MONDAY
Q. Who
was the most recent pitcher to throw two no-hitters in a single season?
Hint: He
is the only of those ever to win a Cy Young Award.
Hint: He
was a Tiger before he was a Tiger.
Twint: His
MLB debut was the longest in modern big league history by a pitcher who retired
every batter he faced.
A. MAX SCHERZER
(N.B. Roy Halladay pitched 2
no-hitters in 2010, the 1st, a perfect game on 26‑May; the 2nd
was in the postseason, 06-Oct. Halladay won CYA 2 X, in 2003 w/TOR and 2010 w/PHI.)
- Attended
the University
of Missouri (Tigers) 2003-06; DET 2010-14
- Debut
29-Apr-2008; 13 BF/13 straight
outs
FCR - Jim
Casey, Savannah, GA
Incorrect answers: Justin Verlander, Tim Lincecum, Virgil Trucks
TUESDAY
Q. Who
is the only pitcher to finish in the top 3
of Cy Young Award voting recipients for 5 consecutive seasons?
Hint: He
finished in the top three in ERA in the majors over that same five-year span.
Hint: He
is the only BLTL NL MVP since Ryan Howard in 2006.
Twint: He
has founded a charity whose goal in 2015 was to, “…provide a better quality of
life and give opportunities to vulnerable, underprivileged children”.
- In
CYA voting from 2011 to 2015 finished 1st, 2nd, 1st,
1st, 3rd
- In
MLB ERA, finished 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st,
3rd
FCR - Richard
Marston, Manhattan, KS
Incorrect answers: Greg Maddux, Zack Greinke, Randy Johnson
WEDNESDAY
Q. What
pitcher won the American League pitching Triple Crown after over 50 years of no
pitcher being able to do it?
Hint: It
was accomplished 5 times in the National League in that interim.
Hint: It
was his first year with that team.
Hint: He
won it again the next year.
Hint: Those
were the only two years he played on that team.
Twint: The
only right-hander with more career strikeouts is Nolan Ryan.
Twint: He
once played a character named “Skidmark” in a movie.
- Hal Newhouser won the
TP in 1945, Clemens in 1997, 98
- Played
on TOR only those years
- 4,672
K’s to Ryan’s 5,714
FCR - Ron
Kaufman, Thornhill, ON
Incorrect answers: Pedro Martinez, Gaylord Perry, Jim Palmer
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What
hurler is the subject of Roger Angell’s 2008 book, “A Pitcher’s Story”?
Hint:
Three times he went back to a team he had already played for.
Hint: He
represented his league during the most recent MLB work stoppage.
Twint: He
didn’t lead the league in a single significant category in the year he won a Cy
Young Award.
Twint: In
other seasons in his 17-year career, however, he did lead his league variously
in win/loss percentage, innings pitched, strikeouts, victories, wild pitches,
batters faced, and others.
Twint: Showing
remarkable consistency, during one stretch, he had exactly 3 at-bats for four
straight seasons for a sometimes World Series championship team.
A. DAVID CONE
- Full
title: “A Pitcher's Story: Innings with
David Cone”
- Cy
Young 1994, strike season
- Stats
- 3
AB 1998-2001
FCR - Timothy
Kearns, Washington, DC
Incorrect answers: Tom Glavine, Jim Brosnan
THURSDAY
Q. Who
is the only Cleveland Indians hurler to win 20 games in the past 40 years?
Hint: He
is the most recent pitcher to win the AL Cy Young Award with fewer than 200
strike outs.
Hint: In
his first World Series game he defeated a former teammate in the first ever
World Series match-up of Indians Cy Young winners.
Hint: He
went 2-0 that series, providing the only two wins his team could muster.
Hint: In
his only other World Series, he went 0-2 and is still in search of his first WS
ring.
Twint: His
namesake had four successful seasons with the Phillies and also played with the
Indians.
