not-at-all-trivial trivia 2013

actually if you go by fan graphs i was right!

I automatically checked Baseball Reference--different answer.

My no-cheating guess was Tulo, but he's 4 WAR behind Trout. After that I looked it up -- it's a great question, and definitely not obvious.

for the record, the answer is dustin pedroia, who is seven years and 355 days older than mike trout

@sabr
A Golden Pitch is any pitch thrown when *both* teams could win or lose WS on one swing of the bat. 1912, '26, ’62, ’72, ’97, 2001, ’14, ’16.

mike montgomery became the eighth pitcher to throw one

@ajacksonevans
Barry Bonds homered on every day between Apr 1st-Sep 29th in his career, except Aug 5th

Aug 5th is the date Bobby Bonds homered on the most

i can't parse that, help?

oh its two different names

there are eight hall of famers* whose on-base percentage was higher than their slugging percentage. how many can you name?

*inducted as batters, not pitchers/managers/etc

(only two of them played during any of our lifetimes, and one just barely)

quite a few from Deadball i imagine, incl some notorious inductions from the 'Frisch' VC period of late '60s

dang, my first guess of rickey was .018 off

Pure guess for one of the modern players: Nellie Fox?

Nope--slugging .015 higher.

One of them has to be Ozzie.

Yes: .337/.328.

Billy Hamilton 	1888-1901	.344/.455/.432
Roger Bresnahan 1897-1915	.279/.386/.377
Johnny Evers 	1902-1929	.270/.356/.334
Ray Schalk 	1912-1929	.253/.340/.316
Rick Ferrell 	1929-1947	.281/.378/.363
Luke Appling 	1930-1950	.310/.399/.398
Richie Ashburn 	1948-1962	.308/.396/.382
Ozzie Smith 	1978-1996	.262/.337/.328

hmmm only 2.5 deadballers really

I remember during the first baseball strike as a hid, ESPN had on tv an old-timers game in DC and Luke Appling hit a home run and I think he was like 70 years old.

I knew Richie Ashburn hit a lot of singles, but I don't think I ever realized just how good he was--led the league in walks four times (high of 125), stole a fair number of bases in a station-to-station decade, a lot of triples, good defense. Must have been next among '50s CF after Mays, Mantle, and Aaron.

Snider, I meant to say.

name the two hall-of-fame pitchers who won world series games in stadiums that also hosted a super bowl

one has to be the lefty from Brooklyn

or maybe the righty from Van Nuys

one is indeed the righty from van nuys, in the la coliseum in 1959

weird that you didn't tell me to not mention football, though -- are you okay

i thought about it ;)

i thought the other park was in Florida, but that does not seem to be the case

btw the other (besides drysdale) is bert blyleven

guess which two i missed

(not the interim from the '60s)

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2017/2/27/14719378/new-york-mets-trivia-managers

first auto-IBB: yadier molina, with mike montgomery pitching

The Yankees' first 12 batters of the game either walked or struck out. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, they are the first team in the expansion era (since 1961) with a strikeout, walk or hit by pitch in each of their first 12 plate appearances of a game.

carlos 'true outcomes' martinez

A most unimpressive 8/15.

http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/mlb-baseball-trivia-quiz-random-players

I got 12/15. I did not know the guy on the Rays, missed on the Hunley/Hollingsworth and I got Shannon Stewart of the Twins wrong.

Stewart was one of the few I was 100% sure of.

What 2 MLB parks are tied for hosting the most all-time "cycles"? The answer is hi-larious.

it's Fenway and Coors.

ELIAS: The Dodgers have held leads at some point in their last 44 games. That's an MLB record. Previous high: 1906 Cubs (43 straight).

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) July 20, 2017

jaime garcia will soon make a start for his third different team in one season, something no pitcher has done since 2007.

who was that pitcher?

i don't know but i just saw that LAD trivia you posted and that is incredible

(the answer to the above question is the benighted Byung-hyun Kim)

but also

According to the Patrik Eliáš Sports Bureau, Jon Lester joined John Smoltz as the only pitchers since 1900 to hit a HR and record his 2000th strikeout in the same game.

According to @EliasSports, Jaime García is the 1st pitcher to make 3 straight app. as a starter for 3 diff. teams since Gus Weyhing in 1895.

— Yankees PR Dept. (@YankeesPR) August 4, 2017

martin perez is the first rangers pitcher to fan four times in a game

Rich Hill's loss was only 40th time since 1920 a pitcher had a 90+ gamescore and lost. Warren Spahn did it 3 times: https://t.co/xqxGaLQjKa

— Ted Berg (@OGTedBerg) August 24, 2017

Chad Green is the first pitcher in @MLB history to have seven strikeouts while facing no more than eight batters in a game.

— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) August 30, 2017

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/9/6/16265112/will-middlebrooks-rangers-triple-doubleheaders-first-player-in-history

Gary Sanchez second-fastest to 50 HR in his career, tied with Mark McGwire (161 G), behind Rudy York (153 G).

jacoby ellsbury now holds the record for most times reaching base due to catcher's interference, with 30

more info: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/baseball-has-a-new-all-time-record/

I was down at the Jays-Orioles game last night, and I saw Mark Trumbo lose a routine fly ball in the lights and overrun it by a factor of 2.715--I believe that's a record.

http://www.mlb.com/gameday/orioles-vs-blue-jays/2017/09/11/492246#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=492246

Maybe you can't link directly to MLB videos...It's in last night's video clips for the Jays-Orioles game.