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Good morning and welcome to episode 960 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast for Baseball Perspectus,

presented by the Playindex at baseballreference.com and our Patreon supporters. I'm Ben Lemberg of the

Ringer, joined by Sam Miller. Hello. Hey, so it was a weird night in baseball last night. Do you know that for the first few years of this podcast existence, I think our iTunes podcast description

said something like we discuss last night's games or something like we just go over the action from from last night's game. That's what we do on this podcast. Can you imagine if that was what this podcast was?

We just reviewed actual games and talked about actual baseball. No one would want that. But there was some weird baseball last night. There was a Thai game. There was the Indians Tigers day long

right now and there was the ending to the Cardinals Reds game. Did you see or hear what happened in that one?

Herde have not seen it yet. Yeah, well, seeing it doesn't really add all that much because it's not really a it's not controversial what the call should have been.

The the ground rule double that ended the game. It was not a ground rule double, but Yadier Molina doubled with Matt Carpenter on first.

And clearly should have been a ground rule double hit off some signage over a wall and that signage is out of play.

But there was no ground rule double signaled and Carpenter came all the way around from first to score. And then evidently the umpires just like immediately disappeared off the field.

And so Ryan Price was trying to find them to initiate the replay review, but couldn't find them because they were not on the field anymore.

And the umpires were asked about it and they said that Price didn't signal his intention to perhaps review within 10 seconds and then didn't actually call for the review within 30 seconds, which is in the rules.

But I guess maybe with the Cardinals dog pile behind home played and the umpires leaving the field he couldn't you think that he would have known immediately that it was worth challenging because why not it's the last play the game.

Anyway, weird wrinkle of replay with possible playoff implications since the Cardinals are still in the wild card hunt.

Yeah, I got to describe that play to somebody even though I didn't see it, I described it and it's a joy to describe it to somebody and like they just look at you like they cannot possibly believe it happened.

So I would just recommend find a baseball fan you know who's not familiar with that play and just describe it just describe it just have a little fun with it.

Yeah, and they'll say what the manager has to call for a replay. They don't just do that themselves. And if there's a one call.

I might have, yeah, I might have made up a detail. I don't know if I made up a detail or if I read a detail and if that detail was right or wrong, but that Brian price actually ran down the tunnel looking for the umpires and the umpires are like, no, we're done.

I don't know if that was true, but I recommend in telling the story, I recommend including that detail because that gets you a good reaction.

All right, anything else you want to talk about?

Well, I guess while we're at it, I mean, should we talk about the Indians Tigers forfeit question that we got?

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