Immaculate Grid baseball: Answers, connections, hints for Grid 98 (July 10)

July 10th’s Immaculate Grid features the Red Sox, Guardians, Cubs, Twins, and pitchers galore. Here are connections, hints, and possible answers. 

We are just days away from the 100th iteration of Immaculate Grid’s daily puzzle. For grid 98 on July 10th, we have several historic franchises and a reminder that one slugger known for his days with the Boston Red Sox actually started with several years on the Minnesota Twins.

Pitchers are the main focus today with a column for Cy Young winners and a row for 3,000-plus career strikeouts.

Here are some posisble answers and connections for Monday’s grid.

You can play the grid here. 

Immaculate Grid 98: Top answers and connections for each square (July 10)

These are the most popular answers so far today. Remember, these won’t help you increase your rarity score:

• Player that played for Cubs and Red Sox: Jon Lester (24%)
• Player that played for Cubs and Guardians: Jason Kipnis (20%)
• Player that played for Cubs and won Cy Young: Jake Arrieta (49%)
• Player that played for Twins and Red Sox: David Ortiz (62%)
• Player that played for Twins and Guardians: Jim Thome (36%)
• Player that played for Twins and won Cy Young: Johan Santana (87%)
• Player that had 3,000+ career strikeouts and played for Red Sox: Roger Clemens (43%)
• Player that had 3,000+ career strikeouts and played for Guardians: CC Sabathia (79%)
• Player that had 3,000+ career strikeouts and won Cy Young: Randy Johnson (42%)

Players that played for Red Sox, Twins, Cubs and Guardians

Five players made stops with all four of the teams included in July 10th’s Immaculate Grid. They are:

• Ken Aspromonte
• Rich Hill
• Jack Russell
• Charlie Smith
• Jack Spring

These players will work in any of the team-by-team squares.

Players that played for Cubs, Red Sox

These five players played for the two franchises with the oldest ballparks in the league:

• Jon Lester
• Nomar Garciaparra
• Bill Buckner
• Steve Yerkes
• Bill Mueller

Players that played for Cubs, Guardians

These players have had stops with the Cubs and Guardians:

• Virgil Cheeves
• Dick Ellsworth
• Riggs Stephenson
• Jose Cardenal
• Jose Hernandez

Players that played for Cubs and won Cy Young

These Cubs have earned the illustrious Cy Young award in the National Leauge:

• Jake Arrieta
• Greg Maddux
• Rick Sutcliffe
• Bruce Sutter
• Fergie Jenkins

Players that played for Twins, Red Sox

The Twins and Red Sox have rostered these five players at one point or another:

• Joe Judge
• Micky Vernon
• Buddy Myer
• David Ortiz
• Tom Hughes

Players that played for Twins, Guardians

These five have had stops with these two smaller market midwest teams:

• Jim Thome
• Jeff Heath
• Luke Swell
• Vic Power
• Graig Nettles

Players that played for Twins and won Cy Young

These players have won the Cy Young award while representing the Twins:

• Johan Santana (2x)
• Frank Viola
• Jim Perry

Players that had 3000+ strikeouts and played for Red Sox

The Red Sox have been blessed by the presence of these strikeout machines:

• Nolan Ryan
• Curt Schilling
• Pedro Martinez
• Fergie Jenkins
• Tom Seaver
• Roger Clemens

Players that had 3000+ strikeouts and played for Guardians

The Guardians have had some good pitchers over the years. Among them, these players have had 3,000+ strikeouts:

• Phil Niekro
• Gaylord Perry
• Bert Blyleven
• Steve Carlton
• CC Sabathia

Players that had 3000+ strikeouts and won Cy Young

If you pace for this many Ks, chances are you were at least in the running for Cy Young at one point. Here are players who accomplished both feats:

• Fergie Jenkins
• Max Scherzer
• Justin Verlander
• Greg Maddux
• Gaylord Perry
• Tom Seaver
• Steve Carlton
• Roger Clemens
• Randy Johnson
• CC Sabathia

These pitchers accomplished the feat in their career but did not win Cy Young:

• Phil Niekro
• Don Sutton
• Walter Johnson (played before the award was introduced)
• Bert Blyleven
• Nolan Ryan
• Curt Schilling