I want to ask you a bunch of questions, and I want to have them answered immediately.

Good morning, and welcome to episode 294 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

Perspectus. I am Ben Lindbergh, hopefully sounding more cheerful today, joined by Sam Miller.

As always, hello. As always, yes, almost always. Pretty much non-stop all day, every day.

Yeah, we just, we start recording at some point, but we keep a constant conversation going.

Okay, so it's the listener email show, so we have selected some questions, and you're going to read them.

Yeah, and I want to start just with a reference to last week when we talked about players

getting ejected mid-play, and you mentioned one example that was brought up involving Justin

Upton. We got another example that was brought up from Ed, and it was Steven Strosberg, who

was tossed, quote, was tossed after he threw two wild pitches in a row behind Andralton Simmons.

It looks as if home plate umpire Marvin Hudson ejects him after the second wild pitch,

while Strosberg is moving to cover the plate with the Braves runner on third coming home,

Shaefer hasn't reached home yet before Strosberg is thrown out. MLB Rule 4.07 says,

when a manager, player, coach, or trainer is ejected from a game, he shall leave the field

immediately and take no further part in that game. So had the Nats catcher been able to get

the ball to Strosberg in time, which Strosberg have been permitted to tag Shaefer,

or would the Braves be entitled to an unchallenged run, because Strosberg was immediately

out of the game. And I don't have an answer for that, but what I do have is a unrelated example

of something different that Richard brought up in which Benji Malina once homered but was pinched

run for after reaching first base. And the story behind this was that he hit a home run,

the umpire is ruled at a single. Emanuel Burris immediately ran out to pinch run for Malina

because Malina slow. And then the Giants appealed the call and it was ruled a home run. So then

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