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NPDS - MLB Wild Card: We have THREE elimination games today... and the Dodgers swept the Reds (Episode 1359 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘statistics’ as in numbers as in facts as in predictions as in MLB as in baseball as in Wild Card. Let’s take a look at where these series stand. Three elimination games. The Dodgers swept the Reds. Baseball! We start with the Yankees and Red Sox. The Yankees took Game 2, but the biggest play happened when the 3rd base coach for the Red Sox held up a runner when he had a very easy chance to score. Why? (15:45) The Guardians tied up the series with the Tigers. Another elimination game tonight! (23:30) The Padres bullpen was lights out. Mason Miller… wow! 104.5 mph! Another elimination game! (30:30) The Dodgers swept the Reds. This series could have been an email. (34:15) Review: Boyhood. (40:30) NPPOD. (43:00) Brian Snitker stepped down as manager of the Braves. His contract was up and he decided it’s time. Now what for the Braves? A terrible season, but a great roster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you. Statistics.

0:38.8

That's the nothing personal word of the day for Thursday, October 2nd, 2025.

0:44.3

Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings.

0:47.2

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0:51.5

Statistics, something I have been thinking about as a math person, pretty much my whole life.

0:58.0

Recently, the notion of statistics have taken on a brand new meaning, probabilities, thoughts,

1:05.0

chances, a way to predict what's going to happen going forward?

1:11.6

Why else would you use statistics?

1:13.6

In sports, we try to say to ourselves, well,

1:20.6

Aaron Judge hits 330.

1:22.6

That means odds are there's a 33% chance he's going to get a hit

1:26.6

because 33 times out of 100 he'll get a hit

1:28.8

that's 3 30 we sit at the roulette wheel and say hey it's 50-50 forget the zero and the zero

1:35.9

so it's not quite 50-50 but close enough that that sort of counts flipping of a coin what are

1:42.7

the stats of that well if we get we get ahead, that's 50%.

1:47.3

Now a tail, 50%.

1:49.6

We do this with baseball.

1:55.4

Constantly.

1:57.4

The odds of everything happening.

1:59.7

There's a playoff series going on now.

2:02.6

It's the wild card round, three games, one ballpark.

2:07.2

You've been watching.

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