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Hello and welcome to episode 2463

Of Effectively Wild, the baseball podcast from Fangraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

Let's charge straight into this episode like Jorge Holare, Jorge Saler, charging at Rinaldo Lopez.

You're having a really great, totally flawless time. Yes. Yes. No one has heard me make any

mistakes where this intro is concerned. So we'll just continue to just full speed ahead

and throw some haymakers podcast-wise. So this mound charge,

which was, according to John Boyce, who has developed a database of mound charges, this is the first

mound charging in the majors in four years. Wow. Yeah, it's endangered. It's almost extinct. Obviously, there are stiffer penalties

when it comes to mound charging. There didn't really use to be rules against this. There have been

rules against it for a while, automatic ejection. But they're cracking down on it now. We haven't

seen it as much. And maybe that's for the best. Maybe that's nice. It certainly gets people engaged.

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