2023 MLB Season Trivia
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65 free 2023 MLB Season trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This 2023 MLB trivia quiz covers the whole baseball year, from the World Baseball Classic in March to the free-agent bombshell in December. In between: the first season with a pitch clock, bigger bases and shift limits, a perfect game, three no-hitters, a team that started 13-0, a team that lost 112 games, and a World Series between two wild cards that ended with a first-ever title. The questions run easy to expert. The openers are the ones any fan will get: who won the World Series, who was MVP, which star signed for $700 million. From there it digs into the records set that year, the numbers behind them, the awards, the draft, the All-Star Game in Seattle and the trades and retirements that closed the season. Numeric answers are not always the middle option, so guessing will not save you. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's season, series and player articles, and each question shows its source once you have answered. Play through, share your score, and then try the general MLB and baseball quizzes for the history that came before 2023.
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Q 01Which franchise won the 2023 World Series, the first championship in its history?
Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks for the franchise's first title; the club began as the expansion Washington Senators in 1961 and moved to Arlington for the 1972 season.
Q 02How many games did the 2023 World Series last?
5
The Series went 5 games: the teams split the opening pair in Arlington, then the visitors won three straight in Phoenix. It was only the third World Series between two wild-card teams, after 2002 and 2014.
Q 03Who was named 2023 World Series MVP, becoming the first player to win the award in both leagues?
Corey Seager
His first World Series MVP came with the Dodgers in 2020. He hit .286 with three home runs and six RBI in the Series, including a game-tying two-run homer in the ninth inning of Game 1.
Q 04Who hit the walk-off home run in the 11th inning of Game 1 of the 2023 World Series?
Adolis García
Adolis García's walk-off homer in the 11th gave him 22 RBI for the postseason, breaking David Freese's 2011 record. An oblique injury in Game 3 knocked him off the roster before Game 4.
Q 05Which manager won his fourth World Series in 2023, only the third to win one in each league?
Bruce Bochy
Bruce Bochy won three titles with the Giants between 2010 and 2014 before adding a fourth in 2023; Sparky Anderson and Tony La Russa are the only other managers to win the World Series in both leagues.
Q 06Which reliever won his third straight World Series in 2023, each with a different team?
Will Smith
Will Smith was on the title-winning roster in 2021, 2022 and 2023 with three different clubs, starting with Atlanta, the first player ever to win three straight World Series with three franchises.
Q 07What was Texas's record-setting road record in the 2023 postseason?
11–0
Texas went 11–0 away from home across every round of the 2023 postseason, the most road wins ever in a single postseason, and clinched the championship on the road in Arizona.
Q 08Which player won his second unanimous AL MVP in 2023, the first person ever to win two unanimous MVPs?
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani, also unanimous in 2021, led the AL in home runs while posting a 3.14 ERA in 23 starts in 2023, and took his third straight Edgar Martínez Award as best designated hitter.
Q 09Who won the 2023 National League MVP, making it the first year both MVPs were chosen unanimously?
Ronald Acuña Jr.
Ronald Acuña Jr. led the majors with 217 hits, 149 runs and 383 total bases while batting .337 for the Braves, adding the Hank Aaron Award and The Sporting News Player of the Year.
Q 10The 2023 NL MVP hit 41 homers and stole how many bases, creating MLB's first 40–70 season?
73
The total was 73, a modern-era Braves record, one more than Otis Nixon's 72 in 1991; the MVP had reached the 40–40 club on September 22, joining Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Alfonso Soriano.
Q 11Which pitcher won the 2023 NL Cy Young Award, his second, having taken the AL version in 2018?
Blake Snell
Blake Snell's 2.25 ERA led the majors in 2023, though so did his 99 walks; he then declined the Padres' $20.325 million qualifying offer and signed with the Giants the next spring.
Q 12Who won the 2023 American League Cy Young Award by unanimous vote?
Gerrit Cole
Gerrit Cole posted a 2.63 ERA with 222 strikeouts, finishing with a complete-game shutout of Toronto, and had started the All-Star Game, the first Yankee to do so since Roger Clemens in 2001.
Q 13Who won the 2023 American League Rookie of the Year Award?
Gunnar Henderson
Q 21Which team opened 2023 with 13 straight wins, tying the modern-era record for the best start to a season?
Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays matched the 13–0 starts of the 1982 Braves and 1987 Brewers, homered in each of their first 22 games, a record, and won their first 14 home games.
