not-at-all-trivial trivia 2013

@JamesSmyth621
Unique Box Score Line Alert
CC Sabathia 7 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K
A first out of 975,000+ lines since 1913 in @baseball_ref Play Index

I wasn't aware that people tracked such things.

huh that doesn't seem like a very unusual line

By beating the Mets, Stephen Strasburg became the first National League pitcher to start a season 12-0 since Rube Marquard did it back in 1912, aka the year the Titanic sank.

The White Sox have become the first team since 1979 to turn three triple plays in a season.

Name the two remaining active players who appeared at Candlestick Park. (If you heard it on a broad/podcast this week, ineligible!)

expect beltre is one, dunno the other

dickey? prob not

Beltre correct!

The other was a Giant.

He's also a bit of a cheat, as he was in MLB this year but is presently only in a team's farm.

yup I looked it up, would've never come up w him

btw, Joe Nathan

@Buccigross
Cleveland is the first team in MLB history to have a game-tying HR and a walkoff inside the park HR in the same inning. #elias

three franchises' all-time home run leaders are active and still with the team. who are the hitters?

Papi, Stanton, Encarnacion?

maybe beltre instead of edwing

Don't think Edwin--gotta be Delgado...I doubt Ortiz, too; I'd say Williams. Which leaves...Stanton, probably; Longoria, surely; Votto or Braun?

I'll be happy if I even got one of them right. I'm terrible at sports trivia.

I checked--be happy.

clem pretty much otm: giancarlo, longoria and braun

who is the youngest active hitter with more career WAR than mike trout

Cabrera?

Just checked--tough question, easy guy to overlook.

my guess would be longoria

ah! longoria would have been right a couple of months ago

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