Baseball Question on Jeopardy tonight???

[xpress34]

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And just for grins, since this happened I believe only 3 maybe 4 pairs of 300w/300s pitchers have appeared in the same game together for the same team...

Bonus Points if you can name any of those tandems...

[xpress34]

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If Captain Lou didnt get sick, he would have easily had 3,000 hits, and probably still have the record right now, and for quite some time.

I agree on that 2721 hits... he averaged 204 hits a season... 2 more seasons and he would have been there...

[ndevlin]

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Yeah, and I can almost bet he wouldve played for another 5 yrs. Not to mention his HR total of 500+. Heck, probably 600+

[xpress34]

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Yeah, and I can almost bet he wouldve played for another 5 yrs. Not to mention his HR total of 500+. Heck, probably 600+

Without a doubt...

Any guesses on my 300w/300s question yet?

[ndevlin]

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Umm, my first guess would be Clemens and Wagner. But I dont think they were teammates at that time.

Clemens and Franco? They were teammates, but I dunno if they played in the same game

[ndevlin]

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No wait, Clemens played with the Yankees, Franco with the Mets.

Ahh, I dunno. Im guessing it might have something to do with Nolan Ryan

[ndevlin]

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Or I guess Clemens and Rivera too....

[Vintagedeputy]

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The 300 saves guy was Gossage, right?

[Vintagedeputy]

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Here's a good one:

Name the 2 sets of brothers to have hit over 500 home runs combined.

[ndevlin]

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If it was Gossage, then it would have been with Ryan in 91. But wouldnt it be Clemens and Rivera at some point too?

[xpress34]

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You were close with Clemens and Franco - they were the 2nd pairing during Franco's brief stint with the Astros in April 2005 - 14 years later!

And YES, it does involve Nolan.

In June 1991 Nolan started and WON his 308th Career Victory. In that game, Goose Gossage (who had not saved a game in over 2 years at that point) came in and got the SAVE - his 308th Career Save. #308 and #308 in the same game!!!

There is actually a card commemorating the event in the 1992 Donruss set.

In fact, it inspired me to do this (as far as I know) ONE OF A KIND Ball:



And for the record I believe the other tandems to do 300w/300s would be:

Clemens/Rivera (after Clemens went back to NYY) making Clemens the only one to do it twice with two different teams (Both Leagues as a matter of fact!) and with two different relievers.

The other would be Greg Maddux w/ Trevor Hoffman during Maddux's SD tenure...

- Chris

[xpress34]

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The 300 saves guy was Gossage, right?

You're on track Deputy... we might have to make you Sheriff!!!

[GarkoCollector]

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Here's a good one:

Name the 2 sets of brothers to have hit over 500 home runs combined.

Jason and Jeremy Giambi?

[ndevlin]

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Tommie and Hank is the only set I can think of.

And if you want to, throw in the trio of the Dimaggio boys.

[ndevlin]

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Ohh, you wanted the first pitchers to do it, I see. I was about to say, thats happened more than once.

I see, I see