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Effectively Wild Episode 1975: Backdoor Curve

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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NLDS Game One - Archie Bradley's 'Popping Moment'

Kike Hernandez was playing DH for the Dodgers in 2020. He said that his shard accompanied his yell of F. That followed a big out that the Dodgers had maintained. All of the ingredients are here for us to pinpoint this moment and we have. The only problem is that it was a four pitch strikeout, not a three pitch strikeout. We can identify the moment based on what he says. We cannot hear the it's not an audible. It was not so explosive that. But you could hear the F Yeah. And now we know what was happening at the moment when the F yeah, just rang out. So I'm just going to play the FYeah back several times

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