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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Staggering Splits

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Hembo and Buster discuss why Shohei Ohtani is the best hitter on the planet, the Mets’ inability to control the run game, and the hole in Corbin Carroll’s swing. Then, Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers talks about the Twins’ 12-game winning streak, the origin of the home run sausage, processing injury in the clubhouse, catching as a “big” guy, and his perspective on the ABS system. Later, Red Sox pitcher Nick Pivetta the Red Sox pitching staff’s progression, what pitching coach Andrew Bailey brings to the team, an update on his injury, his experience with the ABS system in the minor leagues, and who should be able to challenge a balls and strikes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the baseball tonight podcast the baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 and today will be better

0:18.6

than yesterday.

0:19.6

I'm Buster only working from my home in Montana.

0:22.2

Taylor Schwenk is working from the

0:23.6

Shink studios in Connecticut Taylor what's the weather there? Rain Buster

0:27.7

spring not sprung here in New England. How you handle in the weather? I think I used to mock people who

0:35.0

would say I would claim seasonal depression but I might be having some blues over

0:40.0

here. Okay why just too much rain for you rain, man. We can't get any sunshine. There's no sustained period of beauty here going on. It's just rain and the rivers are overflowing. The birds like it, but that's about it.

0:52.2

All right. Well, I don't want but that's about it.

0:52.8

All right well I don't want to hear any of it today okay?

0:55.8

Because I just came inside from working with a snow blower here in Montana we had three inches of snow overnight and it's going

1:04.9

sideways as we speak I don't want to hear about your rain Taylor.

1:08.9

Buster I'm starting to think that you moved to Montana just for things like this so you could be a martyr so you could be like I have to shovel snow in May like you know you can't

1:20.0

I love it you're right a guiltiest charge I do kind of love it it's not a

1:24.0

it's not a fun i sent it to my uh... sent it to my

1:27.2

siblings and they're like yeah whatever we know we know that you just uh... enjoy going on the snow

1:31.5

i'll be taking quiney outside later today, you know.

1:35.2

She'll be going in the water, she'll be in the Polar Bear Club, it'll be a lot of fun.

1:39.2

Oh my God. Hilar. All right. Not so much fun for the St. Louis Cardinals, who got some terrible luck last night.

1:45.9

Wilson and Charest was behind the plate.

1:48.2

J.D. Martinez, of the Mets, was at the plate when this happened in the second inning on Tuesday night.

1:54.8

Swing and a miss that got a piece of Contreras on the big back swing and oh boy you worry

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