Friday morning baseball trivia

[True Dough]

Max Scherzer overtook Roger Clemens on Thursday night to move into 5th place all-time for most playoff strikeouts.

Can you name the four pitchers ahead of Scherzer?

[Brother Buzz]

1. I only know one - Bob Gibson, Baby!

They showed the list during the game but I got a Swiss cheese brain and promptly forgot.

Mad Max Scherzer was on his game and a kick in the pants to watch; he delivered in spades!

Scherzer knows baseball inside out and would make an excellent manager if he could just polish his people skills.

[True Dough]

2. Scherzer wouldn't be the same person if he turned all polite!

But you know what, Brother Buzz? As talented as Bob Gibson was, he's not in the top 5 all-time for post-season Ks.

[Brother Buzz]

3. What do I know, what with Swiss cheese for brains

[LisaM]

4. Verlander?

Tigers never won it all with him, but he was in a lot of playoff games.

[True Dough]

5. Ding! Ding! Ding!

Verlander is #1 at 244 Ks.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Since MLB went to this four-story postseason

every record for "most" has been compromised. Until 1969, everybody had seven games, maximum, to get the "most" postseason anything. Now, they have as many as 24 games and as few as 11.

Talk about "rewriting the record book." MLB threw out the previous one three times.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. I Got 3 Of 4

Two were easy. The third was a guess. The 4th one, I wouldn't have gotten if I thought about it for a week.
Not naming names in case someone else wants a shot later.

[True Dough]

8. This thread has been on the go for three days

that seems like sufficient time for answers.

So you got Kershaw (213 Ks) and Smoltz (199 Ks) but couldn't think of Andy Pettitte (183).

Wonder if Mad Max will get a chance to surpass any of those guys? At his age and being a free agent again after this season, it seems unlikely.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Exactly Right

Kershaw was a guess but seemed logical.
I figured Smoltz was a K pitcher who was in the playoffs a million times, so that seemed even more likely.
I never would have gotten Pettitte.