Also the Ravens and Bucs have won but never lost the Super Bowl.
I got
the Jets in SB 3 right away but forgot the Saints
As a landlord, is that a selling point, a deposit function, or what??
Have we done this one yet?
What European soccer club holds the record for most consecutive home wins in competitive European play?
Correction: not a home winning streak but a home unbeaten streak!
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?
My guess based on the way the question was asked: 16-16?
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.
As a Yankee fan, I remember that 2004 one vividly
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.
The Red Sox tend to do well in the first eighteen years of any century.
So 2104?
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.
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.
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
Every completed baseball game has a winning pitcher. What’s special about Rick Wise winning that game?
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.
I’m still wondering how things might have turned out if Larry Barnett had made the interference call on Ed Armbrister.
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.
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.