Welcome to Rates and barrels, Wednesday, October 2nd, day two of the wildcard round,

four good baseball teams lost games yesterday.

And four good baseball teams now face elimination today because life comes at you fast in October.

A lot of ground to cover today.

Derek and Riper, Inoceros, Britcheroli here.

We're not going to spend a lot of time on the Tigers Astros series,

if only because game two of that series will be starting almost minutes after this podcast

becomes available. So we're not trying to give that series short shrift. We're just living

in a space where there's not time to get the information out there for people to hear it. But we

will briefly touch on what happened in game one where Terrick Scouble pitched exceptionally

well.

You know, you were looking just before we started recording to confirm that there was a little extra

life on those pitches from Scubal in game one.

Yeah, he threw his slider harder than he had thrown it all year, and he

threw his fastball, he only threw his fastball harder once in any game this season. So he was on

fire. And actually, if you, if you watch him, he's, he's a kind of guy who lives to the moment. He's,

he's a roarer. He's a, he's a, he's a, he's a, he's an LFG kind of guy. So he's, he's, he's a roer he's he's a he's a he's an lfg kind of guy so he's uh he's feeding off the moment and

um you know he had a couple moments where you know they were you know the ball hit his glove off his

glove hand um and he uh he did something else where the trainer came out and he shrugged it off and hit

99 and you know said no problem. But I wonder if there's a little bit more to that story.

But in any case, he was the ace they needed and now they get to go with the, I guess, you

know, it's a Tyler Holton, Brent Herder combo.

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