2018 MLB Season
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50 free 2018 MLB Season trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 2018 Major League Baseball season was a year of extremes. One club won more games than any team had in nearly two decades, another lost 115, a two-way rookie arrived from Japan, and the World Series produced the longest game the Fall Classic had ever seen. This quiz covers the season the way fans remember it: the winter trades and free-agent signings that reshaped lineups, the award races, the milestones and no-hitters, the rule changes, and every round of the postseason. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up a story or two even on the ones you miss. It is written for baseball fans who followed that summer, with a mix of gimmes and harder pulls for anyone who still remembers who batted where. Play it straight through or save it for a trivia night.
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Q 01Which statistic outnumbered hits across a full Major League Baseball season for the first time in 2018?
Strikeouts
Strikeouts beat hits 41,207 to 41,019 in 2018, something no earlier season had produced. April 2018 had already been the first single month in which batters whiffed more often than they hit safely.
Q 02Which Dodgers slugger ended the longest game in World Series history with an 18th-inning walk-off homer in 2018?
Max Muncy
Max Muncy homered seven hours and 20 minutes after the first pitch of Game 3, giving Los Angeles its only win of the series. Oakland had released him in the spring of 2017.
Q 03Which Japanese newcomer won the 2018 American League Rookie of the Year Award with the Los Angeles Angels?
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani hit 22 homers and went 4–2 as a starting pitcher in his first American season. An elbow injury then sent him for Tommy John surgery that autumn.
Q 04Which outfielder won the 2018 AL MVP Award along with a batting title, a Gold Glove and a World Series ring?
Mookie Betts
Mookie Betts was the first player to collect an MVP, a Gold Glove, a Silver Slugger, a batting crown and a championship in one season. He hit .346 for Boston.
Q 05Which slugger won the 2018 Home Run Derby in his home ballpark, edging Kyle Schwarber 19–18 in the final?
Bryce Harper
Bryce Harper drew level on the last pitch of regulation, then won it in bonus time with 16 seconds to spare. He left for Philadelphia as a free agent the following winter.
Q 06Which first-year Boston manager became the first skipper from Puerto Rico to win a World Series in 2018?
Alex Cora
Alex Cora won a franchise-best 108 games and became only the fifth manager to take the title in his debut season. He had won a ring as a Boston infielder in 2007.
Q 07Which outfielder, traded from Miami that winter, won the 2018 NL MVP Award after two cycles against Cincinnati?
Christian Yelich
Christian Yelich hit both cycles within 19 days, the first time anyone had done it twice to one opponent in a season. He also won the batting title at .326 for Milwaukee.
Q 08Which Mets ace won the 2018 NL Cy Young Award with a 1.70 ERA despite earning only ten wins?
Jacob deGrom
Jacob deGrom finished just 10–9, yet his 26th straight start allowing three runs or fewer broke a record that had stood since 1910. His ERA was the lowest in the majors.
Q 09Which team hit a then-record 267 home runs in 2018, breaking a mark the Seattle Mariners had held since 1997?
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees were also the first team to get at least 20 homers from every one of the nine spots in the batting order.
Q 10Which journeyman first baseman, acquired by Boston in a June trade, was named MVP of the 2018 World Series?
Steve Pearce
Steve Pearce homered three times in the last two games, twice in the Game 5 clincher at Dodger Stadium. Boston had picked him up from Toronto for a minor leaguer.
Q 11Which reigning NL MVP joined Aaron Judge in the Bronx for 2018 after a 59-homer season in Miami?
Giancarlo Stanton
Giancarlo Stanton was only the second player traded in the winter after a 50-homer season, following Greg Vaughn. He added 38 more in his first year in pinstripes.
Q 12Which All-Star shortstop did the Dodgers acquire from Baltimore in July 2018 to replace the injured Corey Seager?
Manny Machado
Manny Machado helped Los Angeles reach the World Series, then signed a 10-year, $300 million contract with San Diego that winter. It was the largest free-agent deal in American sports history at the time.
Q 13Which slugger's 3,000th hit in May 2018 made him the fourth player with that many hits and 600 home runs?
Q 21Which team lost the NL Central tiebreaker and the NL Wild Card Game at home on consecutive days in 2018?
