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Humbugardy: 6th Degree Quotes for 800
2005-11-07 12:53
by Score Bard

This is round 2 of Humbugardy. I'm your host, Alex Scorebard.

 

This pitcher is the last to strike out
the last batter to strike out against
a pitcher who attended the same university as
a famous poet born in the same city as
the player who once said,
"It's a strained muscle or something."

 

Note: In this round, searching the web is allowed.

 

Numb3r5 Sudoku 6th Degree Quotes What and Where Anagram Lines Subjective
200 Bob Timmerman Bob Timmerman 200 For The Turnstiles deadteddy8
400 For The Turnstiles For The Turnstiles 400 Joe 400
For The Turnstiles Bob Timmerman Next... 600 For The Turnstiles 600
T J 800 For The Turnstiles Murray argosy 800
1000 1000 1000 Bob Timmerman For The Turnstiles 1000
Comments
2005-11-07 13:23:18
1.   For The Turnstiles
Who is Peavy?
2005-11-07 13:24:35
2.   TFD
Who is Wade Miller?
2005-11-07 13:26:31
3.   misterjohnny
Who is Hoffman?
2005-11-07 13:27:13
4.   Cliff Corcoran
Who is Adam Eaton?
2005-11-07 13:30:07
5.   nickb
Who is Syl Johnson?
2005-11-07 13:37:52
6.   TFD
Who is Mike Remlinger?
2005-11-07 13:45:40
7.   King of the Hobos
I have Peavy...

In case For the Turnstiles is disqualified, Who is Peavy?

2005-11-07 13:46:54
8.   Bob Timmermann
That'll teach me to go to lunch.
2005-11-07 13:48:15
9.   Score Bard
Turnstiles wins again. It's Peavy.
2005-11-07 13:52:39
10.   Cliff Corcoran
You know, I completely forgot Bonds played this year. Eaton was the answer for 2004. Drat.
2005-11-07 13:55:39
11.   For The Turnstiles
6th degree quotes for 600 - Bob should get this one to preserve symmetry, if he doesn't get distracted by food again.
2005-11-07 14:11:49
12.   Voxter
I got Peavy, too, but if you make a slight left turn at the Musselman connexion and instead go to Walter Clarkson -- who actually attended Harvard at the same time as Wallace Stevens -- things get exponentially more difficult and, as a matter of fact, completely unworkable. Though, if you wanna go with the best-player-on-the-last-roster-he-pitched-against theory (not likely, but fun), you get Ty Cobb of the 1908 Detroit Tigers. I can't find his last strike-out, but the last out he made was a pop-up off of the Yankees' Hank Johnson, in a game in which a 2-run dinger by Babe Ruth was the difference.
2005-11-07 14:20:11
13.   Voxter
Alternately, you could go to Ray Peters. The only man that Peters struck out in his short and somewhat ignominious career (two starts for Milwaukie in 1970) was Indians catcher Ray Fosse. Fosse's last strikeout was in his last game, 30 September 1979, when he played first base and batted sixth for the Brewers. He K'd looking in the fourth. So technically, another correct answer could be:

Who is Lary Sorensen?

Though that path is a little less star-studded than one that involves Bonds and Peavy.

2005-11-07 14:35:03
14.   For The Turnstiles
Sorensen was Fosse's Milwaukee teammate in that game. Jerry Koosman was the one who struck out Fosse, pitching a complete game shutout for Minnesota, and earning his twentieth win.

I actually like that answer better, but when I was hurrying to get an answer in I went with the most recent Crimson pitcher, not knowing how far back retrosheet would have complete game logs. Also, the use of "is" instead of "was" in the first line suggests that the 'Bard meant the batter in question to still be active.

2005-11-07 16:01:42
15.   Cliff Corcoran
Actually, "the last batter to strike out against
a pitcher who attended the same university" implies the most recent time it happened, so you have to go with Musselman, who was the most recent Harvard alum hurler. It's not the last batter to strike out against a pitcher (etc.), it's the last batter to strike against a pitcher . . .
2005-11-07 17:28:14
16.   Voxter
I was just wanking a little for fun. I didn't really suss out the language too closely . . .

I really wish I could figure out the Walter Clarkson one, because he was at Harvard for two years at the same time as Stevens. Lost to history, I guess. Anybody know who the last guy to strike out Ty Cobb was?

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