00:002-1 for Munoz.
00:02Olsen out to left center.
00:04Rodriguez is back.
00:06There's number 301!
00:08And what a time for it!
00:12The Braves now lead it in the ninth.
00:16Behind the power back of Matt Olsen.
00:20Added to the list of cooler things that have happened in 2026
00:23than anything that happened in 2025,
00:27they just continue to be clutch.
00:29I know Michael Harris had the game-winning go-ahead,
00:33pinch-hit home run on Friday night.
00:35They come back down 6-0 to the Rockies, win 8-6, sweep that series.
00:40Dropped the first game of the series against the Mariners
00:43after going up 4-0, and Richie was good until he wasn't.
00:47And then last night, pitcher's duel, man.
00:49Kirby and Elder were both going at it, doing really well.
00:51Elder looks fantastic for another start.
00:53And Matt Olsen gets after one in the ninth inning,
00:56and they win 3-2.
00:57They continue to be clutch.
01:00It's just finding ways to win, man.
01:02Finding ways to win.
01:02Like you said, the clutchness of these guys,
01:05especially a guy like Matt Olsen, man.
01:07I don't want to say he was – but he had some issues every now and then.
01:10And now he's coming through right now, having a great year.
01:15I don't want to say career year, because I don't know –
01:17you know more about the stats, but I'm assuming this is –
01:19Well, at 23, he hit 56 home runs.
01:21Yeah, but I –
01:21That'd be cool if he did that.
01:22He's on pace.
01:23Was he like on this pace when he hit the 56?
01:25I would have to.
01:26I mean –
01:26Somewhere in that area, okay.
01:27You got to be to hit 56, I think.
01:29But was it up and down?
01:30He kind of hot and cold, hot and cold?
01:31Yeah.
01:32I mean, either way.
01:33You know he's capable.
01:33Yes, and I think that's the biggest thing.
01:35Because you're a professional athlete.
01:37Your expectations – people expect you to be really good because you're a professional.
01:41But like anything, you go through your ebbs and flows of it.
01:44But right now, he is just on a heater right now, man.
01:47And it's really good to see.
01:48Because, I mean, you know, him being a local kid always,
01:52coming from Park, right up to where I'm from.
01:54And this dude, he's such a –
01:56If you ever see Matt Olsen, Matt Olsen's a big man.
01:59Yeah, no doubt.
02:00He's a big man.
02:01That's what we were talking about yesterday.
02:02But he's so laid back.
02:05He's such a laid back, chill dude.
02:07That's what I like about him.
02:08But, I mean, for him to be out there doing what he's doing,
02:10like you said, they needed that one so bad last night.
02:13And especially talking about the pitchers, though,
02:14for him to come through in the clutch the way he did.
02:16I mean, DeBond, obviously, Ozzie starts it off getting on base.
02:19And then the pop-up, I thought Ozzie was going to go on that short fly.
02:23I was like, oh, no, don't go.
02:26Don't go.
02:26But yet, you know, they were able to manufacture some runs.
02:29Get a win.
02:304-10 start today, you said, right?
02:32Yeah, so it's a 1-10 local.
02:33Yeah, 4-10.
02:34I was going to be quiet in there.
02:35I was thinking about that this morning.
02:36I was like, okay, because it was a getaway day.
02:38So I was like, what time are you going to play today?
02:40I was like, oh.
02:42Because I thought about it.
02:43I made my mind sick.
02:43They played a one today?
02:444-10 is great for us, though.
02:46Yes.
02:46I'm going home.
02:47That's perfect.
02:48I'll go home.
02:49I'll be 4-in.
02:51Brian Wu's good, too.
02:52So they're going to have to hit today.
02:55Matt Olsen leads the National League in home runs with 13, doubles with 15, runs with 35,
03:01RBIs with 33, flugging percentage, OPS, and then two other acronyms that I don't know.
03:05But that's a bunch of stuff.
03:08That's a bunch of stuff.
03:09I knew what all the first ones were.
03:10I don't know what these ones are.
03:11But that's okay.
03:12It doesn't matter.
03:12It doesn't matter.
03:12I don't need to.
03:13It doesn't matter.
03:14It's his first side, right?
03:15Oh, Bo's going to tell me.
03:16WPA?
03:19WP place above?
03:21I honestly don't know what WPA is.
03:23I know what F-War is.
03:24That's just war.
03:25But what's WPA?
03:28WP.
03:29Win probability added.
03:31What the?
03:31I do not know.
03:33Why?
03:33I know why people come up with stuff like that.
03:35Because they don't do nothing but sitting in my basement, clipping at them.
03:38Is war not enough?
03:40No.
03:40What the hell?
03:41Now, war is how many games you've single-handedly won.
03:44I think that's what you do.
03:45The only thing I'll disagree with you on that one with, Randy, is unfortunately these people
03:49no longer live in their mom's basements.
03:50These people are the presidents of the front office.
03:53That is true.
03:54People are not.
03:55My thing is like.
03:55The people that come up with these things are actually in charge of the game now.
03:58I would love to look at a baseball contract and see how much of those things are in the
04:02incentives or whatever.
04:03That's a great question.
04:03You know, his WPA.
04:05If he has this in the WPA, he gets an extra $200,000 or something like that.
04:10I would love to see one of the things.
04:11I don't know, man.
04:12That's a great question.
04:13Probably in there.
04:14I mean, I would guess.
04:14Why not?
04:15You try to put everything as a club to, because a club, obviously, they want to win, but they
04:20don't want to pay extra.