Twint: He
is only the second Cy Young Award winner with only 3 letters in his last name.
A. CLIFF LEE
- 22
W in 2008; Gaylord Perry won 21
in 1974.
- 170
K in 2008; Bartolo Colon took the
2005 AL CYA with 157 K
-
G 1, 2009 WS 28-Oct-2009 defeated CC Sabathia, 2007 CYA winner
- Clifford Walker Lee
played 1919-26
- Vern Law won CYA in 1960
FCR - Leanne
Rohrbach, Minneapolis, MN
Incorrect answers: Cory Kluber, Jaret Wright, CC Sabathia, Len
Barker, John Denny, Dennis Eckersley, Gaylord Perry, Bartolo Colon, Luis
Tiant, Bob Lemon
FRIDAY
Q. Who,
among pitchers, scored the most career runs without a single plate appearance?
Hint: No
other Yankee pitcher has ever struck out more batters in a single game.
Hint: He
has won more Gold Gloves than any other Yankee pitcher.
Twint: The
only World Series home run he yielded was to Davey Lopes.
Twint: He
still won the game throwing 9 complete innings, the Lopes 2-run shot being the
only run he yielded.
A. RON GUIDRY
- 4
career R, all as a PR; Never came to bat:
03-Jul-1977, 28-Jul-1977, 01-Oct-1977 &
14-Jun-1978. The only other players at any position with 4 or more R and 0 PA’s
are 2 pinch-runners, Herb Washington and Eddie Phillips.
- 18
K, 17-Jun-1978, NYY 4 –
CAL 0
- Won
5 consecutive GG 1982-86 (Mike Mussina earned 7
Gold Gloves over his 18-season MLB career, but the first 4 of those were when
he was an Oriole.)
- Game 4, 1977 WS. Lopes’s 2-run homer
came in the bottom of the 3rd
FCR - Bill
Carle, Lee’s Summit, MO
Incorrect answers: Mike Mussina, David Cone, Mariano Rivera,
Roger Clemens
SATURDAY
Q. Who
was the first Dodger to throw a World Series complete game shut-out against the
Yankees?
Hint: He
only gave up two walk-off home runs in his 12-year career, including the only
one Alvin Dark ever hit.
Hint: Of
his own talent he said: "I got
three pitches: My change, my change off
my change, and my change off my change off my change."
Twint: Contrary to the honesty implied by his
nickname, he later confessed to relying on a far more slippery pitch.
A. PREACHER ROE
- 1949
WS, Game 2, 1-0 Brooklyn
win.
- Dark
HR: 03-Jul-1950, b 11 walk-off, a solo shot
for a 3-2 NYG victory over BRO (The only other
walk-off HR Roe surrendered was 18-May-1953 to Ted Kluszewski, one of
six he had.)
- Quote
from various sources
- After he retired he admitted using a spitter
in a Sports Illustrated article
issued 04‑Jun‑1956 entitled,
“The Outlawed Spitball Was My Money
Pitch”.
FCR - Larry
Hayes, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Johnny Podres, Don Drysdale, Joe Hatten, Carl
Erskine, Clem Labine
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Which
starter on the 1961 NL-Champion Reds had the team’s best ERA?
Hint: That
and his team lead in additional categories throughout his career helped propel
him eventually to a place in the Reds Hall of Fame.
Hint: He
was selected as the National League’s starting pitcher for the 1963 All-Star game.
Hint: Johnny
Bench said, “… He was to me the epitome of class any player has ever had”.
Hint: For
the AA Nashville Sounds in 1958, just before this call-up to the Reds, he
posted a 20‑8 record, with a 2.44 ERA w/189 K.
Hint: He
also started the minor-league (AA) All-Star Game that season.
Twint: In
Ball
Four, Jim
Bouton references him when trying to explain the power of baseball and the
power of *a* baseball on a player’s destiny.
