
originally signed with the Braves and ended with the Braves, but only played
with them for four innings in his sixteen-year career.
A. Bucky Walters (1939 MVP 27-11;
2.29 ERA,
27 W, 137 SO; 07‑Oct‑1940
Reds vs. Tigers 4-0 with Reds taking the series the next day)
FCR - Larry
Lamb, Kettering, OH
Incorrect answers: Lefty Grove, Hal Newhouser, Wes Ferrell, Paul
Derringer, Lefty Gomez, Tommy Bridges
*Some subscribers received this as
“Bridge-to-the-Weekend Bonus”
SATURDAY NIGHT BONUS
Q. Along
with Hall of Famer Mel Ott, which major leaguer was born in Louisiana in 1909?
Hint: His
2nd place finish for MVP is the highest achieved for a Chicago Cubs
pitcher.
Hint: That
season he led the league in wins, win-loss percent, ERA, games started, shut
outs, and ERA+.
Twint: Two
years later, he led the league with 118 earned runs.
Twint: He
was not a spaceman.
A. Bill Lee (21-Oct-1909,
Ott
2-Mar-1909; 1938
MVP vote; 188 ER in 1940; the other Bill "Spaceman" Lee
pitched 1969-82)
FCR - Damian
Begley, New York, NY
Incorrect answers: Lon Warneke, Claude Passeau
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who
was the last right-handed pitcher in the 20th Century to earn 25 victories in a
season for the Yankees?
Hint: While
with the A's, he set the record for most losses in a single season during the Deadball
era.
Hint: He
and Grunting Jim Shaw are the only pitchers to lead the American League in wild
pitches in the Deadball and live ball eras.
Hint: He
holds the dubious honor of losing the most consecutive World Series games.
Twint: He
was the "Little Boy" that slew the NYG "Goliath" in the
1913 World Series.
Twint: His
Polish mother knew him better as Leslie Ambrose.
A. Bullet
Joe Bush (26-9 in 1922; 24 L
1916; WP
leader 1916, 23, 24 with Shaw 1919-20;
5 consecutive WS losses;
Game 3
1913 WS, the victory that turned the series in favor of the A's)
FCR - Chaunce
Venuto, Toole, UT
Incorrect answers: Eddie Plank, Ron
Guidry, Jack Chesboro, Catfish Hunter, Lon Warneke
DST SPECIAL
Q. Who
was the first Giants pitcher to lead his league in win-loss% since Juan
Marichal's .806 in 1966?
Hint: He
precisely tied Sid Fernandez to share that honor.
Hint: That
same year he led the league in ERA and WHIP, but never led the league in
another category in his 10 year career with the Giants.
Hint: In
high school he once struck out 22 batters in a 7-inning game—a feat that did
not go unnoticed by the scouts.
Twint: The
Giants drafted him in the first round,15th pick in the June 1979
amateur draft.
A. Scott
Garrelts (1989
.737 both had 14-5 records; Buckley High 1978)
FCR - Michael
Remillard, Harrisburg, PA
Incorrect answers: John Burkett, William
VanLandingham, John Montefusco, Rick Reuschel, Attlee Hammaker, Jason Schmidt,
Kirk Reuter, Mike Krukow, Catfish Hunter, Billy Swift, Mike McCormick
SUNDAY
Q: With
his team down 4-1 in the inning in a regular-season game, no outs and runners
on 1st and 2nd, what pitcher came into the game, and
threw one pitch that ended the inning?
Hint: He
went on to finish the game and take a 9-8 victory.
Hint: The
next year he went on to lead his league with a .714 win-loss%.
Hint: Though
not the first player with that sobriquet, his 5'10"‑160‑lb. frame merited "Wee Willie".
Twint: It
was decades before the save became an official stat, he led the National League
in saves for three seasons despite being a starting pitcher.
Twint: In
fact, he won 21 games the last year he led his league with 5 saves.
A. Bill Sherdel (TP
STL vs PHI 30‑Jul‑1924;
1925 .714; SVs 1920, 27 & 28)
FCR - Dave
Serota, Kalamazoo, MI
Incorrect answers: Tippy Martinez, Willie Hernandez, Billy Swift,
Greg Maddux, Ron Guidry
Week’s theme
– Pitchers who lost twice as their team was swept in a World Series
Pitcher G
L WS Teams Result
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme
– Makoto Ozawa, Scarsdale, NY
Incorrect theme guesses:
Tuesday - HOF pitchers with the most
HRs
- HOF pitchers
with 3 letter first names
- Pitchers with
200 or more wins and 25 or more homeruns
- 20 game
winners who led position in home runs for season
- Pitchers who
batted higher in the batting order
- HOF pitchers
elected by the BBWAA with fewer than 300 wins
- Good-hitting
pitchers
- Hall of Fame
Pitchers who lead their league in homers by a pitcher
- Pitchers with
20 or more careers home runs
- Second bananas
among pitchers who each won 150 games as teammates
- Pitchers who
hit 2 home runs in a single game
- All-time HR
leaders among pitchers
Wednesday
- HOF pitchers who only played for one team
Friday
- Struck out the side in an All Star Game
- The year they
received their most MVP votes a teammate won the MVP.
Saturday
- In their best
year they did not have the lowest ERA on their team.
Sunday
- Pitchers who
had the best won loss percentage that got tagged in the World Series that year
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