The Astros Edge: Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball

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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

FRONTLINE examines the Houston Astros cheating scandal and what it says about baseball today. With reporter Ben Reiter, the documentary traces the making of one of the best teams and worst scandals in modern Major League Baseball history, the limited accountability and how the Astros’ approach to baseball changed the sport.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.0	We also produce a podcast, the Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:12.0	Right now, here is the audio cast of the Astros Edge, Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball.
0:18.0	The correspondent and narrator is Ben Reiter.
0:30.0	The Astros have done it again in 2023.
0:36.0	As they clinch their seventh playoff birth in a row.
0:47.0	The kings of the American League West remain the Houston Astros.
0:51.0	Correspondent Ben Reiter, examines the meteoric rise of the Houston Astros.
0:56.0	Use the term the edge, right?
0:58.0	But there's a next level to that.
0:59.0	It's called the bleeding edge.
1:00.0	If you want to excel in the world of sports, you have to take risks.
1:05.0	Exclusive inside accounts.
1:07.0	These guys are willing to do whatever it takes.
1:09.0	The historic cheating scandal.
1:11.0	The Astros used a camera system to steal stuff.
1:14.0	The play has certainly worked aware of it.
1:17.0	They went in on it.
1:18.0	The scandal is 5% of the story.
1:21.0	I'm the lasting impact on the game.
1:23.0	Became a brutally efficient business.
1:26.0	And the Astros did better than anybody else.
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