Immaculate Grid baseball: Answers, connections, hints for Grid 102 (July 13)

Immaculate Grid baseball answers, clues, hints and connections for Grid 102 on July 13th featuring the Rockies, Tigers, Padres, Giants and A’s.

Good morning one, good morning, all. Baseball-Reference is back with another day of the Immaculate Grid, providing baseball fans with an exciting and thought-provoking start to their day. The Grid has really been one of the best ways to push your knowledge of baseball and MLB players.

FanSided has you covered with an in-depth look at the top answers for each square as well as some random players that would fit in each spot. If you want to challenge your knowledge of baseball history, play along right here!

Oh boy, was this one a tough one.

Immaculate Grid 102: Top answers and connections for each square

Here are the most popular answers for each square as of 1:15 a.m. ET today.

• Tigers/Rockies: C.J Cron (47%)
• Tigers/Padres: Justin Upton (20%)
• Tigers/500 HR: Miguel Cabrera (90%)
• Athletics/Rockies: Matt Holliday (24%)
• Athletics/Padres: Rickey Henderson (21%)
• Athletics/500 HR: Mark McGwire (64%)
• Giants/Rockies: Kris Bryant (59%)
• Giants/Padres: Jake Peavy (21%)
• Giants/500 HR: Barry Bonds (59%)

The three squares for the 500 career home run hitters came as a gimme, as the most popular answers are three of MLB’s best sluggers in history. But for the remaining six squares, the answers were a bit harder.

Players that played for Detroit Tigers and Colorado Rockies

These 10 random players played for the Tigers and the Rockies. This square stumped me pretty hard. The most obvious answer is C.J. Cron, but who else has played for both these franchises?

• Denny Bautista
• Octavio Dotel
• Logan Kensing
• Scott Aldred
• Jason Grilli
• Adam Bernero
• Jeff Manto
• Juan Acevedo
• Bobby Seay
• Kevin Jarvis

Players that played for Detroit Tigers and San Diego Padres

These 10 random players played for the Tigers and the Padres. The name Bubba Trammell could live on in infamy by itself, but he may be one of the rarest names to fill this square as he only played half a season in Detroit.

• Chris Gomez
• Nate Colbert
• Jose A. Valdez
• Bubba Trammell
• Brandon Villafuerte
• Gabe Alvarez
• Mike Ivie
• Joaquin Benoit
• A.J. Sager
• Mike Kilkenny

 Players that played for the Detroit Tigers and hit 500 career home runs

This feat has only been accomplished by three players that have suited up in a Tigers uniform. Sheffield and Matthews each only played two seasons in Detroit, leaving Miggy as the easiest answer.

• Miguel Cabrera
• Eddie Matthews
• Gary Sheffield

Players that played for Oakland Athletics and Colorado Rockies

These 10 random players played for the Athletics and the Rockies. The great closer, Huston Street, made extended multi-year stops in each of these cities, closing out a lot of games for both teams. Who else split time between them?

• Guillermo Moscoso
• Tim Harikkala
• Huston Street
• Mike Harkey
• Matt Holliday
• Jonathan Lucroy
• Octavio Dotel
• Todd Walker
• Josh Outman
• Andrew Brown

Players that played for Oakland Athletics and San Diego Padres

These 10 random players played for the Athletics and the Padres. These players had the royalty of getting to play for a California team at least twice in their careers.

• R.J. Alvarez
• Randy Keisler
• Rob Bowen
• John D’Acquisto
• Burch Smith
• Mike Holtz
• Bill Almon
• Marc Rzepczynski
• Shawn Kelley
• Carlos Reyes

Players that played for the Oakland Athletics and hit 500 career home runs

Mark McGwire and Reggie Jackson were the two easiest answers for this square. It would be quite shocking for very many people to answer with McCovey since the legend didn’t hit a single home run in Oakland, but he fits the square because he tallied 24 at-bats there.

• Mark McGwire
• Frank Thomas
• Willie McCovey
• Reggie Jackson

Players that played for San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies

These 10 random players played for the Giants and the Rockies. Ever heard of Dustan Mohr? He spent a season with each of these teams in the early 2000s.

• Tyler Colvin
• Austin Wynns
• Matt Nokes
• Julian Tavarez
• Dustan Mohr
• Bobby Estalella
• Ramon E Ramirez
• Joe Roa
• Alan Embree
• Jacob Cruz

Players that played for San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres

These 10 random players played for the Giants and the Padres. It’s rare to see too many players make the jump from one NL West team to another, so this list was definitely a tougher one to hit on.

• Tom Griffin
• Jake Peavy
• Brandon Puffer
• Sean Manaea
• Burch Smith
• Ryan Klesko
• John D’Acquisto
• Brian Johnson
• Kevin Correia
• Trevor Cahill

Players that played for the San Francisco Giants and hit 500 career home runs

This answer might have been the easiest of all of them. MLB’s infamous all-time home run king fits perfectly in this square. Barry Bonds hit 586 of his 762 home runs as a member of the Giants. But this list has two other players. Who are they?

• Barry Bonds
• Willie McCovey
• Willie Mays

How’d you do with the 102nd Immaculate Grid? Did you need any help along the way? Score a perfect 9/9 immaculate grid? This was definitely one of the more challenging grids as of late.