MONDAY
Q. Whose 2015 NLDS slide into second base
prompted an MLB rule change?
Hint: Not since Tommy Holmes did it in 1945 did
any lefty except this guy put together a hitting streak of at least 35 games.
Hint: He has donated over $45,000 to the SPCA and
has appeared in a video made by PETA entitled "Adopt Don't Buy".
- Slid into Mets second
baseman Ruben Tejada
- 35 G hitting streak 23-Jun-2006
to 03-Aug-2006. Holmes’s
streak was 37 G.
- SPCA
& PETA; “Adopt Don’t Buy”
(I personally think he title could use some punctuation.)
FCR - Charlie Riordan, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Incorrect answers: Rougned Odor, Chris Coughlin
TUESDAY
Q. Whose name is said to be an oxymoron,
representing opposing theological forces?
Hint: He is the owner of 44 career outfield
assists, but the one he is the most remembered for, never appeared the box
score even though it took place during a game.
Hint: He led his team to the finals of the World
Baseball Classic but didn’t win, so he might have to be satisfied with “just”
his World Series championship ring.
- Pagan tackled and body-slammed an intruder who
was eluding security by running around in the outfield of AT&T Park. View here.
- He was part of the Puerto
Rico ‘national’ baseball team during the 2013
WBC, leading them to the Finals, batting .364. They lost to the DR.
Pagán was an important part of the SFG’s in 2012, the year they won the WS.
FCR - Edward
Masone, New York City
Incorrect
answers: Rick Ankiel, Hideki Matsui
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated as the paragon of
players at catcher?
Hint: Ironically, the number of games he will
play at that position is destined to decrease.
Hint: During his closely-watched rise to the
major, excited reporters wrote some of these hyperbolic lines:
- “[He] took batting practice this morning ...
there were no survivors.”
- “When
[he] is hungry, he snacks on batting doughnuts.”
- “[He] once framed a
pitch so perfectly that it counted as two strikes.”
- “Sliced bread is
actually the greatest thing since [him].”
- SI Cover 15-Mar-2010,
Author Tom Verducci called him “The next Joe Mauer”.
- Catchers often play an increasing amount of
their games at defensive positions less physically demanding.
- “Quotes” from SB*Nation
05-May-2015
FCR - Mark Linneman, Sacramento
Incorrect
answers: Buster Posey, Joe Mauer, Yadier
Molina, Evan Gattis, Ivan Rodriguez, Bryce Harper, Johnny Bench, Yogi Berra
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who is the career leader in World Series
RBI among active players?
Hint: Teammates admit to being intimidated by
him.
Hint: He was an All-Star for a team that he
played for in two different stints. They
are recruiting him again.
- 15 WS RBI
- His powerful swing and his workmanlike
demeanor are largely the causes of said intimidation.
FCR - Jim Lovelace, Kent, Ohio
Incorrect
answers: Carlos Beltran, Albert Pujols
THURSDAY
Q. Whose once-devastating slider helped his
team win a trio of World Series championships?
Hint: He grew up near the barren shores of the
Salton Sea.
Hint: He’s a 9-year MLB veteran, but has only
played for one franchise with a brief stop in Mexico in a winter league.).
Hint: His success in the majors belies the fact
that he was the 852nd overall pick the year he was drafted.
- WS wins with SFG even though he amassed a
total of 6.0 IP for all 3. Slider chart.
- Located at one of the lowest elevations in
North America, it’s just 20 miles from the Mexico border.
- Drafted by SFG in 2005
in the 28th
round. Played with Mexicali, the
closest team to the Salton Sea.
FCR - Barry
Nelson, Guilderland, New York
Incorrect
answers: Madison Bumgarner, Tim Lincecum,
Blue Moon Odom, Matt Cain
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the last second baseman to lead
the Toronto Blue Jays in home runs for a season?
Hint: He was the first 21st century
player to start his career in the American League with three straight multi-hit
games.
Hint: He racked up 16 hits in his first 11 MLB
games.
Hint: He is the only Blue Jay ever to win the MLB
Comeback Player of the Year Award.
- 36 HR in 2009 for TOR; played
for the LSU
Tigers in college
- 2 H in each of games on 20-, 21-
and 22-May-2005.
- 16 H in May 2005.
- MLB
CPOY 2009
FCR - Jeff Kallman, Las Vegas
Incorrect
answers: Jeff Kent, Orlando Hudson
SATURDAY
Q. What ex-Commodore is the only Pittsburgh
Pirate to tie the National League in home runs for a season?
Hint: He was born in the Caribbean, but attended
high school less than 6 miles from Yankee Stadium.
Hint: In the 134 year history of the franchise, no
other Pittsburgh Pirate has ever struck out more in a season, except him.
- Vanderbilt
University Commodores; tied Paul
Goldschmidt with 36 HR in 2013. (Ralph
Kiner took himself out of the running by tying two more times. Only Alvarez did it “a” time. Saturday questions are seldom straight
fastballs.)
- Born in Santo Domingo, DR;
Went to Horace Mann HS in Riverdale,
NY
- The only Pirate to strikeout more times in a
season than Alvarez is… [Wait for it…] His
own fine self. His 180 Pirate K’s in 2012 is exceeded only
by his 186 Pirate K’s in 2013.
FCR - Jeremiah Begley, Washington, DC
Incorrect
answers: Bobby Bonilla, Willie Stargell,
Bobby Bonds, Tony Batista, Roberto Clemente
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. On the 2016 Cubs pitching staff, only
one pitcher with more than one decision did not have a single loss. Who was he?
Hint: The organization rewarded this former
All-Star by releasing him immediately after the Series, even before the team’s
victory parade.
Hint: He was the first Cub to start a season with
9 straight quality starts since Mordecai Brown did it over a century ago.
- Record was 4-0 in 2016
- Series
finished 02-Nov. He was released
03-Nov. Victory parade 04-Nov.
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect
answers: Kerry Wood, Jason Hammel, Trevor
Cahill
SUNDAY
Q. Who, despite only part-time duty, led
all American League catchers in pickoffs?
Hint: He originally signed with the Yankees, but
came to the majors with the Cubs.
Hint: He has also spent time in the organizations
of the Diamondbacks, Dodgers, White Sox, Blue Jays, Devil Rays and Reds.
Hint: It seems he has suffered more personal
tragedy than the average player.
- Had 4 pickoffs with TOR last year
- On their first wedding anniversary, his wife Sherley
suffered a cerebral aneurysm in. Doctors
gave her less than a 5% chance of surviving surgery, and estimated she would
die on September 30. She survived and made a full recovery. Navarro has worn
the #30 in her honor ever since. His son
was born with a multicystic dysplastic kidney and had to have it removed. When his mother suffered a cerebral aneurysm
in early February one year Navarro left pre-spring training workouts to be with
her in Venezuela. He returned only when
her condition stabilized.
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect
answers: Geovany Soto
WEEKLY THEME – Former
All-Stars who are currently free agents and looking for a job in the majors
*Sergio Romo signed
with the Dodgers a day after we posted his question. Had it been before, we would have taken him
out of the week. Brandon
Moss was on the original list of this week’s questions, but signed with the
Royals before we sent his question.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Phil
Hertz, Bethesda, Maryland (after Napoli)
Questions archived here: http://horsehidetriviA. blogspot.com/
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