October 18, 2025 • 10 mins
Shohei Ohtani made baseball history and ensured the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers to reach the World Series.
Ohtani made three home runs and struck out 10 Brewers batters in a comprehensive 5-1 victory as the Dodgers swept the series 4-0.
US correspondent Leon Busby joined Piney to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Time to talk to you as sport. Shohei Otani has
delivered one of the greatest performances in baseball history. As
defending champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers
to reach the World Series.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
In Game four of the LCS said, now goes O Tai, show.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hey lighting up the highlights already.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh my goodness, show.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
O tay Otari, Toddy, O.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Tony, Oh Tony has done it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Again, sho hey Otani smashing three huge home runs as
well as striking out ten Brewers batters and pitching six
scoreless innings in a comprehensive five to one victory as
the Dodgers swept the series four nil. His three home
runs and ten strikeouts in the same game is a
(01:06):
Major League Baseball postseason record, highlighting his rare talent of
excelling with bat and ball. Are you s sports expert
is Leon Busby, who joins us now, Leon, how unique
is what Shohei Otani is doing right now?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, good afternoon, Jess, and thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm what he's doing is unprecedented. If we look at
the stats and you just mentioned some of them there,
he struck our ten bat has given up no runs
against across six plus schooless innings as a starting pitcher
and then as a designated hitter. He crushed three home runs,
including one in the fourth which most of the people
who watch the game will just be shaking the heads,
(01:48):
which he duly blasted out of the stadium. That particular
shot had a recorded one hundred and eighty eight kilometers
per hour exit velocity office bat traveling an incredible one
hundred and forty five minutes. How wild is that? They
He's the only player, as you alluded to, in Major
League baseball history, to achieve this feat and a pendant
clinching game. Just when you thought there's no more superditus
(02:09):
to describe what Aori's doing right now is unprecedented. People
often referred to him as a unicorn, and he's easily
the best player in baseball right now, and yesterday he
found a way to break out of his recent postseason
slump in dramatic fashion. Now, long time ESPN Baseball commentator
Jeff Passen said that O'tani is literally quote redefining the
(02:32):
game in real time close quote history unfolding for our
very eyes. I mean, what he's doing for the sport
at South Piney is incredible and justifies his groundbake groundbreak
in December twenty twenty three to one ten years, seven
hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's crazy, absolutely crazy. These numbers that we always talk
about when you're on with us are just eyewatering. So
I'm staying with yeah, staying with Age League Baseball. Where
are Where are we in the American League Championship Series?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yes, the Dodgers now also have the advantage of resting
up and awaiting the winner of the acl ALCS Sorry
between the Mariners and Blue Jays, with Seattle leading three
to two following a pivotal win yesterday. Over the five
game series so far, Toronto has scored twenty seven runs
in Seattle twenty five and by are a couple of
lopsided results, this series has been very evenly matched for
(03:24):
most part. The final two games now moved back to Canada,
and the Mariners only need to win one. Seattle since
entering the league forty eight years ago in nineteen seventy seven,
are actually their only team in MLB history never to
compete for the World Series, and it would be a
great story if they can finally get to the four Classics.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What are the latest stadts you've got for us?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yes, the most money. Expectedly, it is on our LA
to repeat with both Seattle and Toronto evenly priced. It's
great for baseball in general to see some of the
smaller market teams like Seattle, Toronto and Milwaukee showing up
on the big stage. However, in Away Piney is also
an air of inevitability about the World Series because the
Dodgers are built to win it now, the stacked and
(04:07):
deep roster. I feel that if LA don't win it
all again this year, it'll be seeing as a failure
considering the astronomical amount of contract money they shout out
during the off season. Their manager has even said they're
more than happy to take on the villain roll. So
we'll see how this all plays out when the World
Series starts this.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Saturday, Pining we will, okay. So as the baseball season
is coming towards its climax, the NBA is getting underway.
In fact, I think Day one of the NBA is
this coming Wednesday. That's New Zealand time. A few storylines here.
Can we start with a but a special recognition for
Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yes, So Steph Curry, obviously everyone knows he's going to
be a first ballot Hall of Famer. So he's about
to start his seventeenth season with the Golden State Warriors.
So he's one of only ten players to whoever play
for one franchise in his career for more than seventeen seasons.
