MONDAY —01-Aug
Q. Who ranks behind only Cy Young and Walter
Johnson in career WAR for pitchers?
Hint:
#1 He passed Red Ruffing on the career pitching
victories list in the same game where he passed Tom Seaver on the career strikeout
list.
Hint:
#2 His son hit three times more home runs
than doubles in his major league career.
- Ans. Young = 165.6 WAR in 7,356 IP & Johnson =
152.3 WAR in 5,914 ⅓ IP. Clemens = 138.7
pWAR in 4,916 ⅔ IP.
- #1 On 23-Jul-2001 , vs. TOR, Clemens got his
274th W & his 3,641st K. He would then get more than 1,000 additional Ks
before retiring not to mention 80 more Ws.
- #2 Kody Clemens has accumulated 3 HR and 1
2B in the 30 MLB G he has played so far.
FCR
- Rob Emerson, Lowell, Massachusetts
Incorrect
guesses: Steve Carlton, Nolan Ryan, Randy
Johnson
TUESDAY —02-Aaug
Q. Which hurler reached 3,000 career strikeouts
in the fewest innings pitched?
Hint:
#1 He led the majors one season, but
didn’t even lead the league.
Hint:
#2 He is the most recent Hall of Famer
to surrender four home runs in an inning.
- Ans. 3,000
K reached on w/2,468th IP.
- #1 In
1998, Johnson had 213 K w/SEA & 166 K w/HOU (then in the NL), traded 31-Jul
for a total of 329 for the year.
He lead neither league, but led the majors.
- #2 On 21-Aug-2005,
in the 4th inning, pitching for NYY, Johnson surrendered HRs to CHW’s
Tadahito Iguchi, Aaron Rowand, Paul Konerko & Chris Widger.
FCR
- Gerald Price, Lancaster, California
Incorrect
guesses: Bert Blyleven, Fergie Jenkins
IN
MEMORIAM —03-Aug
Q. Who was the longest-tenured broadcaster with
a single team in professional sports history?
Hint:
#1 In one of the first games he
broadcast, his team played an exhibition game against Connie Mack and the A's. Overlapping with Mack that day, those two
accounted for 130 continuous years of major league service.
Hint:
#2 He called Don Larsen's, Sandy
Koufax's and Dennis Martinez's perfect games.
Hint: #3 He broadcast Don Drysdale's 58⅔-inning
scoreless streak as well as Orel Hershiser's 59 scoreless innings to break
Drysdale's record.
Hint: #4 Among the most treasured calls in baseball
history, his call of Hank Aaron's 715th home run stands out: “A black
man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an
all-time baseball idol. It is a great
moment for all of us and particularly for Henry Aaron.”
Hint: #5 He received the Ford C. Frick Award and a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, both in 1982.
Hint: #6 In 2016 he received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom.
Hint: #7 “Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good
evening to you, wherever you may be.”
A. VIN SCULLY [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Radio/television
broadcaster for the Brooklyn/LA Dodgers, 1950-2016)
- #1 Connie
Mack 1886-1950, Scully 1950-2016
- #2 Larsen's
gem, Koufax's
gem, Martinez's
gem
- #3 Hershiser's
record-setting inning
- #4 Aaron’s
715th
- #5 Frick
Award speech;
Star
w/details
- #6 Farewell,
Vin, wherever you may be.
FCR
- Michael McCroskey, Sugar Land, Texas
Incorrect
guesses:
WEDNESDAY —03-Aug
Q. Who was the first pitcher to surrender three
home runs to one player on Opening Day?
Hint:
#1 Four years earlier, to the day, he
became the youngest player to appear in a major league game for his young
franchise.
Hint:
#2 There is no truth to the rumor that
he was going to change his name to reflect his dedication to baseball’s
history.
A. BRET
SABERHAGEN [SABR Bio]
- Ans. On
04-Apr-1988,
George Bell homered thrice off Saberhagen in Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City.
- #1 On 04-Apr-1984,
at 19 years, 11 months, 24 days old, Saberhagen became the youngest player in Kansas
City Royals history and the first teenager.
He pitched 4⅔ innings in relief of Paul Splittorff.
- #2 It’s
S-A-B-E-Rhagen and was never SABRhagen.
FCR
- Steve Berman, Bergenfield, New Jersey
Incorrect
guesses: George Bell, Dwight Gooden, Karl
“Tuffy” Rhodes, Joe Nuxhall
THURSDAY —04-Aug
Q. Who won his three hundredth career pitching
victory thirty-seven years ago today?
Hint:
#1 He once famously said, “l learned
more in one year at _____ under Coach ______ than I would have in two or three
seasons in the low minors.”
Hint:
#2 Ken Griffey, Jr. broke a record of
his that many thought would never be broken.
A.
TOM SEAVER [SABR Bio]
- Ans. 300th
W = 04-Aug-1985
(He won his 283rd G on 04-Aug-1984.)
- #1 Seaver
played for USC in his home state of California under college Hall of Fame coach
Rod Dedeaux.
- #2 The
percent of Hall of Fame ballot that put Seaver in the Hall of Fame in 1992,
98.8% stood as the highest until Griffey’s 99.3% in 2016. Even that has now been topped twice.
