Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode number 156, playoff episode number 14.

It's Thursday, October 15th on this episode.

Two plot twists in the LCS matchups on Wednesday night. The Astros will play at least one more day,

and the Dodgers put together a performance that will probably keep people from questioning

the quality of their offense for a few days, putting 11 runs on the Braves in the first

inning. And it kind of slipped my mind in the moment that the Braves gave up 10 early to the Cardinals

last year and they were eliminated in that game. So that was even worse. So a lot to break down and

a lot to look forward to. Let's talk about the Braves

Dodgers match up first. That huge first inning just completely, basically ended the game 30

minutes in. It was a kind of a white flag situation for Atlanta. I think the goals were, one,

don't burn through all of your relievers, so you actually have as many of them available as possible

for game four.

And two, if possible, try and make the Dodgers use more of their relievers than they want to, right?

Because you're probably not coming back in that situation, and they never really threatened, of course.

So I think we've got to give the unheralded performance of the postseason award to Heiskar I, Noah,

for coming in and chewing up a bunch of innings for the Braves and sparing the other relievers in that bullpen.

But as far as an offensive performance goes, that was just amazing what the Dodgers were able to do to the Braves on Wednesday night.

Yeah, and we thought this might happen, right, with the Braves pass their second starter. It seems like they dropped off. I'll

tell you what, though, guys, Brian Snicker, the Braves manager said it post game, and you kind of

have to agree, he said, I'd rather we lose like that than a seven to five game where we

grind it out and use our best relievers. As you mentioned, Yanoa ate up a ton of innings for them,

and they didn't use any of their good relievers. Their A bullpen is still rested. So yes,

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