Poem About a Slider: Pitching Ninja on the League’s Best Stuff; Jesse Rogers from Wrigley; Numbers Game with Bobby Witt Jr.

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jesse Rogers and Buster chat from Wrigley Field about Jesse telling Tommy Pham he was traded, how two good weeks can change the perspective on your season, the Cubs’ playoff chances, and if the Phillies or Dodgers can be caught. Then, Pitching Ninja Rob Friedman talks about how he would handle Garrett Crochet, Ben Joyce’s 104.7 mph pitch, and the best pitcher in the league. Later, Sarah Langs gets an assist from Bobby Witt Jr. and Josh Bell on The Numbers Game. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] TWEET THE SHOW: #BLEACHERTWEETS 7:20 Jesse Rogers 16:14 Pitching Ninja 36:19 Sarah Langs 42:47 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:07.0	This is Baseball Tonight the Podcast.
0:10.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the Podcast.
0:15.6	This is the Baseball tonight podcast for Monday August 5th 2024 and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.1	John Landry is working from his home in Texas.
0:21.1	Taylor Schwenk is working from the Schwwink Studios as we're taping this late Sunday night and I am working from the press box at Wrigley Field because we just finish the Cubs and the Cardinals. And I was reminded guys, guys you know seeing the Cubs in this series man it's amazing how quickly teams can turn around their perspective at with one good series and I guess that's the beauty of having six teams make the
0:44.9	playoffs from each league. What do you think Taylor? Yeah man I mean they
0:48.8	they've acted you know accordingly at the deadline you know they said we're gonna go for this playoff spot and you know they said we're going to go for this playoff spot and you know you defeat your your
0:56.8	Arch rivals at home three of four it also Contenders in the NL wild card race got to feel pretty good right now in Chicago.
1:04.1	Yeah and John even your angels seem to be sniffing the playoffs after you know a nice
1:09.5	weekend will never mind.
1:10.7	Ouch!
1:11.7	Thank you.
1:13.0	Thanks for that.
1:14.0	But you did have Ben Joyce throw a really fast pitch on Saturday at which is kind of cool.
1:21.0	Yeah, big moment, 104.7 miles per hour. And I think... of he's on my team. I'll tell you that much. Yeah exactly and you're going to have all kinds of
1:34.8	revenge in the next couple years is he's pumping fastballs. All right. It was a great baseball weekend. A lot of interesting
1:41.3	series a lot of interesting developments like Blake Snell throwing the third no-hitter in the
1:46.8	majors on Friday he was facing Cincinnati Reds here's what it sounded like
1:51.5	at the end. First pitch is swing.
1:54.0	Fly ball right center.
1:56.0	Moving over is Gestremsky.
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