NL Wild Card Matchup Breakdown
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
After an incredible Game 1 of Monday's Mets-Braves doubleheader, the NL Wild Card round matchups are set! Eno and DVR discuss the potential carryover effects of the tight schedule on both clubs as they go on the road to face the Padres and Brewers. How will the Braves navigate their pitching plans if Chris Sale is unavailable? Will the bullpens wear down as series progress? Plus, is this the most complete Padres team that AJ Preller has assembled in San Diego? Can the Mets' lineup propel them deep into October, or will the Brewers' mixing and matching approach in the pitching staff continues to work in the playoffs?
Rundown
3:34 Doubleheader Carryover Effects on Atlanta's Pitching
11:39 The Best Padres Squad of the Preller Era?
17:49 Limited Value of Regular Season Meetings
23:28 The Depth of the Mets' Lineup
34:40 The Brewers' Pitching Flexibility
41:00 Full World Series Predictions
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer: Brian Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:13.3 | It is Tuesday, October 1st, day one of the 2024-season. |
| 0:19.0 | It feels like day 33 already. |
| 0:22.7 | You know and I are just worn out, I think, from how the season ended. |
| 0:27.7 | Monday was like a month's worth of baseball news and excitement smashed into one day. |
| 0:33.9 | It was that epic. |
| 0:36.2 | And the focus of the day was the double header between the Braves |
| 0:39.6 | and Mets. The first game was one of the best regular season games I've seen in a long time. |
| 0:44.3 | The situation, as we described yesterday, was if the Braves and Mets each won a game in that |
| 0:49.3 | doubleheader, they would both make the postseason if either team swept, the other would |
| 0:53.2 | miss the playoffs and the Diamondbacks got in. |
| 0:55.3 | Now, the walkaway line was, well, they split, so the Braves and Mets made the playoffs, |
| 1:00.6 | the Diamondbacks didn't. |
| 1:01.6 | But how we got here was absolutely absurd. |
| 1:05.7 | I mean, the quality of the game off the charts, right? |
| 1:09.4 | Drama upon drama, it looked like at one point, Spencer Schoenbach might throw a complete |
| 1:16.1 | game shutout. |
| 1:17.2 | That actually looked like it could happen, and that by doing that, he would save all of the |
| 1:23.6 | Braves A relievers from having to pitch on Monday, and then they'd at least have a very arrested bullpen going into the start of the series |
| 1:30.6 | with the Padres. |
| 1:32.0 | But it didn't weigh out that way. |
| 1:33.8 | Then the eighth inning happened. |
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