Pitching shines in Atlanta and early exits for Minnesota and Cleveland
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt, and DVR discuss Wednesday's loaded eight-game playoff slate, including an excellent pitching matchup in Atlanta, the A's effort to push their Wild Card Series to a decisive Game 3, and a collapse in Cleveland.
Rundown
2:51 Braves-Reds & Trevor Bauer, Villain
8:03 The Twins' Early Exit
11:00 Chris Bassitt's Strong Start, Liam Hendriks Usage
13:02 Starling Marte's Injury & Sixto Sánchez's Chance to Advance the Marlins
17:27 The Future is Bright in Toronto
21:09 Cleveland’s Latest Collapse
26:02 The Dodgers Hold Serve in Game 1
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 146, playoff episode number four. |
| 0:20.3 | It's Thursday, October. First, Wednesday, we had6 playoff episode number four it's Thursday October first |
| 0:22.2 | Wednesday we had eight playoff games on the slate was it everything you guys hoped it would be |
| 0:30.1 | like Britt did you have enough screens did you have enough devices around to consume as much playoff |
| 0:35.7 | baseball as your heart wanted? |
| 0:38.1 | No, I liked it, but I also had anxiety about it. |
| 0:42.1 | I felt like it was March Madness, and I constantly wasn't sure what was going on, and |
| 0:47.7 | teams suffered along the way, right? |
| 0:49.3 | There were casualties. |
| 0:50.2 | There were games that I was not able to be invested in because of this. |
| 0:54.2 | So it was cool to say like we did it, kind of like an all-nighter, but I never want to do it again. |
| 0:59.2 | It was just simply too much. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah, there's a limit on what I can. |
| 1:04.4 | I think I can watch two games at the same time. |
| 1:07.8 | Three, I had to do for a little bit. |
| 1:10.3 | And then you just lose track of like what |
| 1:14.5 | count it is and what's happening. And, you know, if you want to like opine about the game or |
| 1:22.4 | write a brief or write a tweet, it's better to like understand the flow of the game |
| 1:29.4 | and understand how things link together. |
| 1:32.2 | At some point, when you're watching three at one time, |
| 1:34.2 | you're just like, you're kind of mixed the games together |
| 1:36.9 | and be like, wait, wait, wait, what, what, what game was this again? |
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