Yankee4Life

You're right. I always learn something about this game.

This is strictly for users who have forgotten their password to log onto the website for any reason. What you should not do in any case: 1. Create a new account. It does not matter if you create one or five of them. It will not help you get your original account back and if you did this when there was not an issue with the registration here (which is 99.99% of the time) your account will be banned. And that means your original one too. Let’s avoid this. 2. Do not go on social media for help because you want the people that run the site to actually see your problem and it is better to go straight to the source and I will tell you how. What you should do: If you can not get in send an email to yanks4life@gmail.com and it will be seen by me and what I will do is reset your password to a temporary one and that will allow you to get in the website again and then once you are in you go to your profile and change the password to anything you want it to be. That is that. That will save a lot of time and a lot of headaches. Incidentally, this is how I keep track of my passwords. I am aware that there are software programs that do this but having your passwords offline and in a book like this has never made me lose one. Just search for “password keeper book” on Amazon for all the ones they have.

9 out of 10, 85 seconds. A nice way to start off the new month. Here are the final standings for August. It was a close race and Jim and Sabugo both tied for most wins in the month.

10 out of 10, 37 seconds. Hesitated on the last question but it still ended up ok. How is the weather Jim? And drop by Portugal and say hi to Sabugo. 🙂

Sorry my friend, I should have explained something. The three different versions were based on how the game was presented and also it included the latest roster changes.

6 out of 10, 83 seconds. Damn what a tough day. When they said difficult baseball questions they were not kidding.

Looks like you are using the Mvp 2008 mod. A lot of time has past and some people may have forgotten but those guys at Eamods released three different versions of the '08 mod. Version one, two and the World Series edition. Posada Mvp 08 v2 Posada Mvp 08 World Series Edition Maddux Mvp 08 v1 Maddux Mvp 08 World Series Edition

Moved to the support thread.

Neither have I Jim. Not once and in any version of the season mods there have always been nine songs. Those remaining songs remain a mystery.

10 out of 10, 37 seconds. Not bad, I'll take it although you guys will fly past this! Have a wonderful trip Jim!

