I assumed Snowguy would just jump on that since he said he was gonna stick around for a while. Guess another "post and run" appearance. I believe the rules here allow that for posters emeritus cases....
That all said............additional items of possible interest concerning that Pirate trivia individual are:
His father was an orchestra leader; he was all-state in football in addition to baseball. Eventually got a degree in Economics from Purdue. Had a son who became a PGA golfer, and was a 3-time delegate to the RNC. Pretty interesting stuff.
About ready to give up on the 'bonus' question?
Gimme a bit more to come up with it...
...but it's too bad there's no BoSox fan to post here, boasting like it's gonna be '78 all over again...waitaminnit...
No, but man that's a super guess. Best one yet.
Wow - that's an even *better* guess. No, but can't get any closer and miss it - I don't think. They *were* on the same team for a few years - but not nearly as many years as the mystery pair. But mostly John was in the AL too many years to have surrendered all that many gopher balls to Hank. Man, you're really plowing the fields. Admirable diligence.
Nope. Cuellar was mostly an AL hurler. You were *much* closer with your previous guess - and use that crumb as a hint 😉.
Nope. Gibbon wasn't a teammate of Marichal very long. And he has no W.S. decisions either way.
Extra hint: the 'name' player was a tad older, and was on this team more years. But they were teammates for several years.
Maybe a 'decent' guess, but Fryman never played in a W.S.
Edit: neither did Bunning, on further thought and double-checking.
Don't tell me, let it hang around...I'll guess here and there...buuuuuut...if I'm allowed to pose a question, yet not knowledge of the answer, I have a doozy (you might very well know it straight on, though...
Ok; we'll let it sit for a bit. You may have to remind me that I have a follow-up to it.
And of course you may pose a question without knowing the answer. Peeps do it all the time. This ain't no contest; just entertainment, and learning historical knowledge. Denny has not (yet) resumed payouts. 😂
I certainly don't know the answer to that, but it's quite a few. Read a week or two ago of one incident, but don't remember who, or the details. May have been in a W.S. or A-S game, which is why I remembered it - but do NOT quote me on that.
Here's a game from Baseball-Reference...it's daily...............I scored like 232, I'm not sure if it's good or bad...
I certainly remember that "28-out" game. Brings to mind the fan-interference situations, too. Sad, but we all know those kinds of things can happen in baseball - and in life, too, believe it or not.
.TN gives the side-eye to that silly automatic runner rule.
Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen?
(Most HRs to 44?)
🛎🛎🛎🛎🛎🛎 I truly admire your tenaciousness 😯!!
Follow-up to come in a bit...........
Ok, before I do the follow-up (coming soon).............here's a "double-shot" quickie.
Remember (you probably don't) when there were two All-Star games per year for awhile? Who was the only pitcher to start both of them in a season?
Who was the first pitcher to give up a HR on the West Coast?
Doesn't Snowguy want to brag about this ROOKIE superstar?
I'll just throw this out there as a trivia factoid, not a question. Since you mentioned Don Sutton above............ He came up as a rookie in '66, and won 12 games. More impressively, he won AT LEAST 11 games for THE NEXT 17 YEARS STRAIGHT!! 😳
Don Drysdale gave up a homer to Daryl Spencer, I think.
He also started the All-Star games when there were two of them...
He was your favorite pitcher back in the day, I'll bet.
Correct-o on both. No, he was not, actually.
Spahny would of course been my favorite.
Ok, now to that follow-up question. Orel Hershiser famously topped Drysdale's consecutive scoreless innings streak back in '88 (that Drysdale record was what was referred to in one of my clues above - and was done in "The Year of the Pitcher" ('68)). (59 > 58.) So whose record did Drysdale beat?
Part two of the follow-up: Mariano Rivera holds the postseason record with 33.3. The second-longest is still Whitey Ford's 33 - and that one's still a W.S. record. (Possibly never to be broken??) So whose record (which would have been W.S. by default) did Ford beat?
Who says 33.3.
It's 33 1/3.
I am absolutely positive I'm being really picky.
It indeed was a choice, and a close call. The former was easier, and I don't like the fact that fractions are *very* hard to do in the 'normal' style on computers. In this case, pickiness not really an issue. No foul on the play.
How does one put the bar above the three (tenths), then making it exact, true?
My guess is Grover Cleveland Alexander, mainly because he's one of my very very all-time favorites, next to...
One doesn't. That's why the "bars" are ALL metric.
Grover Cleveland is wrong, but you're "in the vicinity".
This is most certainly a great place for peculiarities in written scores such as innings completed. On that Mariano Rivera stat above for example,its often written as not just 331/3 or 33.3,but 33.1,strangely enough. If Rivera had gone an extra out its 33.2 and if he wouldve gone one more out its just 34. Guess you can call it "baseball language".
Grover Cleveland was a horse. 6 years he had over 30 CGs - 4 of them consecutively. 'Course that was back "when men were men".......
As a hint.........Cleveland was all NL. The answer to the question was all AL.
Like he's the oldest and one of the greatest relievers.
Corbin Carrol got another triple...so impressive...the Diamondbacks also have Max Kepler
The answer to that clue Mark Fydrich, I think.
Waite Hoyt is not the answer to the trivia question about whose record Drysdale broke - NOR is it the answer to whose record Ford broke.
Was it Christy Mathewson?
He'd been sprayed with something, and suffered every day.
No, but you're certainly very much "in the neighborhood" again. You're on the right track, for sure.
Have you read Mathewson's "Pitching in a Pinch"? I haven't, but supposedly it's highly regarded.