MONDAY
Q. Who
is the only pitcher to clinch the World Series by throwing a Game 7
extra-innings complete game shutout?
Hint: It
earned him his second of three World Series rings – each with different teams.
Hint: He
became a free agent, and won his final ring the very next season.
Twint: His team went on to win another ring, but he
didn’t make the post-season roster.
Twint: He is now a television color commentator.
A. JACK
MORRIS (10 innings, Game 7
1991 1-0 MIN over ATL; 1984 DET, 1991 MIN, 1992-93 TOR; he went from 21-6
in 1992, to 7-12 in 1993)
FCR - Mark
Mapes, Madison, WI
Incorrect answers: Josh Beckett, Curt Schilling, Orel Hershiser,
Livan Hernandez
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Who
was the first-ever batter in the first-ever regular-season interleague game?
Hint: He
got a base hit. (The first ever, etc., etc…)
Ball, bat, uniform and all are now in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Hint: In
his MLB, debut, as a defensive replacement for Robin
Yount, he got a hit in his first at-bat.
Hint: In
consecutive years with the Brewers he won the “Unsung hero Award” followed the
next year by the “Good Guy Award”.
Hint: He
played in the postseason with the Rangers,
the Giants and the Mets.
Twint: In
his final post, on Sunday morning — Father’s Day — Hamilton changed his profile
picture to an image of him with his two older sons.
Twint: Until
his passing, he was employed by MLB A Network.
A. DARRYL
HAMILTON (Interleague firsts 12-Jun-1997;
Debut on 06-Jun-1988)
FCR - Tal
Smith, Sugar Land, TX
Incorrect answers:
TUESDAY
Q. Who
gave up the home run that allowed Sammy Sosa to pass Roger Maris on the season
home run record list?
Hint: He
was traded by the Yankees to Oakland and then back to the Yankees with both
deals sending Rickey Henderson in the opposite direction.
Hint: He
was the winning pitcher in the first game at “The Jake”.
Twint: He
really didn’t hit as many batters as his name might indicate.
A. ERIC
PLUNK (HR62, 13-Sep-1998;
05-Dec-1984
NYY with 4 others to OAK, and 21-Jun-1989
OAK with two others to NYY each time in exchange for “The Man of Steal” (plus
others; 04-Apr-1994
Opening Day at Jacobs Field – now Progressive Field. He finished the 10th and took SEA
1-2-3 in the top 11th to get the W with a walk-off win; never led
the league in HBP facing 5030 batters with only 32 career
HBP).
FCR - Neil
Cohen, Brooklyn, NY
Incorrect answers: Jose Rijo, David Cone, Jeff Nelson, Jim
Mecir, Bronswell Patrick, Steve Trachsel, Greg Cadaret
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who,
along with Max Scherzer, was traded to the Tigers from the Diamondbacks in a
trade that involved three teams and seven players?
Hint: He
is the last native-born Alaskan to pitch in the postseason.
Hint: In
that last appearance, he faced one batter in relief of his Scherzer but failed
to stop a nine-run 3rd inning rally.
Hint: His
final season in the majors was the year prior to Scherzer’s taking the Cy Young
Award.
Twint: His
father won three Super Bowl rings, and made two Pro Bowls.
A. DANIEL
SCHLERETH (Three team trade also sent Curtis
Granderson from DET to NYY 08-Dec-2009;
Born 09-May-1986
Anchorage,
AK
2011
ALCS Game 6, he faced only one batter with the bases full, yielding a
single and two runs; Father Mark Schlereth won one
SB with the Redskins and two with the Broncos, and Pro Bowl 1991, 1998)
FCR - Mark
Pattison, Washington, DC
Incorrect answers: Curt Schilling
THURSDAY
Q. Who
was the first native of South Korea to play in the Major Leagues?
Hint: He
is the only one of his countrymen to win 100 big league games – and the only
one to lose nearly 100 games.
Hint: He
is the most recent pitcher from South Korea to appear in the World Series.
Hint: He
is the only player to surrender a batter’s 71st homer in a
season.
Hint: And
in the same game, he also became the only pitcher to yield a 72nd home
run.
Twint: Four
million of his countrymen share his last name.
