Today marks the end of the Opening Day lineup series as we move into the regular season next week. Over the last several Saturdays, we've studied who's started at each position on Opening Day for the Sox going back to 1980. Hopefully you took some notes along the way, as this cumulative exam (not open book) tasks with you filling out all the lineup cards for the past 39 years. That's a total of 390 entries! How many can you name? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- Note that you'll need to take two separate quizzes, which I've linked to each below. Sporcle only allows for 300 entries in a quiz, so 1980-1989 had to be separated from the rest of the years.
- For each quiz, I've allotted the full 20 minutes for completion attempts.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- On Opening Day since 1980, the Sox have gone 25-14. Their best run was from 1981-1993, when they won 11 of 13. They've never lost more than three Opening Days in a row, which happened once, from 1994-1996.
- Since 1980, the most runs they've scored on an Opening Day was 15, which came in a 15-10 win against the Indians in 2011. (The largest margin of victory was a 9-1 drubbing of the Orioles in 1991)
- The largest margin of defeat is tied at 9: a 12-3 loss against the Brewers in 1995, and the embarrassing 10-1 loss versus the Royals in 2015.
Direct link to 1980-1989 lineups here
Direct link to 1990-2018 lineups here
All data from baseballreference.com
