Q. Who is the
only Atlanta Braves pitcher to win 20 games in consecutive seasons?
Hint: He was the
National League player representative during the longest work stoppage in major
league history.
Hint: He holds the
record for surrendering the most consecutive hits in a single All-Star game.
Hint: He hold
another record he’d rather forget: Most
bases-on-balls given up in a single National League Championship Series.
- Won 20, 20 & 22
in 1991-93 respectively, in 93 leading the majors.
- NL player Rep
during the 1994-95 strike.
- As the reigning CYA
winner, he started the 1992 All-Star Game in
San Diego and after getting leadoff hitter Roberto Alomar to ground out in the
first inning, he surrendered 7 consecutive hits (all singles) to:
Wade
Boggs
Kirby
Puckett
Joe
Carter
Mark
McGwire
Cal
Ripken
Ken
Griffey, Jr. and
Sandy
Alomar, Jr.
He left the
inning with the NL coming to bat down 4-0.
I guess it coulda been worse.
Robbie Alomar, feeling left out, singled off Glavine to start the 2nd. Maddux came on before the end of the 2nd.
FCR - Jim Casey,
Savannah
Incorrect guesses:
Phil Niekro, Greg Maddux, John Smoltz
MONDAY BONUS
Q. Who leads
all active pitchers in career complete games?
Hint: After Dick
Donovan did it in 1963, he was the next Cleveland Indians pitcher to collect a
pinch hit.
Hint: As the
starting pitcher during a major league day game in Southern California, he once
hit a home run that traveled 440 feet.
Hint: He
un-initialized when he went to the Brewers.
- Came into the majors as C.C. Sabathia with the
initials standing for his birth names, Carston Charles. During a press conference 07-Jul-2008, he
asked that he be known only as “CC”.
FCR - Tim Luca, San Mateo
Incorrect guesses: Don Sutton, Bartolo Colon
TUESDAY
Q. Who is the only active pitcher with 4
league strikeout titles?
Hint: In 3 of those 4, he also led the majors.
Hint: The only player ahead of him in the June
amateur draft, debuted in the majors almost eleven years after he did.
Hint: He is in the Top Ten career WAR for a team
he no longer plays for.
Hint: He is one of a trio of teammates who threw
multiple pitches in excess of 100 MPH in the same game, the first time such a
feat was ever recorded.
Hint: He, Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens are the
only American League pitchers ever to strike out 250 or more batters in a
season after turning 33 years old.
- Led the AL in K’s 2009, 2011, 2012 & 2016
w/269, 250, 239 & 254 respectively.
The first 3 also led MLB.
- Matt Bush, selected #1 overall
in the 2004 Draft, debuted 13-May-2016, virtually 11 years
after Verlander’s debut on 04-Jul-2005.
- On the anniversary of his MLB debut, 04-Jul-2006, at McAfee Coliseum in Oakland, he, Joel Zumaya & Fernando Rodney each “went triple
digits” more than once.
FCR - Jess Forrest, Chicago
Incorrect guesses: Max Scherzer, Walter
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who was the first 21st-century
pitcher to toss a shutout before his 21st birthday?
Hint: He was the only teenager to play in MLB in
2005.
Hint: He was the only teenager to make an Opening
Day roster in 2006.
Hint: He was the first 21st-century
pitcher to make his major league debut as a starting pitcher before his 20th
birthday.
Hint: Hall of Famer Hal Newhouser is his logical
antecedent.
FCR - David Krassin, Los
Angeles
Incorrect
guesses: Matt Cain, David Price, Clayton
Kershaw
THURSDAY
Q. Who received a franchise-record $4
million signing bonus before being
declared eligible for that year’s draft?
Hint: Together, his brother and he plunked 179
batters in major league games.
Hint: He led the American League twice in
pitching victories.
Hint: He led the majors once each in Games
Started, Strikeouts and WHIP.
Hint: In addition to his well-celebrated
no-hitter, he once took the loss in a combined eight-inning no-hitter.
FCR - Steve Berman, Bergenfield, New Jersey
Incorrect
guesses: Gaylord Perry, Joe Niekro, Jim
Perry
THUHZDAY THRILLAH
Q. What wily righty was named the Cincinnati
Reds Minor League Pitcher of the Year, not once, but two years in a row?
Hint: In his MLB debut, he was perfect through 5
innings and became the first pitcher to throw 10 strikeouts and 0 walks in his
career opener in the Bigs.
Hint: He was relieved in that game by a veteran
pitcher who had played on a World Series championship team 16 years before.
