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Hello and welcome to episode 1915 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-graphed son. I joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer. Ben, how are you?

Doing well, how are you?

I don't know why I felt like I needed to emphasize the Ben, but I did.

Here we are. I'm doing well. We have a day off of well games anyway.

And here we are. Getting ready to talk about some division series. What division series they are?

Indeed. Yes. Days off are perfect for previewing. Preview time. We can actually do something without it feeling immediately obsolete as long as everyone listens immediately after we post episode.

So we did our wildcard recap last time, and now we will do our division series preview. And then at some point later in the week, there will be a third episode about something or other.

So there was one question we got from a listener in response to our conversation into the Eargate controversy in Metz Padres in three on Sunday.

Daniel said, you're probably getting a ton of emails about this question. Many probably also prefaced that you're probably getting a ton of emails about this question.

But without getting into the ear discourse, what would happen if a starting pitcher who's been absolutely dealing in a playoff game is found to have been using sticky stuff late in the game with a big lead?

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