He's only pretending Jim. 😄

The last two sentences here in this article. Oh boy. The next six weeks can completely redefine this Yankees season By Larry Brooks, New York Post It is still a six-month, 162-game marathon in which big league teams are on the field six or seven days a week. That has not changed over the past six-plus decades. But pretty much everything else has. Pennant races are lost to history. There is a four-round postseason structure. Major League Baseball has become a playoff league just as surely as the NFL, the NBA and the NHL. And that is why, as maddening as it has been to hear Aaron Boone insist multiple times throughout this summer that has left much to be desired, that “it is all in front of us,” the fact is that the Yankees manager is absolutely correct. The wild-card Texas Rangers won the 2023 World Series with the sixth-best regular-season record in the league by defeating the wild-card Diamondbacks, who had finished with the 12th-best record. The NHL Florida Panthers captured the Stanley Cup this June after finishing with the NHL’s 11th-best record. So, yes, it does remain all in front of the Yankees, who defeated woebegone Washington 5-1 at the Stadium on Tuesday with Unstoppable Force Giancarlo Stanton driving in all five with a bases-loaded double and two-run homer to maintain both MLB’s 10th-best record and a 4 ½-game cushion on a playoff spot over the Royals. July is gone and so soon will be August. Good riddance, if you ask Boone. Good riddance, if you ask Anthony Volpe, reinstated before going 0-for-4. Good riddance, if you ask Devin Williams. But the summer need not define Volpe. The summer need not define Williams. The summer need not define Boone. The summer need not define the 2025 Yankees. There is a month’s worth of runway for the team to get its house in order. There is a rotation to establish. There is a bullpen to reorganize. There are details that need to be emphasized. These should be the primary objectives over the season’s remaining 30 games. Giancarlo Stanton hits a two-run home run scoring Cody Bellinger in the sixth inning against the Washington Nationals at Yankee Stadium, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. The Yankees, who are 4 ½ games behind division-leading Toronto after the Jays lost to the Twins, appear destined for a best-of-three wild-card series against either Boston, Houston or Seattle, with all games in the higher seed’s ballpark. The matchup as of Tuesday would have the Yankees at Fenway for three without a scheduled off-day. But they could wind up hosting Seattle. All TBD. Regardless, the Yankees would need three starters for this round. Of course they have to get from here to there, but unless health issues intercede, you’d expect that Max Fried and Carlos Rodón would get the ball for Games 1 and 2. Then the leading candidate for Game 3 would be reigning AL Rookie of the Year Luis Gil, who went five innings against the Nats in his fifth start after missing the first four-plus months with a lat strain. Surely he is the incumbent. But don’t hang up the phone just yet, for Cam Schlittler has likely entered the conversation following another impressive performance Monday in which the 24-year-old rookie right-hander pitched six shutout innings while allowing four hits and striking out eight in the 10-5 victory over the Nats. Schlittler, who has pitched to a 2.76 ERA over his first eight major league starts and has not allowed a run over his past 13 ²/₃ innings, may be on track to become the latter-day version of the 1964 Mel Stottlemyre, who came up in August and went 9-3 while leading a veteran Yankees team to the seventh game of the World Series before going down to Bob Gibson. “We’ve got to get to the postseason, so that’s hopefully for another day when we’re lining things up,” Boone said. “We think very highly of him, obviously he’s throwing great. We know we’re going to need him down the stretch to be a key figure especially the way he’s shown so far. “Hopefully we’re having that conversation down the road when we’re ready to do that.” Gil limited the Nats to one run and five hits over five innings. The manager is looking for consistency from the 27-year-old, who has walked 12 batters in 15 ¹/₃ innings over his past three starts, including four Tuesday. Gil, though, seems confident that he is on the right path. “I think with every outing I’m feeling stronger and more confident,” Gil said through an interpreter. “There’s work to be done, but I feel like I’m on the right track, and there is no doubt in my mind that I will get back to that 100 percent level.” There are six weeks until the playoffs, six weeks for the team to get in postseason mode. That might not be a particular goal for which to aspire, come to think of it, since the Yankees have not won a playoff series against a team outside of the AL Central since 2012 and the first-round victory over Baltimore. There are also these six weeks for Aaron Judge to ramp up as he continues to rehab from the elbow injury that has prevented him from playing the field since he came off the IL on Aug. 5. Before going 0-for-3 with two K’s, No. 99 had a slash line of .210/.380/.403 with a .783 OPS in 18 games since returning. Six weeks for him to get into playoff mode. The reality, though, is that Judge has a slash line of .205/.318/.450 with a .761 OPS over a career 58 postseason games. The problem is that No. 99 might already be in playoff mode.

Well KC all I can say is that i am glad that Judge used his own coaches and training system. Can you imagine if he had not? He'd of been off the team by now and he'd of never gotten that big contract. Eventually they are going to have to see that what they are doing with Volpe just isn't working, unless they are comfortable with nightly 0 for 4's and errors.

7 out of 10, 61 seconds. Two soccer questions, two guesses, two right. Nothing but dumb luck today.

