Q. Who earned
the title “Left arm of God”?
Hint: He debuted
in the majors for a team based in the town where he was born, but they moved
cities shortly after he joined them.
Hint: He was a
much better player once he settled into his new circumstance.
Hint: He also left
the German color name he was born with.
- There was never
actually a ceremony. He was far too
humble to claim the title.
- Average annual WAR
w/BRO = 0.6; w/LAD = 5.8; w/LAD 1961-66 = 7.8
- At birth, his last
name was Braun (‘Brown’ in German) which he changed when his mother
re-married.
FCR - Robert Casey,
Wadsworth, Ohio
Incorrect guesses: Bobby
Shantz, Warren Spahn, Jerry Reuss, Vida Blue
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the
last Dodger in the 20th century to win the Cy Young Award unanimously?
Hint: He shares a
birth city with one of history’s greatest left-handers.
Hint: He was the
oldest of four children, but he was still “the fourth”.
Hint: His first
name is also the name of the 61st largest city in Russia.
- He and Warren Spahn were born in Buffalo, New
York.
- Full name is Orel Leonard Hershiser IV.
- Orel (commonly Oryol) is in
far western Russia, equidistant between Moscow and the
Ukraine border.
FCR - Frank Stephenson, Rome, Georgia
Incorrect guesses: Fernando Valenzuela, Don Drysdale, Sandy
Koufax, Clayton Kershaw,
WEDNESDAY
Q. What lefty was the Phillies pitching
coach when they played the Blue Jays in the World Series?
Hint: In his last active season as a player, his
team seemed to be named after him.
Hint: There is a life-size statue of him in his
pitching motion on the grounds outside the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Hint: He is in the National Polish-American
Sports Hall of Fame.
- Was a coach for the San Diego Padres
(pronounced the same as Podres)
FCR - Preston Salisbury, Starkville, Mississippi
Incorrect
guesses: Dallas Green, Moe Drabowsky,
Claude Osteen, Mickey Lolich
THURSDAY
Q. Which pitcher struck out 20 batters in
nine innings the fourth time it was done?
Hint: He is the only pitcher to strike out 300
batters in a season for four consecutive seasons.
Hint: He took a no-hitter into the eighth inning
in the first game ever played at Jacobs Field.
- 20 K 08-May-2001. The game lasted 11 innings. The 3 previous 9-inning, 20-K performances
were Roger Clemens 29-Apr-1986 & 18-Sep-1996 and Kerry Wood 06-May-1998. Max Scherzer has since done it = 11-May-2016.
- 300+ K = 1999-2002 w/364, 347, 372, 334. Each year he led the majors.
FCR - Naftali Greenwood, Kiryat, Arba, Israel
Incorrect
guesses: Kerry Wood, Max Scherzer, Roger
Clemens, Nolan Ryan
FRIDAY
Q. Who broke Johnny Podres’ record of
striking out eight consecutive batters?
Hint: He also broke a record of Sandy Koufax’ in
the same game.
Hint: The White Sox got him for losing Dennis
Lamp.
- 10 straight K’s, the final 10 Padres on 22-Apr-1970. The record of 8 was held by Podres, Max
Surkont and Jim Maloney.
- His 19 strikeouts in a day game broke the
record of 18 shared by Sandy Koufax, Bob Feller and Don Wilson.
- CHW had lost Dennis Lamp
to TOR in the Nov. 1984
free-agent draft. NYM had left Seaver
unprotected and the White Sox pounced.
FCR - Chuck Durante, Dover, Delaware
Incorrect
guesses: LaMarr Hoyt, Jim Deshaies,
Chris Sale, Mo Drabowski, Tommy John, Aaron Harang, Stephen Strasburg, Ken Kravec
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the youngest pitcher to start a
game for the Giants since they moved to the West Coast?
Hint: Bums have overrun his hometown.
Hint: The only thing this BRTL double-unique does
left-handed is throw a ball.
- First start 08-Sep-2009 @ age 20 yrs. 27 days. NOTE: Several
readers found Mike McCormick, who was younger than Bumgarner when he started a
game on 02-May-1958, nearly 6 months before his 20th birthday (even
though it was his 3rd season with the Giants!)
- He lives in Hickory, North Carolina, often
called “Bumtown” because so many
Bumgarners live there and in that area.
- Bumbidextrous?
Incorrect
guesses: Atlee Hammaker, Juan Marichal
SUNDAY
Q. Which former Astros pitcher used his
experiences with throat cancer and the resulting treatment to warn Madison
Bumgarner against using smokeless tobacco?
Hint: No other member of the 3,000 strikeout club
has a better strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Hint: He was inducted to the Wall of Fame of the franchise
for whom he toiled the longest.
- K/BB% = 4.38. Pedro Martinez is the only other one over
4.00.
FCR - David Krassin, Los Angeles
Incorrect
guesses: Nolan Ryan, Don Sutton, Rogers
Clemens, Randy Johnson, Bert Blyleven
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Andrew
Milner, Bryn Mawr, PA (after Podres)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tuesday - Dodgers who won the Cy Young Award
- Great Dodger Left-handed pitchers
- Pitchers
who won the Cy Young Award and World Series MVP the same year
- Pitchers
who led the league in CG the year they won the Cy Young
- Cy
Young Award Winners who were the World Series MVP
Wed - Dodgers
who won the World Series MVP
- Dodgers
that threw shutouts in the WS
- Dodger
pitchers who won the deciding game in a WS
- Former
Dodger pitchers who became pitching coaches
- Dodger
pitchers who won a clinching World Series game
- Pitchers
who won Cy Young and World Series MVP in same year
- NL
pitchers who won World Series MVP.
Thurs - Game
7 World-Series-winning starting pitchers
Fri - Pitchers
who recorded 18 or more K's in a game
Sat - Threw
a shutout in game 7 of WS
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