Yankee4Life

June 3, 1932: Lou Gehrig hits four home runs, Tony Lazzeri hits for cycle in Yankees romp It was a game of excess, played on a Friday afternoon in Philadelphia’s Shibe Park. Two teams combined for 104 plate appearances, 77 total bases, and 17 runners left on base. The first-place Yankees were playing the fourth game of a six-game series against the Athletics, who occupied fourth place in the American League, 5 games behind New York. The 5,000 fans at the game saw 33 runs, 36 hits, 9 home runs, 5 triples, 14 walks, 12 strike-outs, and 5 errors. On any other day, Yankees third baseman Tony Lazzeri would have owned the newspaper sports-page headlines. But on this day he was overshadowed by four different baseball events. On a day when Lazzeri hit for a natural cycle (single, double, triple, and home run in that order, the homer being a grand slam), Lou Gehrig amazingly hit four home runs and narrowly missed a fifth. On top of that, Babe Ruth launched his 15th home run of the season, second-best in the major leagues. Jimmie Foxx hit his ML-best 19th homer for Philadelphia. Still more headline-worthy, John McGraw announced that he was retiring from baseball after 29 years as manager of the New York Giants because of a two-year battle with a serious sinus condition. According to the New York Times, “Largely because of Gehrig’s quartet of tremendous smashes the Yankees outstripped the Athletics in a run-making marathon, winning 20 to 13, after twice losing the lead because of determined rallies by the American League champions.” Gehrig joined the Boston Beaneaters’ Bobby Lowe (May 30, 1894) and the Philadelphia Phillies’ Ed Delahanty (July 13, 1896) as the only players to collect four home runs in a game. In the first and fifth innings, Gehrig hit his bombs beyond the fence in left-center field, and in the fourth and seventh, he cleared the wall in right field. With the home run in the fifth inning, Gehrig became “the first man in baseball history to ever hit three home runs in one game for the fourth time.” On top of that, that third home run was a back-to-back-to-back shot, as Earle Combs and Ruth had homered ahead of him. In the top of the ninth inning, Gehrig “pointed a terrific drive which Al Simmons captured only a few steps from the furthest corner of the park.” Estimates put the drive at 460 feet from home plate. (It was 468 feet from home to the deepest part of the ballpark in center field, near the flagpole.) George Earnshaw started for the Athletics and pitched five innings, allowing seven runs (six earned). His counterpart for the Yankees, Johnny Allen, gave up eight runs (four earned) in 3 2/3 innings. Allen was ejected by home-plate umpire Harry Geisel in the fourth inning for “bench jockeying,” the usual phrase used when a player argues balls and strikes from the dugout. The Yankees committed five errors in the contest (Ruth, Gehrig, Frank Crosetti with 2, and Allen). The Yankees used five hurlers and Athletics four, and all nine pitchers in the game allowed at least one run. Jumbo Brown picked up his first win of the season in relief, and Lefty Gomez earned his first save. Reliever Roy Mahaffey took the loss for Philadelphia. Lazzeri stroked five hits in six at-bats. In addition, he stole a base. As of 2015, he was one of only 14 major leaguers to have a natural cycle, and was the only one whose home run was a grand slam. With his five hits, Lazzeri’s average jumped to .357, third-best in the American League. Lazzeri and Gehrig each drove in six runs in the Yankees victory. Every starting position player for New York drove in at least one run. Doc Cramer and Ed Coleman led Philadelphia with three RBIs each. The New Yorkers tied the then-major league record by hitting seven home runs in the game. The Yankees’ 20 runs scored were their highest run total of the season. The 23 hits by New York set a modern record at the time. The game seesawed back and forth. The Yankees scored twice in the first, highlighted by Gehrig’s first home run of the game, a two-run shot. The Athletics responded with two runs in the bottom half of the first, with a Mickey Cochrane home run. Gehrig’s second blast, a solo homer, was part of a two-run fourth inning for New York, but then Allen allowed six Philadelphia tallies in the bottom of the fourth, before he was chased from the game. New York seemed to have batting practice, scoring in each of the final six frames, with two runs in the fourth inning, three in the fifth, two in the sixth, three in the seventh, two in the eighth, and six in the ninth inning, capped by Lazzeri’s grand slam home run to give him the cycle. Gehrig’s missed home run could have meant an even higher score. Philadelphia scored twice in the bottom of the sixth for a short-lived lead, and the A’s added two runs in the eighth and a Jimmie Foxx solo home run in the bottom of the ninth. The final score: New York 20, Philadelphia 13. The next day, the New York Times carried the headline, “Gehrig Ties All-Time Record With Four Straight Home Runs as Yankees Win,” across the top of its sports page on June 4, 1932. However, it then only gave the first column to describing the game, and only a small portion was for Gehrig’s record-tying feat. Five of the eight columns on the front page of the sports section in the New York Times were devoted to John McGraw, who was only 59 years old when he announced his retirement. Joe McCarthy, manager of the Yankees, told reporters, “McGraw must have been pretty sick, for he is not the kind to give up baseball without a reason.” One of Gehrig’s finest offensive performances was apparently minimized by the news of McGraw’s retirement. Incoming Giants skipper Bill Terry was given close to a full column on the sports pages, and even his wife was given a short article, which stated that “Mrs. Bill Terry was a very, very proud young woman today when she heard of her husband’s appointment as manager of the New York Giants.”

