Effectively Wild Episode 1677: Fully Armed and Operational

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley convene an emergency podcast to discuss Shohei Ohtani’s exhilarating, terrifying, and historic Sunday Night Baseball performance against the White Sox (which veered from triumph to near-tragedy), touching on Ohtani’s titanic home run and resounding bat crack, the aesthetics of his stuff, his Statcast superstardom, his narrow escape from injury after a controversial move (or non-move) by Joe Maddon, and more, plus ruminations on Ty Buttrey’s farewell. Audio intro: Jane’s Addiction, "Superhero" Audio outro: Of Montreal, "Let’s Do Everything for the First Time Forever" Link to video of Ohtani game Link to video of Ohtani homer Link to Baseball Savant Gamefeed page Link to Sam on dropped third strikes Link to video of 2005 Pierzynski play Link to Fabian Ardaya on Ohtani’s spin rates Link to Ohtani outing fun facts Link to MLB.com Ohtani outing game story Link to ESPN Ohtani outing game story Link to Alden Gonzalez column Link to list of pre-Ohtani games with no DH Link to Gary Ashwill on Negro Leagues games Link to Ardaya on Walsh Link to Walsh’s helmet highlight Link to SI piece about “as so often happens” Link to story on leading off inning after great play  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Sponsor Us on Patreon  Facebook Group  Effectively Wild Wiki  Twitter Account  Get Our Merch!  Email Us: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source