Friday Quickie Quiz & Single Digits: Sean Rodriguez, Bryce Harper, John Havlicek, Jerry West, Kobe Bryant
FRIDAY’S QUICKIE QUIZ
>>> You’ve had time to study the NFL Schedule released a week ago, so you should know this by now: Which is the only team that does not currently have a regular season prime-time game slated for 2019?
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FRIDAY’S SINGLE DIGITS
>>> Sean Rodriguez homered in the second inning Thursday night, becoming the third Phillies shortstop to homer this month (Jean Segura, Scott Kingery). We checked back to 1925, and they had never had three different shortstops homer in April before.
We really wished his solo homer had stood up as the only run of the game for this reason: We checked baseball-reference.com back all the way to 1883 and we believe the Phillies have never won a 1-0 game on a solo home run by a shortstop.
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>>> In the six games since his five-hit game on April 19, Bryce Harper is 2-for-20 . . . In the six games before his five-hit game on April 19, Bryce Harper was 3-for-24.
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>>> RIP to Celtics great John Havlicek, who on Nov. 13, 1977, passed Jerry West (Lakers) as the NBA’s all-time leading career scorer among those who played for only one franchise. It was a long time before he was passed atop that list by Michael Jordan (Bulls) in 1997, five years before Jordan would play for another franchise (Wizards).
Havlicek is currently fourth on that list:
NBA/ABA Career Scoring Leaders
Playing For Just One Franchise
33,643 . . . Kobe Bryant, Lakers
31,560 . . . Dirk Nowitzki, Mavericks
26,496 . . . Tim Duncan, Spurs
26,395 . . . John Havlicek, Celtics
25,279 . . . Reggie Miller, Pacers
25,192 . . . Jerry West, Lakers
23,149 . . . Elgin Baylor, Lakers
21,791 . . . Larry Birds, Celtics
21,586 . . . Hal Greer, Nationals/Sixers
20,880 . . . Bob Petit, Hawks
20,790 . . . David Robinson, Spurs
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>>> Combined regular season records of the 16 NHL playoff teams:
362-228-66 . . . First-round Winners
387-212-57 . . . First-round Losers
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QUICKIE QUIZ ANSWER
>>> As of now, the Buffalo Bills have 15 games scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday and a 4:30 Thanksgiving Day game at Dallas. They also had 15 1 p.m. Sunday games last season, with one prime-time loss to the Patriots, 26-5.