Q 22Which team lost 112 games in 2023, the most in the majors that year?
Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics finished 50–112, a .309 winning percentage that was the franchise's worst since 1919, and started the year 10–45 while drawing the lowest attendance in the majors.
Q 23In November 2023, MLB owners unanimously approved the Athletics' relocation to which city?
Las Vegas
Gunnar Henderson won unanimously, taking all 30 first-place votes, after batting .255 with 82 RBI and 100 runs scored; he also won a Silver Slugger as the AL's utility player.
Q 14Who won the 2023 National League Rookie of the Year Award?
Corbin Carroll
Corbin Carroll, a unanimous pick, was the first rookie ever with 25 home runs and 50 stolen bases, and had signed an eight-year, $111 million extension in March after just 32 big-league games.
Q 15Who won the 2023 National League Manager of the Year Award?
Skip Schumaker
Skip Schumaker, hired to replace Don Mattingly, reached the playoffs in his first season as a manager, helped by a 33–14 record in one-run games; he left the job after the 2024 season.
Q 16Which manager won the 2023 American League Manager of the Year Award after a 101-win season?
Brandon Hyde
Brandon Hyde's Baltimore club improved from 83 wins to 101 and won its first AL East title since 2014, while also setting an AL record for consecutive series without being swept.
Q 17Which Yankees pitcher threw the 24th perfect game in MLB history on June 28, 2023?
Domingo Germán
Domingo Germán retired all 27 batters he faced, the first perfect game by a Dominican-born pitcher and the majors' first in eleven years; five weeks later he was placed on the restricted list after a clubhouse incident.
Q 18Under the 2023 pitch clock, how many seconds did a pitcher have between pitches with bases empty?
15
Pitchers had 15 seconds with the bases empty and more with a runner on; batters had to be alert in the box with eight seconds left, and the clock cut average game time by 24 minutes.
Q 19The 2023 rule changes enlarged first, second and third base from 15 inches square to how many?
18
The bases grew to 18 inches square, trimming the distance between first and second by 4.5 inches to cut collisions and encourage steals; stolen bases jumped to 3,503, the most since 1987.
Q 20Under 2023 MLB rules, how many pickoff 'disengagements' may a pitcher make per plate appearance before risking a balk?
Two
The count resets if a runner advances. A third disengagement that fails to record an out is called a balk and every runner moves up a base.
Las Vegas was approved 30–0 at the owners' meeting on November 16, 2023, five months after Nevada's governor signed a $380 million stadium-funding bill for a ballpark on the Strip.
Q 24The Braves tied the single-season team record with how many home runs in 2023?
307
Atlanta's 307 home runs matched the single-season record set in 2019, and its .501 team slugging percentage was the first above .500 in major-league history.
Q 25How many regular-season games did the Braves win in 2023, the most in the majors?
104
Atlanta's 104 wins earned a first-round bye, but the Braves lost the Division Series 3–1 for the second straight year, in the sixth straight season they won the NL East.
Q 26Opening Day 2023 had all 30 teams playing on the same day, the first time since which year?
1968
All 30 clubs opened on March 30, 2023, the first common Opening Day since 1968; it was also the first season of a balanced schedule, with every team meeting every other and just 52 division games.
Q 27Where did the Giants and Padres play a two-game 'MLB World Tour' series in April 2023?
Mexico City
Mexico City's Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium, home of the Diablos Rojos, hosted the Giants and Padres on April 29–30, 2023, the first regular-season MLB games in the capital's thin air at about 7,300 feet.
Q 28Which city hosted the 2023 All-Star Game, at T-Mobile Park?
Seattle
Seattle hosted for the third time, after the 1979 game at the Kingdome and 2001 at the same ballpark under its old name, Safeco Field; the National League won 3–2, with Elias Díaz of the Rockies named MVP.
Q 29The NL's 3–2 win in the 2023 All-Star Game was its first since which year?
2012
The NL's previous win had come in 2012; the AL then won nine straight. Elias Díaz of the Rockies hit the go-ahead homer in the eighth and became the first Colorado player named All-Star Game MVP.
Q 30Who won the 2023 Home Run Derby, joining his father as the first father-son pair to win it?
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. beat Randy Arozarena 25–23 in the final; his father had won the 2007 Derby, making them the first father-son pair to win it.