Curry will join Hall of Fame inductees like and these
are probably some names that your listeners are are familiar with. Novitski,
(05:07):
he played for the Mavericks and holds the outright record
of twenty one years. Classey followed by Kobe Bryant and
Tim Duncan, who both played with their same teams, the
Lakers in San Antonos first for twenty years.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Other legends of the game that are part of this
elite group include Kim Elijah On with the Rockets, John
Stocked him with the Utah Jazz, and Regi Miller with
the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Victor wembin Yama, You reckon he might be set for
a breakout years.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I feel like you know he's a marquee player for
the franchise and he's entering his third season in the association,
so he overcame some health challenges from last year and
has worked extremely hard in the offseason to riddy himself
where the physical riggers his seven foot five innch frame
will have to endure. So expect something special from the
Frenchman this season. Wenbyrfield will be primed for big things
(05:57):
as one of the faces of the NBA, as long
as he can stay healthy.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Piney, what about in terms of favorites for the NBA.
I know we're right at the start of the season,
but I'm sure the bookies have got their favorites.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yep. So the latest betting nods predict Cleveland, New York,
and Orlando to come out of the East, while on
the West OKC, Denver and Houston. Based on those odds,
the thunder and Cavaliers a favorite to meet in the finals.
Unfortunately for Andy Pelicans, their slightly long odds are at
plus seventeen thousand, five hundred. So I guess it's fair
(06:28):
to say that New Orleans only been rated to liven
out of fifteen in the Western Conference. I don't think
they're going to get to the posted and sorry, Andy,
but also in tier in terms of the MVP Awards,
it's a list of the usual suspects, including reigning championship
Gilgris Alexander of the OKAC Thunder, closely followed by Jokicha
the Nuggets. Also, you've got Luca Gianna, Santa Ta Compo
(06:50):
and Wenby there to round up the top five.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And Michael Jordan's got a new role in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah exciting. So yeah, finally there's a lot of excitement
around the league with sixty two year old basketball legend
Michael Jordan set to return to the NBA via NBC
Sports as a special contributing commentator from next week. So,
even twenty plus years on after return for the final time,
mj is still widely considered the greatest basketball in history.
(07:18):
And here's analysis of the modern game, a very different
era from when he grossed the hard court will be intriguing,
to say the least, pining.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Let's go to football, college football. You got the latest
rankings for us yet.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So college football is into week eight already and at
the moment there are games going on as we speak.
So the latest rankings see the Ohio State Buckey is
still at number one, Miami Hurricanes at two, Indiana Hoosia's three,
Texas A and m Aggie's four, and the Old Miss
Rebels rounding out the top five.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And we had a football coach, Ames posta conglo show
on the door at Nottingham Forest after about a month,
and the job a prominent head coach in college football
lasted about the same allant of time.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
By the sound of it, Yeah, that's right, finy. So
although there are some key games this weekend, the biggest
story this week was a foreign of James Franklin, the
head coach of Pennsylvania State University better known as penn State.
Into his twelfth season with the Litany Lions. That's such
a cool name. Franklin was let go even though he
still owed fifty million dollars on his contracts. He had
(08:22):
six seasons of ten plus wins, won seventy percent of
his games, and leaves with a one hundred and four
to forty five record. Unfortunately, you know, if you're a
head coachy and they haven't won a national time normost
forty years, I guess it's fair to say that no
one's safe pining.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
No indeed, and to the NFL to finish Round seven games.
The Miami Dolphins a bit of a mess.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yes, this is a bit well, I shouldn't really laugh,
but anyway, it is a little bit of a comical story.
Say near the bottom of the AFC of the Miami
Dolphins have won to five. There's been much speculation that
their style wide receiver Tyreek Kill, affectionately known as a cheatah,
may be traded soon because of contractual issues. In just
a sense from inside sources, he's unhappy with the organization
(09:07):
in general. Now, Miami's head coach, Mike McDaniel is on
the so called hot seat and expected to be one
of many to be fired as a season unfold. I
don't like seeing anybody lose a job. But something out
of the normal happened just recently. A group of passionate
Dolphin fans started to go funbe page and raised the
two thousand dollars they needed. Now, poney, do you want
(09:27):
to have a guess what they raised the money for?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No, I don't want to have a guess. I need
you to tell me.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
A small plane was hired to fly a banner that
read fire Grier, Fire McDaniel over the home stadium prior
to a recent home game. There's a grown resentment from
the bad results that a fan base adamant that by
firing both their general manager and head coach will go
a long way to riding the sinking shifts, so to speak.
Certainly a different way of garnering attention, but it may
(09:56):
well get the undivided attention of the team owners. Only
in America, Pioneer only in America.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Only in America. I got to leave it there, Leon,
It's a packed sporting schedule in the US right now.
