MONDAY
Q. What pitcher cinched his chances to be a
Cy Young Award winner by capturing a victory in the season’s final game?
Hint: In that game, he surrendered a player’s 50th
home run of the season, the only such season that batter ever had.
Hint: He is the last pitcher to throw 5 complete
games in 5 consecutive starts in one calendar month.
Hint: In 2016, he was inducted into the Canadian
Baseball Hall of Fame.
A. PAT HENTGEN
- Final game 1996: 29-Sep-1996; 1996 CYA; 50th
HR: Brady Anderson
- 5 CG: 07-Aug, 12-Aug, 18-Aug, 23-Aug & 28-Aug-1996.
- CHOF
FCR - Paul Goodson, Cheyenne
Incorrect answers: Fergie Jenkins, Eric Gagne, Pedro Martinez,
Dennis Martinez, Roy Halladay, Barry Zito
TUESDAY
Q. What pitcher holds the record for most
games in a season for the Red Sox franchise?
Hint: He owns 4 World Series rings.
Hint: Only 7 pitchers in history have appears in
more MLB games.
A. MIKE TIMLIN
- 81 G in 2005 for BOS also led the AL that
year. His 76 G in 2004 is 4th
on the all-time list.
- 8th on the all-time list
FCR - Bob Kimball, Sutton, Massachusetts
Incorrect
answers: Cy Young, Roger Clemens, Curt
Schilling, Dennis Eckersley, Javier Lopez, Tim Wakefield, Keith Foulke
Sparky Lyle. Ramiro Mendoza
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who was the first pitcher to win the Baseball Digest Rookie of the Year Award?
Hint: He lost to his brother in his brother’s
major league debut.
Hint: Describing his career in an interview, he
once said, “For 10 years I saw the entire U.S. for free and had five months
vacation.”
- BD ROY 1975
- On 31-May-1979, he made a
start for TOR vs. DET, facing his younger
brother Pat on the mound, as Pat made his big league
debut. Tom hurled a complete game, but Pat took the win with a 1-0 shutout. Single run was a HR by Jerry Morales.
- Quote from in interview in the Kokomo Tribune.
FCR - Scott Matteson, Shawnee, Kansas
Incorrect
answers: Don Newcombe Bob Forsch, Rick Reuschel, Jim Perry, Gaylord Perry,
Jared Weaver, Jeff Weaver, Livan Hernandez, Todd Worrell, Pedro Martinez, Andy
Benes, Bob Forsch, Joe Niekro, Ramiro Mendoza, Kelby Tomlinson, Sparky
Lyle, Bob Grim
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What former Yankee pitcher was the first
first-round draft pick to make his MLB debut for a first-place team in the same
year he was drafted?
Hint: He gave up Carl Yastrzemski’s 400th
career home run in 1979 then surrendered Mark McGwire’s 61st home
run in 1998.
Hint: He was on the losing end of Dennis
Martinez’ perfect game.
Hint: He pitched for a prodigious number of major
league teams during his 22-year career.
Hint: He played on the first World Series winner
this millennium.
A. MIKE MORGAN
- Drafted #4 overall by OAK in the 1978 June
Amateur Draft. Made his MLB debut a week
later 11-Jun-1978.
- Yaz’s 400th 24-Jul-1979; Big Mac’s
61st 07-Sep-1998
- Martinez perfecto 28-Jul-1991
- Played for 12 teams: 1978-2002: ARI, BAL, CHC, CIN, LAD, MIN, NYY,
OAK, SEA, STL, TEX & TOR.
- Was on the D-Backs when they won it
all in 2001.
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect
answers: David Cone, Eric Plunk, Tom
Gordon
THURSDAY
Q. Brian Roberts and ______________ were
the first Orioles to both collect 30+ stolen bases in the same season?
Hint: He had been a 20/20 player for the Cubs
just two years earlier.
Hint: In 9 of his 12 major league seasons he was
in double-figures in stolen bases.
Hint: Dee Gordon tied him in 2016 in career
stolen bases.
Hint: He is now the head coach of a collegiate
wood-bat summer league.
Hint: His brother also played in the majors.
- 2004:
24 HR, 36 SB for CHC
- Dee Gordon reached 218
career SB, Patterson’s final total.
- Head coach of the Brookhaven Bucks in the Sunbelt
Baseball League
- Brother is former outfielder Eric Patterson.
FCR - Charley Riordan, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Incorrect
answers: Brady Anderson, Julio Lugo,
Jerry Hairston, Sammy Sosa
FRIDAY
Q. Besides Omar Vizquel, who was the most recent
Venezuelan shortstop to win a National League Gold Glove?
Hint: He too was an All-Star, but 11 times fewer
than Vizquel.
Hint: He was designated for assignment by the
Washington Nationals a mere 11 days after they had claimed him off waivers from
the Brewers.
Hint: His half-brother had an 11-year career in
the majors, also as an infielder.
Hint: His son has signed with the Mariners.
- AS for LAD in 2005.
- On 06-Aug-2012, WSN got him from MIL. They designated him
for assignment 17-Aug, after only 4 AB’s. They then granted him free agency on
20-Aug.
- Half-brother Maicer Izturis.
- Son César Daniel Izturis was
signed by SEA as an international
free agent just last year.
FCR - Dan Massey, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Incorrect answers: Robin Yount, Alex Gonzalez
END-OF-THE-WORKWEEK
BONUS
Q. What purple ground hog once piled up
over 200 innings pitched for the Rangers, trailing only Charlie Hough and Jose
Guzman for the team lead that season?
