Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s daughter coining a baseball term, how the on-screen strike-zone plot (slightly) delays the rest of the broadcast, Jose Miranda and the surprising 12-consecutive-hits club, David Robertson’s elite relief career, whether Shohei Ohtani should stop pitching, an attempt to quantify players’ smiles, how this season stacks up in terms of total team days at .500, and the latest player to break a bone punching a wall, followed (1:31:24) by Ben and Jessie Barbour performing the song, “Will the Bird Bones Be Unbroken?”

Audio outro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to DeMarsico episode

Link to DeMarsico episode wiki

Link to pickoff attempt 1

Link to pickoff attempt 2

Link to Miranda hit

Link to MLB.com on Miranda

Link to Episode 1964 wiki

Link to Dropo SABR bio

Link to Higgins SABR bio

Link to SABR on Higgins streak

Link to streaks wiki

Link to Twins Miranda tweet

Link to FG Plus stats

Link to Robertson ERA+

Link to reliever FIP-

Link to Lindsey on Ohtani

Link to Betteridge’s Law

Link to smiles study

Link to SMILE+ leaderboard

Link to facial-recognition bias

Link to .500 percentage graph

Link to story about Brewer

Link to Brewer photo

Link to list of fractures

Link to Ben and Jessie’s song

Link to song lyrics

Link to original song wiki

Link to Carter Family variant

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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