Thursday Trivia

Apparently this guy was even meaner than those two (and no, they aren't part of our list). When he was a pitching coach, he was reported to have said:

"I think you ought to play it mean like Durocher did. 'They ought to hate you on the field. If it was my own brother, I'd knock him down.''

I will try Sam McDowell and Mel Stot...meyer. Remember Mel one year had a few 1 and 2 hitters and would lose.

Neither Sudden Sam nor Mel.

Two of them pitched for the Phillies and the Red Sox (among other teams) overlapping one year for the Sox.

Another one on the list pitched the shortest complete game in terms of number of pitches (58!).

Neither Sudden Sam nor Mel.

Two of them pitched for the Phillies and the Red Sox (among other teams) overlapping one year for the Sox.

Another one on the list pitched the shortest complete game in terms of number of pitches (58!).

Lonborg?, but I know he had a walk in his his 1967 WS 1-hitter

Maddox? Pedro? Alexander?

Besides Carlton and Mussina, the others were Pedro Martinez (3 of them); Pete Alexander, Red Barrett, Curt Schilling, John Smiley, Whit Wyatt and Matt Cain.

Eveldrive got it:

Carlton
Mussina
Wyatt (the meanest man ever)
Barrett (author of the shortest complete game)
Martinez
Schilling
Smiley (thought mrharryc might have caught that one)
Cain

Alexander I imagine had his in that glorious 1915 season when he had 4 one-hitters.

Carlton and Alexander had a combined 11 one-hitters.

What pitcher had his team's only hit when they were one-hit? And who was the pitcher who pitched that one-hitter?

For the "fewest pitches in a complete game" honor, that presumes a 9-inning game. In 1970, Dick Drago had the theoretical minimum number of hitters faced for a CG - 13 hitters, in a 1-0 loss called after the top of the fifth. Here's the box score: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL197107300.shtml

They didn't officially track pitches then (which also raises the question of how they had the pitch count from Red Barrett's game nearly thirty years earlier), but with only 3 K's, I assume he was below 58. Even estimating conservatively at 4 pitches per batter, that would put him at 52.

For the "fewest pitches in a complete game" honor, that presumes a 9-inning game. In 1970, Dick Drago had the theoretical minimum number of hitters faced for a CG - 13 hitters, in a 1-0 loss called after the top of the fifth. Here's the box score: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL197107300.shtml

They didn't officially track pitches then (which also raises the question of how they had the pitch count from Red Barrett's game nearly thirty years earlier), but with only 3 K's, I assume he was below 58. Even estimating conservatively at 4 pitches per batter, that would put him at 52.

A pretty interesting discussion here about Barrett's game:

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?48706-Red-Barrett-s-58-pitch-complete-game

I enjoyed that one-hitter trivia question. So to keep the trivia train running - here's a couple more:

There have been 3 players to hit 4 HRs and 1 double in a game -- who were they?
But there has only been one player to hit 4 doubles and 1 HR in a game -- who was it?