MONDAY — 16-Nov
Q. Which
one-time Arizona Diamondback was the first ever Cincinnati Reds pitcher to win
the National League Cy Young Award?
Hint: All the
games he completed that year were shutouts, with both stats leading the majors.
Hint: Playing at
UCLA, he followed in the footsteps of Tim Lincecum and Buster Posey.
A. TREVOR BAUER [B-R Bio]
- CYA 2020; Debuted and played 1
year for ARI in 2012.
- 2 CG;
2 SHO in 2020
- Won the Golden Spikes Award in 2011. Lincecum
(2006) and Posey (2008) were previous winners.
FCR - Vince Guerrieri,
Elyria, Ohio
Incorrect guesses:
IN MEMORIAM — 17-Nov
Q. Who holds
the record for pitching in the most major league games without ever playing in
a postseason game?
Hint: By hitting
the last home run ever hit by a New York Yankees pitcher, he also hit the last
home run hit by any pitcher in Tiger Stadium.
Hint: Totaling 260
decisions to accompany his 174 saves, he managed only 2 shutouts.
Hint: He only went
to the All-Star Game in one year of his twenty-one-year career but was twice an
All-Star.
Hint: Once, in the
last inning of a tie game, he picked off Willie Mays and then hit a walk-off
homer off the pitcher who had been third in the Cy Young Award voting just the
season before.
A. LINDY McDANIEL [SABR Bio]
- Pitched in 987 MLB games.
- McDaniel homered into the upper deck off
Mickey Lolich on 28-Sept-1972. That was the last time a pitcher hit a home
run in Tiger Stadium even though the stadium didn’t close until the end of the
1999 season.
- 141 W, 119 L, 2 SHO
- Was on the NL AS team for both games in 1960, G 1 & G 2.
- Played the two-way hero on 6-June-1963. McDaniel entered the tie game in the 10th
inning with one out and the bases full of Giants. He proceeded to pick Mays off 2B, then strike
out Ed Bailey to end the threat and then ended the game with his home run
off the redoubtable Billy Pierce.
FCR - Eric Savage, Short Hills, New Jersey
Incorrect guesses: Mel Stottlemyre
TUESDAY — 17-Nov
Q. Which lanky righty helped two different franchises
reach a league championship, one for the first time ever and the other for the
first time in three decades?
Hint: No stranger to big games, he was the ace
starting pitcher for both teams.
Hint: Although he was never on a team that won
the World Series, his cousin played for champs in each league.
Hint: He won ten or more game for nine
consecutive seasons.
Hint: His wife is a professional photographer.
A. JAMES SHIELDS [B-R Bio]
- Played on Tampa Bay when they reached the WS
in 2008 and on the Royals in 2014 when they
reached the postseason for the 1st time since 1985 when Shields was
3 years old.
- Nickname is “Big Game James”.
- His first cousin is Aaron Rowand who played on the 2005 CHW and 2010 SFG.
- Won 10+ W 2007-2015.
- Shields married Ryane Barber in November 2007 in
Kauai, Hawaii.
FCR - Josh Murphy, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Incorrect guesses: Mark Langston, Lindy McDaniel, Orel Hershiser
WEDNESDAY — 18-Nov
Q. Which one-time Blue Jay likes to be
called “Number One-Five”?
Hint: He introduced us to the expression “Cowboy
up!”.
Hint: He is a member of the Cardinal Hall of
Honor.
Hint: His uncle played in the majors for eight
years.
Hint: When he talks it’s usually intentionally.
A. KEVIN MILLAR [B-R Bio]
- He wore #15 w/FLA, BOS, BAL, TOR
- “Cowboy up!” was heard a lot from him during
the 2004 postseason.
- Cardinal Hall of Honor is from attending and
playing for Lamar University.
- His uncle is Wayne Nordhagen who played for CHW,
TOR, CHC & PIT.
- He is a co-host of the MLB TV show “Intentional Talk” with Chris Rose.
FCR - Kevin Decker, Hillsborough, New Jersey
Incorrect
guesses: Bob Gibson, Chris Carpenter,
Johnny Damon, Bill Mueller
THURSDAY —
18-Nov
Q. Who is the only pitcher to throw in
excess of 100 pitches in a game in the 2020 World Series?
Hint: He is only righty to strike out ten New
York Yankees in a playoff game since Justin Verlander did it in the 2017 ALCS.
Hint: He’s happy to answer questions about
himself on Google.
- Threw 112 pitches in G 1 and 102 in G5 of the 2020
WS, both losses to LAD’s Clayton Kershaw.
- K’d 10 NYY on 6-Oct-2020, ALCS G2
- Glasnow Google quiz.
FCR - Willis Kern, Bloomington, Illinois
Incorrect
guesses: Charlie Morton, Walker Buehler,
Blake Snell, Garret Cole, Clayton Kershaw
FRIDAY — 20-Nov
Q. Who was warmed up in the bullpen when
Francisco Cabrera hit the two-run, game-winning , series-winning single?
