The Great BaltimoreBaseball.com Orioles Quiz

Here’s the annual Baltimore Baseball.com holiday Orioles quiz. Answers will appear tomorrow.

2024 Orioles

1) How many starting pitchers did the Orioles use in 2024?

2) Can you identify the player who started the 2023 season with the Orioles, was recalled for one game in 2024, but never played?

3) Who were the two pitchers to remain on the roster for the entire season?

4) The Orioles used 60 players in 2024. In which year did they use a record 62 players?

5) Who did the Orioles drop from their roster in April to make room for Jackson Holliday?

6) One native Marylander played for the Orioles in 2024. Who was it?

Championship teams 

7) How many players did the 1970 Orioles use?

8) How many players who played in the last Orioles postseason winning series, the 2014 Division Series, remain active?

9) Who hit the game-winning home run in Game 3 of the Division Series?

10) What team have the Orioles played most often in the postseason?

11)  Which 2024 Oriole was inactive for the 2014 Detroit Tigers in the Division Series?

12)  How many teams have longer World Series championship droughts than the Orioles?

Lasts 

13) Who was the last native Marylander to homer for the Orioles?

14) Who was the last Oriole pitcher to start three Opening Days in a row?

15) Who was the last Oriole catcher to hit three home runs in a game?

16) Who was the last Oriole to steal 50 bases in a season?

17) Who was the last Oriole pitcher with an ERA under 2.00?

18) Who was the last Oriole with 200 hits in a season?

Records 

19) Which Oriole stole the most bases in a season?

20) Who is the only Oriole to lose 20 games in a season?

21) Who has the highest defensive WAR in a single season?

22) Who holds the record for highest OPS in a single season?

23) Chris Davis has six of the eight seasons with most strikeouts in team history. Who are the two players who are also in the top eight?

24) Who has the most walks in a season in team history?

Odds and Ends

25) There have been five majority owners in Orioles history. The last two are Peter Angelos and David Rubenstein. Can you name the other three?

26) There have been eight Orioles who have been overall No. 1 picks. Three — Jackson Holliday, Ben McDonald and Adley Rutschman — were drafted by the Orioles. How many of the other five can you name?

27) In what year did the Orioles last play a tie game?

28) Gunnar Henderson has won Most Valuable Oriole in consecutive years. Who was the last Oriole to win MVO in three consecutive seasons?

29) In 1974, which two Orioles tied for Most Valuable Oriole?

30) Who are the only two Orioles to have multiple inside-the-park home runs?