How the Red Sox season just went from bad to worse

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Boston Red Sox received bad news with star pitcher Garrett Crochet headed to the IL, just a few days after firing manager Alex Cora. Buster Olney and Alden Gonzalez discuss the Red Sox fate this year. They also dive into the Dodgers tactic of benching Shohei Ohtani as a DH when he pitches; how the Atlanta Braves have the best record in baseball; and the resurgence of the Seattle Mariners. Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman joins the show to discuss Toronto's season, and Sarah Langs plays the numbers game. 0:00 Welcome 1:23 Matt Olson Walks It Off 1:38 JJ Wetherholt HRs off Paul Skenes 1:54 Marlins take series from Dodgers 2:18 Mariners back to .500 2:28 Garrett Crochet to IL 2:39 Alden Gonzalez joins the show 3:10 Red Sox issues 10:44 Dodgers Organizational Success 15:16 Ohtani not batting when pitching 20:08 Braves best record in MLB 23:12 Mariners surging 26:28 Kevin Gausman joins the show 26:45 Gausman close to 2,000 career Ks 27:32 How Gausman unlocked his splitter 29:14 The Braves secret to boosting Gausman 31:30 Advice to younger players 33:05 Blue Jays clubhouse is tight-knit 35:32 How piano playing saved Max Scherzer's career 38:17 Calling pitches 41:22 Sarah Langs plays the numbers game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.6	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, May 1st, 2006, and today will be better than yesterday. I'm Buster
0:40.2	only, working for my home, and Kenny Lagan has stepped in to pinch it for Taylor Schwink,
0:46.2	because Kenny, we got some frantic emails, texts from Taylor today. News, baby number two could be
0:53.1	on the way. Yeah, baby swank on the way.
0:55.5	Hopefully everything goes well, a little early, but I'm sure they are ready, no doubt,
1:00.4	as you've got to be at this time of the year. Yeah, he was telling me that he was going to take
1:03.8	Lola someplace is number one on Friday, and Lola is going to learn those plans are changing.
1:11.6	Our plans are changing with the podcast.
1:14.9	We've been preparing for this possibility.
1:16.8	Taylor actually called a meeting on Wednesday to talk about this.
1:20.5	And on Thursday, here we are.
1:22.5	So we're all waiting word on Taylor and Courtney and baby number two.
1:28.4	All right.
1:28.7	On today's podcast, we're going to be talking with Alden Gonzalez, going to be talking
1:32.7	about teams that are in trouble.
1:34.5	And Kevin Gossman, the starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays and some great stories.
1:39.7	He'll tell you whether or not he agrees with the idea of calling pitches from the dugout, which is becoming a
1:44.9	trend in baseball. And Sarah Langs, as always, joins us for the numbers game. Let's start with
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