With his win in game five of the 2013 World Series, Jon Lester of the Boston Red Sox became only the second Red Sox left-handed pitcher to win three World Series games. Who was the first?
Babe Ruth
Which MLB pitcher owns the distinction of having won the most games, and having lost the most games during his career?
Cy Young, 511-316
Question:
This pitcher, who played for the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox, is the only Canadian-born player in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Answer:
Ferguson Jenkins pitched for the Red Sox in 1976-77.
Question: In addition to pitching a one-hitter in game two of the 1967 World Series, who became the first Red Sox pitcher to win the AL Cy Young Award in 1967?
Answer: Jim Lonborg
In 2010, what Red Sox rookie became the only player in AL history to hit a grand slam home run on the first pitch of the first at-bat of his career?
Daniel Nava.
In 2004, which Red Sox pitcher was the winning pitcher in the clinching games of the ALDS, ALCS, and the World Series?
Derek Lowe
Name the three Boston Red Sox left-fielders who are enshrined in MLB’s Hall of Fame.
Answer:
Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice.
Question: Chris Sale is scheduled to be the opening day pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in 2018. Who was the last Red Sox left-handed pitcher to start two consecutive opening days?
Answer: Jon Lester, 2011 & 2012. Mel Parnel holds the record at three.
When was the last time the U.S four-man bobsled team won a gold medal?
ANSWER: 2010, the team named “The Night Train,” at the Olympic games hosted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The U.S. has hosted the winter Olympics twice since 1960, at Lake Placid, New York, in 1980, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2002.
ANSWER: The U.S. has hosted the winter Olympics twice since 1960, at Lake Placid, New York, in 1980, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2002.
CORRECTION: This answer has been corrected. It was a source error.