Aaron Boone can no longer hide the brutal truth about Anthony Volpe By Joel Sherman, New York Post If you keep saying it is sunny outside and everyone sees the clouds daily, at some point your credibility in describing the weather vanishes. I would say it is the same if you keep minimizing the mistakes of your starting shortstop and acting like what everyone else is seeing is wrong. After a while, it will make us all wonder if, indeed, Aaron Boone was just acting when assessing the decay in every way of Anthony Volpe’s game this year. How about this? I will give Boone the choice: Were you publicly acting like all was OK with Volpe this year or did you actually think all was OK? In other words, were you disingenuous or incompetent? After another hitless game had brought Volpe’s average down to .209 — the lowest it had been since the fourth week of April — and he had thrown to the wrong base in the ninth inning Friday night, Boone went through some circular logic about how the attempt to get Jarren Duran retreating at second in the ninth inning, being “obviously not the right play,” also was a “heady play.” It certainly was not heady. That throw to second with a 1-0 deficit in the ninth inning and with your closer on in David Bednar has to be 100 percent that you will get the runner at second — or else, get an out at first. There is no other play. There is no heady if it is not 100 percent. It is the opposite of heady. Then, as part of a humiliating seven-run Red Sox ninth inning Saturday, Volpe sailed a throw way over first baseman Ben Rice’s head for his MLB-high-tying 17th error. After the game — one in which Volpe went 0-for-3 to make him hitless in 15 at-bats and 1-for-his-last-28 — Boone mentioned it was Volpe’s first error “in a few weeks.” Which technically was true. The foolish play Friday didn’t get counted as an error, but it was an error in every way except statistically. And it also misses the point that Volpe dropped to his knees to field both the balls in question, which he has been doing a lot as he has lost confidence in himself in the field. He too often looks more like a butterflying hockey goalie than a shortstop. Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe entered the last week of August leading the American League in errors. And then in Game 130, after one explanation after another in defense of Volpe’s defense (and offense), Boone (let’s assume it was Boone and not an order from above) revoked Volpe’s scholarship and did not start him in the Sunday night national game against the Red Sox. Volpe then announced his own benching for Monday’s game against the Nationals. Now, part of this is the Yankees had left themselves without a suitable backup shortstop most of this year. Oswaldo Cabrera may or may not have been able to play some at the position, but he fractured his ankle May 12. The Yankees spent years convincing themselves that Oswald Peraza was a major league player — keeping him out of potentially helpful trades over the years — and then he showed this year he was not close to ready for primetime. The trade for Jose Caballero at least provided Boone an opportunity to go in a different direction. But not before a few more weeks of telling the public that up was down when it comes to Volpe. Which he does regularly about his players. Really, stop telling us that Jasson Dominguez is getting better in left field. He does not pass the metric test or the eye test. If he is better, it is in graduating from unplayable to atrocious, which is not worth citing. On Friday night, right after Volpe’s boneheaded throw to second, Dominguez made a boneheaded throw to third after catching a deep fly ball in left and trying to get Duran at third (he had no shot). That allowed Ceddanne Rafaela to tag from first to second to put two runners in scoring position and not keep the double play in order with one out. The Boone alibi with Dominguez usually is that he is a young player who has not played a lot of baseball. The Yankees’ Jasson Dominguez has made playing left field an adventure all season. More trash. That is Baseball 101. Something you would yell at a Little Leaguer about messing up. You know, like freezing on a line drive in front of you if you are on first base, like Austin Wells failed to do Friday night and got doubled off. Really, at what point are the Yankees going to self-examine how they teach — or don’t teach — baseball or what kind of players they employ who can’t get the basics down under stress? At what point are the Yankees going to do a deep dive to explain why homegrown players such as Volpe, Dominguez and Wells regress in the majors under their care — see Miguel Andujar, Greg Bird, Gary Sanchez, Gleyber Torres, etc. Should we expect Ben Rice to hit .195 next year with nine homers? But let’s get back to Volpe. Would it not have been better to strip away all the happy talk this year and deal with what was so blatant? Three years into his career, he still does not go into slumps as much as offensive death swirls. His baserunning, which was supposed to be an asset, no longer is. The same with his defense. At best, he is showing himself to be a second baseman (is that George Lombard Jr. on the horizon?). At worst, he is showing he is a utilityman. Volpe has talent. A few times, I have noted how similar his first 400-plus games are to those of Dansby Swanson. But this has been a season that has gone in the wrong direction in every way. How has pretending it hasn’t helped Volpe become his best self? When Boone keeps insisting that Volpe’s defense is “elite,” who is that helping? When he talks about him being an above-average player, by what measure? Everything is by comparison. This is the major leagues. This version of Volpe is not a top-15 shortstop. Bottom 15 makes you worse than average. More and more, you look around at teams and wonder where he would start at all beyond The Bronx — if he is still a starter even there, that is. AL East? No way he starts over Baltimore’s Gunnar Henderson, Boston’s Trevor Story or Toronto’s Bo Bichette. And I bet the Rays would be more comfortable with the no-offense, great-defense of Taylor Walls over the bad-offense, bad-defense of Volpe — plus the Rays just summoned their top prospect, shortstop Carson Williams, over the weekend. NL East? No way he starts over the Mets’ Francisco Lindor or Philadelphia’s Trea Turner. Washington’s C.J. Abrams is infuriating, but he’s also better than Volpe. Maybe we will have a conversation about Miami’s Otto Lopez, but it is close. We can keep going, but if you need it, Volpe is 26th in FanGraphs’ WAR among shortstops. The awful White Sox have two guys ahead of him — Chase Meidroth and Colson Montgomery. And it is not just the ball that has kept finding Volpe. He went into Monday with 156 plate appearances with runners in scoring position, which was tied for seventh-most in the majors and the most on the Yankees by 28 over Cody Bellinger and by 29 over Aaron Judge. Now, part of that plate appearance total reflects Volpe’s durability to play every day in a lineup that gets a lot of baserunners, notably against bad teams. Of that group, Volpe had the 12th-worst batting average at .194 (Ryan McMahon was ninth at .190). His OPS of .627 was 15th-worst (Dominguez was fifth-worst at .570 and McMahon 14th at .625) — in case you are wondering where so many potential Yankees rallies go to die. Anthony Volpe has struggled mightily to hit all season, especially with runners in scoring position. What has Boone’s “nothing to see here” policy brought in a positive way to Volpe and Dominguez? We all see it. To pretend it isn’t happening or to pooh-pooh it or to obfuscate has value in what fashion? I get it. It is 2025. There are no more Earl Weavers and Billy Martins. Boone got his job and has retained it by forming upbeat bonds with his players. But ignoring the obvious, that isn’t upbeat. It has been ridiculous. It was ridiculous when Boone spent a few years insisting Torres was a starting shortstop. It was ridiculous when Boone spent a few years insisting Sanchez was a championship catcher — only to replace him with Kyle Higashioka in the playoffs. It was ridiculous to say the Yankees were not easy marks in October against power righty staffs when the breadth of their lineup was near totally righthanded. Part of the problem is that Boone is the spokesman who speaks twice a day for a front office that has given him these tools — and given him the job because of his positivity. And also a front office that believes it is vital not to talk negatively of players when the environment (largely fed by social media and talk radio/cable) is more toxic and less forgiving. But, at some point, when it is cloudy outside, you have to stop talking about sunshine.

