Magnum Opus: Shohei Ohtani Bends Space and Time; Mariners-Blue Jays Goes to Game 7

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Tim Kurkjian, Karl Ravech and Buster discuss the Blue Jays forcing a Game 7 in Toronto against the Mariners in the ALCS, the postseason of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the Mariners’ poor defense in Game 6, why Tim thinks it comes down to George Kirby, and their reactions to Shohei Ohtani’s all-time playoff performance. Then, Sarah Langs has an essay on Ohtani’s NLCS-clinching night. Next, LA Sportsnet's David Vassegh stops by to talk about being front row to Ohtani’s greatness on Friday. Later, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 15:33 Tim Kurkjian & Karl Ravech 51:11 Sarah Langs on Shohei Ohtani 53:42 David Vassegh 1:08:02 The Numbers Game 1:09:23 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.0	Following game six, Blue Jays and Mariners and Taylor, getting ready for game seven tonight.
1:04.5	What could be better? Game seven, Buster. I'm glad we got one at least.
1:08.0	You know what could be better? Maybe the greatest individual performance of all time that we had last Friday with Shohei Otani. Yep, yep. That could be better. Right. And we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about Game 7 coming up. We're going to talk about Vladimir Guerr Jr. We're going to be speaking with David of essay, who, of course, covers the Dodgers for KTLA. We're going to hear from
1:28.0	Sarah Lang's, an essay on Shohei Otani, which also has numbers games. They're going to be hearing
1:34.2	from Tim Kirchin and Karl Ravich, who are doing this series in Toronto on ESPN radio. Last night,
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