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Good morning and welcome to episode 713 of Effectively Wild the Daily Podcast from baseball

perspective presented by the play index baseballreference.com. My name is Ben Lindbergh,

I'm a writer for Grantland and I'm joined as always by Sam Miller of baseball perspective.

Hello. I can't make this an auto-playing man. It won't stop. What are you trying to play?

I'm trying to read a Nick Piaqoro article. Okay, that's possible. All right.

Nick's got to get paid. How are you? How are you? All right. I want to ask you about a baseball

mystery, but we have an email show coming up after that, but this will be brief. So there was a

strange occurrence in the seventh inning in the Yankees Red Talks game on Tuesday. So the Yankees were

upper run against the Red Talks. It was four three Yankees. They ended up winning this game

13-3 because the Yankees scored nine runs in the next half inning, but at the time it was a very

high-leveraged situation. So Tanaka Justin Wilson, who's a good lefty reliever, came in to replace

Tanaka and he let a couple guys on, but he got a couple outs. And so it was two outs. Jackie Bradley

was up very bad left-handed hitter who is hitting 102 this year with no power and some walks,

which is kind of what he did last year. So bad lefty hitter up, good lefty reliever, and Wilson

gets to two strikes. So they're two strikes away from getting out of the inning and then

Rousni Castillo, who is on first, stole seconds. So the tying run is on second, one two count,

and Jojo already comes out to take Wilson out and bring in Dellen Batoncis. And so this is an

unusual move to take out a good reliever with the platoon advantage, who's one strike away from

getting out of the inning. And Wilson after the game said, I think it's odd just because it was

in the middle of the bat. And Batoncis said it was kind of strange, but I'm ready for whatever.

So they thought it was strange. Reporters asked you already about it and they said, why did you do it?

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