Same names, same positions, different players

There were two sets of two players with the same first and last names for the Pirates.

First pair: One played for the Pirates for two years, and hit the most famous home run in Pirates history….most famous for a brief time, anyway! The second was a coach pressed into service in an emergency for four games in the mid 60s. They played the same position and had the same first and last names as each other.

Second pair: One played for the Pirates for three seasons in the late 80s. The second was with the Bucs in the early 90s and if you blinked you missed him. They both also played the same position and had the same first and last names as each other.

Hint: You could make two batteries out of these four players.

Can you name them?

 

GEEZZZZ!!!!! LoL. I'm not going to get the these I don't think. I'm at a blank right now.

 

DO NOT read that first line stoned.

 

I don't know how you'd get any of this. I don't think you are a Pirate fan?????????????????????????

 

Can't be Maz cause that HR he hit to win WS is the most famous HR in Pirate history.

Can I get a re-write on the first line

 

OK I think I understand. Pitcher and a catcher. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

To tough. I was looking through my second edition Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia. Damn thing is heavy. I love reading about the 1925 WS. I even had a hat made declaring we were 1925 WS Champs. Gets a ton of comments

 

Actually, I think I wrote it stoned. Sorry.

 

Two catchers with the same first and last names. Two pitchers, also with the same first and last names. All played for the Bucs, but none at the same time.

 

I have tried to clarify it. If not for one of the first pair of players, Maz would never have had his shot at baseball immortality, and that part is rather unfairly forgotten today.

 

Because of family I was raised in Football(Steelers, Bears, but I only Love the Steelers).. Pirates fan, and a Cubs fan. I don't love either. I lost my Love for baseball about 38 years ago, but I still watch here, and there.

 

Dammit!!! Spent half the time I as awake last night trying to come up with it. I even tried cheating asking on another message board but to no avail.

 

Is one of them Bill Virdon?

 

Nope, but he actually was a teammate of the first pair!

 

Ok, I am depriving Steel Machine of sleep, so this must have been too hard. Here is the answer.

The first pair of players were catchers, both named Hal Smith. The first Hal Smith hit a homer in the seventh game of the 1960 World Series, and later Maz knocked one over the left field wall into Schenley Park. This would not have been possible without Hal Smith’s earlier homer.
The second Hal Smith was a coach for Harry Walker, and was activated for four games in 1965 when all the catchers were injured.

The second pair were pitchers, both named Jeff Robinson.

 

He was also a coach that played

 

That was a hard one.

 

Cheater. I bet You play trivia pursuit with your phone. LoL

 

Damn you! Once in a heated family game I cheated by using my phone.

 

When we play every single person must put their phones in a box.

 

Ok, since I tortured you guys with one that was too hard, here is an easy one, though not Pirates related: Billy The Kid and Smokey The Bear have two things in common.

What are they?

 

They both are from the same area???? They both died in the same place??? They both have .....the in their names...LoL???

 

Yay, close enough! S.T.D. is a winner!

Both buried in New Mexico and both have the same middle name.

 

LoL. Lucky guessing. Especially throwing enough out there , and hopefully something stuck. LoL