Welcome to episode 24 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective. I hope you enjoyed your weekend. I spent mine killing ants, Ben spent his

laying by a pool in upstate New York ladies. Ben how are you? I'm great I'm bug

bitten but otherwise well. Well if you need any tips for killing bugs I'm kind of

an expert. I'm also doing well I'm glad that we're talking again it's been 72

hours and a lot has happened in baseball. Do you have anything in particular you

would like to talk about? Yeah I'd talk about the raise angel series that

happened this weekend. Well I would just like to talk about the angels in

general so I suppose those will go nicely but probably we can split them up in

the middle and change course a bit. So why don't you tell me what was

significant about the a's range angels raise. A's ranges is almost raise angels.

It's almost exactly the same. Yes. Tell me about the raise angels. So it was a

four game series that started on Thursday and ended today and the raise swept

and they swept very very convincingly. Yes and they outscored the angels I

think 37 to 14 with and and there was no urban Santana involved or anything

like that. It was the the angels real name brand starters. It was Wilson and

and Frankie and Heron and Weaver. It was the guys who had put the angels in

the discussion certainly for the best rotation in the major leagues after

they acquired a cranky at the deadline and the raise just pretty much steam

rolled them and now the raise are leading in the wildcard race. Baltimore also is

up there because Baltimore is still winning a whole lot but the angels are now

four and a half out in the wildcard race and I guess I wonder if you look

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