10-Nov‑2014
MONDAY
Q. Who
is the only left-handed hitting pitcher to win a Cy Young Award for the Kansas
City Royals?
Hint: It
was his second stint with them.
Hint: He
had just won a World Series ring the year before, but with a different team.
Twint: He
was mistaken for Jewish when he pitched in New York.
FCR - Kevin
Epstein, San Antonio, TX
Incorrect answers: Bret Saberhagen, Danny Jackson, Paul
Splittorff, Mark Davis
MONDAY BONUS
Q. What
former Houston Astro is the major league record holder for postseason pitching
victories?
Hint: He
also has pitched the most career innings in the postseason.
Twint: He
surrendered Alex Rodriguez’ 150th career home run.
A. ANDY PETTITTE
(19 W; 276.2 IP; A-Rod
HR 07-Apr-2000)
FCR - Richard
Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling,
Mike Scott, Nolan Ryan
TUESDAY
Q. What
hurler has been paid an average of $1,459,969 for each pitching victory since
2009?
Hint: He
became the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history when he signed the contract that
began that year.
Hint: His
tremendous year as a rookie didn’t result in a Rookie of the Year Award because
of the outstanding play of someone who had transferred from another league.
Twint: He
was recruited by UCLA to play football for them.
A. CC
SABATHIA ($132,857,142 / 91 W; 2001
ROY Ichiro
Suzuki)
FCR - Andrew
Distler, New York, NY
Incorrect answers: Barry Zito [$2,416,667], John Lackey
$[1,408,667], Cliff Lee [$1,455,224], Johan Santana [$3,672,182], Clayton
Kershaw [$256,387], Justin Verlander [$786,557], Roy Halladay [$1,250,000], Tim
Lincecum [$1,061,184]
TUESDAY BONUS
Q. Who
is the only Dominican-born Cy Young Award winner to suit up for both the Mets
and the Yankees during his career?
Hint: His
best years, however, were not played in New York.
Twint: He
has been granted free agency six times since 2003.
A. BARTOLO
COLON (CYA
2005, NYY
2011, NYM
2014)
FCR - Michael
Caragliano, Flushing, NY
Incorrect answers: Pedro Martinez, Orlando Hernandez, Luis Tiant
WEDNESDAY
Q. What
pitcher set the record for strikeouts in a game by a rookie when he struck out
eighteen Cubs?
Hint: He’s
one of the few pitchers to surrender five home runs in a single game.
Twint: He
was the last 20th century pitcher to win twenty plus games in a
season for the Tigers.
Twint: He
famously, publicly dealt with his diabetes as a major leaguer.
A. BILL
GULLICKSON (18 K: 10-Sep-1980;
5 HR 25-Jun-1987;
20-9 in 1991)
FCR - Dave
Mason, Ottawa, ON
Incorrect answers: Kerry Wood, Mark Prior, Dwight Gooden
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Whose
319 strikeouts are the most in a season by any right-handed pitcher not in the
Hall of Fame?
Hint: A
future teammate of his hit his first major league home run off him, a mammoth
446-foot shot.
Twint: Conspicuously
cruor-blemished hosiery.
A. CURT
SCHILLING (319 K in 1997 for PHI; HR by Erubiel
Durazo 07-Aug-1999;
Bloody
red sock in the 2004 ALCS
19-Oct-2004)
FCR - Tucker
Warner, Spottsylvania, VA
Incorrect answers: J.R. Richard, Rube Waddell, Fergie Jenkins,
Mike Scott, Don Drysdale, Sam McDowell
THURSDAY
Q. What
All-Star was the most frequent incorrect answer to Tuesday’s question this
week?
Hint: He
was the A's player representative during their Moneyball season.
Hint: The
day of one of the meetings was when he was scheduled to start, so he nominated
and sent a fellow rotation member in his place.
Twint: His
father composed for Duke Ellington and conducted the London Symphony Orchestra.
A. BARRY
ZITO (2002-03 Oakland
A’s; Sent Mark
Mulder in his place)
FCR - David
Krassin, New York, NY
Incorrect answers: Tim Hudson
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Who
was the first person to manage teams from each league in the All-Star game?
Hint: He
was the only manager to guide both major league teams in the San Francisco Bay
area, winning pennants with each and a World Series with the A’s.
Hint: He
was the only player besides Jackie Robinson to win the Rookie of the Year Award
when it was not league-specific, but represented all of major league baseball.
Hint: He
was the anchor of New York Giants during their championship year of 1954,
playing in every game and leading the league in at-bats.
Hint: He
was the lead-off batter and later scored in the inning where Bobby Thomson famously
went deep.
Hint: He
starred in three sports in college, most noticeably as a running back on the
Tigers’ football team.
Twint: He
never caught a pass from Y.A. Tittle.
Twint: As
a middle infielder, he was not a great home run hitter, with 126 over his
fourteen-year career.
Twint: He
did, however, manage to hit home runs off Hall of Famers Robin Roberts, Warren
Spahn, Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax.
A. ALVIN
DARK (http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/baseball/2014/11/13/baseball-great-alvin-dark-easley-passes-away-age/18975331/)
FCR - Harvey
Judkowitz, Miami, FL
Incorrect answers: Dick Williams, Monte Irvin, Sparky Anderson
THURSDAY BONUS
Q. Who
holds the modern era record for retiring the most consecutive batters faced in his
major league debut?
