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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - qwerty49 - 03-31-2023

(03-31-2023, 10:56 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  

(03-31-2023, 09:10 PM)Mick Wrote:  So...Clemens never had a no-hitter. Grover Cleveland, with 373 wins and 90 shutouts never had a no hitter. Robin Roberts, Curt Schilling, Fergie Jenkins, Mike Mussina, Pedro Martinez, Steve Carlton and Greg Maddux never had no-hitters. But Bobo Holloman, owner of a lifetime 3-7 MLB record, has a no hitter.

True, but Pedro took a perfect game into the tenth, only to give up a quick double. Got the win, but still. Shame on the Expos hitters.

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Name the six times in MLB history where pitchers have no hit the opponents, but still lost the game.

Does Harvey Haddix count?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - skip75 - 03-31-2023

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Name the six times in MLB history where pitchers have no hit the opponents, but still lost the game.
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Not sure if this is one of your 6, but Harvey Haddix threw 12 perfect innings for the Pirates vs. the Braves in 1959.  Lost the game in the 13th and it ended up being a 1-hitter.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - cardcrimson - 03-31-2023

(03-31-2023, 11:06 PM)qwerty49 Wrote:  

(03-31-2023, 10:56 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  

(03-31-2023, 09:10 PM)Mick Wrote:  So...Clemens never had a no-hitter. Grover Cleveland, with 373 wins and 90 shutouts never had a no hitter. Robin Roberts, Curt Schilling, Fergie Jenkins, Mike Mussina, Pedro Martinez, Steve Carlton and Greg Maddux never had no-hitters. But Bobo Holloman, owner of a lifetime 3-7 MLB record, has a no hitter.

True, but Pedro took a perfect game into the tenth, only to give up a quick double. Got the win, but still. Shame on the Expos hitters.

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Name the six times in MLB history where pitchers have no hit the opponents, but still lost the game.

Does Harvey Haddix count?

Sad story, but same result as Pedro above. Great performance, but no. Doesn't count.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 03-31-2023

(03-31-2023, 10:56 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  

(03-31-2023, 09:10 PM)Mick Wrote:  So...Clemens never had a no-hitter. Grover Cleveland, with 373 wins and 90 shutouts never had a no hitter. Robin Roberts, Curt Schilling, Fergie Jenkins, Mike Mussina, Pedro Martinez, Steve Carlton and Greg Maddux never had no-hitters. But Bobo Holloman, owner of a lifetime 3-7 MLB record, has a no hitter.

True, but Pedro took a perfect game into the tenth, only to give up a quick double. Got the win, but still. Shame on the Expos hitters.

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Name the six times in MLB history where pitchers have no hit the opponents, but still lost the game.

Jim Maloney (Cincinnati Reds)?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 04-01-2023

(03-31-2023, 10:56 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  

(03-31-2023, 09:10 PM)Mick Wrote:  So...Clemens never had a no-hitter. Grover Cleveland, with 373 wins and 90 shutouts never had a no hitter. Robin Roberts, Curt Schilling, Fergie Jenkins, Mike Mussina, Pedro Martinez, Steve Carlton and Greg Maddux never had no-hitters. But Bobo Holloman, owner of a lifetime 3-7 MLB record, has a no hitter.

True, but Pedro took a perfect game into the tenth, only to give up a quick double. Got the win, but still. Shame on the Expos hitters.

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Name the six times in MLB history where pitchers have no hit the opponents, but still lost the game.

Harvey Haddix, Pirates. If memory serve, 12 inning perfecto, lost in 13th.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BostonCard - 04-01-2023

Last year, Hunter Greene and Art Warren combined on an eight inning no-hitter against the Pirates. They gave up three walks and a sacrifice in the eighth inning, but the Reds went scoreless.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - cardcrimson - 04-02-2023

(04-01-2023, 03:34 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  Last year, Hunter Greene and Art Warren combined on an eight inning no-hitter against the Pirates.  They gave up three walks and a sacrifice in the eighth inning, but the Reds went scoreless.

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That is indeed one of them, and probably the event the story that prompted I stumbled upon. Any others?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - cardcrimson - 04-03-2023

Here are the losing no-hitters:

Hunter Greene and Art Warren -- May 15, 2022, Reds at Pirates; Lost 1-0
Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo -- June 28, 2008, Angels at Dodgers; Lost 1-0
Matt Young, Red Sox -- April 12, 1992, at Cleveland; Lost 2-1
Andy Hawkins, Yankees -- July 1, 1990, at White Sox; Lost 4-0, 4-0!!!!
Steve Barber and Stu Miller, Orioles -- April 30, 1967, vs. Tigers; Lost 2-1
Ken Johnson, Colt .45s -- April 23, 1964, vs. Reds; Lost 1-0

https://www.mlb.com/news/pitchers-to-throw-no-hitter-and-lose

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - qwerty49 - 04-03-2023

Ok whose hit broke up Haddix’s no-hitter?

And who did he platoon with?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 04-03-2023

Joe Adcock hit a single out of the park.
George Crow played 1B also

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - WBB fan - 04-03-2023

(03-29-2023, 08:48 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  

(03-29-2023, 06:40 AM)BobK Wrote:  The final cal coach in the Hall of Fame

Pudge Heffelfinger

In the small world category, my daughter has swam and played polo with Pudge's great, great, great, grand nieces here in the East Bay, one of whom is playing for Harvard at the moment.

