Good morning and welcome to episode 752 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast.

From baseball perspective, brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of Grandland High.

Ben, how are you?

Not great, Bob.

You want to hear something that I've been thinking about?

Yep.

All right.

I'm afraid that it's going to sound like I'm making a point.

I'm not making a point.

It's just amusing and interesting to me.

But you know, much was made about Lorenzo Cain scoring from first on the single because,

as I bought Teesta through the ball into second and in Tom Verducci's much-shared piece,

because of the preparation that the Royals and Mike Gershaly had done.

They were prepared for that because they noticed that Jose Batista often threw into second

base in that, in hits to that particular location.

And by doing so, sure, he kept the runner on second on first, but the winning run in

the LCS scored.

And again, just to be clear, I'm not trying to make a point here.

It is sort of amusing in retrospect that there was a base hit right after and that if

you ignore the fallacy of the predetermined outcome, you could actually say that he saved

a run because if he hadn't thrown to second, if he'd thrown in like he was trying to cut

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