MONDAY
Q. Who
is the only 21st-century pitcher to take the Cy Young Award with
over 20 wins one season then lead the other league in losses with his next team?
Hint: It
was the only twenty-win season of his fourteen-year career.
Hint: If
not for him, Pedro Martinez might have captured a fourth and final Cy Young
Award.
Twint: His
father composed for Duke Ellington & conducted the London Symphony
Orchestra.
A. BARRY
ZITO (23-5 2002 with MLB leading
17L 2008; He was the CY
winner 2002, with Pedro finishing 2nd – the highest he’d finish
the remainder of his career; Father: Joe
Zito)
FCR - Walt
Cherniak, Woodbine, MD
Incorrect answers: Wilbur Wood, Tim Hudson, Bartolo Colon, R.A.
Dickey, Roy Halladay
TUESDAY
Q: What
currently active pitcher has more wins than any other?
Hint: …and
the most shutouts?
Hint: He
was the first among active pitchers to win 20 games this century.
Twint: He
was the 2010 NL Comeback Player of the Year.
A. TIM
HUDSON (20-6 in 2000;
214W, CC Sabathia 2nd with 208; 13 SHO;
won with the Atlanta Braves 2010 going 17-9 with 2.83 ERA)
FCR - Richard
Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Mark Buehrle, CC Sabathia, Jake Peavy,
Bartolo Colon, Felix Hernandez
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
is the only Oakland A’s pitcher to lead his league twice each in complete games
and shut outs?
Hint: He
was the youngest A’s pitcher to ever lead his league in wins.
Hint: Including
that season, and for his remaining years as an A, he would lead their staff in
total wins.
Hint: In
fact, he led the entire American League in wins during that span, and only Curt
Schilling – with the Diamondbacks and Red Sox - topped his number of total
victories.
Hint: He
never (as far as we know) filed anything under “X”.
Twint: He
finally gave up on a comeback attempt after suffering an injury once inflicted
by Paris.
A. MARK
MULDER (CG 9/5 2003-4, SHO 4/2 2001, 2003; Won 21 G
2001 age 23; From 2001-4 he won 71 G, with Zito 65 W and Hudson 61 W; Schilling
won 74 - 53 with ARI, 21 with BOS; An Achilles tendon injury essentially ended
his career in 2014. In Greek Mythology, Paris of Troy killed Achilles
with an arrow to his heel before absconding with Helen; Sometimes called Agent
Mulder in reference to a character on the TV show “The X Files”.)
FCR - George
Buonacos, Chantilly, VA
Incorrect answers: Barry Zito, Dennis Eckersley, Bob Welch, Dave
Stewart, Jim Hunter, Vida Blue
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who,
despite his double chin, has one of the most menacing stares from the mound in
the majors?
Hint: The
season he led the league in strikeouts and victories, he did not garner a
single Cy Young vote. No other pitcher
has ever done that.
Hint: He
once wore a jersey with the city name on front misspelled "CNCINNATI"
for the 1st 3 innings of a game against the Cardinals on 12-Apr-2005.
Twint: He
has more Major League victories (and counting) than any other alum from Tony
Gwynn’s alma mater.
Twint: He
has played over half of his fourteen seasons with the Reds but also has been on
seven other major league rosters.
A. AARON
HARANG (16
W 2006 tied with Smoltz, Lowe, Penny & Zambrano; “No one has ever
done that”: There were 13 other NL pitchers since 1956 to take both Ws and Ks
titles and they all won the Cy Young except Harang; 123 W; he, like Gwynn,
attended San Diego State University;
CIN [8], OAK [2], NYM [1], PHI [1], ATL [1], LAD [1], SDP [1], SEA [1])
FCR - Paul
Goodson, Cheyenne, WY
Incorrect answers: Bartolo Colon, Rob Dibble, David Wells, Randy
Johnson
THURSDAY
Q. Who
was the only pitcher to strike out Ichiro Suzuki twice during Ichiro’s debut
season in MLB?
Hint: He
was the only National League pitcher this century to lead his league in shutouts
and not have a winning season.
Hint: The
2007 Yankees wore black armbands in his honor.
Twint: His
teammates nicknamed him "Snacks" due to his penchant for devouring
candy between innings.
Twint: His
velocity may not have shown it, but he had a lot of steam.
A. CORY
LIDLE (Ichiro’s
2 K: 21-Sep-2001;
12-12 in 2004
w/3 SHO: CIN
& PHI
(2X);
He died in a plane crash October 2006, and is one of many Yankees to be honored
with a black
armband; Born Cory Fulton Lidle, is a distant relative of Robert
Fulton – the inventor of the first commercially viable steamboat.)
FCR - David
Krassin, New York, NY
Incorrect answers: Darryl Kile, Mark Buehrle, Hideki Irabu
FRIDAY
Q. Who
was the only Oakland A’s player ever to receive the Tony Conigliaro Award?
