# Post your favorite sports trivia question **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [September 15, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164 "2023-09-15T14:45:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/421 "2025-08-06T16:50:21Z")
Also the Ravens and Bucs have won but never lost the Super Bowl. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/422 "2025-08-06T19:48:58Z")
I got the Jets in SB 3 right away but forgot the Saints ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/423 "2025-08-23T04:55:27Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Home run balls routinely wind up going through the windows of the apartments on Waveland Avenue As a landlord, is that a selling point, a deposit function, or what?? ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/424 "2025-09-12T20:58:03Z")
Have we done this one yet? What European soccer club holds the record for most consecutive home wins in competitive European play? ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/425 "2025-09-13T00:56:07Z")
Correction: not a home winning streak but a home _unbeaten_ streak! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/426 "2025-09-13T05:46:52Z")
From 1919 to 2004, the Red Sox played in five World Series, winning only one. What was their won-loss record over those five Series? ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/427 "2025-09-14T12:04:05Z")
My guess based on the way the question was asked: 16-16? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/428 "2025-09-14T14:01:24Z")
Yep. They lost four times, each time in seven games, going 12-16. Then they swept in 2004, to bring their record to 16-16. I moved to the Boston area in 1998, and heard about how ‘cursed’ the Red Sox were. I thought it was ironic that they went .500 over that time span. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/429 "2025-09-14T14:12:32Z")
As a Yankee fan, I remember that 2004 one vividly ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/430 "2025-09-14T17:16:41Z")
So if you were born in Boston in, say, 1925 and lived to be 75, you got to witness your team lose in the WS in game 7 in 1946, 1967, 1975 and 1986. And that would be that. It’s a hell of a thing. On the other hand, if you were born in 1990, you’d think things were just peachy with your team. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/431 "2025-09-14T17:56:24Z")
The Red Sox tend to do well in the first eighteen years of any century. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/432 "2025-09-14T18:00:14Z")
So 2104? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/433 "2025-10-06T01:10:49Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > The Charlotte Hornets are perhaps the least successful team in the NBA, having a win-loss percentage of .425 and having never made it out of the second round. They also hold the record for the losingest season in NBA history. Well, by winning percentage, but their loss total was, mercifully, limited by a lockout, God be praised. The most losses ever by an NBA team? 73, by the 1972-73 Sixers. Just beating out the 72 by the Sixers in 2015-2016. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/434 "2025-10-06T01:22:51Z")
That 73-loss Sixers team was a dramatic fall from grace from five years prior, where they went 68-13 and won the NBA championship with MVP Wilt Chamberlain. That Sixers team was named one of the Top 15 Teams in NBA History. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/435 "2025-10-20T20:19:10Z")
One of the most iconic World Series images is Carlton Fisk waving his 12th-inning home run to stay fair in the Red Sox victory over the Reds in Game 6 in 1975. Who was the winning pitcher in that game? I just read this. I wouldn’t have had a clue. Rick Wise ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/436 "2025-10-20T22:13:01Z")
Every completed baseball game has a winning pitcher. What’s special about Rick Wise winning that game? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/437 "2025-10-20T23:34:05Z")
Probably because it was Wise’s only relief appearance that year. He started game three. Why was there a five day gap between games 5 and 6 that year? Weather? ETA: Three days of heavy rain after a travel day. Makes you wonder how things would have turned out had things gone off on schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/438 "2025-10-21T00:07:21Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Makes you wonder how things would have turned out had things gone off on schedule. I’m still wondering how things might have turned out if Larry Barnett had made the interference call on Ed Armbrister. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/439 "2025-10-21T01:14:33Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Probably because it was Wise’s only relief appearance that year I started following baseball 2 years later, but definitely remembered the name. And I’ve seen many vids of that game 6. I’d say it’s not uncommon to have starters pitch relief innings in playoff games. And since you mentioned the long break, it makes even more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164/440 "2025-10-21T01:29:00Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Probably because it was Wise’s only relief appearance that year. Exactly right. Wise was a starter for the bulk of his career. In 1971 he threw a no-hitter and hit two home runs in a Phillies victory over the Reds. 1975 was his only season with the Red Sox. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-favorite-sports-trivia-question/990164.md?page=23)