Good morning and welcome to episode 295 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseballperspectus.com.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. I'm currently scrolling through Jeff Luna's follows on Twitter and it is an interesting group. It is almost all Astros fans or Astros bloggers or actual Astros and then randomly a Jerry DePoto parody account.

It's called not Jerry DePoto and the bio is I am not Jerry DePoto and it's not a particularly well-followed account but he also follows Richard Hidalgo who is the next person.

Yes and I feel like I should be following Richard Hidalgo. Ben, how are you?

That's so great. As said as I was when Matt Harvey got hurt plus how sad I was when many Machado got hurt. I'm that said because I just watched the Dexter season series finale.

He follows Paul Spor. Really? He does. That's nice. Good for Paul.

Who cares? I won't say anything about it but those of you who listen and watch Dexter will know why I'm sad.

I would rather watch the sad parts of the last few Breaking Bad episodes on repeat over and over then watch that again.

I've just started watching the shield. Considered starting that one.

It seems my impression of it was always that it was like a standard procedural but then I kept hearing good things from good people.

It turns out to be really good. I always put it off. I put that off in Battle Start Galactia even though everybody says they're great just because they're genre shows and I figured I could get to them someday.

Today or yesterday I got to the shield. It turns out to be great. Anyway, so what do you want to talk about?

Well, first we should probably mention the Carlos Gomez thing because we got 20 tweets and emails and people posting in the Facebook group about that.

Yeah, talk about it.

So I mean, all of you have probably seen Carlos Gomez hit a home run, watched the home run for quite a while.

He had been hit by Paul Nahalem who allowed the home run earlier in the season and so there was some bad blood there and people braves yelled at him as he rounded the bases and told him to run and he yelled back.

And then when he got to home plate, Bryant McCann was blocking the way.

And so they yelled for a while. Benches cleared and Gomez never actually touched home plate and then he was ejected from the game.

So does this exactly meet our criteria because he was ejected and he did never touch the plate but the run counts because there's a rule that says if you're if the runners obstructed, then he's awarded at least one base beyond the base that he had legally touched.

So he's awarded home because McCann was in his way.

So does that mean that he was ejected mid plate? Maybe it's kind of a semantic thing. I don't know.

Yeah, well, I'm counting it and I think, oh, he follows you can't predict baseball.

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