Q. Which Dodger
pitcher has accumulated the most pitching victories since the team moved from
Brooklyn?
Hint: He is the
only pitcher to start thirty games in a season 20 times.
Hint: He gave up the
first major league home runs of Ferguson Jenkins and Nolan Ryan.
Hint: He set a
record when he lost his first thirteen decisions against the Cubs.
Rank Pitcher Wins for LAD
1 Don Sutton 223
2 Don Drysdale 187
3 Clayton Kershaw 163
4 Sandy Koufax 156
5 Claude Osteen 147
6 Fernando
Valenzuela 141
7 Orel Hershiser 135
8 Ramon Martinez 123
9 Bob Welch 115
10 Burt Hooton 112
- From 1966 to 1988
the only years he didn’t have 30 GS, he had 27, 23 & 16.
- From 23-Apr-1966 to
24-Jul-1969. He finally beat CHC in his
14th start against them on 10-Aug-1969
to break the streak.
FCR - Tony Hughes, Woodbridge,
Virginia
Incorrect guesses: Don
Drysdale, Orel Hershiser
MONDAY BONUS
Q. About whom
did teammate Andre Dawson say, “He was 100%+, day in & day out. You could never know what his game was,
whether it was struggling or whether he was doing good. He just went out there & as long as he was
on the field… I don't know how to say it other than he was all-out!”?
Hint: He was only
the third person ever chosen number one overall at his position in the MLB June
Amateur Draft.
Hint: He was the
last 20th-century National Leaguer to hit three triples in a nine‑inning
game.
- Quote slightly edited for readability.
FCR - Jeff Frost, Gilbertville, Iowa
Incorrect guesses: Herm Winningham, Warren Cromartie, Tim Raines,
Rafael Furcal, Devon White, Tim Wallach, Al Bumbry, Ernie Banks, Gary
Carter, Ryne Sandberg
TUESDAY
Q. Who replaced Cal Ripken, Jr. as a
pinch-runner ending Cal’s consecutive innings streak?
Hint: He led the Senior Professional Baseball
League in RBI in its inaugural season.
Hint: He lost his home and the home he bought for
his mother-in-law in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina.
Hint: Kirby Puckett, in his Hall of Fame
induction speech, called him “my big-league father”.
- Pinch-ran for Cal in the top of the 8th
inning on 14-Sep-1987 which pegged the
consecutive innings streak at 8,264, confirmed by SABR research to be the record.
- He left his coaching job for OAK to join his family in
a shelter after they evacuated their home in August of 2005.
FCR - Nels Johnston, St. Thomas, Ontario
Incorrect
guesses: Lew Ford, Manny Alexander
WEDNESDAY
Q. Which first baseman represented the
Tigers and the Pirates as a major league All-Star?
Hint: He hit more than 30 home runs in a season
for each of those teams.
Hint: More than 350 players were drafted ahead of
him in the June draft his year, but only 85 of those ever made it to the
majors.
Hint: His nickname was “Roof Top”.
- Chosen 353rd by LAD in the 15th round
of the 1972
MLB June Amateur Draft. He chose college
at Cal State Northridge and was drafted by DET in the 4th round.
- Twice, Thompson hit the ball over the far, distant right field
roof at Tiger Stadium,
which earned him his nickname "Roof-Top".
FCR - Dennis Bidwell, Morgantown, West Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Hank Greenberg, Rupert Jones,
Cecil Fielder, Tom Browning
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who is the only Minnesota Twins player
ever to win the Platinum Glove Award?
Hint: He had also won Baseball America's Minor
League Player of the Year Award.
Hint: As a pitcher in high school, a pitch he
threw was clocked at 99 miles per hour.
- MiLB POY in 2013.
- He attended Appling County High
School
in Baxley, Georgia, where he played baseball, basketball and football. As a senior he hit .513 w/38 stolen bases in
39 games.
FCR - Dan Greder, Ames, Iowa
Incorrect
guesses: Kirby Puckett, Torii Hunter,
Jim Kaat, Joe Mauer, Kent Hrbek
THURSDAY
Q. What National League season RBI champ
was the nephew of a World Series hero?
Hint: His father also played in the majors.
Hint: He (the son) has had a successful career as
a television analyst.
- Led the NL w/141 RBI in 2003 for the Rockies. He is the nephew of Mookie Wilson who was an important
part of NYM’s WS win in 1986.
- The very same Mookie Wilson is also his
step-father. The late Richard Wilson,
Mookie’s older brother, married Rosa and Preston was their child, but the
marriage didn’t last and they divorced when Preston was 4 years old. Mookie then married Rosa and became, in
Preston’s words, “…the father I’ve ever known.”
FCR - Phillip Ross, Denver
Incorrect
guesses: Barry Bonds, Mike Hegan, Dixie
Walker, Tony Perez, Matty Alou, Bret Boone, Gary Sheffield, Ralph Kiner
FRIDAY
Q. Who did the White Sox trade away to get
the pitcher who then became their all-time career strikeout leader?
Hint: He hit his only career grand slam off the
great Bob Feller.
Hint: He is credited with helping Bill Dickey
break young Yogi Berra into the majors.
