Tuesday Quickie Quiz & Single Digits - All-Star Game MVPs, Winning Streaks, Triples, Home Run Derby, Mike Trout, Pete Alonso

TUESDAY’S QUICKIE QUIZ

>>> The Astros’ Alex Bregman Tuesday has a chance to join the Angels’ Mike Trout (2014-15) as the only men to win consecutive All-Star Game MVP Awards. Which four players join Trout as multiple ASG MVP winners?

(Answer Below)

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TUESDAY’S SINGLE DIGITS

>>> We are rooting for Mike Trout to triple in Tuesday’s first inning so he can record a perfert quadruple double in All-Star Game play. If he does so, he will have:

2 . . . Singles;
2 . . . Doubles;
2 . . . Triples;
2 . . . Home Runs.

His All-Star statistics to date: 7-for-15 (.467), four runs, four RBI, .556 OBA, 1.133 SLG, three walks, two strikeouts, one HBP, one GIDP, one SB.

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>>> Brooks Robinson’s career All-Star Game numbers:

3 . . . Triples
0 . . . Doubles

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>>> Longest winning streaks in All-Star Game history:

13 . . AL 1997-2009
11 . . NL 1972-1982
8 . . . NL 1963-1970
6 . . . AL 2013-18 (current)
6 . . . AL 1988-93

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>>> According to @darenw – Director of MLB Research & Development − there were 24.5 miles worth of home runs hit in the HR Derby Monday night.

That is just short of the driving distance from the home stadium of winner Pete Alonso (the Mets’ Citi Field) to the Meadowlands Sports Complex (where there is no baseball played except during tail-gating before an E Street Band concert).

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QUICKIE QUIZ ANSWER

>>> Multiple winners of the All-Star MVP Award:

Willie Mays (1963 & 1968)
Steve Garvey (1974 & 1978)
Gary Carter (1981 & 1984)
Cal Ripken Jr. (1991 & 2001)
Mike Trout (2014-15)