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Saturday Sports: Baseball's League Championship Series; Shohei Ohtani's epic night

By Scott Simon

Published October 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM EDT

NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss sports.

Scott Simon

Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.

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