Effectively Wild Episode 1580: Meet Me Halfway
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the three-year anniversary of the Effectively Wild outing to see the total solar eclipse at a minor league game in Oregon and whether the backlash to the kerfuffle over Fernando Tatis Jr.’s 3-0 grand slam made this week a watershed for MLB’s unwritten rules, then answer listener emails about whether a pitcher will (or should) start both ends of a doubleheader this season, what percentage of hit by pitches are intentional and how good we are at distinguishing those that are from those that aren’t, and whether any managers will be fired in 2020, plus a trio of listener-inspired Stat Blasts on a statistical quirk of the top of the Mariners’ career ERA leaderboard, the most pitches thrown in a 1-2-3 inning, and games with “half no-hitters” thrown by both teams.
Audio intro: Neil Young, "Just Singing a Song"
Audio outro: The Moody Blues, "Meet Me Halfway"
Link to Ben on the eclipse game
Link to Ben on Tatis Jr. and unwritten rules
Link to Ringer MLB Show on Tatis Jr. and unwritten rules
Link to Bill James on home runs and hit batters
Link to Eric Gallipo’s Stat Blast Song cover
Link to Mariners career pitching leaderboards
Link to episode with discussion about defining 1-2-3 innings
Link to list of 1-2-3 innings with most pitches thrown
Link to list of games with “half no-hitters” by both teams
Link to Ben on the strike zone at the end of no-hitter attempts
Link to Ben on umpire perfect games
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| 0:00.0 | You can drive my car, see how it grows. |
| 0:08.0 | Feel a new energy as it quietly goes. |
| 0:18.0 | Just sing it so long, change the world. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1580 of Effectively Wildly, |
| 0:31.0 | baseball podcast from Bandraffs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of Ringer, one by similar of the SVN-0SAN. |
| 0:40.0 | Did you know that today is three years since the eclipse? |
| 0:45.0 | Ah, I said right. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, well sort of, Friday is three years since the eclipse itself. |
| 0:50.0 | Today is three years since I showed up at Jeff's apartment in Oregon. |
| 0:55.0 | And I met Jeff for the first and only time in real life. |
| 0:59.0 | And I met Meg for the first and only time in real life. |
| 1:02.0 | And on Friday I met, well on the eclipse day, I met Dylan for the first and only time. |
| 1:07.0 | That's right, in real life. |
| 1:08.0 | And you know, I have been thinking about that day a lot today. |
| 1:11.0 | I was talking to my daughter about the eclipse. |
| 1:14.0 | And I don't think that there's maybe any day of my life that is more unlike what we're living in right now. |
| 1:22.0 | What we're doing right now. |
| 1:23.0 | We all traveled across the country in planes and trains to crowd in to a minor league stadium where there are no minor league stadiums open right now, except one in Buffalo. |
| 1:39.0 | With other fans, there are no stadiums with fans right now so that we could stare at the sun. |
| 1:44.0 | You and I and Jesse all slept in the same car overnight. |
| 1:49.0 | We then drove back from the eclipse and sat in extremely crowded cramped conditions. |
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