10 out of 10, 76 seconds. I am surprised I got this many right.

8 out of 10, 62 seconds. Wait, what? I did better today than I did yesterday? What's more is the questions were easier. 😲

4 out of 10, 96 seconds. I usually do good on the baseball questions but today's had me but good. I missed the first three in a row and went downhill from there. Wow. This is great. Good for you!

I got to agree with you here. Too many people these days are afraid to make a move without consulting their phone. We have a service here in the U.S. called Tracfone and it is a cell phone service where you buy minutes to stay on the plan. I renew it every ninety days. I have about 4,900 minutes on mine and that is because I don’t use the damned thing all the time. I don’t run to Tiktok to look at the new videos and I am not on Facebook or anything else. I use my head and can function all day without a phone in my hand. Looking back at this I still do not understand Stengel’s thoughts here. He pinch hits McDougald, who has been in the league since 1951 and who also was the A.L. Rookie of the Year that season for a pitcher!! And it worked! What the hell? Casey Stengel was known for making moves like this. Analytics I am sorry to say is making me respect the way this team operates less and less.

You find more about this in this thread.

10 out of 10, 33 seconds. Hold it...a good score and a good time? Me? 😄

I have an online photo album of baseball that I have been working on for years and I must have at least two thousand pictures in it by now. I am always looking around for more interesting photos to add to it and I use a lot of different search tools to find the ones I want. I am amazed at the variety of results I can get going from Google to Yahoo to DuckDuckGo to the not so well known ones such as Swisscows, Searx and Mojeez. Anyway, I am not writing this about grabbing photos. It’s about the story behind one photo that I found yesterday that had Billy Martin turning a double play in a July game against the Orioles in 1956. What first stirred my interest in this particular photo was a sign behind Martin that I am guessing had to be from some airline that advertised trips to Florida and Cuba. That’s nice I said but again this is not why I am writing this. It was the story of how the Yankees won this game that amazed me. The date of this game was Tuesday, July 3, 1956 so naturally I made a beeline to Retrosheet and I looked up the hows and whys of this game. I found out that the game went twelve innings but how the Yankees won it made me say to myself that it would never happen in today’s game and especially with the modern day Yankees who are so afraid of making a move that may go against their precious analytics. This is what happened. Casey Stengel was the manager. With one out and runners on first and third he sent up pitcher Tommy Byrne to hit for pitcher Tom Sturdivant. Byrne hit .269 in 1956 so I can follow Stengel’s reasoning here. The Orioles intentionally walked Byrne to load the bases. Gil McDougald was the next hitter - but hold on! Stengel called McDougald back and sent up Mickey McDermott to hit for him. If any of you have the Total Classics series, especially TC 1951 or 1955 for example you will say to yourself “wasn’t McDermott a pitcher?” Yes he was. Stengel sent up a pitcher, who by the way hit only .212 in 1956 to hit for Gil McDougald, who, if you take a glance at the boxscore, was 2 for 5 in the game. Not too shabby. McDermott proceeded to single to right field and the winning run scored. Stengel was known as "the Ol' Perfessor" and I suppose this was just another example of him outsmarting everyone else. He had me shaking my head because I have no idea why this happened. Consider: If McDermott made an out or got into a double play the Yanks would have had to go on to the 13th without a shortstop. The aging Phil Rizzuto was still on the bench but he was almost on his way out. In fact he was released the next month. What made Stengel do this? What did he see? What was wrong with McDougald at that point? Was his bench beat up at the time where he had no choice but to use two pitchers as pinch hitters? Also, if they went on to the 13th Stengel would have lost two pitchers to put in the game. Ok, ok, Y4L. What’s your point? You will tell me that this game was sixty-nine years ago! Baseball was different then Y4L! You don’t have to tell me that. My point is this. Stengel managed by instinct. Whatever that instinct was it won the game for him. Aaron Boone doesn’t know the meaning of instinct. Baseball is a game of copycats. If someone comes up with something you can bet before long everyone else will do it like when Tony Larussa and pitching coach Dave Duncan began the strict pitch count thing. Now it is widely accepted. Or when Tampa Bay came up with that “opener” move that they used when they did not have anyone to start a game for them. Now they all do it. I’m waiting for the next move where the pitch count is not widely accepted anymore and maybe just maybe pitchers injuries will begin to decrease. There is room for some analytics but not when it takes over a game and managers are forced to always follow it. By the way, here is the picture that caused all this trouble.

7 out of 10, 76 seconds. Some puzzlers today but it was ok except for the time again. I did that once. 0 out of 10.

Thank you for this! Well, not just for me but for the ones who read this thread. It was just another way I had to show how great the history of this game is. And honestly I forgot all about this game.

