Effectively Wild Episode 1734: Win Some, Lose Some

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up on a recent observation about a baseball-related line in Twilight, then banter about petards, Ben’s latest trip to see Shohei Ohtani at Yankee Stadium, Tyler Gilbert’s improbable no-hitter, the playoff hopes of the Padres, Reds, and Giants (and reshuffling in the NL East and AL East), the lows and highs of heckling, the Rockies’ historic home-road splits, Michael Schur adapting Field of Dreams for Peacock and the near future of baseball TV shows, Carter Stewart making his NPB debut and Kumar Rocker’s future, whether John Olerud would be a two-way player today, and Joey Votto’s revamped plate approach, plus a postscript on fun facts about sequences of wins and losses. Audio intro: Chip Taylor, "Same Ol’ Story" Audio outro: The Beach Boys, "Heads You Win–Tails I Lose" Link to Davis catch Link to Cole’s reaction to Ohtani Link to Lindsey’s Gallo tweet Link to article on seats moving farther from the field Link to Ben on Gilbert’s no-hitter Link to Twitter thread about man shouting “Dinger” Link to Neil Paine on the Coors Field hangover effect Link to Nick Groke on the Coors Field hangover effect Link to all-time team home/road splits data Link to xkcd comic about 2020 Link to story on Schur and Field of Dreams Link to Schur EW episode Link to story on Offerman and A League of Their Own Link to story on Offerman’s Field of Dreams critiques Link to stream Stove League Link to Jim Allen on Stewart and Rocker Link to box score from Stewart’s NPB debut Link to ESPN on Olerud as a two-way player Link to list of John Olerud Award winners Link to first page of 1990 Olerud article Link to second page of 1990 Olerud article Link to Mike Petriello on Tatis’s position switch Link to FanGraphs post on Tatis as an outfielder Link to Ben on the rise of multiposition players Link to Verducci on Votto Link to Vieira’s record-breaking pitch Link to win-loss sequence data  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