IN MEMORIAM
Q. Before
Jeter, Posada and Pettitte, who was the most recent Yankee honored with a
plaque dedicated to him in Monument Park in Yankee Stadium?
Hint: His second
career home run was an inside-the-park grand slam.
Hint: He and his
son account for 302 pitching victories
Hint: He and his
sons also account for 302 pitching victories
Hint: He owned a
sporting goods store in Yakima, Washington and saved display posters for a
young Scott Brandon. (Yes, that Scott Brandon!)
Hint: He was the
first Yankee pitcher to win five games in the month of April.
Hint: He was the
pitching coach for teams that won five World Series championships.
- Was surprised with
the plaque honor 20-Jun-2015.
- He won 164 G, his
son Todd won 138 G, his son Mel, Jr. was 0-1 is his major league career.
- Scott knew all 3
pitching Stottlemyres in his younger days.
- Was 5-0 in
Apr-1969.
FCR - Duncan Crowl, San
Juan Capistrano, California
Incorrect guesses:
MONDAY
Q. Who was the
worst victim of “He was a star, but he got old” syndrome since Frank Robinson?
Hint: He reached
1,000 career strikeouts in the fewest games pitched.
Hint: He was the first
pitcher to record two separate winning streaks of more than fifteen games each.
Hint: His first ERA
title was not secure until the final day of the season when a pitcher with a
much better ERA fell short of the number of innings to qualify for the title.
- 1,000 K in 143 G. Record now held by Yu Darvish @ 134 G.
- 20 in 1998-99, 16
in 2001
- His 1986
league-best ERA of 2.48 would have been trumped by Mark Eichorn’s
1.72, but his 157 IP didn’t meet the minimum.
Eichorn finished 6th
in that year’s CYA voting & 3rd in the ROY voting.
FCR - Terry French,
Kansas City
Incorrect guesses: Ron
Guidry, Yu Darvish, Tom Seaver, Dwight Gooden, Tim Lincecum, Luis Tiant,
Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Vida Blue, Steve Carlton
TUESDAY
Q. What Red Sox
pitcher had been an All-Star with the Mets and Yankees, had won a Cy Young
Award with a third team and won a World Series ring with yet a fourth?
Hint: He had a
stretch of 10 years between 20-win seasons.
Hint: He once
struck out 19 batters in a 9-inning game on the last day of the regular season.
- 20-3 in 1988 & 20-7 in 1998
- 19K = 06-Oct-1991
FCR - Jesse Asbury, Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect guesses: Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens, Bartolo Colon
WEDNESDAY
Q. What pitcher holds the all-time
postseason career records for games started, innings pitched and games won?
Hint: Pitchers in second place on those lists would
have to increase their totals by 26%, 27% and 27% respectively just to tie his.
Hint: He was only a .500 pitcher for a National
League team in the postseason.
Hint: Five times he finished in the top 6 of Cy
Young Award voting, but never took home the top honor.
- 44 GS; 276.2 IP; 19 W
- Tom Glavine @ 35; Glavine @218.1 & John
Smoltz @ 15.
- His close loss to Pat Hentgen in 1996
still rankles Yankee fans.
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Whitey Ford, Roger Clemens, Tom
Glavine, John Smoltz, Cy Young, Curt Schilling
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What two-time Padre was the last 20th
century pitcher to earn the win in both games of a double header?
Hint: He was the first post-expansion pitcher to
surrender home runs to brothers in the same game.
Hint: He was teammates with 12 Hall of Famers
over his 20+ year career. (This number
will certainly be larger by EOB next Tuesday.)
Hint: He, however, garnered less than 1% of the
vote in his first year of eligibility.
- DH = 17-Jul-1989
(1) & 17-Jul-1989
(2). He didn’t start or
finish either game. Played for SDP 2004
& 2006-07.
- Cal and Billy took him deep 15-Sep-1990
- Was teammates with Roberto Alomar, Dave
Winfield, Jack Morris, Alan Trammell, Barry Larkin, Cal Ripken, Wade Boggs,
Harold Baines, Frank Thomas, Mike Piazza, Trevor Hoffman, Greg Maddux.
- 5 votes (0.1%) in the 2013 HOF election
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Randy Myers, Gaylord Perry,
Randy Jones, Joe Niekro, Sterling Hitchcock
THURSDAY
Q. Which Cy Young winner was the first
pitcher to collect 200 strikeouts in each of his first three seasons?
Hint: The first two of those led the majors.
Hint: His nephew is the only slugger to join
500-home-run club playing for a National League team since Ken Griffey, Jr. did
it..
Hint: He has an honorary doctorate.
- 1984 = 276 K; 1985 = 268 K; 1986 = 200 K. (754 in 3 years!)
- The 200 K in 1986 didn’t make the majors’ top
ten.
- His nephew is Gary
Sheffield.
- His honorary “doc” was given to him in much
the same way that Doc Adams, Doc White, Doc Crandall, Doc Parker , Doc Newton
and other got theirs.
FCR - J.P. Wanamaker, Binghamton, New York
Incorrect
guesses: Roger Clemens
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first Cy Young award winner
to be traded during the season after he won the award?
