The stoppers trying to go wire to wire here in the Pacific Association for the first half title

It's two and two

Two aiano

Swinging a bouncer to short this could do it Mochizuki has it the thought of first in time and that is a first half

championship for the Sonoma stoppers as

they clinched a title and

And they have guaranteed themselves at the very least a

Spot in the Pacific Association championship series at the end of the season and

If not with a win in the second half they will clinch

the championship overall

Good morning and welcome to episode

703 of Effectively Wild the daily podcast from baseball perspectives presented by the play index at baseball reference dot com

I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives. Hello. Yo

Apologize for the subpar audio quality today. We have a next door neighbor

I have a next door neighbor who starts his leaf blower every time we try to record podcast and I'm in an echoey room

But it's a podcast you wanted us to do a podcast. So here's one. How are you?

Okay, I know exactly how you were yeah, we're

We're a few rooms apart. You know that that was a lie. You know that I just told you yeah, you're really dead

Haven't even had coffee yet or food and you just woke up after late night

So you're not doing that well, but the Sunpers clinched the first half of the season yesterday and you're happy about that

I am happy about that all right

Anything to talk about as if we've been paying attention to major league baseball. I want to just say two things

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