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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Jack McMullen describes the incredible World Baseball Classic atmosphere

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Marlins radio play-by-play announcer Jack McMullen to discuss the entertaining World Baseball Classic.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mason Miller's eighth pitch to Perdomo.

0:06.0

It is a run championship!

0:12.0

The United States takes down the powerhouse that is the Dominican Republic.

0:18.0

Two to one the final score.

0:20.0

What a game. It was going to be tough for either team that lost

0:24.6

in a one-run game, but man, oh man, it had everything. We understood this was going to be a talked-about

0:33.0

game, probably one of the most watched games of all time. The WBC has this magnetic way of just growing the game of baseball.

0:42.4

And tonight, I go back to the last time when Otani struck out Mike Trout,

0:46.1

and it's like baseball won that night, whether we won or didn't win baseball won.

0:50.7

I think baseball won again tonight.

0:54.0

Highlight courtesy of Fox, Mark DeRosa is the manager of Team USA.

0:59.4

They have an opportunity in front of them right now.

1:02.8

We'll see what they end up doing with it.

1:05.1

Jackman Mullen has built quite the young career for himself as a baseball person and play-by-play personality. He's done a wonderful

1:13.9

job of building a career. Yep, I have to agree. His curveball was pretty good at Oak Park

1:19.8

River Forest High School. I remember that. And led them to the state playoffs, but has made more of a broadcast career.

1:29.7

And he joins us right now, the host of the Just Baseball podcast and much of their baseball stuff.

1:35.4

And as you mentioned, the Miami Marlins play-by-play voice on the radio.

1:40.0

So games down in Miami, Jack gets to go to the World Baseball Classic.

1:45.0

How fun has it been the last three games?

1:47.5

You were at Venezuela and Japan on Saturday and then USA and the DR last night, Jack.

1:54.7

I'll tell you in terms of what happened in between the chalk, Venezuela, Japan was the the game of the year and it's going to be

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