The Astros Go Up 3-2, Atlanta Pushes L.A. to the Brink of Elimination
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Eno & DVR discuss the Astros' 3-2 ALCS lead on the strength of Framber Valdez's Game 5 performance in Boston, and Atlanta's bid to close out the NLCS in just five games after taking a commanding 3-1 lead over the Dodgers on Wednesday.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels, presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project Project 70 celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. |
| 0:23.1 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. |
| 0:24.6 | It is Thursday, October 21st. |
| 0:27.8 | Big things happening in both the ALCS and in the NLCS. |
| 0:32.9 | In the ALCS, the Astros took a 3-2 lead heading back to Houston. |
| 0:36.8 | Pretty big turn, of course, in those last two games. |
| 0:39.5 | We'll dig into that, how they pulled it off. |
| 0:41.9 | We'll talk about Atlanta, taking a commanding 3-1 lead in pushing the Dodgers to an elimination game in game five, |
| 0:48.8 | one in which the Dodgers will be leaning very heavily on their bullpen. |
| 0:53.6 | You know, how's it going for you on this Thursday? |
| 0:56.2 | Good, good. |
| 0:57.5 | I always have about five minutes before the show starts to do half an hour of work. |
| 1:03.3 | Nice. |
| 1:04.3 | Trying to read Brit's awesome piece about the Mets yesterday. |
| 1:08.6 | Checking up some stats about Julio Urias that I'll share later. |
| 1:13.1 | Just generally, it's fun. |
| 1:16.4 | It's a fun time of the year. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm sad that there won't do too many more two game days because of how these races have turned out. |
| 1:27.1 | Yesterday, maybe the last one, depending on what happens to D. these races have turned out this series. |
| 1:28.2 | Yesterday, maybe the last one, depending on what happens today. |
| 1:32.1 | But let's start with the ALCS, the series that is off on Thursday as the teams head back |
| 1:37.2 | to Houston. |
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