Now some now surprises, now some now surprises, now surprises, now surprises,

Good morning and welcome to episode 737 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with

Ben Lemberg of Greenland. Hi Ben, how are you Ben? I'm great. What a weekend. Yeah, baseball

was all over the place. I was talking about good wife. Oh yeah, I should have seen that

coming. Solid, solid effort there. It was in fine form. Yeah, it was pretty good. Anything

else to talk about? That was it. I spent my weekend looking forward to and watching that

episode. Anything else to do anything else? I watched some baseball, wrote part of a book. There

was a lot of really good baseball. It was a surprisingly good weekend because nothing actually changed,

really, if you had ended the season on Friday or ended the season a week before Friday, I think

that the playoff teams would all be the same. And I don't think I think the only thing that was

really decided was the Royals getting home field and the Dodgers getting home field for their

series. But the other comebacks and collapses didn't really happen. But so much other stuff happened.

I mean, they almost happened, which was exciting in itself. There's the crazy Rangers Angels game

on Saturday with the incredible comeback. There was Sherser Perfect Game and 35 strikeouts in that

game overall, which is a record. And there was Echero pitching and there was Chris Sale throwing

a 50 mile-power pitch and Kershaw getting the 300 strikeouts and just tons of stuff. Yeah, I didn't

see the Chris Sale one send it to me. Try. Yeah, he threw a 97 mile-power fast fall and then he followed

that with a 50 mile-power EFIS sort of thing. And then he went back to the slider. And poor James

McKen ended up striking out. It was really not a fair fight. But how do you how do you like the

Sunday thing where all the game was done? I liked it. It was good. I had not even a second screen

experience. I had a third screen experience going on. I had the the Rangers game on the TV and the

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