Quiz: Taking it on the chin for the team.

[Guest AG/DC]

Thirteen times in history, a Met has given up over 100 runs in a season*, having the combination of being bad enough to get lit up, but good enough that you don't want to blow the bullpen when they are needed to relieve lesser starters the rest of the week. So they keep going out there and taking their lumps.

Who are these cats and what season did they give up their centuries.

* Fully six guys have packed it in at 99 earnies on the season. Wimps.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Are these 13 distinct pitchers, or are there some repeaters in the list?

I don't know why, but something tells me Walt Terrell in 1984 is one of the guys. This guess seems wrong but I'm going to make it anyway.

[Guest sharpie]

Jack Fisher.

[Guest AG/DC]

There are repeaters. The same guy may appear more than once, and the same season may appear more than once. So give me both when you answer.

Terrell '84 is incorrect. That's -1 for you.

Sharpie, get with the program.

[DocTee]

Roger Craig, 62.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, gotta go with the 62ers. How about Hook and Jackson?

[Guest AG/DC]

1. Roger Craig, 1962: 117 Runs (Doc Tee)
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[Guest AG/DC]

1. Roger Craig, 1962: 117 Runs (Doc Tee)
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3. Jay Hook, 1962: 115 (Ben Grimm)
4. Al Jackson, 1962: 113 (Ben Grimm)
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[Guest AG/DC]

I'm reallly hating my avatar.

[Gwreck]

Gotta figure someone from '93 was in there. Frank Tanana?

[Gwreck]

Also -- Glavine, '03?

[Guest sharpie]

Jack Fisher --- 1964.

[Guest AG/DC]

1. Roger Craig, 1962: 117 Runs (Doc Tee)
T2.
T2. Jay Hook, 1962: 115 (Ben Grimm)
4. Al Jackson, 1962: 113 (Ben Grimm)
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11. Fisher, 1964: 101
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Tanana '93 and Glavine '03 are incorrect.

[Guest sharpie]

I'm going to stay with Fisher for '65. I remember the ugly backs of his baseball cards.

[Guest AG/DC]

1. Roger Craig, 1962: 117 Runs (Doc Tee)
T2.
T2. Jay Hook, 1962: 115 (Ben Grimm)
4. Al Jackson, 1962: 113 (Ben Grimm)
5. Jack Fisher, 1965: 111 (sharpie)
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11. Jack Fisher, 1964: 101
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T12.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You know, a Google image search on "ugly backs" yields surprisingly little.

I thought I'd find a gross hairy image to paste here, but no luck!

[Guest sharpie]

Staying with the early Mets I'll say Roger Craig repeated in '63.

[Guest AG/DC]

Craig packed it in at 99 in 1963.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Tracy Stallard?

[Guest AG/DC]

We need years, my friend.

[HahnSolo]

Not that I have any idea, but are we talking runs or earned runs?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

AG/DC wrote: We need years, my friend.

My bad. Tracy Stallard, 1964.

His putridness was well documented in the MBTM book, bringing shame to his number!

[seawolf17]

Craig Swan? He pitched on bad teams. I'll guess 1980.

[Fman99]

The Amazing 1996 Mets had four guys give up 100 runs - Izzy, Pulse, Pete Harnisch and Bobby J. Jones. Though in their defense, they all gave up less than 100 earned runs.

[Valadius]

The '63 Mets had to have SOMEBODY give up at least 100 earned runs. How about Al Jackson?

[Guest AG/DC]

1. Roger Craig, 1962: 117 Runs (Doc Tee)
T2.
T2. Jay Hook, 1962: 115 (Ben Grimm)
4. Al Jackson, 1962: 113 (Ben Grimm)
5. Jack Fisher, 1965: 111 (sharpie)
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11. Jack Fisher, 1964: 101
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T12. Al Jackson, 1963 (Valadius)

Stallard 1964 pulled out at 95. Swannie didn't pitch enough to qualify in 1980. That was the year he tore his rotator cuff.

Hahn, we're talking earnies.

Fman, close the book. No peeking.

[seawolf17]

How about 79 for Swan? I'll keep guessing.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Jerry Koosman, 1978?

[Benjamin Grimm]

seawolf17 wrote: How about 79 for Swan? I'll keep guessing.

Isn't that the year Swan won the ERA title? Or was that 1978?

[Guest AG/DC]

Swannie '79 and Koos '78 are in the clear.

The current score:

Grimm	sharpie	DocTee	Gwreck	metsguy	seawolf	valadius
4	2	3	-2	-1	-2	3