Curse That I Have: Jac Caglianone Debuts; Red Sox Tailspin; Paul Skenes’ Hard Luck

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss all the ways the Red Sox have gone wrong, David Samson saying the quiet part out loud about Jac Caglianone, Cal Raleigh on the shortlist for greatest offensive season at catcher, Trea Turner’s unsatisfactory play at shortstop and the Pirates continuing to waste Paul Skenes. Then, Tim Kurkjian talks about his infatuation with Ryan Yarborough vs. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, things getting desperate for the Braves, Luke Weaver going down for the Yankees, and if the Mets will miss Mark Vientos in a big way. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 7:39 Hembo 28:52 Tim Kurkjian 50:21 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:11.8	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, June 4th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.1	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana.
0:21.4	Taylor Swink is working from the Swink Studios in Connecticut.
0:24.5	And Taylor, it's a good day.
0:26.3	Like we have certainly pounded on the Orioles this year as they've gone through struggles.
0:30.5	But they may not be the American League East team in most crisis today.
0:35.6	What do you think?
0:36.6	Yeah, I think that's a fair statement. I mean,
0:39.2	winners of four straight, seven of the last nine, does the starting pitchings look good? The
0:44.4	boys were hitting last night. Colton Couser comes back, hits a bomb. I mean, what's not to like right now?
0:50.6	I know. And meanwhile, the Boston Red Sox. Oh, the Boston Red Sox. We'll get to that in just a moment.
0:57.3	The Colorado Rockies faced the Marlins. They had an opportunity to win their first series of the season.
1:04.7	And one of the players that they have on their roster this year actually playing well is Hunter Goodman.
1:09.2	It was two, two, top of the eighth inning, came to the plate.
1:13.3	Bender, first base side of the mound.
1:17.1	There's a drive to left by Hunter Goodman.
1:19.7	Stowers going back.
1:21.1	It's out of here.
1:23.8	Touch him all time.
1:25.8	Hunter Goodman, his 10th homer of the year. And the Rockies take the lead
1:32.5	three to two. That was from 850 K-OA. This was a big game, as you heard at the end.
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