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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 10-27-2025

Ohtani just broke the World Series record for most walks in a game with his fifth.

He’s also reached base on all 9 of his plate appearances (5 walks, 4 hits, two of which were home runs) which was a record several plate appearances ago.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 10-29-2025

Per ESPN: For the first time in World Series history, a team led off the game with back-to-back home runs after both Davis Schneider and Vlad Guerrero Jr took Blake Snell deep to start Game 5. Schneider hit the first pitch of the game -- an inside fastball -- out to left field for a quick 1-0 Jays lead.

Snell, by the way, had allowed 1 HR in the 50 innings over 8 starts going into tonight’s game.  Then he allowed two HR’s in his first three pitches.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 10-29-2025

Trey Yesavage struck out all nine batters in the Dodgers starting lineup, becoming the third pitcher in World Series history to strike out each batter in a starting lineup. Who were the other two?

By the way, the answer to the earlier question of longest World Series game before Monday’s was also an 18 inning Game 3 affair between the Dodgers and an AL East team, back in 2018, against the Red Sox, which also featured a Dodger win with a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 18th.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 10-30-2025

(10-29-2025, 09:35 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  Trey Yesavage struck out all nine batters in the Dodgers starting lineup, becoming the third pitcher in World Series history to strike out each batter in a starting lineup. Who were the other two?

By the way, the answer to the earlier question of longest World Series game before Monday’s was also an 18 inning Game 3 affair between the Dodgers and an AL East team, back in 2018, against the Red Sox, which also featured a Dodger win with a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 18th.

BC

No idea. I'll guess Christy Mathewson and Sandy Koufax

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(10-29-2025, 05:54 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  Per ESPN: For the first time in World Series history, a team led off the game with back-to-back home runs after both Davis Schneider and Vlad Guerrero Jr took Blake Snell deep to start Game 5. Schneider hit the first pitch of the game -- an inside fastball -- out to left field for a quick 1-0 Jays lead.

Snell, by the way, had allowed 1 HR in the 50 innings over 8 starts going into tonight’s game.  Then he allowed two HR’s in his first three pitches.

BC

You have to wonder how "on" Snell is after pitching just 61 1/3 innings in 2025 and just 65 innings last year. Still, his 2.35 ERA would have been second best in MLB, if he'd had enough innings to meet the minimum. 

BTW, Snell is the MLB career leader in strikeouts per nine innings at 11.2. His career high was 12.5 with the G's in 2024.

I saw that Logan Webb had a nice year, finishing 15-11. Surprisingly (or not so surprisingly) he led the NL in 2025, tied for the fewest wins to lead the National League over the course of a full season (not including 1981, 1994 or 2020).

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 11-01-2025

The answers were Randy Johnson (2001 Game 2) and Bob Gibson (1968 Game 1).

This stat shocked me:
https://x.com/JesseRogersESPN/status/1984788637326741575

“Bichette hit just the 7th home run with multiple men on base in a winner-take-all World Series game and the first since Julián Javier did it for the Reds in 1967 Game 7.”

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 11-01-2025

Ernie Clement just broke the record for most hits in a single postseason.  Whose record did he break?

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PalmTree - 11-01-2025

(11-01-2025, 07:58 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  Ernie Clement just broke the record for most hits in a single postseason.  Whose record did he break?

BC

Pablo/Panda? Pujols?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - skip75 - 11-01-2025

Randy Arozarena

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 11-01-2025

(11-01-2025, 11:04 PM)skip75 Wrote:  Randy Arozarena

Skip got it.  With his 11th inning double, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. tied Arozarena for second.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 11-03-2025

I won eight consecutive gold gloves but didn't win my first until my ninth year as a big leaguer. Jim Kaat, who won 16 gold gloves as a pitcher, considered me a superior fielder.

I was a 3x All Star and a 1x MVP with 24 wins. In 16 years, I was almost equally a starter, a long reliever and a closer. I led the league in wins once and ERA once. I threw a knuckleball on occasion and a sharp curve. In an All Star game, I struck out Whitey Lockman, Jackie Robinson and Stan Musial consecutively.

