A Drama Packed Weekend of Playoff Action
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a busy weekend for all four Division Series -- including the early outburst from the Cleveland lineup that set up a Guardians' Game 1 win, a back-and-forth battle in the Bronx that the Yankees held onto win over the Royals, and two splits on the National League side where bitter rivalries have generated some great early-series drama.
Rundown
2:56 The Guardians' Offense Erupts in Game 1; Thoughts Behind Tigers' Opener Strategy Against Cleveland Bats
11:17 Game Planning Against Tarik Skubal
18:11 A Missed Opportunity for the Royals?
22:44 One Particularly Important Play By Jazz Chisholm Jr.
28:40 Phillies-Mets Is Delivering Through Two Games
39:37 Padres-Dodgers Continues to Escalate
50:27 Jurickson Profar Fooled Us!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:15.9 | It's Monday, October 7th. |
| 0:18.1 | Derek Van Riper, Enoceris here with you. |
| 0:20.3 | A lot has happened. |
| 0:21.6 | The division series are all underway. |
| 0:24.8 | NL-Side two games through ALSide having game twos here on Monday. |
| 0:30.7 | So we'll talk about the breakdowns of what happened over the weekend and what we can expect here as those series continue on. |
| 0:38.0 | Eno, how was your weekend? |
| 0:39.5 | Good. |
| 0:40.0 | My nine-year-old turned 10. |
| 0:42.2 | So I had a house full of screaming children. |
| 0:48.0 | The internet went out for two days. |
| 0:50.8 | Did they break it? |
| 0:51.9 | I had an earful of screaming children. |
| 0:55.9 | Why? |
| 0:56.3 | Why isn't it my working? |
| 0:58.7 | That's tough. |
| 0:59.6 | For that age, especially, because the internet's just always been there, right? |
| 1:03.0 | We're old enough. |
| 1:03.6 | We lived in a time when the internet wasn't available in our homes. |
| 1:06.6 | I was like, go read a book. |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah. |
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