Really appreciate you joining us to keep us up with it.
Leon bussby state side here on Weekend Sport.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk sed B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Time to talk to you as sport. Shohei Otani has
delivered one of the greatest performances in baseball history. As
defending champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers
to reach the World Series.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
In Game four of the LCS said, now goes O Tai, show.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hey lighting up the highlights already.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh my goodness, show.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
O tay Otari, Toddy, O.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Tony, Oh Tony has done it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Again, sho hey Otani smashing three huge home runs as
well as striking out ten Brewers batters and pitching six
scoreless innings in a comprehensive five to one victory as
the Dodgers swept the series four nil. His three home
runs and ten strikeouts in the same game is a
(01:06):
Major League Baseball postseason record, highlighting his rare talent of
excelling with bat and ball. Are you s sports expert
is Leon Busby, who joins us now, Leon, how unique
is what Shohei Otani is doing right now?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, good afternoon, Jess, and thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm what he's doing is unprecedented. If we look at
the stats and you just mentioned some of them there,
he struck our ten bat has given up no runs
against across six plus schooless innings as a starting pitcher
and then as a designated hitter. He crushed three home runs,
including one in the fourth which most of the people
who watch the game will just be shaking the heads,
(01:48):
which he duly blasted out of the stadium. That particular
shot had a recorded one hundred and eighty eight kilometers
per hour exit velocity office bat traveling an incredible one
hundred and forty five minutes. How wild is that? They
He's the only player, as you alluded to, in Major
League baseball history, to achieve this feat and a pendant
clinching game. Just when you thought there's no more superditus
(02:09):
to describe what Aori's doing right now is unprecedented. People
often referred to him as a unicorn, and he's easily
the best player in baseball right now, and yesterday he
found a way to break out of his recent postseason
slump in dramatic fashion. Now, long time ESPN Baseball commentator
Jeff Passen said that O'tani is literally quote redefining the
(02:32):
game in real time close quote history unfolding for our
very eyes. I mean, what he's doing for the sport
at South Piney is incredible and justifies his groundbake groundbreak
in December twenty twenty three to one ten years, seven
hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's crazy, absolutely crazy. These numbers that we always talk
about when you're on with us are just eyewatering. So
I'm staying with yeah, staying with Age League Baseball. Where
are Where are we in the American League Championship Series?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yes, the Dodgers now also have the advantage of resting
up and awaiting the winner of the acl ALCS Sorry
between the Mariners and Blue Jays, with Seattle leading three
to two following a pivotal win yesterday. Over the five
game series so far, Toronto has scored twenty seven runs
in Seattle twenty five and by are a couple of
lopsided results, this series has been very evenly matched for
(03:24):
most part. The final two games now moved back to Canada,
and the Mariners only need to win one. Seattle since
entering the league forty eight years ago in nineteen seventy seven,
are actually their only team in MLB history never to
compete for the World Series, and it would be a
great story if they can finally get to the four Classics.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What are the latest stadts you've got for us?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yes, the most money. Expectedly, it is on our LA
to repeat with both Seattle and Toronto evenly priced. It's
great for baseball in general to see some of the
smaller market teams like Seattle, Toronto and Milwaukee showing up
on the big stage. However, in Away Piney is also
an air of inevitability about the World Series because the
Dodgers are built to win it now, the stacked and
(04:07):
deep roster. I feel that if LA don't win it
all again this year, it'll be seeing as a failure
considering the astronomical amount of contract money they shout out
during the off season. Their manager has even said they're
more than happy to take on the villain roll. So
we'll see how this all plays out when the World
Series starts this.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Saturday, Pining we will, okay. So as the baseball season
is coming towards its climax, the NBA is getting underway.
In fact, I think Day one of the NBA is
this coming Wednesday. That's New Zealand time. A few storylines here.
Can we start with a but a special recognition for
Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yes, So Steph Curry, obviously everyone knows he's going to
be a first ballot Hall of Famer. So he's about
to start his seventeenth season with the Golden State Warriors.
So he's one of only ten players to whoever play
for one franchise in his career for more than seventeen seasons.
