Tuesday Dodger Trivia

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

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?

Tweet Comment 9 comments | 0 recs |

Do you like this story?

Comments

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

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

1962 is my guess

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

Ditto

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

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

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

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

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

And...

you can send my pair of Dodger tickets for opening day in LA to…

by Bob Hendley on Apr 1, 2009 6:06 PM PDT reply actions

Comments For This Post Are Closed

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Recent FanPosts

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >

2012 Dodgers Payroll

Italics denote estimates
Pos	No	Player	2012 Salary
C	17	Ellis	$500,000	team control
1B	7	Loney	$6,375,000
2B	14	Ellis	$2,500,000
3B	5	Uribe	$8,000,000
SS	9	Gordon	$485,000	team control
LF	21	Rivera	$4,000,000
CF	27	Kemp	$10,000,000
RF	16	Ethier	$10,950,000

IF/OF	6	Hairston	$2,250,000
OF	10	Gwynn	$850,000
2B/3B	3	Kennedy	$800,000
C	18	Treanor	$850,000
IF	12	Sellers	$485,000	team control

SP	22	Kershaw	$8,500,000	arb
SP	58	Billingsley	$9,000,000
SP	29	Lilly	$12,000,000
SP	37	Capuano	$3,000,000
SP	44	Harang	$3,000,000

CL	54	Guerra	$485,000	team control
RHP	74	Jansen	$500,000	team control
RHP	55	Guerrier	$4,750,000
RHP		Coffey	$1,000,000
RHP	66	MacDougal	$650,000
LHP	57	Elbert	$485,000	team control
RHP	36	Hawksworth	$500,000	team control

TJ	41	De La Rosa	$485,000	team control

		Manny	$8,087,432	deferred
		Andruw	$3,375,000	deferred
		Pierre	$3,050,000	deferred
		Furcal	$3,000,000	deferred
		Kuroda	$2,000,000	deferred
		Garland	$1,500,000	option buyout
		Blake	$1,250,000	option buyout

Totals			$114,662,432
For more detailed information, click here.
Players on 40-man roster used as roster fillers until moves are made. Current 40-man roster count: 40 (not including Belisario)

2012 Non-Roster Invitees

No	Player	Age*
63	Jose Ascanio rhp	27
61	Alberto Castillo lhp	36
60	Matt Chico lhp	29
35	John Grabow lhp	33
59	Angel Guzman rhp	30
47	Wil Ledezma lhp	31
72	Shane Lindsay rhp	27
62	Fernando Nieve rhp	29
73	Scott Rice lhp	30
70	Will Savage rhp	27
71	Ryan Tucker rhp	25

30	Josh Bard c	34
82	Griff Erickson c	24
81	Matt Wallachc	26
67	Jeff Baisley 3b/1b	29
62	Luis Cruz ss/2b	28
33	Josh Fields 3b	29
64	Lance Zawadzki if	27
56	Cory Sullivan of	32

*Age on June 30, 2012
NRI count: 19 For more info, click here.

Network Bar

True Blue LA -

Tuesday Dodger Trivia

Do you like this story?

Comments

Comments For This Post Are Closed

Secondary Sidebar

Search

User Tools

FanPosts

Recommended FanPosts

Recent FanPosts

Recent Posts

2012 Dodgers Payroll

2012 Non-Roster Invitees

In Association With

Baseball Nation Recent Stories

Vox Media Hot Topics

Community Masthead

Manager

Editors