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Subscribe now. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 317 of a Talking Shot podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland Tuesday evening October 19th and it was a bit of a heartbreaker

or more than a bit of a heartbreaker for the Atlanta Braves this evening

falling in devastating fashion we could say to the Dodgers in game three on

the bright side they still leave the series two to one but uh this is a moment

that uh you know i think we all have kind of a similar reaction of letting one get away and i'm

joined by eric cole hello sir how are you life is pain bradley life is pain life is pain i i joked

with you and not even jokes i guess i mean kind of joked in a way that I would before we started recording

that I allowed myself to believe for about an hour this evening.

And in that hour, things went very, very wrong way.

We'll get into it, of course, later in the show,

but the Braves famously led by three runs with six outs to get in this game and then

allowed four runs in the eighth headlines by Cody Bellinger home runoff Luke Jackson on a pitch

that was not anywhere close to the strike zone and the end result of course is the loss but it's also

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