Curry will join Hall of Fame inductees like and these
are probably some names that your listeners are are familiar with. Novitski,
(05:07):
he played for the Mavericks and holds the outright record
of twenty one years. Classey followed by Kobe Bryant and
Tim Duncan, who both played with their same teams, the
Lakers in San Antonos first for twenty years.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Other legends of the game that are part of this
elite group include Kim Elijah On with the Rockets, John
Stocked him with the Utah Jazz, and Regi Miller with
the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Victor wembin Yama, You reckon he might be set for
a breakout years.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I feel like you know he's a marquee player for
the franchise and he's entering his third season in the association,
so he overcame some health challenges from last year and
has worked extremely hard in the offseason to riddy himself
where the physical riggers his seven foot five innch frame
will have to endure. So expect something special from the
Frenchman this season. Wenbyrfield will be primed for big things
(05:57):
as one of the faces of the NBA, as long
as he can stay healthy.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Piney, what about in terms of favorites for the NBA.
I know we're right at the start of the season,
but I'm sure the bookies have got their favorites.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yep. So the latest betting nods predict Cleveland, New York,
and Orlando to come out of the East, while on
the West OKC, Denver and Houston. Based on those odds,
the thunder and Cavaliers a favorite to meet in the finals.
Unfortunately for Andy Pelicans, their slightly long odds are at
plus seventeen thousand, five hundred. So I guess it's fair
(06:28):
to say that New Orleans only been rated to liven
out of fifteen in the Western Conference. I don't think
they're going to get to the posted and sorry, Andy,
but also in tier in terms of the MVP Awards,
it's a list of the usual suspects, including reigning championship
Gilgris Alexander of the OKAC Thunder, closely followed by Jokicha
the Nuggets. Also, you've got Luca Gianna, Santa Ta Compo
(06:50):
and Wenby there to round up the top five.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And Michael Jordan's got a new role in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah exciting. So yeah, finally there's a lot of excitement
around the league with sixty two year old basketball legend
Michael Jordan set to return to the NBA via NBC
Sports as a special contributing commentator from next week. So,
even twenty plus years on after return for the final time,
mj is still widely considered the greatest basketball in history.
(07:18):
And here's analysis of the modern game, a very different
era from when he grossed the hard court will be intriguing,
to say the least, pining.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Let's go to football, college football. You got the latest
rankings for us yet.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So college football is into week eight already and at
the moment there are games going on as we speak.
So the latest rankings see the Ohio State Buckey is
still at number one, Miami Hurricanes at two, Indiana Hoosia's three,
Texas A and m Aggie's four, and the Old Miss
Rebels rounding out the top five.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And we had a football coach, Ames posta conglo show
on the door at Nottingham Forest after about a month,
and the job a prominent head coach in college football
lasted about the same allant of time.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
By the sound of it, Yeah, that's right, finy. So
although there are some key games this weekend, the biggest
story this week was a foreign of James Franklin, the
head coach of Pennsylvania State University better known as penn State.
Into his twelfth season with the Litany Lions. That's such
a cool name. Franklin was let go even though he
still owed fifty million dollars on his contracts. He had
(08:22):
six seasons of ten plus wins, won seventy percent of
his games, and leaves with a one hundred and four
to forty five record. Unfortunately, you know, if you're a
head coachy and they haven't won a national time normost
forty years, I guess it's fair to say that no
one's safe pining.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
No indeed, and to the NFL to finish Round seven games.
The Miami Dolphins a bit of a mess.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yes, this is a bit well, I shouldn't really laugh,
but anyway, it is a little bit of a comical story.
Say near the bottom of the AFC of the Miami
Dolphins have won to five. There's been much speculation that
their style wide receiver Tyreek Kill, affectionately known as a cheatah,
may be traded soon because of contractual issues. In just
a sense from inside sources, he's unhappy with the organization
(09:07):
in general. Now, Miami's head coach, Mike McDaniel is on
the so called hot seat and expected to be one
of many to be fired as a season unfold. I
don't like seeing anybody lose a job. But something out
of the normal happened just recently. A group of passionate
Dolphin fans started to go funbe page and raised the
two thousand dollars they needed. Now, poney, do you want
(09:27):
to have a guess what they raised the money for?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No, I don't want to have a guess. I need
you to tell me.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
A small plane was hired to fly a banner that
read fire Grier, Fire McDaniel over the home stadium prior
to a recent home game. There's a grown resentment from
the bad results that a fan base adamant that by
firing both their general manager and head coach will go
a long way to riding the sinking shifts, so to speak.
Certainly a different way of garnering attention, but it may
(09:56):
well get the undivided attention of the team owners. Only
in America, Pioneer only in America.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Only in America. I got to leave it there, Leon,
It's a packed sporting schedule in the US right now.
Really appreciate you joining us to keep us up with it.
Leon bussby state side here on Weekend Sport.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk sed B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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