MONDAY
Q. Who is the
only player to hit fifty home runs in each of four straight National League seasons?
Hint: He also drove
in one hundred runs in each of nine consecutive years.
Hint: He was once
traded for a former MVP then later was voted MVP himself.
Hint: His first
career home run was off Roger Clemens.
A. SAMMY SOSA [SABR Bio]
- From 1998 through
2001, he hit 66, 63, 50 & 64 HR for CHC.
He just missed the next year with 49 HR in 2002.
- Hit the 100 RBI
mark every year 1995-2003.
- On 30-Mar-1992 e
was traded with Ken Patterson from
CHW to CHC for George Bell
(AL MVP 1987). Sosa was NL MVP in 1998.
- Playing for TEX, he
took Clemens deep 21-Jun-1989. It was the only HR he hit for TEX in the 20th
century. He hit 21 for them at the end
of his career in 2007.
FCR - Alan Lefkowitz,
Washington, New York
Incorrect guesses: Mark
McGwire, Ralph Kiner
TUESDAY
Q. Which
one-time Arizona Diamondback is the only player in major league history to have
a six-hit game where four of those hits were home runs.
Hint: He holds the
Los Angeles Dodger record for the most doubles in a season.
Hint: He donated a
portion of his original signing bonus to help feed children in the city whose
team he had just joined.
A. SHAWN GREEN [B-R Bio]
- On 23-May-2002 playing for LAD, Green
had a career day at the plate against Milwaukee Brewers‘ pitching in beautiful
Miller Park, a venue barely a year old, with a single, a double and four home
runs. 19 total bases! Never been done—before or since. He played for ARI in 2005-06.
- Green hit 49 2B in 2003. Only Johnny Frederick’s 52 in 1929 are more
for the Dodger franchise. The
only time Green led the league in 2B, however, was when he hit 45 of
them in 1999 for TOR.
- He was drafted by TOR as their 1st round
pick (16th overall) in the 1991 MLB June Amateur Draft & received a bonus
of $725,000, opting out of his scholarship to Stanford. Green donated a chunk of his signing bonus to
the Metropolitan Toronto Housing Authority Breakfast Club which provides
breakfast for kids who would otherwise have gone to school hungry.
FCR - Jerry Miller, Liberty Hill, Texas
Incorrect guesses: Steve Finley, J.D. Martinez, Mike Cameron, Luis
Gonzalez, Matt Kemp, Mark Whiten, Matt Williams, Yasmani Grandal
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who is the only former Met and Yankee to
lead his league in doubles and triples?
Hint: In his eighteen-year career in the majors,
he won a Silver Slugger and a Gold
Glove, one each, in consecutive seasons.
Hint: Among Venezuelans natives, only Andres
Galarraga struck out more times in the majors.
A. BOBBY ABREU [B-R Bio]
- Played for NYY 2006-08; for NYM 2014. Led the NL in 3B for PHI in 1999 w/11. Led in 2b w/50 in 2002.
- SS in 2004; GG in 2005, both for PHI
- Galarraga had 2,003 K, Abreu had 1,840.
FCR - Preston Salisbury, Starkville, Mississippi
Incorrect
guesses: Carlos Beltran, Curtis Granderson,
Robinson Cano
MIDWEEK BOUS
Q. Which catcher holds the record for
doubles in a National League Championship Series?
Hint: For his performance in that LCS, he was
named MVP and help put his team back in the World Series as they were the then
current title holders.
Hint: In the last year of his 15-year career, he was
teammates with a young fellow countryman pitcher whose first and last names
matched his.
A. JAVY LOPEZ [SABR Bio]
- Lopez had 5 2B in the 1996 NLCS for ATL when
they beat STL.
- ATL won the WS in 1995. Lopez was MVP of the 1996 NLCS.
- Although teammates with BOS in 2006 for about a
month, catcher Javier Torres Lopez (goes by “Javy”) and
fellow Puerto Rican Javier Alfonso Lopez, a left-handed
reliever, never appeared together in a game (opportunity missed).
FCR - Rob Sheinkopf, Las Vegas
Incorrect
guesses: Ivan Rodriguez, Javier Lopez, Tony
Pena, Johnny Bench, Carlos Ruiz, Scott Servais, Gene Tenace, Eddie Perez, Jerry
Grote, Javier Vasquez, Yadier Molina
THURSDAY
Q. Which journeyman catcher did the Reds
sell to the Royals for $1.00?
Hint: He had a home run taken away by a Jim
Edmonds catch that was and still is, according to many who were there to
witness it, one of the finest catches ever made. It was on a beautiful evening at The Great
American Ballpark in Cincinnati, directly in front of a crowd that contained
several hundred SABR conventioneers.
Hint: He had his career ended as a result of an
on-field brawl.
A. JASON LaRUE [Bio]
- On 20-Nov-2006, LaRue was traded to the KCR
for a player to be named later. Since a
player could not be agreed upon, the Royals opted to send the Reds cash
considerations in the amount of one dollar.