Hint: He finished his career with a record of the
most plate appearances in the majors without ever stealing a base.
- On 10-Nov-1948 DET gave Billy Pierce to
CHW for Robinson, but the Tigers threw in an extra $10,000 so it wouldn’t see
so, you know, one-sided.
- He was the Yankees’ main catcher when Yogi
broke in in 1946.
- 2,191 PA w/o a single SB. Not for lack of effort as he was thrown out 6
times.
FCR - Jim Easton, London, Ontario
Incorrect
guesses: Al Lopez, Sherm Lollar, Red
Faber, Ken Silvestri, Buddy Rosar
T.G.I.F. BONUS
Q. What ex-Longhorn was always known by his
full given name, first, middle and last?
Hint: The year he debuted in the majors, he had
been voted the Most Valuable Player of the NCAA Southwest Conference, playing
for Texas.
Hint: He made his mark as an innings-eating
relief pitcher.
- He had attended and played for the University
of Texas at Austin
and made the conference All-Star team in his final year.
- He played for six teams in the majors over twelve
seasons and wore nine different uniform numbers.
FCR - Timothy Kearns, Washington, DC
Incorrect
guesses: John Henry Johnson, Rawlins
Jackson Eastwick, John David Crow, Blue Moon Odom
SATURDAY
Q. From 1951 through 1959, which pitcher
finished more games in a season in the National League than anyone else?
Hint: He faced Willie Mays in a major league game
in New York in 1957 and again in New York in 1972.
Hint: Between those times, he was his teammate.
Hint: As a youth, he had considered Mays as a
respected enemy.
Hint: When he retired, he was fourth on the
all-time list of most games pitched.
- 49 GF in 1959
- Grew up in Brooklyn, so…
- Retired having appeared in 874 G, behind only
Hoyt Wilhelm, Lindy McDaniel & Cy Young.
FCR - Danny Shilkett, Pensacola
Incorrect
guesses: Warren Spahn, Hoyt Wilhelm, Roy
Face, Lindy McDaniel, Robin Roberts, Clem Labine
SATURDAY SUPRA
Q. What Bonus Baby had to compete with Phil
Cavarretta, Ferris Fain, George Kell, Sherm Lollar, Grady Hatton,
Walt Dropo and four additional players for playing time at first base in
the first two seasons of his career?
Hint: He was six feet tall by age thirteen.
Hint: In high school, he starred in basketball
and his team won three consecutive Class-A titles in Michigan.
Hint: His manager, Marty Marion, said “I’ve never
seen anyone hit a ball harder than [he] does.”
Hint: The insurance business he opened in 1962 is
thriving today.
- CHW’s first baseman duties in 1954-55 was
shared by Cavarretta, Dropo, Fain, Hatton, Kell and Lollar IN ADDITION TO Bob Kennedy, Fred Marsh, Bob Boyd and even pitcher Jack Harshman.
- He grew to 6’ 6¾” and
was one of the tallest in the majors.
- The Ron Jackson Insurance
Agency
office in Kalamazoo shows a baseball in its logo. The agency is active in the community.
FCR - Tom Lee, Nashville
Incorrect
guesses: Walt Dropo, Dick Wakefield, Harry
Agannis
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who was the first player, specifically designated
to be a designated hitter, to play for a World Series champion?
Hint: He turned down an offer from Notre Dame to play
football and signed with the Yankees instead.
Hint: The year he finished in the top five in MVP
voting was the year he led the league in runs batted in.
Hint: He was the first documented player to
strike out five times in a game twice during the same season.
- Obtained by OAK from PHI 02-May-1973 and was
their DH for 107 of their remaining 140 G that WS-winning season.
- K x 5 = 29-Aug-1964 & 30-Sep-1964. 2 others have
duplicated the ‘feat’. Ray Lankford did
it 3 X in 1998 and Giancarlo Stanton in April 2018, 5 days apart.
FCR - Tom Lee, Nashville
Incorrect
guesses: Don Mattingly, Ron
Bloomberg
SUNDAY
Q. Who did Tampa Bay select as their
Opening Day starting pitcher three years before their dropped the “Devil”?
Hint: No doubt partly because he was called the
second coming of Roger Clemens by Peter Gammons, he received the Tony
Conigliaro Award.
Hint: He was the third player ever drafted this
century but ended his career with a negative WAR.
- Pitched Opening Day 2005. Unfortunately, he opposite number that day was
Roy Halladay at the height of his
career.
- Taken #3 overall in the 2001 June Draft, but his 5 seasons pitching
in the majors show a record of 8-25 and a net WAR of -3.1.
FCR - Sara Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: , Scott Kazmir, Rick Helling
WEEK’S
FINALE
Q. Who has made the most major league pitching
appearances by a Utah native?
Hint: In his debut game he faced Baltimore. He started and then retired the last 14 Orioles
he faced.
FCR - Jesse Asbury, Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: Cole Hamels, Bruce Hurst, Wayne
Terwilliger
WEEKLY THEME – Players
whose first name and last name ends with “…on”.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Ken Kirk, Corning, New York (After
Buxton)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Career
[pitching wins] leaders of relocated franchises
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