Good morning and welcome to episode 42 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast in New York, New York where if you strain your ears

you may be able to detect the faint chirping of Stephen Colbert. I am Ben Lindbergh

and in Long Beach, California where you can almost certainly detect the faint

chirping of crickets, you are Sam Miller. Hello Sam, the Orioles 101 Run Game again.

We should talk about it. It's kind of like Groundhog Day at this point. We should

just start every podcast. It should just be our standard intro. Good morning, the

Orioles 101 Run Game. It will be true more often than not. Yep. What do you

want to talk about? The Orioles 101 Run Game actually. Really? Yeah, not

specifically that. I want to talk about that game though. Okay, and I want to

talk about Raphael Seriano. The Metz. I mean the Yankees closer. The one and only.

So did you see the Raisin Orioles play at all? Did you follow that at all or were

you asleep? I don't know if I was asleep, but I didn't follow it now. It was

bananas. It was a crazy game. It was one of the craziest games I think I've

seen all year long. And I wanted to just talk a little bit about managing and

particularly the final play of the game and just talk a little bit about

managing in general. It was a crazy, crazy game. The Raises used I think 26

players. They had Chris Archer go about 80 pitches in relief. He got out of a

bases loaded. Nobody out jam in the 13th after falling behind 3 and 0 on

Matt Weiders with the bases loaded. The Raises did the five man in field and

actually brought in a defensive switch to get an even better infielder for

the fifth infielder. He Joe Madden pinch hit with a pitcher when one of his

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