Hint: He was the first post-expansion rookie to
start Game One of a World Series.
Hint: The length of his career behind the
microphone has far eclipsed that of his playing career.
Hint: Few people were saddened when he decided to
shave off his mustache.
- Despite both Walk and Cabrera being
right-handers, Pirates’ manager Jim Leyland opted to keep Stan Belinda in the game—despite Belinda’s having
just walked Damon Berryhill to load the bases and having
given up a deep fly ball to Ron Gant—to pitch to Cabrera.
- He was the starter and the victor of G1 of the 1980 WS, the first ever championship for the
NL’s Philadelphia
franchise.
- Has been in the broadcast booth for the
Pirates
since 1994. It was during his 27th
season of broadcasting for the Pirates that he and his wife contracted
the Covid-19 virus this summer. They
both made full recoveries.
- Walk’s mustache? Well, click and see for yourself.
FCR - Andrew Milner, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Incorrect
guesses: John Smoltz, Tim Wakefield, Steve
Blass, Rollie Fingers
SATURDAY — 21-Nov
Q. Which player founded a movie production
company, Green Diamond Entertainment, after retiring?
Hint: He was the Rockies' player representative
during the 2002 union negotiations.
Hint: He is a descendant of the 6th
U.S. President John Quincy Adams and, amazingly, as it turns out, also of the 2nd
U.S. President—John Adams!
Hint: He was the last person to hit a home run
off a Montreal Expos pitcher.
Hint: He was born on the day Sandy Koufax pitched
his perfect game.
A. TODD
ZEILE [SABR Bio]
- Greed Diamond Entertainment’s biggest
production is a 2005 movie called “Dirty Deeds”.
- He came to that position with the experience
of being the Cardinals' player representative during the 1994-95 players'
strike.
- Zeile’s HR took place 03-Oct-2004,
the Expos’ final G before the franchise relocated to Washington, D.C. for the
200 season.
- Birthday 09-Sep-1965.
FCR - Bob Flynn, Chandler, Arizona
Incorrect
guesses: Dante Bichette, Todd Zweigle, Mike
Hampton, Denny Neagle
SUNDAY — 22-Nov
Q. Who played in every game for the team
that had the most losses by a College World Series champion?
Hint: His team went from underdogs to wonderdogs.
Hint: He still holds his university’s records for
career doubles and RBI.
Hint: Don’t judge him by his college’s most
famous alumni. That bar has been set
very high.
Hint: His first major league extra base hit was
off of a future Cy Young Award winner.
A. STEVE
SUSDORF
[Wiki
Bio]
- Fresno State University lost 31 games in 2008
during their Cinderella ride to destiny in Omaha.
They also won 46, with Susdorf playing
in every single game.
- In 2008, the FSU Bulldogs
became the lowest seeded team (4th in the Regionals) to win the National
Championship in NCAA history. The bulldogs
belonging to the University
of Georgia were their opponents and the runner-up team. 44 NCAA universities have bulldogs as their sports
mascot. Woof! (Only schools with Eagles
have more – 46. Tigers
come in 3rd w/40.)
- Susdorf amassed school-career bests of 70 2B
and 217 RBI over his 4 years as a starter.
- Aaron Judge (FSU 2011-2013) is the most famous former Fresno
State Bulldog player to make it to the majors.
- Susdorf’s 28-July-2013 double off of 2016
CYA winner Rick Porcello was his lone major league hit.
FCR - Dave Rickard, Tigard, Oregon
Incorrect
guesses: Aaron Judge, Terry Pendleton, Ryan
Zimmerman, Will Clark, Rex Hudler
WEEKLY THEME – Select MLB alumni of William S. Hart High School in Santa Clarita, California
(Bold = active)
Player MLB Debut WAR
Bauer............................... 2012................. 17.7
Trevor
Brown................... 2015.................. -0.1
Greg
Garrett..................... 1970................... 2.0
Glasnow.......................... 2016................... 2.2
Andrew
Lorraine.............. 1994.................. -1.3
Millar................................ 1998................. 14.2
Mike
Montgomery.......... 2015................... 6.1
Jerry
Owens..................... 2006................... 0.8
Shields............................. 2006................. 30.7
Susdorf............................. 2013.................. -0.1
Chris Valaika.................... 2010.................. -0.4
Pat
Valaika...................... 2016.................. -1.2
Walk................................. 1980................... 5.6
Zeile................................. 1989................. 19.4
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Randall Chandler, Germantown,
Tennessee (after Millar)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Pitchers
who have led both Ohio teams in victories
- First
cy young award winner for each franchise
- Players
who won awards in Years entering after agency
- 2020
award winners
- CYA
award winners who once toiled for the Cleveland Indians
- CYA
award winners who once toiled for the Cleveland Indians but won the award
elsewhere
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