MLB 2001 Season Highlights Trivia Quiz

Answer: Roger Clemens

The 39-year-old Clemens collects his 20th win hurling the Yankees to a 6-3 win over the White Sox on September 19. He finished the season with a 20-3 record and wins his 6th Cy Young Award of his career. Clemens became the first pitcher in history to win 20 or more games in a season without pitching a complete game in 2001. During the season, he passed Walter Johnson for the all-time strikeout leader in the American League.

Answer: Milwaukee Brewers

The Milwaukee Brewers finished the 2001 season with 1,399 strikouts and 1,378 hits. Shortstop Jose Hernandez led the team and the league with 185 strikeouts. Richie Sexson finished second in the league with 178 whiffs. Both Hernandez and Sexson are the only players to go 0-for-5 with 5 strikeouts in a game in 2001. The Brewers set a Major League record in 2001 with 1,399 strikouts. The old mark of 1,268 was set by the Detroit Tigers in 1996.

Answer: Jason Jennings

On August 23, 2001, Jason Jennings threw a 5 hit shutout at Shea Stadium beating the New York Mets 10-0. He walked 4, struckout 8, and helped himself by going 3 for 5 with a home run and 2 runs-batted-in. Jennings was a late season call-up and finished the 2001 season 4-1 with an 4.58 ERA. He went on to win the Rookie of the Year in 2002.

Answer: Carl Everett

On September 2, 2001, New York Yankees' Mike Mussina came within one strike of perfection, but Carl Everett's two-out, two-strike, ninth-inning, pinch-hit single broke-up the Moose's bid for a perfect game. He finished with a one-hitter and struckout 13 as the Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 1-0 at Fenway. David Cone also turned in an excellent performance for Boston, by holding the Yankees scoreless for 8 innings. Cone threw a perfect game against the Expos on July 18,1999.

Answer: Sammy Sosa

On August 9, 2001, the Rockies defeated the Cubs, 14-5, despite three successive home runs by Sammy Sosa. On August 22, he hit three home runs in a game for the second time in two weeks as he leads Chicago to a 16-3 win over the Brewers. His third three-homer game came on September 23. Despite his trio of blasts, the Cubs still lose to the Astros, 7-6. In 2001, "Slammin Sammy" bacame the first Major League player in history with three career 60-home run seasons.
1998-66HRs, 1999-63HRs, & 2001-64HRs.

Answer: Scott Hatteberg

On August 6, 2001, Boston Red Sox catcher Scott Hatteberg performs the ultimate baseball opposite in consecutive at bats. With two men on in the 4th inning and the Sox ahead 4-2, he lines into a triple play. Two innings later, after the Rangers score five to go ahead, he hits a grand slam to put Boston in the lead to stay.

The Red Sox defeat the Rangers, 10-7. "That's going from the outhouse to the penthouse right there," said Hatteberg after the game.

Answer: Greg Maddux

Greg Maddux of the Atlanta Braves had his NL record streak end at 72-and-one-third innings on August 12th during a 9-1 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Maddux intentionally walks Steve Finley in the 3rd inning to end the streak. Christy Mathewson of New York (1913), and Randy Jones of San Diego (1976) previously held the National League record with 68 innings.

The American League record was set in 1962 by Bill Fischer of Kansas City with 84-and-one-third innings.

Answer: Jeromy Burnitz & Richie Sexson

On September 25, 2001, Burnitz and Sexson each homered three times as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks, 9-4. Twice they hit back-to-back home runs. Burnitz hit his homers in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th innings. He finished the 2001 season with 34 dingers. Sexson hit his homers in the 4th, 6th, and 9th innings. He finished the season with 45 home runs.

Answer: Ichiro Suzuki

The previous record was held by "Shoeless" Joe Jackson in 1911. Ichiros' 192 singles in 2001 set a new AL record, once owned by Wade Boggs with 187 singles in 1985. He won the AL batting title with a .350 AVG and led the league with 56 stolen bases. Ichiro became the second player in history to win the Rookie of the Year Award and the league MVP in the same season. Fred Lynn won both in 1975. Albert Pujols set a new ML rookie record for extra base hits in a season with 88 on his way to winning the NL Rookie of the Year.

Answer: Barry Bonds

San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds 73 home runs sets a new single season record. Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals previously held this record with 70 dingers in 1998. Other records set in 2001 included: Lance Berkman of the Houston Astros became the first switch-hitter with at least 30 home runs (34) and 50 doubles (55)during the same season, September 2nd was the first day in Major League history where the final score in four games was 1-0: Yankees 1 vs. Red Sox 0, Padres 1 vs. Diamondbacks 0, Astros 1 vs. Brewers 0, and Blue Jays 1 vs. Tigers 0, on May 24, 2001, The Cubs' Jon Lieber shut out the Reds, 3-0, ending the Cincinnati Reds NL-record streak of 208 straight games without being shut out.