I was 5'6" and 139 pounds. I turned 100 five weeks ago. I am the last living MVP, the last living MLB player who played in the 1940s and the last living Philadelphia A's player. I am the last living player to have played for Connie Mack. When I pitched for the A's, they averaged 18k in attendance, otherwise, they averaged 8k. I played for seven teams in MLB. I served in the Philippines in WWII. 

I was selected by one team in the 1960 MLB expansion draft, then I was traded and became the opening day starter for another expansion team that year. I was part of a trade for a future Hall of Famer, and the trade was thought imbalanced.

In the final month-and-a-half of my 16 year career, I gave up just eight runs in 32 innings, leading my team in an unexpected pennant chase. During that time, I beat Don Drysdale and the Dodgers on a three-hitter.

I'm the answer to the trivia question: Who is the only Gold Glove winner to have played on three teams in one season?

Who am I?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - skip75 - 11-03-2025

Just based on the 5'6", I'm going with Bobby Shantz.
I remember him mostly from baseball cards, as his prime was a bit too early for me to recall.
If this is the right answer, thanks for educating me more about him Mick!

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 11-03-2025

Good one. I have been to Connie Mack stadium

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PAsportsfan - 11-03-2025

(11-03-2025, 04:13 PM)BobK Wrote:  Good one.  I have been to Connie Mack stadium

I’m too young to have gone to Connie Mack Stadium. But the local baseball card shop I frequented had a large Connie Mack Stadium sign on the front of the building.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 11-03-2025

(11-03-2025, 03:34 PM)skip75 Wrote:  Just based on the 5'6", I'm going with Bobby Shantz.
I remember him mostly from baseball cards, as his prime was a bit too early for me to recall.
If this is the right answer, thanks for educating me more about him Mick!

Skip is correct, the answer is Bobby Shantz!

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(11-03-2025, 08:44 PM)Mick Wrote:  [quote="skip75" pid='439651' dateline='1762209268']
Just based on the 5'6", I'm going with Bobby Shantz.
I remember him mostly from baseball cards, as his prime was a bit too early for me to recall.
If this is the right answer, thanks for educating me more about him Mick!

Skip is correct, the answer is Bobby Shantz!z

Just to close it out, Shantz had three great years as a starter, two All Star years for the Philadelphia A's when he went 18-10 and 24-7, then five years later, he went 11-5 for the Yankees, also an All Star season.

He didn't win his first Gold Glove until his ninth year as a big leaguer because that was the first year of the Gold Gloves.

He was selected by the Washington Senators in the 1960 MLB expansion draft, then was traded and became the opening day starter for the Cole 45s, another expansion team that year. He part of the "Most Lopsided trade in History" in which Lou Brock, Jack Spring and Paul Toth were traded for Ernie Broglio, Bobby Shantz and Doug Clemens.

Shantz is the only Gold Glove winner to have played on three teams in one season. In his final year, he started by pitching 16 games for St. Louis, then pitched 20 games for the Cubs, then closed the season by pitching 14 games for the 1964 Phillies. Yes, that's the team that had a 6.5 game lead with 12 to play and lost the pennant. No wonder Philly fans are crabby.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 11-03-2025

Quote:. I am the last living MVP

I am assuming you meant “oldest living MVP”, since they are still giving the award out, there are plenty of living MVPs.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 11-17-2025

(11-03-2025, 09:02 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  

(11-03-2025, 03:10 PM)Mick Wrote:  I was 5'6" and 139 pounds. I turned 100 five weeks ago. I am the last living MVP, the last living MLB player who played in the 1940s and the last living Philadelphia A's player. I am the last living player to have played for Connie Mack. 

I am assuming you meant “oldest living MVP”, since they are still giving the award out, there are plenty of living MVPs.

BC

Actually, I meant the last living MVP from the 1940s. Lazy writing. The Jesuits would have been horrified.

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Name every Stanford quarterback who ever made a regular season roster for or was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - skip75 - 11-17-2025

Frankie Albert, John Brodie, Jim Plunkett, Guy Benjamin, John Paye

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 11-17-2025

(11-17-2025, 11:10 AM)skip75 Wrote:  Frankie Albert, John Brodie, Jim Plunkett, Guy Benjamin, John Paye

All five correct. Three more, two who were drafted but never played and one who played.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 11-17-2025

Gene Washington
Dick Norman

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 11-18-2025

Jerry Gustafson Stanford QB 1955

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