04:21Clubs hate incentives, and any player that's ever told you that whenever you've been close
04:25to an incentive, they don't, unless you got a head coach who has got, like, carte blanche
04:31in an organization, they will not try to get you your money.
04:34Yeah.
04:34They will not.
04:35Yeah, he's not playing in the second half tonight.
04:36Yeah, he will not.
04:37He needs one catch for a million bucks.
04:39That's what I love what Tom Brady had did.
04:40He's like, okay, we're going to call a play.
04:41I know we're up by 30, and it's less than 10 seconds, but we're going to throw this
04:45ball so he can get this extra one.
04:46Yeah, he gets $150,000.
04:47Yeah, dog.
04:48We're going to throw it to him.
04:49Yeah.
04:49All right.
04:50So with all that stuff Matt Olsen has done, this has started.
04:53And again, I think it is important with context.
04:55This is a Major League Baseball network conversation.
04:59They have to do the same hot take stuff that every other network does.
05:02So I think grain of salt with it a little bit, but the Matt Olsen Hall of Fame case has
05:06started.
05:07Here's Tom Verducci.
05:08Looking at, I think it's 1,259 games to get to 300 home runs.
05:11He's also got over 250 doubles.
05:13Only 12 players in baseball history, 300 homers, 250 doubles at that stage in his career.
05:19So this guy, as you said, plays every day, and he's putting up numbers.
05:23So at a really kind of a young age, you think, for the kind of thresholds he's hitting here,
05:28yeah.
05:28I mean, if he's going to hit 300, I never thought of him as a 300 hitter, but he's doing
05:32that
05:32this year, he can be an MVP as well.
05:34How old is Matt?
05:3532.
05:36He's 30?
05:36Okay.
05:36Yeah.
05:37All right.
05:37Right.
05:37So that's kind of the important number.
05:43He's right in the middle of the prime.
05:46Yeah.
05:46Right.
05:46Yeah.
05:47And he signed an eight-year contract extension?
05:49I don't know what it was.
05:50It was one of those big ones.
05:51Yeah.
05:52Okay.
05:54But so here, to me, here's the most important number for medals, and all that stuff is great,
05:57obviously.
05:58If he continues to play around this level, this pace, he'll probably get to 400 and 400
06:04with both of those numbers, which is pretty remarkable.
06:06He's at 819 consecutive games played right now.
06:09Actually, I think it's more.
06:09I think it's 822 now.
06:13He's about to be in the top 10 all time in terms of consecutive games.
06:17Damn.
06:18He's about 500 away from being in the top three of all time.
06:22How far from Cal?
06:23He's never going to get there.
06:25He's almost 2,000 games behind Cal Ripken.
06:27That's never going to happen.
06:28But if he can get in the top three, no one's ever going to catch Cal Ripken.
06:31No.
06:31He played 2,600 straight games.
06:33Who's second?
06:34Lou Gehrig played 2,100 straight games.
06:36And when Cal broke the record, that was the night where he ran around the warning track
06:39and all that.
06:39No one's ever going to touch those.
06:41But if Matt Olsen gets to third, and it's Cal Ripken, Lou Gehrig, Matt Olsen, he's going
06:46to the Hall of Fame.
06:47That's the number for me.
06:48He's not going to hit 500 home runs, probably.
06:51There's going to be certain things that, obviously, his number is going to be really, really good.
06:55Right.
06:55But if he's third all time in consecutive games played, because here's the other thing about
06:59consecutive games played.
07:01Nobody's even sniffed it since Cal.
07:05Now, obviously, Lou Gehrig did what he did in the 20s and 30s.
07:08Everett Scott is in third place right now.
07:10That was in the 10s and 20s.
07:12Steve Garvey was in the 70s and 80s.
07:14But pretty much Miguel Tejada as well.
07:16But by and large, these guys all did this generations ago.
07:20No one does this anymore.
07:22Yeah.
07:22I mean, I don't want to say it's by choice, the load management or something like that.
07:28I don't want to put it like, because you're playing damn baseball.
07:31You're not saying it's not a...
07:33Well, you said baseball weird.
07:34I know.
07:36I did.
07:37Kind of snooty, huh?
07:38Yeah, you did.
07:38Yeah, kind of snooty, right?
07:41That's okay.
07:42You played in the NFL.
07:43You're allowed to do that.
07:43We're snooty.
07:44I'm not allowed to do that.
07:45You're allowed to do that.
07:45Brains and stuff like that.
07:47You remember how Lou would lose...
07:48You're playing baseball.
07:49Yeah.
07:51It's not as...
07:53It's true.
07:53He's not tackling people.
07:54It's a lot of games, but it's not the physical...
07:56Well, the only games he missed when he was in Oakland, he missed like three games.
08:00Did he get sick?
08:01No.
08:01We're not going to hit the face with a ball.
08:02Yeah, he fouled a...
08:03No, not fouled.
08:04He accidentally deflected a ball off his eye in batting practice and literally couldn't
08:08open his eye.
08:09And he missed like two games.
08:10That's it in his whole career.
08:11Damn.
08:11I know.
08:12He's a stud, man.
08:12He's awesome.
08:13He's a stud.
08:14He's a stud.
08:14Glad he's here.
08:15Me too.
08:16Okay.
08:16Next.
08:17And we'll leave it at that.
08:17Yep.
08:18Yep.
08:18I'm glad he's here.
08:19We'll leave it at that.
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