This
week’s questions, answers and theme were submitted by Walt Cherniak of
Woodbine, Maryland.
MONDAY
Q. Who was the last pitcher to throw more
than 10 complete-game shutouts in a season?
Hint: His college baseball coach later coached a
team to an NBA championship.
Hint: He is one of only three players to be named
World Series MVP more than once.
A. BOB GIBSON
- 13 ShO in 1968. No pitcher has had more in a season since the
end of the Deadball Era in 1920.
His season mark ranks 3rd all-time.
- He was coached by Bill Fitch at Creighton University in Omaha in the mid-1950’s. Fitch went on to a very successful basketball
coaching career.
- WS MVP 1964, 1967. Sandy Koufax and Reggie Jackson also won the
award twice each.
FCR - Dave Johnson, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Incorrect guesses: Madison Bumgarner, Greg Maddux, Sandy Koufax,
Randy Johnson, Steve Carlton, John Tudor, Jack Morris
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the last National League pitcher
to start consecutive World Series openers?
Hint: He ended up as the starting pitcher in three
World Series openers in a row.
Hint: In his senior year in high school, he was
All-State in baseball, basketball and football in a sports-crazy state.
Hint: He came to the majors to stay after only
playing in 11 minor league games.
A. DON GULLETT
- G1 1977 WS for NYY
- 11 G for the 1969 Sioux Falls Packers
FCR - Art Springsteen, Sunapee, New Hampshire
Incorrect
guesses: Greg Maddux, Cliff Lee, Tom
Glavine, Sandy Koufax, Mort Cooper, Adam Wainwright, Cole Hamels, Bob Gibson,
Joe Blanton, Warren Spahn
WEDNESDAY
Q. Which Cy Young Award winner reached No.
39 on the Billboard country music chart with his debut album earlier this year?
Hint: He spent his entire 15-year career with the
two Bay Area clubs, making 30 or more starts 11 times.
Hint: A man of varied passions and interests, he
has, in no particular order:
1.)
Dyed
his hair blue;
2.)
Practiced
yoga and transcendental meditation;
3.)
Portrayed
a U.S. Navy officer on JAG and
4.)
Married
a former Miss Missouri.
A. BARRY ZITO
- 2002 CYA; Country single “That Sound” composed and sung by Zito
- 2000-06, ’15 w/OAK; 2007-2013 SFG
- JAG: Zito
played a baseball-playing Petty Officer Crawford in the season 9 episode #9 “The
Boast”. Zito married Amanda Seyer, Miss Missouri 2007.
FCR - Lincoln Mitchell, New York City
Incorrect
guesses: Tim Lincecum
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who was the last pitcher on the mound
when the 2002 All-Star game ended in an 11-inning tie?
Hint: Felix Hernandez passed him earlier this
year for the top spot in wins by an MLB pitcher born in Venezuela.
Hint: He threw seven scoreless innings in a World
Series-clinching game, but was not the winning pitcher.
- 2002 ASG – It was his last All-Star appearance even
though he played 11 more seasons in the majors.
- Garcia 156 W; King Felix 160
FCR - Thomas Ostertag, New York City
Incorrect guesses: Javier Vasquez,
Fernando Valenzuela, Carlos Zambrano, Vicente Padilla, Dennis Martinez,
Bartolo Colon
THURSDAY
Q. Who was the only pitcher to defeat the
Chicago White Sox during their 2005 postseason?
Hint: He was named in the Mitchell Report after
he was shown to have purchased $25,000 of human growth hormone (HGH) from a
Florida dentist.
Hint: He was one of the last pitchers in baseball
to use an old-fashioned windmill windup before delivering a pitch.
A. PAUL BYRD
- Won G 1 2005 ALCS
- On 21-Oct-2007, Byrd was accused of
using HGH by the San Francisco
Chronicle
which accused him of spending $24,850 on HGH and syringes from 2002 to 2005. Byrd defended himself,
claiming that he was being treated for a tumor on his pituitary gland and had
taken the drugs under medical supervision.
It turned out this was before the
condition was found. One of the sources
of his HGH was a Florida dentist whose license had been suspended for fraud and
incompetence. Byrd was cited in the Mitchell
Report
on illegal use of performance-enhancing substances in baseball.
- Byrd’s motion
FCR - Patrick Roth, Chicago
Incorrect
guesses: Roger Clemens, Ross
Ohlendorf
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the last Washington Nationals
starter to win a post-season game?
Hint: His career mark of walks per 9 innings
ranks near the top among active pitchers.
Hint: He is among the tallest pitchers in the
game.
Hint: He probably wished he were a couple of
inches shorter when a Gregor Blanco line drive hit him in the head during the
2012 World Series.
A. DOUG FISTER
- G 3 NLDS 06-Oct-2014
- Fister stands 6’8”. Only Alex Meyer, Chris Young are taller among players on 2017 rosters. (Please let us know of others.)
