Basaball Quiz

[Mr.Jones]

Chuck Essegian, a journeyman pro in the 50's while playing for the L.A.Dodgers, did something only one other MLB player has ever done. What was it, when did he do it and who was the other player to accomplish the same feat?

 

[sherman]

Pinch hit HR in the World Series? I have no idea when it was....

 

[Mr.Jones]

Sherm are you saying only one other player in baseball history has ever hit a pinch hit home run in the World Series?

 

[sherman]

Sherm are you saying only one other player in baseball history has ever hit a pinch hit home run in the World Series?

I guess you are saying I am wrong....I was thinking only him and Gibson had done it, couldn't think of anyone else....have alot of people done that? I would not have thought so....

 

[GERM]

not surprising you were not able to come up with the answer.

 

[sherman]

not surprising you were not able to come up with the answer.

i suppose you have the answer?

 

[Journeyman]

Kirk Gibson hit a pretty memorable pinch hit home run.

 

[docmercer]

Play in a Rose Bowl and World Series?

 

[Mr.Jones]

Yea Gibson sure did but in 100 years certainly more than 2 guys have hit pinch hit home runs in the Series.

 

[Phigment]

Pinch hit HR in the World Series? I have no idea when it was....

Two pinch hit HRs in the same World Series? That record was later tied though correct?

 

[Mr.Jones]

ktvvegas not the answer.

 

[Journeyman]

Yea Gibson sure did but in 100 years certainly more than 2 guys have hit pinch hit home runs in the Series.

Absolutely.

 

[Mr.Jones]

Phigment correct. Essegian hit two pinch hit home runs in the Series against the White Sox in 1959. In 1975 Red Sox Bernie Carbo did the same in the Series against the Reds.

 

[Phigment]

Was this the other guy?

 

[wilheim]

World Series Trivia.

Famous catch by Willy Mays off the bat of Cleveland Indians 1st baseman Vic Wertz -- The question is: Who was the Giants' pitcher that Wertz tagged for the long out?



wil..

 

[Mr.Jones]

Reliever Don Liddle.

 

[Phigment]

Damn, Mr. Jones beat me to the punch. Thought I could go 2-2

 

[BlackBart]

Was this the other guy?

Single biggest home run in Red Sox history. Fisk's HR later in the game gets all the pub, but the game was OVER before Carbo hit the three run homer. Fisk's homer won the game, but had he not hit it, the game still would have been tied.

I would even put this ahead (though barely) of Henderson's HR in the '86 ALCS and Ortiz's Game 4 HR last year.

Underrated moment in Red Sox history.

 

[Mr.Jones]

Liddle was primarily a ground ball pitcher hence Mays was playing somewhat shallow in the cavernous Polo Ground centerfield area.

Question why did Giant pitcher Ruben Gomez once sprint to the centerfield clubhouse like a madman.

 

[Phigment]

I was reading this morning that Podsednik's HR last night was the first walk-off homer in a World Series by a player who previously had zero homeruns that season. Given all those variables I assume it will be a long time before someone ties that record but I wonder if there have been any players who have had zero HRs until the World Series and then knocked one out?

This is not a trivia question because I don't know the answer.