Hint: Thanks only to the generosity of the Seattle
Mariners, the team did not finish last that year.
Hint: Later, when Don Zimmer was his manager, he
had more than 20 starts in over 100 innings and helped his team to clinch only their
second first-place finish in a decade in spited of Hall of Fame teammates on
the mound and in the field.
Hint: That loaded team also had two former Rookie
of the Year Award winners, one of whom later won a Cy Young Award.
Hint: He’s from the UK and does have an accent.
A. PAUL KILGUS
- Attended Bowling Green (Kentucky) High School
whose mascot is “The Purples”. He was born 02-Feb-1962. Pitched 203.1 innings for the 1988 Texas Rangers.
- The 1989 Chicago Cubs had HOFers
Greg Maddux as the ace
of the staff and Ryne Sandberg at 2nd
and Andre Dawson in the
outfield. #2 starter Rick Sutcliffe had won a
CYA and ROY. Outfielder Jerome Walton won the ROY that very season.
- That’s not the United Kingdom of Great Britain, that’s
the University of Kentucky in Lexington,
Kentucky. Kilgus not only attended, he graduated.
FCR - Barry Nelson, Guilderland, New York
SATURDAY
Q. Whose well-timed 2-out, 2-strike,
bottom-of-the-9th home run in the last game of the 2011 season tied
the game on what most baseball experts agree was one of the most dramatic
single days in baseball history?
Hint: He was already famous in Tampa for 2 other
dramatic late-season home runs in previous seasons.
Hint: He had attended and played for 2
universities and a community college before being drafted.
Hint: In an attempt to return to the majors this
past season, he tried his hand at pitching.
Hint: He has won a Most Valuable Player award in 2
different Triple-A leagues.
A. DAN JOHNSON
- HR off NYY’s Corey Wade on 28-Sep-2011 propelled the
game to extra innings won in the 12th on a HR by Evan Longoria. YouTube chronicles the event: Johnson HR
- FIRST: HR
on 09-Sep-2008 off BOS closer Jonathan Papelbon helped
keep TBR in the division race
which they eventually won.
SECOND: 2 HR vs. NYY 15-Sep-2010 helped TBR win the AL East.
- Butler University
(Indianapolis, IN), Iowa Western Community College
(Council Bluffs, IA), University of Nebraska
(Lincoln, NE)
- Pitching in 2016, his 5.92 ERA over 76 innings
in the low minors is not likely enough to get him to the mound in the majors.
- He won the Pacific
Coast League MVP in 2004 and the International
League MVP in 2010.
FCR - Doug
Greenwald, San Francisco
Incorrect
answers: Evan Longoria, Matt Joyce,
David Freese
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. What former catcher, who played for the
Mets and Yankees, was the captain for the record-setting Dominican Team in the
2007 Caribbean Series?
Hint: He was the manager of the Dominican Series
Mets in 2011 and DSL Mets in 2012-2014.
Hint: He was a coach for the DSL Mets 2 in
2015-2016.
Hint: In his 12-year major league career, he
played for 7 different teams.
Hint: He was the classic AAAA player: Granted free agency or released a total of 11
times in addition to being traded twice.
Hint: You can, however, see the logic of the
teams who signed him as he was 3 times in league Top 5 in Total Zone Runs, not an insignificant
achievement.
- Signed by
NYM as an amateur free
agent in 1987 and played for them in the majors 1995-98. With his title with the 2007 Caribbean Series, team
manager Félix Fermín became the
first manager in series history to win 3 championships.
- TZR = The number of runs
above average a player is worth based on the number of plays made at a given
position. He ranked 2nd in
1998 and 3rd in 1999 in the NL and 4th in 2000 in the AL.
FCR - Steve Berman, Bergenfield, New Jersey
Incorrect
answers: Rick Cerrone
SUNDAY
Q. Who was the Pitcher of the Year in the
Mexican League in 2007 with a win/loss record of13-3
and an ERA of 2.62?
Hint: He was even better there in 2008, with a
17-3 record and a 2.54 ERA in 20 games (a decision in every game he started),
he again made their All-Star Game.
Hint: With the exceptions of Tim Salmon and Pat
Burrell, he only surrendered home runs in the majors to player who had been
All-Stars. (Baseball sages are still trying to figure out why
Salmon and Burrell were never All-Stars.)
Hint: Although this list could expand in future
seasons, for now he is the last player to qualify for this week’s theme.
- Gave up MLB HR’s to Salmon, Burrell, Nomar Garciaparra, Tim Raines, Bernie Williams
(same game as Raines), Alex Rodriguez, Garret Anderson and Darrin Erstad.
FCR - Timothy Kearns, Washington, DC
Incorrect
answers: Pablo Ortega
WEEKLY THEME – Major
League Baseball’s Ornithological Society. Those who have played for the Cardinals, the Orioles and the Blue Jays.
Castillo 2007 1999 2000-01
Hentgen 2001-03 2000 1991-99,
2004
Izturis 2009-11 2008 2001
Johnson 2013 2015 2014
Kilgus 1991 1993 1990
Morgan 1988 1995-96 1983
Patterson 2006-07,
’10 2011 2011
Rodriguez 1996-98 2002 1998-99
Timlin 1999-2000 2000-02 1991-97
Underwood 1984 1977 1978-79
First Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – David Washburn, Marietta, Georgia
(after the Morgan question)
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