Here are the results for our final exhibition contest. As you probably already know, starting next week the contests count for prizes.

Answers:

1. Total games in which one pitching staff allows 2 or fewer hits: 2

2. Total first-inning runs scored by the Minnesota Twins: 11. This was crazy. The Twins scored in the first inning only twice in the last week, but totaled 11 runs thanks in large part to 7 first-inning runs in this game against the Brewers. (They scored 4 in the first the next day.)

3. Total naps, umm I mean plate appearances, for Ken Griffey Jr, SEA: 14

4. Total RBI for Paul Konerko and Andruw Jones, both CWS: 3, all by Konerko.

5. Total wins for pitchers with a seasonal age of 24 or younger (that means any player who will still be 24 or younger by June 30th of this year): 19

Baseball is, as they say, a young man's game. Price, Gonzalez, and Cueto each won twice in the last week, plus 4 of the wins came in relief appearances.

We had interesting results this week.

• Numerous people guessed question #1 correctly, however there were no correct guesses on ANY of the other FOUR questions with the exception of Elkboy and Chad getting #3 on the button.
• For the first time in the stat challenge, every single entrant under-guessed one of the questions--number 5. Looking back at it, I might have worded the question in a confusing way. When I said the pitcher needed to be "24 or younger" I meant that the number assigned to their age needed to be a 24 or lower number--in other words that they qualify by B-R methods of being in their Age 24 season or younger. Sorry if that confused anybody.
• For the first time, we have a clear winner by several points:

The official results:

1. Josh W 15 (3)
2. Elkboy 19 (3)
3T. Jon 20
3T. Koma 20 (3)
3T. Johnny Twisto 20 (4)

Wow, lots of repeat winners this week.

Congrats to BSK also, who joins the 4 people above with 3 wins in the spring training period of the Stat Challenge.

I declare the overall winner to be Johnny Twisto!

Now on to where the games count. We are giving away a 6-month Play Index membership to each weekly winner starting with the new Week 1.

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