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs fell to Milwaukee at Wrigley Field on October 1, then lost 2–1 to Colorado in 13 innings there the next night. They had won 95 games and were out within 48 hours.
Q 22Which social network streamed MLB games exclusively in 2018, starting with a Mets–Phillies game in April?
Facebook showed the games free on its Watch platform under an exclusive deal struck with the league before the season. No American television channel carried them.
Q 23Which pace-of-play limit did MLB introduce in 2018, allowing each team six per nine innings?
Mound visits
Albert Pujols
Albert Pujols singled off Seattle's Mike Leake on May 4 to join Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Alex Rodriguez in that club. He was the 32nd player to reach the hit milestone.
Q 14Which outfielder debuted in April 2018 as the youngest player in the majors and won NL Rookie of the Year?
Ronald Acuña Jr.
Ronald Acuña Jr. hit 26 homers in 111 games for Atlanta, and in August became the youngest major leaguer to go deep in five consecutive games.
Q 15Which defending World Series champion did the Boston Red Sox beat in five games in the 2018 ALCS?
Houston Astros
The Houston Astros had won 103 games and took the opener at Fenway Park, then lost four in a row. Boston's Jackie Bradley Jr. was named the series MVP.
Q 16Which retired shortstop ran the Miami Marlins as chief executive in 2018, his first full season as an owner?
Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman struck a deal to buy the club in August 2017, and the new regime quickly traded away its star outfield. He stayed in the job until February 2022.
Q 17Which city hosted the 2018 MLB All-Star Game, an 8–6 American League win featuring a record ten home runs?
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. staged the game at Nationals Park, where all but one of the runs scored on a homer. The old record for an All-Star Game had been six.
Q 18Which Nationals ace fanned exactly 300 batters in 2018 and shared the National League lead with 18 wins?
Max Scherzer
Max Scherzer reached the mark on September 25, becoming the 17th pitcher since 1900 to do it in a season. He still finished second in the Cy Young vote.
Q 19Which ace started Game 1 of the World Series for the same team in both 2017 and 2018?
Clayton Kershaw
Clayton Kershaw was the first pitcher to open back-to-back Fall Classics since Cliff Lee in 2009 and 2010. He took the loss in both of his 2018 starts against Boston.
Q 20Which manager, whose stolen base sparked Boston's 2004 comeback, lost the 2018 World Series to his former team?
Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts, born in Japan to an American Marine, was managing Los Angeles in a second straight Fall Classic. It was the first World Series between two managers of color.
Mound visits were capped for the first time in 2018, with one more granted for every extra inning played.
Q 24Which cartoon logo did the Cleveland Indians wear on their uniforms for the final time in 2018?
Chief Wahoo
Chief Wahoo was last worn in a Division Series loss on October 8, 2018, and the Hall of Fame barred the logo from future plaques. The club became the Guardians after 2021.
Q 25Which former slugger had his No. 25 retired by the San Francisco Giants before an August 2018 game against Pittsburgh?
Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds, baseball's career home run leader with 762, was honored in a pregame ceremony with his former club in the other dugout.
Q 26Which longtime Mets captain played his final game in September 2018 after years of battling spinal stenosis?
David Wright
David Wright had been named only the fourth captain in Mets history in 2013. He missed significant time from 2015 onward before doctors told him his back would not improve.
Q 27Which 44-year-old outfielder rejoined the Seattle Mariners in 2018, then moved into the front office in May?
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki became special assistant to the chairman on May 3 but refused to rule out playing again. He did return in 2019 and announced his retirement at the Tokyo Dome.
Q 28Which former ESPN analyst became a first-time manager in the Bronx for 2018 with no coaching experience at all?
Aaron Boone
Aaron Boone had hit the walk-off homer that won the 2003 pennant for the same club. His team won 100 games in his first season in the dugout.
Q 29Which Atlanta Braves third baseman entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2018 in his first year of eligibility?
Chipper Jones
Chipper Jones went in with Jim Thome, another first-ballot pick, plus Vladimir Guerrero and Trevor Hoffman.
Q 30Which Boston left-hander, winless in his first 11 postseason starts, won the clinching Game 5 of the 2018 World Series?
David Price
David Price pitched into the eighth inning at Dodger Stadium and allowed a single run on three hits. He was also voted the AL Comeback Player of the Year.