Hint: He
was originally drafted out of high school in the 43rd round by the
Cardinals.
Hint: He
chose instead to attend college, later becoming the University of Missouri’s
first ever first-round pick.
Twint: Although
very intelligent and only once-in-a-while angry, he’s neither “Smart” nor “Mad”.
A. MAX
SCHERZER (13 BF 29-Apr-2008
v HOU; 2003 drafted by STL; 2006 by ARZ, out of Mizzou’;
Neither Mad
Max nor Maxwell
Smart)
FCR - Steven
Coleman, Belleville, IL
Incorrect answers: Pete Reichert, Rick
Henninger, Mike Boddicker
FRIDAY
Q. Which
pitcher holds the Florida Marlins franchise record for the most strikeouts in
the postseason?
Hint: In
his first two postseason years, not only did he get rings, he won an NLCS MVP
and a World Series MVP.
Hint: He
was awarded Minor League Player of the Year by Baseball America, The
Sporting News and USA Today.
Twint: He
was the only Manatee ever to achieve even one of these awards.
A. JOSH
BECKETT (47 Ks, Livan Hernandez 2nd with 26; 2003 WS
MVP/2007 ALCS MVP; Minor League POY
2001 BA, TSN and USA)
FCR - Mark
DeLodovico, Rockville, MD
Incorrect answers: Kevin Brown, Livan Hernandez, Orlando
Hernandez, A.J. Burnett, Dontrelle Willis, Alex Fernandez, Brad Penny
SATURDAY
Q. What
former Blue Devil was the most recent San Francisco Giants pitcher to win as
many as 24 games in a season?
Hint: His
total would have topped the majors were it not for a certain knuckleballer.
Hint: His
performance earned him Cy Young Award and MVP consideration, but he won neither
and was out of baseball two years later.
Twint: His
downslide into a swimming pool coincided with his career downslide.
A. RON
BRYANT (24W 1973, Davis Senior High School Blue Devils; Wilbur
Wood also 24W 1973-74; A
gash while taking a slide into a pool led to his poor post 1973 league
leading season)
FCR - Richard
Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Billy Swift, Jack Sanford
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. What
pitcher surrendered the first All-Star game home run hit by a National Leaguer?
Hint: He
was nicknamed after America’s first administrator of the draft lottery.
Hint: He
was stationed in Siberia twice during World War I.
Twint: He
was the last Washington Senators pitcher to lead the league in wins for
consecutive years.
A. GENERAL
CROWDER (1933
ASG HR by Frankie
Frisch; General Enoch
Crowder and the Selective
Service Act of 1917; American
Expeditionary Force in Siberia; after Walter Johnson, W24 and W26
1932-3.
FCR - John
Michael Pierobon, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Incorrect answers: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Bill Hallahan,
Lefty Gomez, Urban Shocker
SUNDAY
Q. Who
was the first African American to play a professional game in the Boston Red Sox
organization?
Hint: Given
the racially charged atmosphere of the team, it should be no surprise that he
batted .400 and was named “Camp Rookie of the Year” during spring training of
the year and made it to the Bigs, but not until the end of July that year.
Hint: Not
that they couldn’t have used him—they were in last place.
Hint: With
him on the team, they managed to climb to third by the end of the season.
Hint: In
his last year in the majors, he would hit a home run that made him the last
pitcher to get homers in both leagues prior to CC Sabathia’ s accomplishment in
2008.
Twint: He
is the all-time career batting leader for home runs hit by pitchers in the
post-expansion era.
A. EARL WILSON (Signed and
played in the minors in 1953, Elijah
“Pumpsie” Green wasn’t signed until 1956*; SABR BIO indicates that GM
Manager Bucky
Harris might have brought Wilson up, but owner Tom Yawkey,
not exactly a model of liberalism, was convinced by Pinky
Higgins to keep Wilson in the minors; his 1 HR with the
Padres.)
*Walt
Cherniak of Dayton, Maryland, first among equals, pointed out to us that Wilson
was preceded by several years under the Red Sox aegis by Piper
Davis who signed with them in 1950.
Wilson, however, aligns correctly with all the remaining hints.
FCR - Steve
Basford, Dublin, OH
Incorrect answers: Pumpsie Green, Reggie Smith, Willie Tasby,
Piper Davis
WEEKLY THEME – Pitchers who lead the
league in wins, but failed to get even a single shutout (20 W min.)
Pitcher Year W L ShO
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Dave
Washburn, Marietta, GA (after Gullickson Q.)
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday - NYY career wins leaders
- Yankees' late 90's
dynasty
- Left handers
who won a World Series with the Yankees
Tuesday - Yankees
left handed pitchers to win 20 games
- Pitchers who
have had 20-win seasons with the Yankees
- Postseason
with 2 teams and WS win with the Yankees
- Hurlers traded
the year after they won the Cy Young Award
- Pitchers who
won their 200th game after 2000 who pitched for the Yankees
Wed. - Pitchers
who the Yankees have signed as free agents
- Pitchers who
won their 200th game after 2000 who pitched for the Yankees
- Cy Young and
WS winners who have pitched for both the Mets and the Yankees
- Pitchers who
won 20 games in a season after leaving the Expos
- Pitchers who
won 20 games but not a Cy Young
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