Tuesday Dodger Trivia

by Eric Stephen on Mar 31, 2009 9:09 PM PDT in Trivia Comment 9 comments

Today's question is a little late, so I'll wait to give the answer until Wednesday afternoon.

What Dodger team had the best start after 100 games since the move to Los Angeles?

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1974

If for no other reason than I think that team had the best record of any LA team. Probably too obvious, but I’m sticking to it.

by prosellis on Mar 31, 2009 10:41 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Close

The 1974 team has the LA record for best record after 50 games (36-14) and 81 games (55-26). They did finish with the best record in LA history as well (102-60).

But they didn’t have the best record after 100 games.

by Eric Stephen on Mar 31, 2009 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

1962 is my guess

by Bob Hendley on Mar 31, 2009 10:54 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Ditto

by Jacob Burch on Mar 31, 2009 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

re:

Are these guesses or the work of Baseball Reference?

Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen

by Phil Gurnee on Mar 31, 2009 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

1962 is correct

That club was 66-34 after 100 games, best in LA history.

The 1962 club is the only other 100-win LA Dodger team (besides 1974). They finished 102-63 (but were 101-61 before the 3-game playoff loss to the Giants).

by Eric Stephen on Apr 1, 2009 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m going with 1973. I remember Jon (Dodger Thoughts) mentioning that team having a huge lead and collapsing in September, and baseball-reference seems to agree with him, with the Dodgers having a .630 winning percentage on July 21st with a 6.5 game lead, only to lose 9 straight in September and finish 4 games out.

by Nofatmike on Mar 31, 2009 11:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Educated Guess

Last month at the beach, I read “Hunt for Blue October” or something like that. The author, however, managed to turn something exciting into a fairly drab book. I did learn that, according to him, Maury Wills had an affair with Doris Day (I did not know that).

by Bob Hendley on Apr 1, 2009 6:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs