MONDAY — 07-Sep-2026
Q. Who
is the only pitcher with more than two hundred pitching wins in each of the National
League and American League?
Hint: #1
His career record for complete games looks safe for now.
Hint: #2
He is the first skipper in the history of the Red Sox franchise to
finish his managerial career with a win/loss record of exactly .500.
-
Ans. Young won 290 NL games for CLV, STL & BSN 1890-1900, 1911. He
won 221 games for BOS & CLE.
-
#1 He completed 749 of the 815 games he
started. Pud Galvin is in 2nd
place with 746. The active career leader
is Justin Verlander who has 26 & is not looking to extend that number.
-
#2 Young drove his young charges
to a 3-win, 3-loss record, Young himself the winning pitcher in 2 of the 3 victories. He was replaced in the dugout by George Huff (2-6), Bob Unglaub (9-20) then Deacon McGuire (45-61-6), all in 1907. Bucky Harris went
76-76-1 in 1934. Pete Runnels left
managing BOS with a symmetrical 1966 record of 8-8.
FCR - Bob
Wells, Chantilly, Virginia
Incorrect guesses: Jake Stahl
TUESDAY — 08-Sep-2026
Q. Who was the first repeat winner of the Cy
Young Award?
Hint:
#1 He set a record by winning twenty-seven
decisions in his final year in the majors.
Hint:
#2 Pictures show that the baseball was
as low as the top of his left ankle when he reached back to throw.
A. SANDY KOUFAX [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Koufax
was the CYA recipient in 1965 after having won it in
1963. He was also the 1966 winner of the award. When the 1963 result was announced,
Commissioner Ford Frick said, “I can understand why the vote was
unanimous.” Koufax was the 8th winner of the award, but the
first to win it unanimously.
- #1 The
traumatic arthritis in his left elbow compelled him to retire at the peak of
his career. He announced his retirement 6
weeks after his final World Series (1966) appearance at age 30.
- #2 Click for a pic.
FCR - Dan Schoenholz, Walnut Creek, California
Incorrect
guesses: Warren Spahn, Hal Newhouser, Bob
Gibson, Don Newcombe
WEDNESDAY — 09-Sep-2026
Q. When the two best pitchers in the Deadball
Era faced each other in a game as starters, who was the winning pitcher?
Hint:
#1 Back when he made his debut in the
majors, he threw a one-hitter. The sole
safety was by another player who is now also a Hall of Famer.
Hint:
#2 He holds the all-time lowest career
WHIP (Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched) in MLB history. Rangers’ pitcher Jacob deGrom is currently
second on that list, but with little prospect of overtaking the top spot.
A. ADDIE JOSS [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Joss,
pitching for CLE, held Ed Walsh & CHW to exactly
no hits, facing only 27 batters, none of whom reached first.
- #1 Joss’s
1st MLB game on 26-Apr-1902 was prevented from
being a no-hitter because of a single hit by the St. Louis Browns’ Jesse Burkett.
- #2 Joss’s
WHIP of 0.9678
over career 2,327
innings seems safe, notwithstanding some outstanding 21st-century
careers.
FCR - Tom McLaughlin, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
Incorrect
guesses: Smokey Joe Wood, Walter Johnson,
Mordecai Brown, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Big Ed Walsh, Three Finger Brown
MIDWEEK
BONUS 10-Sep-2026
Q. Which former New York Yankee is the only left-handed
relief pitcher to strike out fifteen or more batters in a nine-inning game?
Hint:
#1 He is the first pitcher to give up a home
run to a hitter using a pink bat.
Hint:
#2 He put together the first pitching
Triple Crown of the current century.
A. RANDY JOHNSON [SABR Bio]
- Ans. In
a D-Backs game that had begun on 17-Jul, Curt Schilling pitched 2 perfect innings.
However an electrical transformer exploded
& caused the game to be suspended. When
play resumed the next day 18-Jul-2001, Johnson pitched
innings 3-9 & gave up 1 BB, 1 hit & 0 runs to SDP. He also K’ed 16. His Yankee years were 2005 & 2006.
