Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It is Wednesday, October 29th, barely, nearly Thursday, October 30th.

Game 5 in the books.

I think it's going down as the Tray Yassavage game.

We talked a lot about it going into Wednesday night. And we had kind of a clear rule, you know.

You said if Trey is Savage has the split back at 85, that is going to be a huge difference, and he had to

command it too, and he ticked both of those boxes. And everything was working for Trey's Savage and was

really one of the all-time best playoff performances for a rookie pitcher, but also one of the great

historical World Series pitching performances, too.

Yeah, he was great. It wasn't quite, you know, the entire Vilo back that he had early in his

career, which is this year. He was backed up 84, but he did have a tick back. It had a tick less

drop. And I think that was pretty important.

You know, he gets 12 strikeouts, no walks, one run and seven innings. But I saw a couple of swings

actually under the splitter, which is not what you typically get. And I think that's a seam

shifted wake thing. You get swings that are underneath sweepers, and this is basically a reverse

sweeper. So that's why I thought it was important for him to not have so much drop. He's so high up.

He wants a pitch that kind of stays up. And you saw Freddie Freeman actually swing under a splitter.

I saw it a couple times. He also, if you look at

this map, he threw some high splitters, you know, and I thought that was really important.

I think he basically pitched backwards with the fastball you see. He didn't really have great command

of it. It's all over the place. He didn't really have great low command of it, but he had good

command of his slider low. And so he used the slider low and high, the splitter low and high, and then the fastball,

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