Hembo joins Buster to discuss the Joe Girardi-Max Scherzer drama over foreign substance checks, if the league could institute a challenge system midseason, the Astros having the best offense in baseball and the Indians’ pitching development. Then, Orioles broadcaster Melanie Newman stops by to talk about making history as the second woman ever to do play-by-play for a nationally broadcast MLB game, her broadcasting influences, the AL West and the secret of Cedric Mullins. Later, David Schoenfield on a potential Scherzer-to-Tampa Bay trade, Wander Franco’s exciting debut, Houston flying under the radar and the Giants having an answer for everything.

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