- Blanco lined back to Fister in the bottom on the 2nd in G 2 of 2012 WS. Fister stayed in the game.
FCR - Benjamin Chase, Huron, South Dakota
Incorrect
guesses: Max Scherzer, Tanner Roark,
Sammy Solis, Chris Young, Jordan Zimmermann, John Lannan
END-OF-THE-WEEK BONUS
Q. What former Monarch is the all-time
college strikeout leader in the history of his state, his school and his
conference?
Hint: He was the fourth pitcher from his
franchise to win an MVP award, fifth instance.
Hint: He has thrown 30 consecutive scoreless
innings in the post-season against the Athletics, the longest such streak by
any pitcher against any team.
Hint: Led the league in pitching losses 2 seasons
after winning the Rookie of the Year Award.
- Alum of Old Dominion University, mascot Monarchs. In
2004, he broke his own record and established a new Colonial Athletic Association record with 151 K’s. Finished
as the all-time career strikeout leader in Old Dominion, the CAA and the
Commonwealth [State] of Virginia history with 427 K’s in 335⅔ IP.
- MVP in 2010 with DET.
Previous Tigers AL MVP pitchers are Willie Hernandez 1984, Denny McLain 1968, Hal Newhouser 1944 & 1945,
- ROY 2006; 11-17 record in 2008.
FCR - David Krassin, Los Angeles
Incorrect
guess: Fernando Valenzuela
SATURDAY
Q. Which pitcher struck out four batters in
the first inning of an American League Championship Series game?
Hint: Despite sharing a rotation with three
present or future Cy Young Award winners, he led the American League in ERA in
2013.
Hint: He was one of an MLB-record eight rookies
in the lineups when he no-hit Arizona in his 13th big-league start.
Hint: He won his big-league debut in Yankee
Stadium in 2006 as part of a combined shutout.
- 2013 DET mound mates:
-
Justin
Verlander 3.46 [AL CYA 2011],
-
Max
Scherzer 2.90 [AL CYA 2013, NL CYA 2016],
-
Rick
Porcello 4.32 [AL CYA 2016]
- Rookie Marlins in no-hitter on 06-Sep-2006 were: Sanchez
his own self, Hanley Ramirez, Dan Uggla, Mike Jacobs & Eric Reed.
D-Backs rookie who played that day were Carlos Quinton, Conor Jackson & Miguel Montero.
- MLB debut 25-Jun-2006
FCR - Gary Moore, Walker, Michigan
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who was the Mariners' second amateur
draft pick the year they took Ken Griffey, Jr. first?
Hint: No other Ohio State alumnus has won more
games as a big-league pitcher.
Hint: Almost three-fourths of victories his were
earned while pitching for teams in his home state.
Hint: In recent years, he's toiled as a pitching
coach for the Nuts, Dust Devils and Yard Goats.
A. DAVE
BURBA
- This Ohio native got 85 of his 115 career
victories either for CIN or CLE.
- That’d be the 2011 Tri-City
Dust Devils (Pasco, WA), the Modesto
Nuts and the Hartford (CT) Yard
Goats.
FCR - Ken
Main, Portland, Maine
SUNDAY
Q What pitcher has thrown the most
innings for single team in a season in the American League since Justin
Verlander last led the league in that category?
Hint: Not just an innings hog, but he also played for the Hogs.
Hint: In his MLB career of only 5 full seasons,
he has a Cy Young Award, 3 Gold Gloves and 2 All-Star selections.
Hint: His name may be difficult to pronounce if
you are not from Thuringia.
- 232 IP in 2015 [Price had 248.1 in 2014 but
split between TBR & DET. Verlander
had 238.1 in 2012.]
- Pitched for the University
of Arkansas Razorbacks
(hogs).
- The Keuchel name is of German origin. From Thuringia? Who knows?
FCR - Mark DeLodovico, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: Corey Kluber
SUNDAY POST-PENULTIMATE
Q. Who went from the Whitehouse to
Cleveland?
Hint: He’s played for many teams as a
professional, but no others in the majors.
Hint: He’s the last player, for now, to qualify
for this week’s theme.
Hint: Neither he nor Keuchel qualified when the
week began.
A. JOSH
TOMLIN
- Attended Whitehouse High School in Whitehouse, Texas.
- Played in the minors at 7 different levels.
FCR - Doug Greenwald, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Corey Kluber, Bob Feller,
Trevor Bauer
WEEKLY THEME – Pitchers
who have beaten the Red Sox and Yankees in postseason play.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme –
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Pitchers
featured in “Black
Aces”, the book by Mudcat Grant
- NBA
players
Sunday - Former
CYA winners to start a game in the postseason
- Theme
is winning pitchers in Game 2 of playoffs
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