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(03-29-2023, 08:39 PM)WBB fan Wrote:  Great follow-on questions. No idea re these, but re the skier -- hint, participated does not necessarily mean competed. After all, she was pregnant, and not just barely

Still not sure the answer, but here's a related link. A Stanford star among them . .. . 

https://www.olympedia.org/lists/77/manual

Okay, I cheated. With your hint, I assumed it had to be a torch bearer, and I looked it up. Bingo. I'll let others guess. . . .

Sometimes cheating is ok. Yep, a torchbearer, the one who skied the torch into the stadium and handed it off to the torch lighter. She first skied in the Olympics in 1948 at age 15, then won two golds in Oslo in 1952, was on the team in 1956 (Cortina) but didn't medal. By then, she already had three children. Those two golds in Oslo was the 1st time a US skier, male or female, won two golds in an Olympics. So now the answer should be obvious to anyone involved in skiing.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - cardcrimson - 04-03-2023

(04-03-2023, 01:44 PM)WBB fan Wrote:  

(03-29-2023, 08:48 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Okay, I cheated. With your hint, I assumed it had to be a torch bearer, and I looked it up. Bingo. I'll let others guess. . . .

Sometimes cheating is ok. Yep, a torchbearer, the one who skied the torch into the stadium and handed it off to the torch lighter. She first skied in the Olympics in 1948 at age 15, then won two golds in Oslo in 1952, was on the team in 1956 (Cortina) but didn't medal. By then, she already had three children. Those two golds in Oslo was the 1st time a US skier, male or female, won two golds in an Olympics. So now the answer should be obvious to anyone involved in skiing.

Andrea Mead Lawrence. As mentioned, I had to cheat. Phogge on the other hand, knew the answer. . . .

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - qwerty49 - 04-03-2023

(04-03-2023, 01:32 PM)BobK Wrote:  Joe Adcock hit a single out of the park.
George Crow played 1B also

Right on Adcock!

Pretty sure his LH platoon partner was Frank Torre.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 04-03-2023

Qwerty is right Frank Torre

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BostonCard - 04-03-2023

65 players homered in their last career at-bat, most recently, Oakland's Stephen Vogt.  However, only one Giant did it.  Who?  Hint: He is one of 15 players (10 non-pitchers) whose only HR was in their last career at bat.

Only two players hit walk-off home runs on their last career at bats.  Who were they?  One of them was also the only player to ever hit a grand slam in their final career at bat.  Talk about a mic-drop moment.


BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 04-03-2023

Ted Williams is one

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BostonCard - 04-03-2023

(04-03-2023, 08:42 PM)BobK Wrote:  Ted Williams is one

Yes, he is one of the 65 players to homer in his last at bat, but he was not a Giant, it was not his only home run, it was not walk-off home run, and there was no one on base.  I thought asking for an exhaustive list of everyone whose last at bat was a home run would be a bit much.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 04-04-2023

(04-03-2023, 10:24 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  

(04-03-2023, 08:42 PM)BobK Wrote:  Ted Williams is one

Yes, he is one of the 65 players to homer in his last at bat, but he was not a Giant, it was not his only home run, it was not walk-off home run, and there was no one on base.  I thought asking for an exhaustive list of everyone whose last at bat was a home run would be a bit much.

Was it Bill Terry, Mel Ott, Monte Irvin, or Travis Jackson?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BostonCard - 04-04-2023

No, no, no

The Giant played in 35 games over two years, in 2012 and 2013.  He had 45 at bats, a career average at the Mendoza line, and an OPS of .506.  His career was pretty unremarkable, but for the fact that he ended his career on September 29, 2013, with a home run against Huston Street of the Padres in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game (the Giants would win 7-6).

The two walk-off career ending home runs were:
A Cinicinnati Reds utility SS/2B/utility player who hit the last of his 30 career home runs as a walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning in a September 2014 game against the Pittsburgh Pirates and a Boston Red Sox C/1B from Modesto who played for four years between 1959 and 1962 and hit the last of his 3 career home runs in the bottom of the 9th against the Washington Senators on Sept. 30, 1962.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 04-05-2023

(04-04-2023, 11:47 AM)BostonCard Wrote:  No, no, no

The Giant played in 35 games over two years, in 2012 and 2013.  He had 45 at bats, a career average at the Mendoza line, and an OPS of .506.  His career was pretty unremarkable, but for the fact that he ended his career on September 29, 2013, with a home run against Huston Street of the Padres in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game (the Giants would win 7-6).

The two walk-off career ending home runs were:

A Cinicinnati Reds utility SS/2B/utility player who hit the last of his 30 career home runs as a walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning in a September 2014 game against the Pittsburgh Pirates and a Boston Red Sox C/1B from Modesto who played for four years between 1959 and 1962 and hit the last of his 3 career home runs in the bottom of the 9th against the Washington Senators on Sept. 30, 1962.

BC

Francisco Peguero was the Giant
Cincy Red was Ramon Santiago, had a fairly long career with Detroit.
Bosox player, if I'm not mistaken, was Don Gile, who attended San Mateo HS.
Washington Senators vs Boston Red Sox Box Score: September 30, 1962 | Baseball-Reference.com

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Who are the five PGA golfers to achieve the career Grand Slam? (Winning the Masters, the U. S. Open, the British Open and the PGA Championship).

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