Q. Who was the
majors’ last pitcher to notch at least 305 career victories?
Hint: He was the
MVP of the last World Series his franchise had won since Roy Campanella was
active.
Hint: Citing it as
too large for their current needs, he and his wife recently put their 16,000
square-foot home up for sale.
- Won his 305th
20-May-2008
against his old team. His team lost his next five starts before chose
to retire.
FCR - Bill Helm,
Cottonwood, Arizona
Incorrect guesses: Randy
Johnson, Don Sutton, Warren Spahn, Greg Maddux, Roger Clemens, Flavones, Orel
Hershiser, Sandy Koufax
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the
last pitcher to win 300 games?
Hint: Larry Walker
and John Kruk helped establish his rightful place among the immortals.
Hint: The
Cardinals, Orioles and Blue Jays were not the only volitant opponents he dominated.
- Won his 300th in Washington, DC
against a seemingly cooperative Nats team on 04-Jun-2009.
- In the 1993 All-Star Game, Kruk
altered his at-bat goals as Johnson channeled Nuke
LaLoosh. In the 197 ASG, Walker, knowing
the inconsistency of his former teammate’s searing fastball, also altered his
at-bat approach.
- Johnson was a collective 31-21 against those 3
MLB club, but had a perfect game against a certain uninvited San Francisco
Giants’ preseason walk-on, ornithological interloper 24-Mar-2001.
FCR - Timothy Kearns, Washington, DC
Incorrect guesses: Roger Clemens, Tom Glavine, Don Sutton, Tom
Seaver
WEDNESDAY
Q. What pitcher, currently under contract to
the Toronto Blue Jays, was the only MLB pitcher to tally 1,100 strike outs in
the 5 seasons 2004-2008?
Hint: The only other pitcher in the majors with
even 1,000 during the same period was the Padres’ Jake Peavy.
Hint: He finished in the Top 10 in Cy Young Award
voting for six consecutive seasons.
Hint: His closest match on Baseball-Reference’s
Similarity scores in Nationals’ ace Max Scherzer.
Hint: When his youth baseball coaches told him
that only right-handers can play shortstop, this natural left-hander taught
himself to throw right-handed.
- 1,189 K 2004-08, 179 more than Peavy and Peavy
had 70 more than the bronze medalist in this competition, Javier Vazquez.
- Won the CYA in 2004
& 2006,
both years by unanimous vote. 2003-08,
he also had finishes of 7th,
3rd,
5th
& 3rd.
FCR - Preston Salisbury, Starkville, Mississippi
Incorrect
guesses: Roy Halladay, Marco Estrada, J.A.
Happ, Pedro Martinez
THURSDAY
Q. What pitcher holds the career record for
most games lost in League
Championship Series play?
Hint: A Chalupa a well as two all-time Hall of
Famers were chosen ahead of him in the draft.
Hint: He pitched the last professional game of
his career in Rome.
- Has 10 NLCS loses: 9 w/ATL & 1
w/NYM.
- Glavine
was the 69th pick in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft. Taken before him were Hall
of Famers Mario
Lemieux (#1) & Patrick
Roy (#51). Let’s not forget Czechoslovakia’s
Milan
Chalupa, selected 49th overall.
- Last played professionally for the 2009 Rome
(Georgia) Braves.
FCR - Bob Boehme, Birmingham, Alabama
Incorrect
guesses: Jimmy Nelson John Smoltz, Greg
Maddux, Jamie Moyer
FRIDAY
Q. Who clinched his team’s division
championship with a no-hitter?
Hint: It virtually secured his well-earned hardware
that season. Maybe it wasn’t even needed
though, since he led his league in shutouts and ERA+, but he also led the majors in ERA, strikeouts, innings pitched
and more.
Hint: He surrendered the first home run at night in
the first official game held in Wrigley Field.
Hint: In his first full season, he surrendered
Mike Schmidt’s 300th home run.
- No-no 25-Sep-1986
over SFG.
- Won the 1986 CYA.
