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Hello and welcome to episode 23, 26 of Effectively Wild, the FanGrafts Baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm a Raleigh of FanGraphs, and I'm joined by Ben Humberger, Ben. How are you?

I'm doing well. I'm doing better than the Pittsburgh Pirates, though.

Congrats to the Pirates on scoring more than four runs in a game for the first time in a month.

They scored five.

So they scored the minimum number of runs you can score that is more than four.

And also they lost the game regardless.

But still, they avoided a record-setting streak.

So you got to take your wins where they come, even if they come in losses.

This is a small, it's maybe the definition of a moral victory, but one victory nonetheless, you know?

Yeah.

What are you going to do?

Well, the Rockies would settle for any sort of victory.

It seems to me that people are piling on the Rockies, understandably, but all sorts of Lull Rockies stories are surfacing here.

Obviously, the lack of success on the field, that's enough.

As we record here on Friday, they're 8 and 42.

They still have not won another game since the last time we mentioned the Rocky's record,

which was, I think,

several episodes and at minimum a couple of days ago, you know?

Yeah. So you now have to go back to the 1895 Louisville kernels to find a worse start to a season.

Those kernels started 7 and 43. So worst 50 games start since 1895.

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