The Mythical Home Run

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Karl Ravech and Buster discuss the popularity and importance of the Home Run Derby, Ronald Acuña Jr. wanting to show he’s back, the divisional rivalry within the Derby, which team is the hottest in baseball, the steel cage match in the AL East for the Wild Card spots, the Yankees needing to make an addition at the deadline, and the Blue Jays firing Charlie Montoyo. Later, Jeff Fletcher, author of “Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played,” stops by to talk about the Angels’ initial rules around when Ohtani could pitch and hit, when Jeff knew Ohtani was going to have a monster 2021 season, how Ohtani handled that season behind the scenes, if there’s a future for two-way players, Ohtani’s relationship with Billy Eppler and speculation about Ohtani’s future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is baseball tonight, the podcast.
0:12.0	This is baseball tonight podcast for Friday, July 15, 2022.
0:17.2	And today will be better than yesterday, producing from his home studio.
0:22.0	New home studio in the foothills of Connecticut is Taylor Schwink.
0:25.4	Sarah Abbott is working from her place in Connecticut.
0:29.0	I'm Buster only and I'm working from Montana today.
0:32.4	Taylor, you're well established as being the premier orals fan at ESPN.
0:38.5	So the question is, who is the hottest team in baseball today?
0:43.2	Hmm, I think it's gotta be the Mariners Buster.
0:47.9	They, they're Winstrike a little bit longer than I ruin your favorite.
0:52.3	I thought you would step out and say it's my own.
0:54.8	Like I'm watching the O is excited every game.
0:56.9	I'm watching the O's, but not.
0:58.9	Did I mention the Mariners?
1:00.1	Well, they just keep on winning and winning and winning yesterday and an afternoon game.
1:04.8	They face the Texas Rangers.
1:06.8	This is what happened in the top of the fourth inning.
1:09.4	Here's a swing in a line drive in the center field.
1:11.7	And then it's going to skip on by Tobaris right underneath his glove all over the wall.
1:15.9	Watch Sam run running second.
1:17.7	And he for third.
1:18.7	He's going to be waived in by many act of the throwing by Tobaris cut off by Simeon
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