What is Immaculate Grid?
A free daily trivia game powered by Baseball Reference, with a new game every day. Guess 9 players who meet each category’s criteria and play for rarity or to complete a full grid.
See here for some of the most difficult grids in Immaculate Grid history:
Rookie of the Year Awards x Toronto Blue Jays
For a franchise that has been around since 1977, it’s surprising that the team has only seen two AL Rookie of the Year award winners. Alfredo Griffin won the award in 1979, and then no Blue Jay won until Eric Hinske beat out Rodrigo Lopez in 2002.
Rookie of the Year Awards x San Diego Padres
Fun fact: The Padres haven’t had a Rookie of the Year award winner for over three decades! Many will be shocked to find out Tony Gwynn isn’t the answer to this trivia question. With homegrown players like Fernando Tatis Jr, Dave Winfield, and Jake Peavy, the lone ROY winner was Benito Santiago in 1987.Butch Metzger was a co-winner in 1976.
200 Hits in a Season x Chicago White Sox
Unless you’re a savant on White Sox history and know their rosters prior to 1954, it might be difficult to come up with an answer here. Hint: there are 9 of them. The only player since 1955 to post 200 hits was Albert Belle in 1998.
20 Wins in a Season x Texas Rangers
In a franchise that employed the likes of Nolan Ryan, Hall of Famer, Bert Blyleven, and more recent aces like Yu Darvish – most fans would assume 20 game winners would be plentiful for a team that has been around since 1961. Wrong! There have only been three players to win 20 games for the Rangers: HoF Fergie Jenkins (1974), Kevin Brown (1992), and Rick Helling (1998).
Some of the more difficult team squares in Immaculate Grid are limited due to the quantity of options as well as few well-known names.
Arizona Diamondbacks x Minnesota Twins
While there are 51 players to choose from in this pairing, only one player accumulated a bWAR greater than 10.0 to appear for both teams: Orlando Hudson. A difficult guess unless you’re a true Twins fan and remember his sole season for the team in Target Field’s inaugural season (2010). Can you name any of the other 50 players?
Colorado Rockies x Seattle Mariners
Slightly more options to choose from than the scenario above with 64 players to appear for both franchises. However, there are a lot of one season warriors in these answers. The most notable is Jamie Moyer who only made 10 total starts for the Rockies in his last season before retiring at 49 years old. Other answers include: All-Star Mike Hampton who made his debut in Seattle and was traded to Houston in 1994, Jeff Cirillo who played the final 28 games of his career in Arizona, and Kevin Milwood who played for Seattle and Arizona in back-to-back seasons (2011 in COL and 2012 in ARI).
Immaculate Grid has launched a new game mode that allows users to continue guessing and complete their grids, even if they got an answer wrong.
This new “Extra Innings” format is guaranteed to be a fan favorite for all baseball fans.
How the new game mode works:
- Users play Immaculate Grid like normal
- After their usual nine guesses, they see their score, and also a prompt asking them if they want to keep guessing
- Clicking it returns them to the Grid, where they can keep guessing until they complete all nine squares
- Extra Innings guesses don’t count towards rarity. Your rarity score is still calculated using your first nine guesses
- You can play Extra Innings on all Grids in the archive. Go back and fill out those grids you didn’t get 9/9 on
- Extra Innings guesses are marked by style differences to differentiate them from normal guesses
Make sure your daily routine includes Immaculate Grid powered by Baseball Reference. This new “Extra Innings” feature lets you and your friends keep on playing even when you run out of guesses. Try it today!
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