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5 out of 10, 61 seconds. Yep, it's Tuesday! Thank you. It's getting harder and harder to do.

October 9, 1966: Dave McNally fires Orioles’ third consecutive shutout as Baltimore sweeps Dodgers Dave McNally scattered four hits as the Orioles won game four by a 1 - 0 score. The Los Angeles Dodgers entered Game One of the 1966 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles on October 5 as 8-to-5 favorites. They had swept the New York Yankees in 1963 and had defeated the Minnesota Twins in seven games the previous season, so it was understandable that the oddsmakers predicted a third title in four years. However, as they entered Game Four on October 9, the Dodgers had not scored in the past 24 innings of play and were facing the prospect of being on the wrong side of a quick and ignominious sweep. Frank Robinson, Baltimore’s Triple Crown-winning outfielder, had hoped that the Dodgers would emerge as the National League champs because, he said, “We always feel we’re good for three or four runs, and against the Dodgers, that could be enough.” After Game Four, Los Angeles Examiner columnist Mel Durslag would comment drily, “Enough, he [Robinson] obviously meant, for a whole Series.” Dave McNally, who had allowed the Dodgers’ only two runs of the Series, took the mound determined to atone for his 2⅓-inning stint in Game One. He had tough acts to follow as Moe Drabowsky, his Game One reliever, had hurled 6⅔ scoreless innings that were followed by Jim Palmer’s 6-0 blanking of LA in Game Two and Wally Bunker’s 1-0 whitewashing in Game Three. McNally came out inspired and threw the Orioles’ third consecutive shutout, a 1-0 game that “was virtually a carbon copy of the October 8 triumph.” In Game Three, Paul Blair had hit the winning home run in support of Bunker; in this game it was Frank Robinson whose solo blast provided the winning margin. After McNally’s gem, the Baltimore pitching staff had a new World Series record of 33 consecutive scoreless innings that surpassed the old mark of 28 set by the New York Giants against the Philadelphia Athletics in 1905. A partisan crowd of 54,458 fans filled Memorial Stadium in hopes of witnessing history in the making in the form of Baltimore’s first major-league championship since 1897. Orioles fans were so confident that before the start of the game, a group of them displayed a sign that read, “Support the Dodgers – Give Blood.” Although the placard was directed at the Dodgers’ hitters, starting pitcher Don Drysdale, who had been tagged for four runs in Game One, also had appeared as though he could use a transfusion. On this day, however, he pitched more like his usual self, with the exception of one mistake thrown to Robinson. In the 1-0 duel, which was played in a crisp 1 hour and 45 minutes, true action was limited to only a handful of plays, a theme that was in keeping with a World Series in which the winning team batted .200 and the losers a record-low .142. In the bottom of the second inning, Drysdale allowed a leadoff single to Brooks Robinson and issued a one-out walk to Curt Blefary, but he escaped trouble when Davey Johnson grounded into a double play. McNally, for his part, allowed only a walk and a single through the first four innings. In the bottom of the fourth, Frank Robinson woke both teams and the fans out of their slumbers when he belted one of Drysdale’s pitches into the left-field stands for what would be the lone run of the game. Drysdale later said, “It was a fastball up high. I knew the moment he hit the ball, it would take a guy with a ticket to catch it.” Although Drysdale’s attitude was not as blasé as it may appear in print, columnist Jim Murray gave the Dodgers’ star hurler no quarter when he wrote, “Don Drysdale, who used to knock Frank Robinson down regularly when he was in the National League, apparently didn’t recognize him. For the second time in the Series, he put a ball over the plate that he might better have put over his head. Robinson put it over the wall.” After Brooks Robinson grounded out, Boog Powell sent another Drysdale pitch over the wall, but Dodgers center fielder Willie Davis – the goat of Game Two when he had committed three errors in a single inning – made what one reporter called “the top defensive play of the series” when he “actually pulled the ball back from homer territory with a mighty leap and a one-handed stab.” In the top of the fifth, Dodgers second baseman Jim Lefebvre led off with a line-drive single to left. Wes Parker came to bat and hit a ball that looked as though it could go through the hole on the left side for a hit, but third baseman Brooks Robinson – displaying the defensive acumen that would garner him the nickname “Human Vacuum Cleaner” – deftly scooped it up and started a 5-4-3 double play. From that point forward, things were relatively quiet again until Lefebvre led off the top of the eighth inning with a long fly ball to center. Orioles center fielder Blair showed why manager Hank Bauer had just sent him into the game as a defensive replacement as he “leaped at the fence near dead-center for a two-handed catch of Lefebvre’s bid for a game-tying homer.” After Drysdale set the Orioles down in order in the bottom of the eighth, it was up to McNally to complete the shutout and the Series sweep. McNally started the ninth in style by striking out Dick Stuart, who was pinch-hitting for John Kennedy, but then he ran into danger. Al Ferrara, pinch-hitting for Drysdale, singled to center and Maury Wills worked a walk to put the tying run in scoring position. Davis came up and hit a hard liner right to Frank Robinson in right field, and the Dodgers were down to their last out in the person of Lou Johnson. After flailing at McNally’s first two offerings, Johnson lofted a routine fly ball to Blair that put the Dodgers out of their misery and set off celebrations throughout Charm City. Although most of the attention centered on the performance turned in by Baltimore’s pitching staff, Frank Robinson garnered the Series’ MVP award on the strength of his .286 batting line that included two homers and a Series-leading three RBIs. The low-key Robinson, who was in the middle of a Hall of Fame career, was happy enough on this occasion to say, “I think it was the best season I ever had by far.” As for the Dodgers, it was the worst World Series ever played by any team. In addition to the record-setting 33 scoreless innings and .142 team batting average, they also set all-time Series lows for fewest runs (2), fewest RBIs (2), and fewest hits (17). Interestingly, the previous records for fewest runs (4) and fewest hits (22) had belonged to the 1963 New Yankees, leading Dodgers manager Walter Alston to observe, “Now I know how the Yankees felt when we beat them four straight in ’63.” When Alston was asked if the Dodgers needed to trade for power hitters in the offseason, he downplayed such a need and defended his team, saying: “We’ve known we’ve lacked power for two years. We’re not going to rush out and make a lot of trades because we lost four straight in the Series. We’re not known as a power club, but this team doesn’t have much to be ashamed of. They won two straight pennants. Wills echoed his manager when he confessed about the Dodgers, “We never scared anybody in our league, anyway. Most of the clubs in the National League didn’t have much respect for us. You’d hear players calling us minor leaguers and saying things like, ‘Watching the Dodger offense is like watching a silent movie.’” After the Series, not only did NL opponents disparage the Dodgers, but the LA press piled on, stating, “They still propose to go to Japan the middle of this month. As we understand it, it will be a five-week trip, unless, of course, they blow it in four.” While the Dodgers were having their epitaph written in Los Angeles, the Orioles were being feted in their hometown. The Baltimore Sun aptly summed up baseball’s newest champions: In L.A., the only question was not whether the Dodgers would win, but how many games it would take them. That’s all changed now. Not once in this entire series did the Birds trail, nor did they commit a single error. Both Palmer and Bunker surpassed Waite Hoyt as the youngest men ever to pitch World Series shutouts. The record belongs to Palmer now, because he’s 20 and Bunker 21. … But, as it was all year, this was no one, or two man job. For a young team, playing in its first World Series, this one performed faultlessly. It was the beginning of a golden age for Baltimore baseball: The team would compete in three consecutive World Series from 1969 to 1971 and capture a second championship in 1970. Frank Robinson was the 1966 World Series Most Valuable Player.

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

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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.