08-May-2017
MONDAY
Q. Whose now-famous pitching motion included
an ostensible celestial supplication on every pitch thrown?
Hint: He accomplished an unprecedented awards
combination that hasn’t yet been replicated.
Hint: He became the first player to be awarded
$1,000,000 through salary arbitration.
- Was awarded the 1981 National League Cy
Young Award
and 1981 National League
Rookie of the Year Award. Many other have
won both awards. No one else has won
them for play in the same season.
FCR - Steven
Coleman, Belleville, Illinois
Incorrect answers: Luis Tiant, Andy Messersmith, Blue Moon Odom,
Mark Fidrych, Hideo Nomo, Juan Marichal
TUESDAY
Q. Who owns the lowest ERA of any World
Series pitcher with at least 20 innings pitched?
Hint: After 2,500+ days as a Double Unique, a
7-inning Dodger has kicked him off the list.
Hint: He is regularly rumored to be a participant
in the All-Star Game Home Run Derby.
Hint: He once
killed a snake and saved the rabbit inside.
- SFG management don’t want to see their star
pitcher hurt by hitting a bunch of home runs, so they limit his batting
exploits to his own games. His 16 career
HR is the most of any active pitcher.
- As detailed in his 2014 Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year” write-up, "One day
during spring training this year in Scottsdale, Bumgarner and his wife were
roping cattle when Madison was startled by a large snake he figured was a
rattler. He quickly grabbed an ax and
hacked it to pieces. When Ali, an expert
field dresser, examined what was left of the snake, she found two baby
jackrabbits inside pieces of it and extracted them. A short while later the Bumgarners noticed
that one of the rabbits had moved slightly. It was alive."
FCR - Scott Matteson, Shawnee, Kansas
Incorrect
answers: Orel Hershiser, Babe Ruth
WEDNESDAY
Q. What combustible Venezuelan once led the
National League in pitching victories for a team that ended the season thirty
(30!) games under .500?
Hint: In each of five of those victories he hit a
home run.
Hint: No other Venezuelan pitcher has ever led
the NL in pitching victories.
- He had 6 HR for the year
FCR - Joshua Flowerman, Flanders, New Jersey
Incorrect
answers: Johan Santana, Juan Marichal
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who is the only pitcher to throw two no
hitters for the St. Louis Cardinals?
Hint: He also pitched two no-hitters in the
minors.
Hint: He passed away less than a week after throwing
out the first pitch at Game 7 of the World Series.
Hint: The Cardinals selected 25 other players
before they picked him the year he was drafted.
Only one of those ever made the majors.
FCR - Morris Buenemann, Florissant, Missouri
Incorrect
answers: Joaquin Andujar, Ken Forsch, Bob
Gibson
THURSDAY
Q. What Hall of Fame pitcher surrendered a
record 7 consecutive hits in his 2nd All-Star Game start?
Hint: After he gave up two hits in the next
inning, he was replaced by a man who would become his teammate the following
season.
Hint: He once became so violently ill on a team
flight that he broke a rib vomiting.
Hint: His number was retired before a
rain-delayed game in the presence of attendees from SABR’s 40th
annual national convention.
- Redefining the phrase
"star hurler," he broke a rib in 1992 after vomiting up airplane food.
FCR - Daniel Blumenthal, Falls Church, Virginia
Incorrect
answers: Roger Clemens, Atlee Hammaker,
Ferguson Jenkins, John Smoltz
FRIDAY
Q. What future Diamondback finished second
to D-Back Randy Johnson the first time Johnson won the National League Cy Young
Award?
Hint: He was NLCS MVP for the Mets during the
only season he pitched there.
Hint: He missed two seasons after undergoing
Tommy John surgery.
Hint: He now serves as a major league pitching
coach for one of his former teammates.
- Missed 2006-07 seasons
- P CO for SEA, 2016-
FCR - Josh Flowerman, Flowers, NJ
Incorrect
answers: Mike Butcher, Cole Hamels, Jose
Mesa, Brandon Webb
SATURDAY
Q. Which former DH is the only eight-time
winner of the American Century Championship?
Hint: He was the Dodgers’ first-round pick,
straight out of high school, in 1971.
Hint: He was traded to the Pirates for Jerry
Reuss in 1979.
Hint: He fought an opposing coach (one of his
former teammates) during a game in 1986.
- Won American Century Celebrity Golf
Championship 1991, 93, 95, 97, 99, 2003, 08-09
- DH 11-Jun-1988
- Traded for Reuss 07-Apr-1979
- Fought Bill Robinson 06-Jun-1986 after an
argument about ball scuffing
FCR - Skip Carpenter (via Facebook)
Incorrect
answers: Ken Brett, Mike Easler, Lee
Lacy, Rick Reuschel
SUNDAY
Q. Which right fielder led the 1983 Florida
Instructional League in home runs, with 9?
Hint: He won the Fred Hutchinson Award the
following season.
Hint: He played three games for the Angels and
eight games for the Phillies in his final major league season.
Hint: He is currently a college coach.
- 1-0 record (3 starts) for 1992 CAL, 1-4 (8
starts) for 1992 PHI
- State College of Florida (Bradenton) Manatees
pitching coach
FCR - Thomas Van Hook, Lindsay, TX
Incorrect
answers: Jim Eisenreich
WEEKLY THEME – NL
pitchers who have won multiple Silver Slugger awards
Bumgarner (2) 2014 & 2015
Forsch (2) 1980 &
1987
Glavine (4) 1991, 1995,
1996 & 1998
Hampton (5) 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002 & 2003
Rhoden (3) 1984, 1985 &
1986
Robinson (3) 1982, 1989&
1990
Valenzuela (2) 1981 & 1983
Zambrano (3) 2006, 2008 &
2009
FCR to
Identify Theme
– David Washburn, Marietta, GA
(after Forsch)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tues - LH
Pitchers with either a) 3 HR in a season or b) 10 or more career HR
Wed - Silver
Slugger pitchers who have thrown a no-hitter
- Pitchers since 1980 who have at least 10 home
runs
- Silver Slugger pitchers with at least 3 home
runs in a season
Thurs - Pitchers who lost
potential clinching postseason games
Sunday - Pitchers who have hit the
most home runs since 1990
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