Effectively Wild Episode 1280: The 1.8 Percent Strike
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Scott Oberg and the difference between good and bad balk calls, the Brewers sweeping the Rockies and the state of playoff bullpenning, the Astros juggernaut, Dodgers vs. Braves, Ronald Acuna’s grand slam, and the new Clayton Kershaw, the anomalous playoff performances of Kershaw and David Price, the Yankees’ sluggers and the appeal of balls knocked out of the ballpark, and more.
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Audio outro: Joel Plaskett, "Gone, Gone, Gone"
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| 0:00.0 | The same, how can you find a pursuit to pay? |
| 0:10.0 | The same, the same, the same, the same. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 12-80 of Effectively Wilder Reggosval Podcasts with Vengrofs |
| 0:28.0 | presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Mimberg, I am the Ringer, |
| 0:32.0 | joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vengrofs. Hello, hello, how are you? |
| 0:36.0 | We do okay. So we have one division series concluded. |
| 0:40.0 | We have a few more still going, at least as we speak. Perhaps not. |
| 0:44.0 | As you listen, there is just no way around that. You and I were just talking about |
| 0:48.0 | how we should schedule these things during the playoffs. So has to avoid being outdated, |
| 0:53.0 | but there is just really no way to do it. So we just kind of have to live with knowing that by the time you hear this, |
| 0:59.0 | there may be more baseball, which doesn't mean that we can't talk about the baseball that has already happened. |
| 1:03.0 | So let's talk about the rumors that eliminated the Rockies. That's easy. |
| 1:07.0 | That's something that will be evergreen, at least for a couple days, until people stop caring. |
| 1:11.0 | And then the rumors have a new opponent. But I wanted to, did you watch the game that they played on Sunday? |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, well at least I had it on in the background while I was doing some book work. So yes. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, okay. So there's a lot we could talk about with regard to the brewers and the Rockies. |
| 1:26.0 | And we'll get to maybe the bigger stuff, but in the smaller stuff, Scott Oberg had a box. |
| 1:31.0 | And I wanted to talk about the specific kind of box a little bit. |
| 1:36.0 | This is a well-known box. Anyone who's pitched is familiar with the box. |
| 1:40.0 | But in the sixth inning, he was two nothing brewers. And the brewers had runners on second and third. |
| 1:45.0 | Curtis, Granderson, who was batting with two applicants. Scott Oberg was pretty good. |
| 1:48.0 | And Scott Oberg was digging into the rubber. And for some reason, maybe he always does this. |
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