Effectively Wild Episode 1608: A Wild World Series Weekend
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller break down the exciting fourth and fifth games of the World Series, touching on Brett Phillips’ momentous hit and the Dodgers’ momentous misplays at the end of Game 4, the managerial decisions that led to that wild ending, Manuel Margot’s baserunning and Clayton Kershaw’s pitching in Game 5, and other observations, plus a preview of Game 6 and a possible Game 7.
Audio intro: Guided By Voices, "Run Wild"
Audio outro: Dinosaur Jr., "What Was That"
Link to Dan Szymborski on Game 4’s historical significance
Link to list of top plays by cWPA
Link to Mike Petriello on the biggest World Series plays
Link to Sam on single-play WAR
Link to video of Phillips single
Link to Ben Clemens on Game 4’s managerial decisions
Link to Ben Clemens’ Game 4 gamer
Link to BP’s Game 4 breakdown
Link to video of Margot’s trip around the bases
Link to Jon Tayler’s Game 5 gamer
Link to Ben on the Dodgers as a TV show
Link to FanGraphs playoff coverage
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| 0:00.0 | Leave your dreams in the street |
| 0:03.2 | And run wild |
| 0:07.2 | And run wild |
| 0:11.2 | And run wild |
| 0:15.2 | And run wild |
| 0:20.2 | And run wild |
| 0:24.2 | And run wild |
| 0:27.2 | And run wild |
| 0:30.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 1608 |
| 0:34.1 | of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast |
| 0:36.5 | with band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Sam Miller of his PNO Sam |
| 0:44.0 | Hello, we are recording on Monday afternoon |
| 0:47.1 | So we've seen a couple world series games over the weekend |
| 0:50.6 | They were quite exciting |
| 0:52.2 | I guess we saw three since our last episode |
| 0:54.8 | One of them was not so exciting |
| 0:56.6 | One was all-time great |
| 0:58.4 | One was very good |
| 1:00.2 | And now we have the Dodgers one win away from winning a world series |
| 1:05.0 | So I guess we should start maybe with Saturday's game |
| 1:08.9 | Unless you have any other banter you want to bring up |
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