A. CHAN
HO PARK (Park debuted 08-April-1994, the 2nd player from ROK was
Jin Ho Cho 1998; Career record 124-98, closest is Byung-Hyun Kim at 54-60;
2009 WS with PHI, Byung-Hyun Kim was well known for yielding homers in the 2001
WS; He gave up the two record setting homers – which eclipsed Big Mac’s total
of 1998 total of 70 - to Barry Bonds 05-Oct-2001; Park, 3rd most in ROK after Kim and
Lee)
FCR - Dean
Kloner, New York, NY
Incorrect answers: Byung-Hyun Kim, Hideo Nomo, Bruce Chen, Rocky
Bridges
FRIDAY
Q. Who
is said to be the only pitcher in major league history to start both ends of a
double header as his final games?
Hint: He
didn’t win either game, but he did take a loss.
Hint: He
was the first National League pitcher in the modern era to steal home.
Hint: When
he died in 1953, he had been one of the last surviving pitchers to throw from
the old pitching distance of 50 feet.
Twint: Though
he lived to the age of 85, his son tragically lost his life at age seventeen when
he was buried alive in an industrial accident.
Twint: It
was at the site of the factory owned by his father.
A. JOCK
MENEFEE (Final games 07-Sep-1903 at age 35, and according to his SABR BIO he
didn’t get a win in either game; 15-Jul-1902
5th inning, AL pitcher Win
Mercer stole home in 1901; His son was accidently buried in loose dirt at
one of Jock’s factory sites)
FCR - John
Michael Pierobon, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Incorrect answers: Kid Nichols, Iron
Man McGinnity, Cy Young, Mordecai Brown, Ed Summers
SATURDAY
Q. Which
pitcher with minimum 10 starts had the lowest ERA for the 2014 Milwaukee
Brewers?
Hint: It
is his only winning season in the majors.
Hint: He
is the only pitcher to give up a walk-off homer to Andrew McCutcheon during his
MVP season.
Hint: It
is the only walk-off homer he has ever yielded.
Twint: He
once hit two different batters in a single “at bat” with both pitches being
strikes.
Twint: Needless
to say, there was a benches clearing brawl, but the person that paid the
biggest price was that season’s home run king.
A. MIKE
FIERS (2014
MIL 2.13 ERA, He went 6-5 in 2014; 2013 MVP Andrew
McCutchen walk-off 14-May-2013
PIT 4-3 12-inning victory; 11-Sep-2014 he hit Giancarlo
Stanton in the face with a fastball that broke several bone. Stanton, however, swung and acquired a second
strike. “Reed
Johnson had to complete the at-bat. Fiers struck him out on a pitch that
also hit him, prompting a bench-clearing brawl.” Fiers went 0-4 the rest of the season)
FCR - Phil
Hertz, North Bethesda, MD
Incorrect answers: Kyle Lohse, Jimmy Nelson, Jonathan Broxton
SUNDAY
Q Who
managed the team that won the first Federal League pennant?
Hint: The
next year the team moved, and mid-season he was replaced as manager by a future
Hall of Famer who had been their starting third baseman.
Hint: He
was the first Cincinnati Reds pitcher to lead his league in earned runs
yielded.
Twint: He
went 17-9 his only winning season but his team, which included four future Hall
of Famers including their manager, only managed to finish in 6th place.
A. BILL
PHILLIPS (1914 Indianapolis Hoosiers, one of only two years the
Federal League was a “major league”;1915 Newark
Pepper where Bill McKechnie took the reins, but still finished 5th; led the National League 1901 with 145ER; 1899
Cincinnati Reds 83-67 despite a lineup that included Sam Crawford, Bid
McPhee, Jake Beckley, and manager Buck Ewing)
FCR - Bob
Flynn, Chandler, AZ
Incorrect answers:
WEEKLY THEME – Pitchers who yielded
two grand slams within two consecutive innings
Pitcher Boxscore GS player (in),
player (in)
Phillips 16-Aug-1890 Malachi Kittridge, Tom Burns (both b 5th)
Menefee 12-Aug-1903 Joe Stanley (b 3rd), Pat Moran
(b 4th)
Morris 07-Aug-1984 Bill Buckner (b 1st), Tony
Armas (b 2nd)
Plunk 31-Jul-1986 Brian Downing (t 3rd), Bob
Boone (t 4th)
Park 23-Apr-1999 Fernando Tatis (both t 3rd)
Schlereth 28-Jun-2011 Jason Bay (t 4th), Carlos
Beltran (t 5th)
Fiers 21-Apr-2015 Jay Bruce (t 3rd), Todd
Frazier (t 4th)
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Steve
Schwartz, Chico, CA (after Plunk Q.)
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