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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 10 June 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We begin with Braden Montgomery hitting a spectacular walk-off home run in his MLB debut. Hembo then stops by to discuss the crazy Athletics-Brewers game from Monday, the Red Sox woes, why Alex Bregman is doing so poorly at Wrigley Field for the Cubs, how Ohtani's two-way season this year exceeds any season of Babe Ruth's, and more. Eduardo Perez then joins to preview the best MLB prospects in the College World Series starting on ESPN this weekend, why Las Vegas will be an even worse ballpark for pitchers than Coors Field in Denver, Cristopher Sanchez's claim to best pitcher in baseball, and the Red Sox questionable organizational philosophies. 0:00 Braden Montgomery walk off home run 2:00 Hembo joins the show 3:07 Nick Kurtz's amazing season 7:03 Red Sox failures 10:36 Alex Bregman can't hit at Wrigley 13:56 Shohei Ohtani's historic season 16:30 Corbin Carroll is a triples machine 18:30 Carson Benge is thriving 20:47 Best MLB prospects to watch at the College World Series 27:18 Why Las Vegas will ruin Athletics pitchers 33:07 Cristopher Sanchez's dominance 36:30 Red Sox organizational dysfunction 43:40 Bleacher Tweets (Julio Rodriguez, Manny Machado) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Chance to be a hero in his major league debut, tying run at third, two outs, the O-1.
0:08.7	Montgomery hits a fly ball pretty well.
0:11.5	Deep left, and it is won.
0:15.7	He's won it.
0:17.8	No, champ.
0:21.1	And opposite way, two! An opposite way.
0:23.4	Two-run Homer.
0:25.1	Radin Montgomery coming around third.
0:28.4	He's going to be mocked by his teammates.
0:32.4	This team is something else.
0:35.3	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday, June 10th,
0:39.1	2020,
0:40.3	presented by Lakeinta by Wyndham.
0:43.0	I'm Bustraulning,
0:43.8	and that was Braden Montgomery,
0:45.5	the heralded White Sox prospect,
0:47.5	who became just the fifth player since 1900,
0:50.3	to hit a walk-off home run in his major league debut.
0:54.4	That, of course, came off the Braves,
0:56.2	and one of the best closers in baseball.
0:58.7	The White Sox just keep on rolling.
1:01.2	It was Braden talking after the game.
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