Hint: His
screwball was attributed to his having two club feet.
Hint: The
only Hall of Famer to get a home run off of him was Cal Ripken.
Hint: It
was a solo walk-off shot, one of only four walk-off homers in the Iron Man’s
career.
Twint: The
closest he came to a World Series was when he was traded along with Tino
Martinez and Jeff Nelson to the Yankees where he played from 1996-7, though he
didn’t play in the 1996 series.
A. JIM MECIR
(2003 TC Award;
He had an unusually violent screwball
because of his unorthodox push off the rubber due to his club foot and the fact
his right leg was shorter and smaller than his left; Ripken HR 19-Apr-2000
BAL 3-TBD 2; Traded 07‑Dec‑1995 by SEA with Tino
Martinez and Jeff Nelson to the NYY for Russ
Davis and Sterling Hitchcock)
FCR - Leland
Hall, Lansing, MI
Incorrect answers: Jim Corsi, Blue Moon Odom, Curt Young
WEEKEND
Q. What
reliever’s name did the late Justin Miller have tattooed on his backside?
Hint: It
was not that tattoo alone that led to the creation of “The Justin Miller Rule”.
Hint: He
was a teammate of Kris
Benson on the Tigers.
Twint: He
got the win when Oakland’s Scott Hatteberg pinch-hit his improbable walk-off
homer.
Twint: It
was his third consecutive victory in three consecutive games – all by walk-off
hits.
A. BILLY
KOCH (The tattoo was a dare by Koch.
Paid Miller
$1,000 and paid Miller’s
wife $500 for the “accomplishment”; Koch and Benson attended Clemson. Both were taken in the first 4 choices of the
1996 draft; 04-Sep-2002
b9 solo walk-off shot 12-11 over KCR; A’s also won 01-Sep-2002
and 02-Sep-2002)
FCR - Jeffrey
Lenz, Monticello, MN
Incorrect answers: Brandon League, Jim Mecir
WEEKLY THEME – Winning pitchers during
Oakland’s twenty-game winning streak in 2002, 13‑Aug – 04‑Sep.
|
Date
|
Opp
|
A's
|
Opp
|
Record
|
Winner
|
Loser
|
Save
|
|
TOR
|
5
|
4
|
69-51
|
Carpenter
|
|||
|
TOR
|
4
|
2
|
70-51
|
Walker
|
|||
|
CHW
|
1
|
0
|
71-51
|
Buehrle
|
|||
|
CHW
|
9
|
2
|
72-51
|
Garland
|
|||
|
CHW
|
7
|
4
|
73-51
|
Wright
|
|||
|
CLE
|
8
|
1
|
74-51
|
Baez
|
|||
|
CLE
|
6
|
3
|
75-51
|
Westbrook
|
|||
|
CLE
|
6
|
0
|
76-51
|
Rodriguez
|
|||
|
CLE
|
9
|
3
|
77-51
|
Phillips
|
|||
|
DET
|
9
|
1
|
78-51
|
Powell
|
|||
|
DET
|
12
|
3
|
79-51
|
Lima
|
|||
|
DET
|
10
|
7
|
80-51
|
Walker
|
|||
|
KCR
|
6
|
3
|
81-51
|
May
|
|||
|
KCR
|
6
|
4
|
82-51
|
Hernandez
|
|||
|
KCR
|
7
|
1
|
83-51
|
Sedlacek
|
|||
|
MIN
|
4
|
2
|
84-51
|
Radke
|
|||
|
MIN
|
6
|
3
|
85-51
|
Romero
|
|||
|
MIN
|
7
|
5
|
86-51
|
Guardado
|
|||
|
KCR
|
7
|
6
|
87-51
|
Grimsley
|
|||
|
KCR
|
12
|
11
|
88-51
|
Grimsley
|
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Kevin
Epstein, San Antonio, TX
Incorrect theme guesses:
Tuesday - All about Giants pitching
- A’s 20-game winners
- Pitchers on
the “Moneyball” team
- Pitchers who
were great for the A’s but stank when they moved across the Bay
- Lefty Cy Young
winners
Wed - Billy Beane players
- Something
money ball related
- 20-game
winners for the Oakland A’s
- Team wins
since 2000
- A’s pitches
with most victories
- Pitchers who
started w/ the Oakland A's and led the league in victories at some point in
their careers
- Pitchers who
started w/ the Oakland A's and finished top 4 in Cy Young Award voting at
some point in their careers
- 2002 Oakland
pitching staff
Thurs - A's
wins leaders in the '00s
- Pitchers who
started a playoff game for the A's
Weekend - Oakland A's
pitchers who were all stars during and after their stint with the ball club
- Pitchers
mentioned in Michael Lewis' Moneyball
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