FCR
- Doug Christy, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Gaylord Perry, Phil Niekro, Tom
Glavine, Steve Carlton
FRIDAY —05-Aug
Q. Which pitcher led all three triple crown
categories, not just for his league, but for the majors, and couldn’t even
break into the top five in MVP voting in his league?
Hint:
#1 He had the third-most league MVP votes
on his own team!
Hint:
#2 He wanted to be an outfielder, but
scouts and coaches found his arm to valuable and switched him to the mound.
Hint:
#3 Before the outfield, he had been a
standout at shortstop until he discovered that there are no left-handed
shortstops in the majors.
A. JOHAN
SANTANA [B-R Bio]
- Ans. IN
2006 Santana had a 19-6 record, an ERA of 2.77
& 245 Ks but came in 7th in AL MVP
voting.
- #1 Finished
behind Justin Morneau, who won, & 6th place finisher Joe Mauer. Neither had any dark ink in the
categories most used for such evaluations.
- #2 Apparently
he adapted well.
- #3 The
last left-handed thrower to play shortstop on defense in a major league game
happened a quarter century before Santana was born. Check out this 1954
G.
FCR
- Benjamin Chase, Huron, South Dakota
Incorrect
guesses: Sam McDowell, Randy Johnson,
Steve Carlton, Lefty Grove, Dave Stieb, Hal Newhouser, Bob Lemon,
Lefty Gomez, Don Sutton, Whitey Ford, Warren Spahn
SATURDAY —06-Aug
Q. Who was the most hatted Rookie of the Year?
Hint:
#1 The tiny college he attended also
produced another multiple-time All-Star pitcher.
Hint:
#2 His brilliance on the mound has often
been interrupted by physical ailment that often required medical attention and
lengthy stretches out of the rotation during the season.
A. JACOB
DeGROM [B-R Bio]
- Ans. NL
ROY in 2014. Played for the Stetson University Hatters in
college.
- #1 Stetson
has four campuses with a total of 4,000 enrolled students. Corey Kluber attended, slight before deGrom.
- #2 (I’ve
lost count. His agent probably knows.)
FCR
- A.J. Manuzzi, Indianapolis
Incorrect
guesses: Joe Charboneau, Mark Fidrych, Zack
Greinke, Chipper Jones, Stephen Strasburg, Corey Kluber, Todd Worrell, Dave
Righetti
SUNDAY —7-Aug
Q. Who pulled ahead of Pedro and will catch Roger
with the next one?
Hint:
#1 He is the final entrant in this week’s
theme.
Hint:
#2 The theme is open-ended. It’s complete for now but it could be added
to in the future.
A. MAX
SCHERZER
[B-R Bio]
- Ans. Scherzer
has struck out at least 10 batters in a game 109 X, 5 X this year. Until yesterday’s G, he was tied with Pedro Martinez
at 108. The next highest is Roger Clemens
who has 110 such. Scherzer is a threat
to strike out every time he toes the rubber.
- #1 &2 See below
FCR
- Terry Sloope, Cartersville, Georgia
Incorrect
guesses: Justin Verlander, Charlie
Morton, Clayton Kershaw
WEEKLY THEME – Expanders X 2 CYA. Pitchers who’ve won more than one Cy Young
Award with a team
that came into existence since 1960.
Pitcher Team Dates of CYAs Career WAR
Clemens............... TOR............ 1997,
1998*.............................. 139.2
deGrom................ NYM............ 2018,
2019.................................. 42.4
Johnson............... ARI.............. 1999,
2000,
2001,
2002*.......... 101.1
Saberhagen......... KCR............ 1985, 1989.................................. 58.9
Santana................ MIN............. 2004*,
2006*............................... 51.7
Scherzer............... WSN............ 2016,
2017.................................. 69.2
Seaver.................. NYM............ 1969,
1973,
1975...................... 109.9
*Unanimous
(Both of deGrom’s were 1 vote shy of unanimous.)
Year
Bolded means led league or MLB in WAR for pitchers
First Correct
Respondent identifying theme
– Nary a soul.
Incorrect theme guesses:
Mon - Players
from The Simpsons “Homer at the Bat” episode
- Oldest pitchers to win ERA titles
Tues - Pitchers who won 20 games for a last place
team
Wed - Pitchers with > 3000 strikeouts
- Winners of 3 or
more Cy Young awards
Thurs - Pitchers with multiple Cy Young awards who
have also pitched for a New York team
- Won the CYA and
WS in the same year
Fri - Pitchers to play for a NY team and win two or
more career Cy Young Awards
- Pitchers with
multiple Cy Young Awards
-
Pitchers to win the CYA and the clinching game of the World Series
in the same season
-
Won multiple Cy Young awards for the same team
-
Multiple CYA award winners
Sat - Multiple Cy Young award winners who were on
the same team as other multi-year Cy Young award winners
- Multi-Cy Young
award winners who have led MLB in ERA since 1970
Sun - Multiple Cy Young winners who pitched for the
Metropolitans during their careers
- Pitchers with
over 1000 innings and have averaged more than 9 strikeouts per inning.\
- Pitchers who have
more than 1500 strikeouts in their first 200 starts.
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