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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss listener solutions to various baseball topics including the Home Run Derby and no-hitters.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, please visit our Patreon . Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley share listener solutions to the mystery of why the 12-straight-hits club is such an undistinguished group, the Home Run Derby field, Bryce Harper’ s video message (13:28) to a sports-betting addict and sportsbooks’ practice of preying on whales, the disparity (35:54) in the recent treatment of two pitchers who had no-hitters in progress, and Zack Wheeler ’s gripe against All-Star selecting, then (1:02:42) answer a listener email about how much a game one has to have seen to claim to have “watched” it, and Stat Blast (1:23:20) about partial home run robberies, games with matching starter pitch and strike counts, historical team no-hitter conversion rates, and prolific “first” strikeout and home-run recorders. Audio intro : Ian H., “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Justin Peters, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to Tolbert record post 1 Link to Tolbert record post 2 Link to Williams 11th hit Link to Pedroia 11th hit Link to HRD field Link to Norway rowing pedant Link to Inquirer article on…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Topics covered

• Home Run Derby
• sports betting
• no-hitters
• listener questions
• baseball statistics

Keywords

• Home Run Derby
• Bryce Harper
• Zack Wheeler
• no-hitters
• sports betting
• listener email
• baseball statistics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Patreon, sportsbooks, Inquirer, Post, Giannis/Kalshi, Tolbert, Williams, Pedroia, Jones

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