Effectively Wild Episode 1606: Call it Even

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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