Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Colamarino Has Trivia

Today's first question comes from Steve Paikin's Remembering David Steinhart post:

Yankees’ pitcher Ron Guidry went 25-3 in 1978 in one of the all-time great seasons for a pitcher. Name the three pitchers who defeated him.

The late Steinhart could not come up with it, but I'll give you two hints: these three men have the same first name and one of them was a Blue Jay.

Honour system in effect as always.

12 comments:

Tybalt said...

Awesome question. Usual rules are no looking up sources, or no internet at all?

Tybalt said...

OK, let's try Jim Clancy, Jim Kern, and Jim Bibby.

Tybalt said...

I just looked up the answer. Nice, my friend, nice. I went in two different wrong directions on that one.

Dave Till said...

I used to know this. They were all Mikes. I think Mike Willis was the Jay, and Mike Torrez might have been another one. I've forgotten the third.

Rob said...

Usual rules, which every question must follow, are no internet sources. Any particular question can have additional constraints. Usual rules apply for the Guidry one.

Dave Till said...

I'll guess Mike Flanagan for the third. (I haven't looked anything up.)

Rob said...

You have two of three correct. I award Dave asking rights to the next question regardless of who comes up with the other guy.

The only rule for a question, Dave, is that every answer should somehow lead to the next question, so you must involve this mystery Mike in some way.

autolycus said...

Willis and Flanagan for sure, but not Torrez. He was trying to become the fourth in the playoff game.

Uh... Mike Caldwell?

Rob said...

I want to remind everyone that the times are posted in PST here (or I guess PDT now). Apparently magpies are nocturnal.

Caldwell is correct.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIL/MIL197807070.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA197808040.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR197809201.shtml

Fun Guidry '78 facts: didn't lose until July 7. A higher game score (9 IP, 10 K, 1 ER) than the guy who beat him on August 4. The only team who beat him badly was, of course, the 57-92 second-year expansion team. (Was Guidry hurt that day? Guess not if he came back four days later for the playoff.)

autolycus said...

Guidry's loss to the Jays on 20 Sept 78 was weird. It came after back-to-back shutouts of the Red Sox, and he followed it with yet another shutout of Cleveland. And then a CG 4 hitter to beat the Jays 3-1 before the playoff game. Which I remember very very well (stayed home to watch it!) and Guidry was not on top of his game that afternoon in Fenway.

autolycus said...

I did look that last bit up - not Caldwell - I didn't think his loss to the Jays was the start before the playoff, but I remembered looking off his game in the playoff and thought I'd better see. Maybe he was running out of steam, a little guy pitching 270 IP. But the rest of his September was pretty impressive

Rob said...

Yeah, that should have been "four starts later" which isn't what I was going for. (I misread Guidry's game log as the team's game log. Four days after Sep. 20 is probably Sep. 24.)

Dave! Mike Caldwell is waiting.