Hint: He grew up in the most famous small
baseball town in the world.
Hint: His is 0-3 in the postseason pitching for
National League teams, where he has spent 95+% of his major league innings.
Hint: In the partial season he spent in the
American League, he managed to pick up a World
Series championship ring.
- CIN MLPOY 2006-07
- First game 03-Apr-2008, won 3-2 over ARI. Relieved in the 8th by David Weathers, a late-season-call-up
for the 1992 Blue Jays.
FCR - Timothy Kearns, Washington, D.C.
Incorrect
guesses: Tom Seaver, Jake Peavy, Mike
Mussina, Don Gullet, Bronson Arroyo
FRIDAY
Q. What U.S. Olympic team hero was the
first Brewers’ pitcher to strike out 18 in a game?
Hint: In his first major league victory, a
teammate helped by slamming three homers.
Hint: He had double-digit wins in 7 of his first
8 major league seasons.
Hint: Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda attended his
wedding.
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Ben McDonald, James Shields,
Zack Greinke, Don Sutton
SATURDAY
Q. What lefty’s decade-long career was
spent entirely with the White Sox?
Hint: His brother, a teammate for 3 seasons once
homered to help ice a victory of his.
Hint: Country singer Blake Shelton officiated at
his wedding later that same year.
Hint: During his career, he had teammates who:
a.)
Have
been elected to the Hall of Fame
b.)
Have
thrown 2 perfect games
c.)
Was
the most hated man in baseball
d.)
Had
won the Cy Young Award
e.)
Won
the Rookie of the Year Award
f.)
Was
starting pitcher in the All-Star Game
- Teammates
a.)
Have
been elected to the Hall of Fame – Jim Thome
b.)
Have
thrown 2 perfect games – Mark Buehrle & Philip Humber
c.)
Was
the most hated man in baseball – A.J. Pierzynski
d.)
Had
won the Cy Young Award – Jake Peavy
e.)
Won
the Rookie of the Year Award – Jose Abreu
f.)
Was
starting pitcher in the All-Star Game – Chris Sale
FCR - Tom
Kennedy, Houston
Incorrect
guesses: Billy Pierce, Mark Buehrle
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who was the first Dominican-born pitcher
to lead the American League in ERA?
Hint: He also led in fewest hits per nine
innings, WHIP & ERA+.
Hint: His teammate won the Cy Young Award that
season.
Hint: Three years earlier, he had finished
the season with 26 wild pitches, only the second pitcher since 1905 to
throw more than 25 in a year.
Hint: That stat didn’t hurt him as he led the
majors in won/loss percentage.
Hint: His hardware collection includes two World
Series Rings.
- ERA = 2.93 in 1996 led the AL.
- W-L% = .824 in 1993.
FCR - Kellen Nielson, Blanding, Utah
Incorrect
guesses: Pedro Martinez, Juan Marichal,
Luis Tiant, Roberto Hernandez (Fausto Carmona), Orlando Hernandez, Diego
Segui, Juan Pizzaro
SUNDAY
Q. Who managed the team that won the
first-ever major league championship?
Hint: A strong two-way player, he was easily the
most productive player on that team.
Hint: As a pitcher, he started 237 career games
and finished 227 of them.
Hint: He was a star pitcher long before the first
major league was formed.
Hint: He was humiliatingly fired right on the
diamond, during a game by the team’s directors in spite of a season WAR triple
that of any other player and a 49-18 record as manager.
- Player/manager (more of what we could call a
‘captain’ today) for the 1871 Philadelphia
Athletics
of the National Association. With a record of 21-7, they won the pennant
by 2.0 games. They picked up Hall of
Famer Cap Anson from Rockford for the next season yet fell to 4th.
- As early as 1864 he was such a star that he
was allowed time off from service in the Civil War to pitch in an important
series.
- Fired in October, he was replaced by Cap Anson
who went on to manage more major league victories than anyone else in the 19th
century.
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: George Zettlein, Frank Bancroft,
Clark Griffith, Al Spalding, Walter Johnson
WEEKLY THEME – Major
league pitchers with the most games started without ever appearing in relief.
Glavine........... 682
Sabathia......... 509
Verlander....... 385
Hernandez..... 375
Weaver........... 331
Cueto............. 283
Sheets............ 250
Danks............. 247
Guzman......... 240
McBride.......... 237
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Larry
Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Pitchers
(left-handed?) who have double-digit ERA's for their careers in All-Star games.
Wed - Pitchers
who have thrown a no hitters in the 21st century.
- Starting
pitchers who were selected to at least six All-Star games
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