October 9, 1958: Yankees rally late to beat Braves in Game 7 of World Series Bill Skowron's three-run homer in the eighth gave the Yankees a 6 - 2 lead. The New York Yankees broke a 2-2 tie with four runs in the eighth inning of Game Seven to win the 1958 World Series, reversing the result from the previous year, capturing the Bronx Bombers’ sixth title of the 1950s, and becoming the first team to win a Series by taking the final two games on the road after dropping three of the first four games. Former Yankee and 1957 World Series hero Lew Burdette toed the rubber for the Milwaukee Braves. Ominously, “[o]nly Burdette draws a cheer when the lineups are announced.” He started well, retiring the first three batters. The 1956 World Series hero Don Larsen, by contrast, struggled from the start, giving up a single to Red Schoendienst and a walk to Bill Bruton. Batting third in the order in place of Eddie Mathews for the first time in the Series (Mathews, with only four hits in the first six games, was dropped down to sixth in the order), Frank Torre advanced both runners with a sacrifice. Hank Aaron walked, and Wes Covington put the home team on top with an RBI groundout. New York manager Casey Stengel risked a big inning by ordering the slumping Mathews intentionally walked, but Larsen escaped deeper trouble by fanning Del Crandall. The Yankees recovered quickly thanks to more shoddy defense from Milwaukee. (The Braves had made four errors in Game Six.) After Yogi Berra walked to start the second, “the usually good-fielding Frank Torre messed up two balls around first base”; his consecutive errors on tosses to Burdette covering first loaded the bases with none out. Bill Skowron drove home the tying run with a groundout to short, and then Tony Kubek put New York ahead with a sacrifice fly to Covington. Burdette retired Larsen on a grounder to Schoendienst, but had to feel frustrated at yielding two runs on one walk and two errors. Larsen had his lone good inning in the bottom of the second before Burdette pitched around a double by Gil McDougald in the top of the third. Larsen did not survive the third. Bruton singled, Torre popped out, and Aaron singled Bruton to second. Stengel wasted no time in pulling Larsen, who may have had elbow problems. On came Bob Turley, who, after getting crushed in Game Two, had won Game Five and saved Game Six. Turley got Covington out on a weak tapper in front of the plate. Then after a second intentional walk to Mathews, “Crandall lined a shot off Turley’s glove. The ball was deflected away from second. The alert McDougald, who had started toward the bag when the ball was hit, changed his direction swiftly and with a neat pickup and peg rubbed out Crandall to end the inning.” The Yankees looked to widen the margin in the fourth with an Elston Howard single and stolen base. Jerry Lumpe’s grounder to third failed to advance the runner, however, rendering Skowron’s fly to Bruton harmless. Mirroring Stengel’s strategy and getting the same good result, Milwaukee manager Fred Haney ordered Kubek walked, and Turley hit into a force to end the threat. Neither team had a batter reach again until the bottom of the fifth. Torre walked with one out, but Aaron bounced into a second-to-first double play. Burdette had retired seven in a row when the Braves batted in the bottom of the sixth. With two out, the struggling Crandall, who had stranded six baserunners in his first two plate appearances, homered with nobody on to tie the game, 2-2. Skowron broke Burdette’s steak with a leadoff single in the seventh. Moose went to second with two out thanks to a Turley sacrifice, but Burdette got Bauer to pop to Mathews to keep the score tied heading into the home half of the seventh. Turley got three Milwaukee grounders in a quick frame. After Skowron’s single, Burdette put down the next five Yankees in a row and seemingly had his ex-mates under control. The syndicated columnist Red Smith described Burdette as “a large, perhaps insanitary West Virginia hillbilly with a dry wit and a moist delivery, who pitches with his arm and head and heart and tongue. Employing all the weapons which nature, a combative temperament and 32 years of living have given him, he … held New York off for seven innings … virtually unaided.” But the game, season, and Series quickly unraveled for the Braves. With two outs in the eighth, Berra doubled (“He hit a bad pitch, high and inside,” according to Burdette) on a hit “that lacked only a couple of feet of being a tiebreaking home run. Howard immediately drove him in with a bounding single that barely eluded Johnny Logan’s reach behind second” to give New York a 3-2 lead. Andy Carey, who had replaced Lumpe in the bottom of the sixth, “lined a single off Eddie Mathews’ glove” to put two on with two out for Skowron. Moose hit a crushing blow, a three-run homer to bust open the game and give the Yankees a formidable 6-2 lead. “It was a lousy pitch that I gave Skowron,” Burdette said after the game. “It was a slider — the same thing he looked bad on before — but this one I got in too high.” Skowron confessed, “It probably would have been an out in Yankee [S]tadium.” Kubek struck out to end the disastrous inning for Milwaukee, which found itself in a deep late-game hole. “One run the Braves could have gotten back … if that was all they needed for a tie, but four runs killed them as certainly as Cain slew Abel.” Pitching “faster, according to Yogi Berra, who caught him, than he had been in the past,” Turley made quick work of the Braves’ 3-4-5 hitters with a 1-2-3 eighth. Don McMahon struck out the first two New York batters in the ninth before giving up a single to McDougald and a walk to Mickey Mantle, but Berra’s groundout stranded both. Milwaukee needed four to tie in the bottom of the ninth. Mathews worked a walk, but Crandall and Johnny Logan both flied out. A Joe Adcock pinch-hit single put two on with two out for Schoendienst. Bruton represented the tying run on deck. Red “rifled a liner at [center fielder] Mickey Mantle. On the mound, Turley raised both hands to shoulder level and waited anxiously. Master Mickey enveloped the ball. Turley’s arms shot overhead in exultation. He leaped off the ground, almost as if defying the law of gravity.” In a syndicated column, former catching great Roy Campanella wrote, “Burdette didn’t deserve such a fate. He really pitched his heart out and would have won if the Braves gave him any kind of support.” But just as the Yankees had gotten revenge on Brooklyn by beating the Dodgers in 1956 after losing in 1955, New York flipped the script on Burdette and Milwaukee by winning in 1958 after losing in 1957. The Milwaukee Braves would never again make a World Series, and a Milwaukee team would not appear in the World Series again until 1982. It all fell apart for Lew Burdette and the Braves in game seven.