A. JIM
O’TOOLE
- 1961:
ERA 3.10, W-L% .679, 178 K, 252.2 IP
- 1961
19-9
- 1961 WS Game 1 and
Game 4 losses to Whitey as the Yankees took the series 4-1.
- Bench quote from Cincinnati.com
web page announcing O’Toole’s passing away.
- 1963 ASG he faced 10
batters giving up 4 hits, one run, a HBP and one strikeout.
- Bouton
quote: “Jim O’Toole and I started out
even in the spring. He wound up with the Ross Eversoles and I with a new lease
on life. And as I daydreamed of being fireman of the year in 1970 I wondered
what the dreams of Jim O’Toole are like these days. Then I thought, would I
ever do that? When it’s over for me, would I be hanging on with Ross Eversoles?
I went down deep and the answer I came up with was yes. Yes I would. You see,
you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns
out that it was the other way around the whole time”.
FCR - Steven
Elsberry, Windsor Heights, IA
Incorrect answers: Jim Maloney, Don Gullett, Bob Purkey, Joey
Jay, Vern Ruhle, Ray Washburn
IN MEMORIAM REDUX
Q. Who
was the first player ever drafted by the Seattle Mariners after the formation
of their franchise?
Hint: His
two-run home run in the 9th inning of game 5, TO ALLOW THE RED SOX, IN EXTRA INNINGS, TO beat the Angels 6-5 to
keep the Red Sox alive in the 1986 ALCS.
Hint: No
need to put a spin on it—it was one of the most dramatic homers in televised postseason
play. (He put a spin on it anyway.)
Hint: In
the same postseason, he hit an extra-inning, go-ahead home run in a game that
has been unfairly named for one of his teammates.
Hint: Although
not considered a “Bash Brother” himself, he was an important power hitter for
the Oakland A’s.
Hint: He
had two home runs in the “Earthquake” World Series.
Twint: His
uncle Joe
Henderson was a perfect regular-season 2-0 for the World Champion 1976
Cincinnati Reds.
- 26th
pick in the first round of the 1977
draft
- HR
in G 5
1986 ALCS off Donnie
Moore; sac fly in 11th to win
- Homered
in the “Buckner Game”…25-Oct-1986;
It would have been the winning homer had the Mets not rallied
- With
OAK 1988-94; Bash
Brothers: Jose
Canseco & Mark
McGwire
FCR - Scott
Schleifer, Suffern, HY
SUNDAY
Q. Which
former White Stockings pitcher claimed that it was he, and not William Arthur
Cummings, who invented the curveball?
Hint: In
1880 Cap Anson and Al Spalding brought him to the White Stockings along with
Larry Corcoran and the team (67-17) ran away with the pennant finishing 15
games ahead of the 2nd place Providence Grays.
Hint: He
and Corcoran started every game and pitched all but 28.1 innings out of 775 for
that season.
Hint: As
a result, many consider this the first true “rotation” in the big leagues.
Twint: He
died the same year that “Candy” was posthumously inducted into the Hall of
Fame.
Twint: Unlike
his counterpart, he is not in the Hall of Fame.
- He
literally clung to a questionable news article
backing his claim up to the day of his
death in 1939 – the year Cummings was inducted
into the Hall.
- 1880 White Stockings record and
stats: Corcoran was 43-14
while Goldsmith went 21-3 accounting for all but three of the teams 67 wins,
and all 17 of their losses.
FCR - Larry
Hayes, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Albert Spaulding
WEEKLY THEME – Pitchers with at
least 20 wins and 3 or fewer losses in one season.
*First full year in the
majors
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Steve
Schwartz, Chico, CA (after Cone)
Incorrect theme guesses:
Wed - Pitchers who won cy young in a season they won
exactly 21 games and got in the top 12 in mvp voting
Thursday - Cy
Young winners who started a postseason game in NYC
- Pitchers who
have won the Cy Young Award and are from states that have a river as a border
- 21st Century
starting pitchers
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