Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about how late it is in the season and a fan’s exuberant reaction to the only known unassisted outfield triple play in major or minor league history, answer listener emails (15:17) about Shohei Ohtani 2.0 and whether “bulk guys” could stave off extinction for 300-game winners, Stat Blast (38:11) about standings-related fun facts, precedents for the Mariners rapidly erasing a 10-game deficit in the AL West, team droughts in back-to-back-to-belly homers, non-All-Star MVPs, bunting by count, this season’s uptick in balks, Gunnar Henderson and the passing-up-the-cycle club, and a wild pitch/passed ball mystery, plus a Future Blast from 2051 (1:49:48) and a few follow-ups (1:52:30).
Audio intro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to MLBTR on BrentzLink to Craig on the triple playLink to Pages From Baseball’s PastLink to ITYSLLink to Ringer ITYSL rankingLink to listener emails databaseLink to Sam on Ruth/OhtaniLink to story on Ohtani MRILink to Ben on YarbroughLink to “bulk guy” origin storyLink to story on Verlander and 300Link to Evan’s team streaks dataLink to last-place NYY/NYMLink to thread on Yanks 10-loss streakLink to EW Episode 1354Link to ALW division odds graphLink to 1982 Braves docLink to team HR streaks dataLink to Ryan Nelson on TwitterLink to Marlins 3-HR gameLink to team 4-HR streaksLink to Ben on Padres starsLink to non-All-Star MVPsLink to bunt dataLink to Belt bunt attemptLink to McGuire buntLink to Grisham bunt attemptLink to Rojas buntLink to team balk leadersLink to WP/PB/balks dataLink to Rob Mains on ’88 balksLink to ’88 article on balksLink to 2023 article on balksLink to skipped cycles dataLink to Henderson postLink to Henderson videoLink to Henderson game storyLink to story on FuldLink to list of Gunnar gamesLink to 2001 Frye storyLink to Frye tweetLink to 1933 cycle citationLink to Cooper on one-knee catchingLink to Cooper on one-knee catching 2Link to Cooper on one-knee catching 3Link to WaPo on the 2022 ballLink to Rick Wilber’s websiteLink to Future Blast wikiLink to Strasburg salary reportLink to Passan violations tweet
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