Sunday afternoon baseball trivia

[True Dough]

Which Major League franchise is the first to give up 200,000 hits? It happened this afternoon!

[dgauss]

1. without even looking at who played this afternoon,

I'm just going to guess the White Sox. I think they gave up nearly that many hits last season alone.

[underpants]

3. I'm going with that too

[True Dough]

5. Ha!

That's funny. The White Sox are actually winning against the Jays again this aft.

[Permanut]

2. I have the answer to that..

Oh wait, you said major league.

I was gonna say I think my high school team did that

[True Dough]

6. Don't tell me

you were a pitcher on that team, Permanut?!?

[Permanut]

9. Short career.

[lastlib]

4. My guess would be....

...the Cincinnati Reds, being one of the oldest franchises.

[True Dough]

7. It's a good guess, lastlib

But "the Big Red Machine" is not the correct answer.

[lastlib]

8. My next guess would be the Braves.

Otherwise, no idea

[True Dough]

10. 0 for 2!

[lastlib]

11. Hey, that was my batting average in Little League!

[True Dough]

12. There's always

football season!

[lastlib]

13. My sports were Frisbee and chess.......

no good at anything else.

[True Dough]

14. Oh,

so you were an "en passant" strategist.

[True Dough]

26. You were close with the Braves, by the way...

#2 position

[ProfessorGAC]

30. And #1 Gave Up Those 200k Hits...

...in 7 fewer seasons than the teams in 2nd & 3rd place.
I was going to guess the Cubs because they're one of the original NL teams.
I'd have been wrong!

[True Dough]

31. Well, at least Citizens Bank Park (a terrible name for a ball park)

ranks in the top 5 for being home-run friendly and top 10 for being "hitter friendly."

If it was in the bottom half of the league, Philly pitchers would feel even greater shame. Although when they see their fat paychecks roll in, they probably forget all about the number of hits.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. Also, For Many Years They Played In...

...the grand canyon, so giving up singles & doubles had to be pretty easy.
No outfielder could cover that much real estate.

[Auggie]

15. Red Sox?

[True Dough]

18. Another good guess

Another wrong answer, however.

[CanonRay]

16. I'm guessing the Cubs

They're pretty good now, but we're shit for decades.

[True Dough]

19. Not shitty enough

to give up 200,000 hits though!

[The Madcap]

17. If not Bosox, how about the Cubs?

[True Dough]

20. Nope. Not the Cubbies!

[The Madcap]

21. Pittsburgh Pirates?

[True Dough]

22. And it is NOT the Bucs!

This one is stumping folks!

[The Madcap]

23. Phillies?

If not, then I struck out.

[True Dough]

24. You just hit

a grand salami!

It is the Phillies!

[The Madcap]

27. Yippee!

Tough question. I'm surprised no one said the Yankees.

[True Dough]

29. Yeah, the Yanks would have been another reasonable guess as well.

[True Dough]

25. The Rockies pushed the Phillies over the 200,000 hit mark today

This was before the game:

[Sailingdiver]

28. Phillies.