Date Night: Clown Caboose Rides Again; Taylor McGregor on the Team to Beat; A Trio of Game 3s

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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David Cone, Eduardo Perez, Karl Ravech and Buster ride the subway again, recapping Game 2 of Yankees-Red Sox. They discuss the Red Sox base running, Jazz Chisholm saving runs for the Yankees, Ben Rice controlling the strike zone, redemption for Antothy Volpe, and what Game 3 will hinge upon. Plus, the guys take the pulse of the Yankee fans on the subway car. Then, Taylor McGregor talks about the the Dodgers turning it on, which is the team to beat this postseason, the chaos between the Tigers and Guardians, Mason Miller’s 104 mph fastball, Braves manager Brian Snitker stepping away and their advice for the Rockies while they look for a new general manager. Later, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 14:46 Clown Car 29:34 Taylor McGregor 51:40 Sarah Langs 52:44 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.9	game threes on Thursday. I mean, you know, in recent years we've had this wild card round,
1:03.2	best two out of three. We typically have not had a game three. It feels like they're over so
1:09.1	quickly. But this year, we have three of them, including this one between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Yeah, there was that stat bandied about. That was like 10 of the 15 wildcard series have been sweeps. And here we go, a smorgasborg of game threes. What could literally be better than that? I guess four of them would have been butter, but you can't get greedy. Yeah. and we're not having a fourth because of what happened with the Dodgers and the Reds. The Dodgers taking care of business against Cincinnati in Dodgers Stadium. In game two on Wednesday night, the Reds actually took a lead in the top of the first inning. 2-2 from Yamamoto. Swinging a ground ball to the right side. Under the glove of Freddie Freeman and into right field.
1:45.9	Lux has scored.
1:46.7	They will wave home Austin Hayes, no throw.
1:49.3	And the Reds have their first lead of this postseason.
1:53.1	Sal Stewart, the rookie, takes it the opposite way and drives in a pair.
1:58.2	Two-nothing Cincinnati.
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