- In a game on Friday, 16-Jun-2004, LaRue hit what many
thought was going to be a home run with nobody out in the bottom of the 9th
with the home team down 2 runs. LaRue
had already homered in the 6th.
You can see it here: Edmonds’ catch.
- As a back-up catcher for STL in the game on 10-Aug-2010, LaRue left the bench
to defend his teammates as a fight on the field escalated, but he got the worst
of it. Details here.
FCR - Jori Grossman, New York City
Incorrect
guesses: Joe Nolan, David Howard, Adam
Dunn, Brad Ausmus, Dann Bilardello, David Howard, Clint Courtney
FRIDAY
Q. Which Stanford teammate was the Best Man
at John Elway’s wedding?
Hint: His son pitched for the university where
John Elway’s father had been the football coach.
Hint: This one-time Cleveland Indian was the only
A's player other than Mark McGwire to play fifty games in a year at first base between
1987 and 1993?
Hint: He capped
off his playing career with a World Series championship.
Hint: He has been a coach in the majors for
twelve seasons.
A. MIKE ALDRETE [B-R Bio]
- Elway married Stanford Swim
Team member Janet Buchan in 1984.
Aldrete was in the wedding party.
- Son Michael Aldrete played baseball briefly at
San Jose State
University. Jack Elway, John’s father was the
football coach there 1979-83.
- Aldrete appeared in 59 G at 1B for the 1993
Athletics while McGwire was suffering from nagging foot injuries.
-Got into 32 G for the Champion
NYY in 1996. He grounded out in his only career WS AB.
- Coach w/OAK since 2015.
FCR - Dave Jackson, Irving, Texas
Incorrect
guesses: Carney Lansford, Aaron Boone
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the first Pittsburgh Pirate
batter to hit a home run that landed in the Allegheny River on the fly?
Hint: He is the second player ever to hit twenty
home runs in an MLB season without hitting one before July.
Hint: His cousin is a broadcaster for the Cubs.
Hint: He ended his playing career with the
Giants.
A. GARRETT
JONES [B-R Bio]
- Wet HR = 02-Jun-2013
- Blasted 21 HRs between 02-July and
28-Sept-2009
- Former MLB player Ron Coomer, is an analyst on the Cubs Radio
Network.
- Garrett played for 2 years (2016-17) for the Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central
League after his 8 seasons in the majors.
FCR - Blake Sherry, Dublin, Ohio
Incorrect
guesses: Willie, McCovey, Daryle Ward, Barry
Bonds, Lance Blankenship, Honus Wagner, Josh Bell
SUNDAY
Q. Whose name might imply he was trying to intimidate Earth’s grandest satellite?
Hint: During a lunar eclipse, he struck out in
his only career World Series at bat.
Hint: Excluding the battery, he had played every
position on the diamond at the major league level.
Hint: He and Nelson Cruz attended the same high
school.
A. HECTOR LUNA [Wiki]
- “Hector” = To talk to in a bullying way. “Luna” = the moon.
- K’d during the eclipse that occurred in G4 of
the 2004 WS.
- Illustrating his positions by percent of total
games played results in this graph:
2B 36.9%
SS 19.4%
3B 16.8%
LF 10.8%
RF 8.6%
1B 6.5%
DH 2.5%
CF 1.1%
- High school alumnus of Monte Cristi in the town
of Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic.
FCR - Elliott Frankfother, Rock Falls, Illinois
Incorrect
guesses: Guillermo Luna
WEEKLY THEME – Player
who hit the 10,000th home run for National League franchises.
Team Player Date Career HRs
Giants................... Aldrete................. 10-Jul-1988.................. 41
Cubs..................... Sosa.................... 17-Aug-1995.............. 609
Braves.................. Lopez................... 05-Jun-1997............... 260
Reds..................... LaRue.................. 20-Jun-2001................. 96
Dodgers............... Green................... 24-Jul-2001................ 328
Phillies................. Abreu................... 07-Aug-2001.............. 288
Cardinals.............. Luna..................... 03-May-2006................ 15
Pirates.................. Jones................... 02-Sep-2009.............. 122
Here are the totals (through
2020) for those franchises that have yet to reach the 10,000 mark
Franchise HR Total HR/Yr
Avg. #10,000 year (est.)
SEP/MIL........... 7,910.............. 152................. 2034
NYM.................. 7,757.............. 131................. 2038
MON/WSH........ 6,951.............. 134................. 2043
SDP.................. 6,490.............. 125................. 2049
COL.................. 5,013.............. 179................. 2048
MIA................... 3,946.............. 141................. 2063
ARI.................... 3,851.............. 167................. 2057
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Patrick Ray, Paradise Valley, Arizona
(After Abreu)
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday - Players
with 500 career HR not in the HOF
- Players
from the Dominican with 3 HR games
Tuesday - Players
who have hit 3 or more homers in a game against the Brewers
- Players
to hit more than 3 HR's in a game that played right field
- Players
who set a franchise record for home runs but did not lead the league
Wes - They
all hit hr #10,000 for their respective franchises
- Mets
right fielders
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