Like I was saying....😄

10 out of 10, 38 seconds. Not bad, but someone is going to beat this today.

8 out of 10, 59 seconds. Looking at the final score today I can tell you all I got lucky on a few of them.

27 seconds??? I'll never get close to that!

Well, so much for complaints! You ran past me by two seconds. A photo finish.

10 out of 10, 33 seconds. No complaints today.

Then do that and not talk about no-cd patches any longer.

What is it that some of you people can not understand not to talk about or encourage others to get the no-cd patch? Do NOT bring this up any longer.

KC, I ran this through Google translate and I came up with nothing. 😄

The cracked version of the game wasn't working well for you so you decided to look for ways to get the legitimate copy. I told you to check eBay. If the cracked version of the game was working for you you'd have never asked how to get a copy of the game. Since disc number two is needed for installation there is nothing you can do and you are back where you started. So, you are right back at the beginning. You are using a cracked copy. Don't even post about the problems you have with that because you get no support here for that. Read this from the site rules. 5. Discussions and requests for illegal downloads (via admission or open discussion) or making them available to other posters is explicitly prohibited. This content includes (but is not limited to): CD Keys (MLB 2K or MVP Baseball or otherwise) & Serial Numbers No-CD cracks Warez (Illegaly copied or cracked versions of the games) Original Game Files You did not request any illegal downloads but you did talk about it multiple times. No more.

7 out of 10, 49 seconds. I didn't think I got that many right.

Virtualbox is new to me.

9 out of 10, 55 seconds. Surprisingly these questions were not that bad today.

It is my experience with the people who take other modders work that credit given and a thank you will never take place.

I’m missing something. I watched that entire video and I don’t see any improvements on Mvp 2005. I looked at everything, pausing multiple times and coming away with nothing special about that video. Explain to me what I am missing? We also had someone here not too long ago make a 2005 Total Classics mod.

5 out of 10, 50 seconds. The way I see it I was lucky to get that many right.

Well, I try to keep things interesting around here. 😄 Thank you Mr. KC. I will be doing exactly that this season. It will take me awhile to get my strength back but it will happen.

I could not have said it better myself. Thank you. Keep going now. There's a tight three way race going on and anyone can win it.

Thank you Dennis. I still get tired very easily but that will improve as time passes. The hospital people were fine. It's just that I didn't expect to be there. It shows how much I know. 🙂

7 out of 10, 68 seconds. Not bad for the difficult ones I go today.

10 out of 10, 37 seconds. Not bad but I could have done better. It is in their DNA. I'm serious. 🙂 Don't tell her I said that. With that MMA background she can beat me up. 😬

Thank you Jim. I felt bad for all of you that were not sick and still couldn't get in. Trues did a great job getting everything working again.

6 out of 10, 64 seconds. Well, I am not winning this month!

Hello everyone! I decided to make a thread to explain where I've been and what's been going on because if I wrote this in the shout box it would've been too long. At the beginning of last week I started to feel really sick. A cold, sore throat, a cough and for two nights a fever. A couple of you here suggested that I go get things checked out and I believe I said last Thursday night that I would do that the very next day. So on Friday, March 7th, I went to Urgent Care and they found out that I had Covid and also that I had fluid in my lungs and that was the reason why I had shortness of breath all last week. After this was discovered I was sent to the emergency room where I stayed there for a total of ten hours. Even though it was a very slow day in there I still had to wait that long. But I really couldn't complain because every time I looked around there was always someone there who looked like they were in a lot worse shape than I was. I just wish I had something to read to pass the time away. Later on that night I was sent to a room and I remained there until I was discharged yesterday afternoon. I wanted to come in and say hello and post this then but I was so tired from the lack of sleep then I got when I was in the hospital all I did was go home and go straight to bed. Thank God my sister was around to take care of my dog. Because I had been diagnosed with Covid I could not leave my hospital room for any reason. I was not able to come in here because I did not have my Amazon tablet with me and that's because I did not expect to have to go to the hospital. So I had no Internet access and that meant no Mvpmods updates and I have to admit that the first thing I thought of was not how I was going to get over this Covid stuff but that I had no way to answer the trivia questions each day! The hospital staff is not bad and they were very nice to me. The TV that I had was not very good and I feel sorry for the next guy who occupies that room and tries to use the TV. He will find that it turns off all by itself. The food was okay and surprisingly they make very good coffee. For two days they gave me scrambled eggs for breakfast. They were yellow and they looked like eggs but that's where the similarity ended. One day they gave me French toast and if the French ever saw it they would've denied having anything to do with it. I am very happy to be back and even more than that I am grateful and honored that so many of you asked about me. I want to thank you for that and for all your kind wishes. I like being around here because you guys are the best. Thank you again. I still have to get a lot of rest but I am glad I'm home. I would have been back a couple of days ago but the site was down and I am glad that Trues figured out what was the problem. We owe him a lot.