Pickleball: Cubs Need Pitching Help; Padres at No. 1; World Series Ring

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Jesse Rogers and Buster discuss Spencer Strider’s sharp return, pickleball taking over MLB clubhouses, the Padres climbing to No. 1 in the power rankings, and why the AL West is where you want to be. Then, Todd Radom shares this week’s Ballpark & Beyond and administers the weekly quiz. Next, Sarah Langs on James Wood. Later, Jessica Mendoza talks about what she’ll do with her Dodger World Series ring and which players are in different positions by season’s end. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 3:18 Jesse Rogers 21:34 Sarah Langs on James Wood 23:02 Todd Radom 34:32 Jessica Mendoza 48:06 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7	Way out of here. This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:41.9	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Friday, April 18th, 2020.
0:47.3	And today will be better than yesterday.
0:49.3	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana,
0:51.5	where it just snowed three, four inches this morning.
0:54.2	Taylor Swink is back in Connecticut, where it's baseball weather, back where you are.
0:58.3	Yeah, we are, I don't want to say it because, you know, until we hit May around these parts,
1:02.6	I can't be too confident, but we've been in the 50s and there's been some sunshine.
1:07.7	So that's, that's baseball weather.
1:09.0	40 degrees is not baseball weather.
1:10.8	No, no. Well, and we're like in the mid-20s at this point, but it's going to get warm over
1:15.0	the weekend. All the snow will go away. All right. The big story in baseball on Wednesday, the return
1:19.6	of Spencer Strider to the Atlanta rotation. He pitched pretty well, but in the bottom of the
1:25.8	sixth inning, this happened.
1:30.4	Another three, two, hit high.
1:31.6	Deep left field.
1:34.0	That ball is out of here.
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