Good morning!
It was on this date in 1998 that the White Sox and Red Sox played a 15-14 slobberknocker. While the White Sox ultimately lost, they were initially down 11-3 through the fifth inning before tallying 8 in the sixth. That deficit was in large part thanks to starting pitcher Jaime Navarro who gave up 8 runs (6 earned) on 9 hits over just two innings.
Navarro --the disaster of a free agent signing the year prior-- would go on to a -1.7 WAR season with a 6.36 ERA and 8-16 record. Overall, his time with the White Sox amounted to -3.7 WAR, a 25-43 record, and 6.06 ERA. But hey, he netted Jose Valentin a couple years later so at least there's that?
Navarro wasn't happy with his performance, either. Here's what the Chicago
Tribune led off with the following day:
Jaime Navarro is just like your average White Sox fan--fed up.
"To be honest with you, I don't want to be here," Navarro said Sunday after the White Sox's unsightly 15-14 loss to the Red Sox in Fenway Park. "Maybe I should ask to be traded. I'm not helping this team. It's embarrassing."
Embarrassing. Disturbing. Shameful. They all apply to both Navarro's outing and the 3-hour-45-minute game, which should have been measured in epochs, not innings.
Here's the final tally: 29 runs, 32 hits, 12 walks, 11 pitching changes, six wild pitches, three errors, three hit batsmen and one sorry excuse for a bench-clearing brawl.
At any rate, today's Sporcle is one of those where you're really going to have to wrack your brain for players of the late-90s. I'm asking you to name all the players involved --Red and White-- in the game. That's a total of 33 players: how many can you get? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I've allotted 15 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I've provided the team and position of the player.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- This game included a 3.5 hour rain delay, so the total time of the game was actually 6 hours, 9 minutes. Yuck.
- Somewhat surprisingly given the score, each team only hit two home runs apiece.
- And the most RBI by a single player was a White Sox, with 4.
All data from baseballreference.com
Box score of game, should you care to look at it (hopefully after you complete the quiz!)