Hint: Exactly one month after the trade, having
gone to the other league, he faced the other
Cy Young Award winner as they both started the same game.
Hint: He was the pitcher who gave up Rod Carew’s
3000th hit.
- 1988
CYA winner
- Faced the Dodgers’ Orel Hershiser 28-Aug-1989. Viola pitched a 3-hit, 9-inning shutout and
the Mets won 1-0.
- #3000 for Carew 04-Aug-1985
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: CC Sabathia, Rick Sutcliffe,
Nolan Ryan, Mark Davis, Gaylord Perry, Tom Seaver, David Cone
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the losing pitcher in David
Cone’s perfect game?
Hint: Entering his first stint with the Yankees, The Hardball Times selected him as their
“consensus pick for the Cy Young”.
Hint: He has a victory against every major league
team.
Hint: He was the first Hispanic pitcher to get
three shutouts in the new millennium.
(Not so much a hint as just a stray fact, I know. I know!)
- Cone’s
perfecto 18-Jul-1999
- First played for NYY in 2004.
- 3rd ShO 28-Aug-2001;
Freddy
Garcia’s 3rd was 18-Sep
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Lui Tiant, Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens, Orlando
Hernandez, La Troy H
SUNDAY
Q. Who is the only pitcher, born and raised
in Hawaii, with 300 major league starts?
Hint: Thrice in his fifteen-year career, he led
his league in fewest hits per nine innings, the first two of those leading the
majors.
Hint: In four seasons, he made not a single error
and so tied for the league lead in fielding percentage.
Hint: His heritage is mostly Portuguese, with
some Irish and Maori.
- GS = 300 on the nose
- H9 in 1985 = 5.7; in 1988 = 6.1; in 1990 = 6.5
- 1.000 % fielding in the NL in 1985, 88 &
89 and in NL in 1994.
FCR - Frank Stephenson, Rome, Georgia
Incorrect
guesses: Ron Darling, Charlie Hough,
Danny Graves, Atlee Hammaker, Mike Cuellar, Milt Wilcox
LATE WEEK #1
Q. Who holds the American League record for
highest one-season earned run average by a pitcher with a inning record?
Hint: He is the only pitcher to win a Cy Young
Award when he was a teammate of Barry Bonds.
Hint: He flinches when you mention Sil Campusano.
- ERA of 5.74 in 1997, W/L of 12-11
- CYA
1990; Bonds w/PIT 1986-92
- The Phillies’ Campusano
got a hit with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th for the G’s 1st
H on 03‑Aug‑1990.
FCR - Mark Kanter, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Incorrect
guesses: Jim Bouton, Tim Lincecum
LATE
WEEK #2
Q. What pitcher tossed eleven collegiate no-hit
inning in an NCAA playoff game, only to lose the game in the twelfth inning?
Hint: He grew up speaking French, Chinese, and
English.
Hint: He wrote a book whose title is about not
the stats of baseball, but the stats of A baseball.
- Pitched for Yale vs. Frank Viola & St.
Johns on 21-May-1991.
- Spent his early years in Hawaii
- Wrote “108 Stitches”
FCR - Mark Kanter, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Incorrect
guesses:
WEEKLY THEME – All-Star starting pitchers coached by Mel Stottlemyre Sr.
Player Yrs/Teams under Stott Career WAR
Clemens............. 2001, 03
NYY................................. 139.0
Cone................... 1988,
92 NYM; 1997, 99 NYY.......... 61.7
Pettitte................ 1996,
2001 NYY............................... 60.7
Wells................... 1998
NYY......................................... 53.8
Gooden............... 1984-86,
88 NYM............................. 48.2
Viola................... 1990-91
NYM.................................... 47.4
Vazquez............. 2004 NYY......................................... 43.6
Fernandez.......... 1986-87 NYM.................................... 31.5
Drabek................ 1994
HOU......................................... 27.7
Darling................ 1985
NYM......................................... 19.0
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sure, now.
But that doesn't mean that Clemens didn't do it too. The hint didn't say
"...holds the record..."
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tuesday - Pitchers
who won 20 games in a season under pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre.
- Mel
Stottlemyre (RIP) was their pitching coach with the late 90s Yankee
- Players
who have testified in Congress
- Pitchers
who have testified in Congress
Wed - Yankees
pitchers who made All-Star team under pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre.
- Pitchers
coached by Mel Stottlemyre
- Pitchers
for the 1999-2000 Yankees
- Pitchers
who started at least 30 games for the Yankees in 1999
- Pitchers
who hold a strikeout record for the Yankees
- Has
to do with 1990s-era Yankee pitchers
- And
they all won a world series when he was the pitching coach
Thurs - Pitchers
who won the World Series while being coached by Mel Stottlemyre.
- They
all had Mel Stottlemyre as their pitching coach with the Yankees
-
Friday - Something
to do with pitchers coached by Mel Stottlemyre
Sunday - Pitched
for a NY team in the 90s, on either the winning or losing side of a no-hitter
- Pitched
a CG Shutout for a NY team in the 90s
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