Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss a variety of baseball topics on this episode. They talk about Ben’s daughter creating a new baseball term, the on-screen strike-zone plot affecting the broadcast, Jose Miranda and his impressive 12-consecutive-hits streak, David Robertson’s successful relief career, the debate over whether Shohei Ohtani should focus solely on hitting, an interesting attempt to measure players’ smiles, the number of team days at .500 this season, and the latest player to injure themselves punching a wall. The episode concludes with Ben and Jessie Barbour performing the song, “Will the Bird Bones Be Unbroken?”
Audio intro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
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