- HR at Wrigley 22-Aug-1988. Ryne Sandberg did hit a HR off of Kevin Gross
on 08-Aug-1988, but that history-making game was rained out & all stats,
including Ryno’s HR, were erased. Games
played by the Cubs from 09-Aug through 21-Aug were:
A.) Day games;
B.) Played on the road;
or
C.) Games where no Cub
homered.
- Schmidt’s 300th HR came 14-Aug-1981. Also gave up Schmidt’s 398th
& 537th.
FCR - Madison McEntire, Bryant, Arkansas
Incorrect
guesses: Justin Verlander, Rick
Sutcliffe, Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, Roy Halladay, Max Scherzer, Kerry
Wood
SATURDAY
Q. Who is the only pitcher to compile over
3,000 strikeouts before he had pitched 3,000 innings?
Hint: He owns the highest career winning
percentage for any right-hander in the modern era.
Hint: Speaking of era, his career adjusted ERA+
is the best of any starting pitcher in major league history.
Hint: Even as his vocabulary improves, it is
becoming evident that his accent will not.
- His 3,000th K came in his 2,644th IP in the 2nd
inning 03-Sep-2007. Career totals: 3,154 K; 2,827.1 IP.
- Career W/L = 219/100 = .687% (Only lefties Whitey Ford and Clayton Kershaw sport better
marks.)
- Career ERA+ = 154 (Next closest is Roger Clemens @
143)
- Has become a valuable analyst on the MLB
television channel. His
delivery is articulate, his insights are insightful, but his heavy (but
charming) Dominican Spanish accent colors his color commentary.
FCR - Dave Serota, Kalamazoo
Incorrect
guesses: Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling, Nolan Ryan [ERRATUM: Reader R.D. Lerner of Silver Spring, Maryland points out that Nolan Ryan, not Pedro Martinez, was the first to reach 3,000 strikeouts in fewer than 3,000 innings. Ryan got his 3,000th K on 02-Jun-1980 in San Diego but his 3,000th inning wasn't until 04-Jul-1980. Pedro was the second with the honor.]
SUNDAY
Q. Who set the MLB record for most starts
in a single season without a complete game?
Hint: Two seasons later he finished in the top 5
in Cy Young voting for the only time in his career.
Hint: His alma mater was seeded 6th in
the recent NJCAA championship series.
Hint: His other alma mater gave him Charlie and
put him in their Hall of Fame.
- In 1985, he started 37 games for PHI and not
once that season did he throw an 8th inning pitch. In the 574 career games he pitched in after
that year, not one was as a starter.
- In 1987 he led the majors in saves w/40 and
finished first in the Cy
Young Award voting.
- The University of New Haven’s mascot is
Charlie the Charger. Bedrosian was
selected for the school’s Hall of Fame
in 1996.
FCR - Joe Haardt, McLean, Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Tim Hudson, Max Scherzer, Kevin
Brown
WEEKLY THEME – Pitchers
who won the Cy Young Award in the same seasons as did Roger Clemens.
Pitcher Year Team W/L ERA WAR
Glavine........... 1991........ ATL........... 20***/11............ 2.55......... 8.5***
" ............... 1998........ ATL........... 20***/6.............. 2.47............. 6.1
Johnson......... 2001........ ARI........... 21/6.................. 2.49***... 10.1***
Martinez......... 1997........ MON......... 17/8.................. 1.90***....... 9.0**
Santana.......... 2004*...... MIN........... 20/6.................. 2.61**....... 8.7***
Scott............... 1986........ HOU......... 18/10................ 2.22***....... 8.4**
*Unanimous CYA
selection
**Led league
***Led majors
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – David
Washburn (after the 2nd Glavine), Marietta Georgia
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Braves
Franchise players in the hall of fame
Tuesday - Left
handed hall of fame pitchers with no-hitters
- Left handed world series MVPs
- Pitchers who have won both a Cy Young Award
and World Series MVP Award
- HOF pitchers named Tom
- Left-handed Cy Young winners
Wed - Left-handed pitchers with multiple Cy Young
Awards.
Thur. - Lefties who are in different teams’ Halls of
Fame
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