I was 1, 2, 3, 3, 4 times gone

I was 1, 2, 3, 4 times gone

I was 1, I was 2, 2, 3, 4 times

4 times gone

Hello and welcome to episode 168 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Vingrass

presented by our Patreon supporters. My name is Ben Lindbergh, I'm a writer for the

Bringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vingrass Hello. Hi, what are you thinking about?

Okay, well let's see, we talked about John Lester on Monday, right?

It's the most weird episode. We don't have to talk about to pick up anymore.

Okay, let's sort of follow up, help before we get into that. Hey, Scooter Gened,

all right, 4 Home Run. That's a lot of home runs, probably as many home runs as he has in his career.

It's, yeah, it's pretty crazy. The article that ran on the Ringer by Zach Kram was Scooter Gened,

hit 4 homers because the ball is juiced. It's almost hard not to reach that conclusion because his

name is literally Scooter in 4 home runs. But yeah, pretty crazy. Joshi and Roda Bett, how

improbable it was or how improbable it was compared to previous 4 home run hitters and

the other guys that it came just as much out of nowhere with. So it can happen, but it is very

strange when it happens. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's going to be the equivalent of like the

the Tuffy Rhodes game, right? These things don't always have to be meaningful beyond what they are.

I will say that while of course it's easy and probably appropriate to connect Scooter Gened,

going deep four times with home runs being up all the time and the ball being juiced or not

juiced whatever you want to say about it. At the end of the day, like the home run rate per

played appearance isn't like, it hasn't skyrocketed. Like, yeah, let's give him his four home run.

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