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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1848: Shantz Encounter

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about which is more impressive, Reid Detmers throwing a two-strikeout no-hitter or right-handed hitter Anthony Rendon homering from the left side against a position-player pitcher, recount (11:50) the surprisingly long, largely forgotten history of the 20-seconds-between-pitches rule and the pitch clock in pro ball and the big leagues, and […]

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0:00.0

I'm counting out time, got a whole thing down my numbers, all those numbers, you can be guidance,

0:10.0

we're Lord, I need that now, you day of judgments come, and you can bet that I'll be

0:17.0

resting for this testing, digesting every word the experts say.

0:24.0

Hello and welcome to the start 1840 of the fact that we, while the Fairground Space

0:28.0

Bobpog cast brought to you by our Patreon supporters, I'm Meg Rally of Faggraphs, and I'm joined

0:32.0

as always by Ben Lumberger of the Rier, Ben Haril.

0:35.0

Well, I've had two days to ponder the most pressing question of our times, which is, which

0:41.0

is the more impressive accomplishment, a 22 year old rookie throwing a two strike out no

0:46.0

hitter, or a veteran right handed hitter, turning around and hitting a left handed home run

0:53.0

in his first left handed play appearance in the majors off of a position player pitcher.

0:59.0

So many layers, so many wrinkles to consider here.

1:02.0

The position player pitcher part is like, well, important might be too strong, he still

1:08.0

hit a home run hitting left handed, but it is a caveat, right?

1:12.0

It is an asterisk to add, even if it is not the decisive one.

1:17.0

Yeah, that sure was the thing that happened in baseball.

1:20.0

That happened about two seconds after we posted our preceding episode, and then I was like,

1:24.0

oh no, we got to get back on the mic to discuss this important occurrence.

1:29.0

That game was wild.

1:30.0

Yeah.

1:31.0

So the angels beat the raise 12 to nothing on Tuesday night, read Debtmer's the 22 year old

1:38.0

through a no hitter for the angels, not only did he throw no hitter, but he threw no hitter

1:43.0

with two strikeouts, which was very strange the first time that anyone had done that since

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