- #1 Mark
Kotsay homered off Johnson in the 1st inning of the Mothers’ Day
Game on 14-May-2006. Kotsay used a pink bat as part of baseball’s
annual Breast Cancer Awareness Day. It
prompted Oakland teammate Nick Swisher to remark, “If going yard off ‘Big Unit’
at Yankee Stadium with a pink bat doesn’t make you a stud, I don’t know what
does.”
- #2 At
age 38 in 2002, pitching for ARI,
Johnson not only led the majors with-
- a 10.7
WAR,
- 8 complete games,
- 260 innings pitched,
- 1,035
batters faced,
- a career-best ERA+ of
195,
- struck out 11.6
batters per 9 innings pitched and
- won a unanimous Cy Young Award, …
…he also won the Triple
Crown by leading the NL in Wins (24), ERA (2.32) & Strikeouts
(334).
FCR - Josh Murphy, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Incorrect
guesses: Dave Righetti, Mariano Rivera, Ron
Guidry, Roger Clemens, Gerritt Cole
THURSDAY — 10-Sep-2026
Q. Which altitudinous righty once won a Cy Young
Award with an overwhelming majority vote, yet had an ERA that season that
didn’t even rank in the majors’ Top Ten?
Hint:
#1 Seven years later, he won the Cy
Young Award in the other league becoming the fifth pitcher to do so. More recently two other pitchers have joined
this elite group.
Hint
#2 His uniform number (although not the
same one) is retired by both the teams where he won a Cy Young Award.
Hint: #3 His son played for Penn State and was drafted
by Toronto.
A. ROY HALLADAY [SABR Bio]
- Ans. In
2003, pitching for Toronto’s Blue Jays, Halladay posted a
record of 22-7 with a more modest ERA of 3.25, scored a vote of 26 out of 28 possible first-place votes
for the AL CYA. Halladay stood 6'6".
- #1 Playing
his 1st season for PHI in 2010, he won the NL CYA by
unanimous first-place vote. This time, he also received MVP votes as
well. Those who have won the CYA in both
leagues are:
Gaylord
Perry........ AL 1972, NL 1978;
Roger
Clemens..... AL 1986, ‘87, ‘91,
‘97, ‘98, 2001, NL 2004;
Randy
Johnson..... AL 1995, NL 1999,
2000, ‘01, ’02;
Pedro
Martinez...... AL 1999, 2000, NL
1997;
Halladay................ AL 2003, NL 2010;
Max
Scherzer........ AL 2013, NL 2016, ’17;
&
Blake
Snell............ AL 2018, NL 2023.
- #2 Halladay’s
#32 will never be worn by another Blue Jay.
His number in Philadelphia was 34 because the Phils had already retired
#32 for Hall of Famer Steve Carlton.
- #3 Braden Halladay was drafted in MLB
round #32, coincidentally, his father’s uniform number w/TOR. Watch here.
FCR - Brad Clark, Madison, Wisconsin
Incorrect
guesses: Roger Clemens, Nolan Ryan, Gaylord
Perry
FRIDAY — 11-SEP-2026
Q. Who is the only player to win 150+ games as a
pitcher and collect 2,000+ hits as a batter?
Hint:
#1 He did not play in the PGA Masters
golf tournament just before his death at age 65.
Hint:
#2 He once pitched complete games in seventy-three
consecutive starts.
A. JOHN MONTGOMERY WARD [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Ward
ended with a pitching record of 164-103 and 2,107 hits as a batter.
- #1 In
early 1925, Ward traveled to Augusta, Georgia to play golf. While there, he went on a hunting trip, caught
a severe chill & collapsed with pneumonia. His death in Augusta on 04-Mar-1925, is 1 day
after his 65th birthday. His
story frequently is often linked to the famous Masters tournament first played there
beginning 9 years after his death.
