A Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Homer and a Four-Run Fourth Tie the World Series at 2-2
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the Blue Jays' Game 4 win over the Dodgers including strong pitching performances from Shane Bieber and Shohei Ohtani, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s huge swing in the third inning, Mason Fluharty's critical work finishing up the sixth, and how they expect things to change for Game 5 with a return to the matchup that started the series (Trey Yesavage vs. Blake Snell).
Rundown
1:18 Shane Bieber's Effective Outing in Game 4 & How the Jays Cashed In on Two Mistakes From Ohtani
8:18 Are the Dodgers' Bats Struggling -- or -- Is the Jays' Pitching Executing?
11:41 Does a Great Offense Struggle in October Without Top-End Speed?
17:35 Was That Blake Treinen's Last Appearance in a Close Game This Series?
20:02 Shohei Ohtani's Arsenal: How Does He Look Compared to Previous Versions?
26:16 Louis Varland Pitched, Again...Is He Wearing Down?
31:11 Ben Clemens Did the Math, the Intentional Walks to Ohtani Were a Bad Idea (http://blogs.fangraphs.com/so-youve-decided-to-intentionally-walk-shohei-ohtani-again/)
33:21 Game 5 Preview: Trey Yesavage vs. Blake Snell, Round 2
45:09 The Hot Take Safe Zone
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates of barrels. |
| 0:12.1 | It's Wednesday, October 29th, Derek Van Riper, Inoceris here with you. |
| 0:15.6 | No Jed Lowry this week. |
| 0:16.8 | Jed is on assignment, not for rates and barrels, but for cap, which we'll learn a lot more about next week when Jed returns to the program. |
| 0:25.1 | On this episode, we dig into the Blue Jays game four win over the Dodgers. |
| 0:29.0 | The series will go back to Toronto after game five, regardless of outcome. |
| 0:33.9 | Very exciting for Blue Jays fans. |
| 0:35.9 | Very exciting for the neutrals out there too to watch |
| 0:38.7 | this one play out. It's been a great series so far. Let's dig into it. You know the Jays get that |
| 0:43.7 | game four win behind a Vlad Jr. Homer off of Shohei Otani and a four run seventh inning. The |
| 0:52.6 | runs just come in bunches for this lineup. |
| 0:55.6 | I think it's just one of the main stories for them throughout this postseason. |
| 0:59.2 | They can score from any part of the lineup and they can string together timely hits |
| 1:03.8 | and things that just make it really tough to navigate that lineup on a night-to-night basis. |
| 1:10.8 | A lot of ground to cover within this game. |
| 1:13.1 | I think the starting pitching was generally very good. |
| 1:18.1 | Shane Bieber pitched very well, |
| 1:20.8 | and I tried to pre-write the script in the rundown |
| 1:24.0 | of what was going to happen as a joke, |
| 1:26.3 | and I was somewhat right. |
| 1:28.7 | I wrote down Blue Jays win game four and hands show Hey Otani his worst start as a Dodger, |
| 1:35.1 | which would be a little extreme to say that as fact. |
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