Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, an all-women led Home Run Applesauce podcast where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.
This week, we begin by discussing the Mets’ turnaround over the past week, fueled by the offense finally waking up. We celebrate the hot bats of Pete Alonso and Brandon Nimmo, Jeff McNeil looking like Jeff McNeil, the consistency of Brett Baty, and the emergence of José Butto.
Next, we talk about the US government’s criminal complaint against Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, which was revelatory of how much control Mizuhara had over Ohtani’s finances and how deep Mizuhara’s gambling addiction is.