Astros, Yankees win ALDS openers, and Deivi Garcia gets a big opportunity
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the opening games of the ALDS matchups, and try to make sense of a mediocre outing from Blake Snell, Austin Meadows' disappointing 2020, and their appreciation for Enoli Paredes as an unheralded arm in the soft underbelly of the Houston bullpen.
Rundown
0:39 Giancarlo Stanton Puts Game 1 Out of Reach
3:02 How the Fifth Innings Shaped the Rays’ Bullpen Usage
9:18 Austin Meadows’ Oblique Injury and 2020 Struggles
11:44 A Pivotal Error Flips Game 1 On the A’s
20:08 Enoli Paredes: A Reliever for Stuffists
21:16 Deivi Garcia Gets the Nod for Game 2
25:59 Aaron Judge Did an Aaron Judge Thing
31:52 When the Play-by-Play Tweet Goes Spoiler
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 149, playoff episode number 7. |
| 0:20.4 | It's Tuesday, October 6th. |
| 0:22.8 | And just like the A's and the Rays, |
| 0:26.4 | we are down one today. |
| 0:28.9 | No bridge droly today. |
| 0:30.7 | Hopefully we get back to the three-person crew real soon. |
| 0:35.1 | You know, we had a lot to discuss, though, |
| 0:37.1 | from these first two games. |
| 0:38.9 | And I'm just sitting here as the Yankees' raise game ended. |
| 0:43.5 | And I'm sad that it ended the way it did because I just wanted the raise to come up in the |
| 0:48.0 | ninth with a chance against the Roldus Chapman. |
| 0:50.5 | That was the outcome I was really rooting for as that game was playing out. |
| 0:55.5 | And, of course, it unraveled in a big way. |
| 0:58.3 | John Curtis gave up a grand slam to John Carlos Stanton. |
| 1:01.3 | It was a pretty big mic drop sort of ending for the Yankees offense tonight. |
| 1:07.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.4 | And, you know, John Carlos Stanton as a righty, you know, they asked him afterwards, |
| 1:13.5 | you know, what, what is it about San Diego? I actually covered the home run derby, the All-Star |
| 1:20.2 | game in San Diego where he was just hitting smash after smash off that big video board. |
| 1:26.8 | And I guess he had a BBC there too. |
| 1:30.7 | You know, that was one thing I found when I was looking at San Diego was it's way more friendly. |
| 1:35.9 | It has one of the biggest discrepancies for righties and lefties in terms of how many barrels turn into home runs. |
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