Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Their Brand: Brewers Beat Rays in Dramatic World Series Game 1

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Show Notes

Buster Olney recaps the Milwaukee Brewers Game 1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series. Boog Sciambi and Eduardo Pérez join Buster in the radio booth at American Family Field to discuss the dramatic end to Game 1, the differences in bullpens, the top of the Brewers’ lineup, Christian Yelich’s triple and Jacob Misiorowski pitching five innings. Then, Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch joins Buster to scout the Rays and Brewers, talking about what it’s like to manage against Pat Murphy and Kevin Cash, and handling pressure in the World Series. Later, Buster answers your questions during Bleacher Tweets.

0:00 Welcome

0:32 Recap: Brewers beat Rays, take 1-0 series lead

3:39 Boog Sciambi & Eduardo Pérez from American Family Field

3:48 Dramatic ending to Game 1

5:41 Huge difference in the bullpens

6:23 Brewers Aaron Ashby continues dominance

7:15 Rays Steven Matz issues 3 walks

8:20 Top of Milwaukee’s lineup delivered

9:31 William Contreras takes advantage of Rays base running

12:23 Christian Yelich triples in first WS AB

13:28 AmFam was rocking

11:06 Jacob Misiorowski’s 5-inning start

14:35 Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch joins

15:29 Managing against Rays Kevin Cash

16:22 Managing against Brewers Pat Murphy

20:45 Chandler Simpson is a headache

23:32 Rays starting rotation in the World Series

26:55 Junior Caminero’s start power

28:47 Handling World Series pressure

31:43 Bleacher Tweets

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