- #2 The
streak began with his major league debut on 15-Jul-1878 until he was relieved
in the 4th inning of a game exactly 1 year later.
FCR - Willis Kern, Ft. Myers
Incorrect
guesses: Dummy Hoy, Babe Ruth, Red
Ruffing
SATURDAY — 12-Sep-2026
Q. Which one-time Dodger pitcher started the
first All-Star Game he ever appeared in, threw three perfect innings and got
the win?
Hint:
#1 He didn’t make the All-Star team the
next season, but after that, he was an All-Star eight times. However, the year he led the league in WAR,
strikeouts, strikeouts per nine innings and strikeouts over walks, he wasn’t an
All-Star. Go figure.
Hint:
#2 He is the only pitcher who
surrendered an inside-the-park home run to Hank Aaron.
A. JIM BUNNING [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Then
a Detroit Tiger, Bunning was the starting pitcher for the AL in the 1957 ASG. He got only outs from future Hall of Famers Henry
Aaron, Stan Musial, Willie Mays & Frank Robinson. He played for LAD in 1969.
- #1 Bunning
was an AL All-Star in 1959a, 1961a, 1961b, 1962a, 1962b & 1963. He was an NL All-Star in 1964 & 1966. He led in WAR 6.6, Ks 201, SO9 7.2
& SO/BB 3.14. The best that
he received for that season was a tie for 24th in the AL MVP vote.
- #2 On 10-May-1967 in Connie Mack
Stadium, Aaron scored a 2-run homer in the 8th off Bunning. It was Bunning’s last inning of that game, but
the Phils won with Bunning’s reliever, Turk Farrell getting the win.
FCR - Mary Hums, Louisville
Incorrect
guesses: Don Drysdale, Juan Marichal, Rick
Sutcliffe, Don Sutton
SUNDAY — 13-Sep-2026
Q. Whose owner dictated his nickname?
Hint:
#1 He only played for two franchises but
three of his managers became Hall of Famers.
Hint: #2 Coaches and teammates of his who are now Hall
of Famers number more than ten.
Hint: #3 He surrendered a home run to a future Hall of
Famer in that batter’s first at-bat as a designated hitter.
A. CATFISH HUNTER [SABR Bio]
- Ans. See
A’s owner Charley Finley in Hunter’s SABR Bio.
- #1 Hunter
played for the A’s in Kansas City (1965-1967) then
stayed with them as they moved to Oakland (1968-1974). He was granted free agency and signed with NYY &
played for them (1975-1979). He played
under Luke Appling, Dick Williams & Bob Lemon.
- #2 Coaches
& teammates who are now HOF include:
Gabby Hartnett, Whitey Herzog, Satchel Paige, Rollie Fingers, Reggie Jackson,
Orlando Cepeda, Rich Gossage , Jim Kaat, Joe DiMaggio, Whitey Ford & Yogi Berra.
- #3 Gave
up a HR to Tony Oliva
in Oakland on 06-Apr-1973.
FCR - Brian Wood, Pacific Grove, California
Incorrect
guesses: John Blue Moon Odom
THEME: Hall of Fame pitchers who each threw a perfect
game.
Who Date Opponent Career WAR
Halladay........ 29-May-2010......... FLA............... 64.2
Johnson........ 18-May-2004......... ATL............. 101.1
Young............ 05-May-1904......... PHA............. 163.6
Joss............... 02-Oct-1908........... CHW............. 45.4
Ward.............. 17-Jun-1880.......... BUF............... 62.3
Koufax........... 09-Sep-1965.......... CHC.............. 48.9
Hunter........... 08-May-1968......... MIN............... 40.9
Bunning......... 21-Jun-1964(1)....... NYM.............. 59.5
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – Andrew Milner, Philadelphia
(after Joss)
Incorrect
theme guesses:
Mon - HoF'ers
who were better known by a nickname than their first name
Tues - Pitchers
with a no-hitter and a perfect game.
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