Baseball

An exquisitely pitched three-game series in September 1991 saw Chris Bosio, Dan Plesac and Jaime Navarro trading goose eggs with Jim Abbott, Chuck Finley and <checks notes> Joe Grahe. When the dust settled, the California Angels had swept the Milwaukee Brewers by scores of 2-1, 1-0, and 1-0. Name the Angels’ designated hitter who drove in the walk-off run in the first game, and the lone run in the second. It was 18 years and change since he had won the College World Series Most Outstanding Player award on the strength of a .467 batting average, and a complete game 1-0 shutout that he himself had pitched.

Dave Winfield

Racing & Combat

Rush

A central plot point of Ron Howard’s 2013 account of the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda is Lauda’s horrifying crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix, in which he suffered severe burns and permanent injuries. Ironically, while Lauda was able to recover and resume racing within weeks, two other drivers in that race would later lose their lives in accidents during Formula 1 Grand Prix races. Name ONE of those drivers: either the one who died in a crash at the 1977 South African Grand Prix, or the one who died in a crash during the 1978 Italian Grand Prix.

Tom Pryce (1977), Ronnie Peterson (1978)

Racing & Combat

What word, as a verb, means to engage in subterfuge and, as a noun, means a series of tight back-and-forth turns in an otherwise straight stretch of an auto-racing course?

Chicane