This is baseball tonight, the podcast.

This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, August 5, 2023, and today will be better

than yesterday.

Taylor Schwank and Bruce Baldwin are working from Connecticut, Sarah Abbott as a day off.

I'm Buster Only, working for my home in Montana, coming off a really fun Thursday, because

on Thursday, we had only starting pictures, make their initial start, inaugural start

for their new teams, like Max Scherzer, made his debut for the Texas Rangers, and he had

a rough first inning.

Left side, there's that face hit on two strikes for Gavin Sheetz.

One run is home, throw to the plate is late, it is three nothing sucks.

And so after that, you saw on social media, a lot of people were slam dunking on Max, and

they were talking about, oh, it's an ugly first start, you know what?

He would lock it down after that, allowing no runs in the last five minutes he pitched,

and the Rangers would come back.

Simmons hits one high and deep to left, been in 10-D watches it fly out of the yard.

Marcus Simmons with a monstrous shot down the left field line for his 17th moment of the

year to give the Rangers a four to three lead.

And from 105.3, the fan, yes, it went from 3-0 white socks in the top of the first,

the four to three after that semi-an-home run, he was Scherzer in the bottom of the sixth

inning.

One, two.

Swinging him in, it's the chase from Sheetz, Scherzer struck out three straight going back

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