Effectively Wild Episode 1606: Call it Even
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller discuss the first two games of the World Series, touching on Clayton Kershaw’s Game 1 excellence, the Dodgers’ discipline, Dave Roberts’ pitcher usage, the status of Rays reliever Nick Anderson, the Game 2 breakout of Brandon Lowe, and the outlook for the rest of the series. Then they banter about the differences and similarities between early baseball and the modern game and answer listener emails about the gap between pitchers’ regular-season and postseason ERAs, the best way to lose a series after going down 0-3, the folly of chasing wins by using top relievers while trailing, and when the count is truly even.
Audio intro: Dispatch, "Even"
Audio outro: Dressy Bessy, "Call it Even Later"
Link to Craig Goldstein on Kershaw
Link to Pedro Moura on May/Gonsolin
Link to ESPN World Series roundtable
Link to SABR 50 at 50
Link to Sam on the six types of playoff games
Link to Spink passage
Link to Russell Carleton on keeping leads small
Link to 2019 league splits by count
Link to Ben on shifting against righties
Link to FanGraphs playoff coverage
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| 0:00.0 | Edmonds can write in front of me Don't you look at I'm not a hiassie |
| 0:07.3 | Deadmonds open everywhere I am the life said |
| 0:11.4 | It's ways Edmonds where it's all even |
| 0:17.7 | Even |
| 0:21.2 | Even |
| 0:24.7 | Even |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1606 |
| 0:32.4 | Effectively wild a baseball podcast with Vangraths presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:37.9 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN Little Sam |
| 0:42.8 | Hello World Series is tied at one as we speak |
| 0:46.6 | So I figured we could talk a little bit about the first couple games and then maybe do some emails |
| 0:51.9 | So you just did a roundtable at ESPN about some observations from the first couple games |
| 0:58.3 | And I just took a look at it and it matched up with some of the things that I wanted to bring up to |
| 1:03.2 | So Clayton Kershaw was sort of the story of Game 1 |
| 1:07.1 | He's sort of the story of almost every postseason game he appears in one way or another |
| 1:11.7 | Sometimes it's a happy story, sometimes it's a sad story |
| 1:15.0 | This was one of the times when it was a happy story and he pitched really well |
| 1:18.9 | And I was a little bit surprised I guess to see that this game didn't rank higher on his list of postseason starts |
| 1:27.3 | If you sort all those postseason starts by GameScore |
| 1:30.6 | This game in which he was great and effective and got lots of strikeouts |
| 1:35.2 | Was only his eighth best postseason start |
| 1:38.4 | It was not his best world series start that would be World Series game 1 in 2017 |
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