Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are closing out their series in Philadelphia, and
Speaker 1: I'm joined right now by a man that has risen
Speaker 1: to the top and still has the eye of the tiger,
Speaker 1: and that is the one and only Dalton Rushing. Thanks
Speaker 1: a lot for the time. You know, you got the
Speaker 1: eye of the tiger. Don't ever lose that look.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. It's always good being on with you,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate the kind words.
Speaker 1: I was waiting outside your hotel hoping that we could
Speaker 1: run the rocky steps together.
Speaker 2: Today I heard that I saw you got it in
Speaker 2: you and that shows a lot about your character.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. That's why we we get along.
Speaker 1: We both I broadcast with a chip, You play with
Speaker 1: a chip, and I think that's part of what you
Speaker 1: bring to the table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is going good going bad doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: I think everyone that's on the field, obviously, everyone that's
Speaker 2: in the stands watching me play, they know I have
Speaker 2: one thing on mine and it's doing whatever we got
Speaker 2: to do to win.
Speaker 1: You're mentally tough, but you're in the middle of your
Speaker 1: first full major League season. What have you learned so
Speaker 1: far about it just to get through it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm learning right now. In the moment, it's a marathon,
Speaker 2: it's not a race. It's one of those sayings behind
Speaker 2: the plate, it's a lot of taxing. You're gonna feel
Speaker 2: different every day. You got to figure out how to
Speaker 2: really just put wins on the board, whether it's behind
Speaker 2: the plate or it's in the box. It's been a
Speaker 2: stretch for me, but thankfully we've been able to win
Speaker 2: some baseball games, win a series last week, and obviously
Speaker 2: moving into today, we have an opportunity to win another
Speaker 2: series against a really good team.
Speaker 1: Last night, what an exciting finish that you were in
Speaker 1: the middle of an unorthodox game ending double play. How
Speaker 1: do you, Mookie Bets, Max Munsey all keep your composure
Speaker 1: when the Phillies are doing base running things that would
Speaker 1: catch anybody off guard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, like you said, it was a weird play.
Speaker 2: It was one of those things. It's kind of like,
Speaker 2: just uh, stand on your toes and react kind of thing.
Speaker 2: So once months he came came to me with the ball,
Speaker 2: I knew my main point and objective is to take
Speaker 2: him back to third base. And as I'm running towards
Speaker 2: Crawford with Mooki in between us at third, I saw
Speaker 2: real Muto kind of look like he wanted to bounce
Speaker 2: off and go back to second. So it was I
Speaker 2: think that's what kind of led to the decision to
Speaker 2: get rid of the baseball, give it up to Mooki,
Speaker 2: Let Mooki take that out, and then uh yeah, obviously
Speaker 2: it gave us a chance to get Real Muto back
Speaker 2: at second base.
Speaker 1: You saw what this team did during the postseason last year.
Speaker 1: Little things like that won the World Series. Where does
Speaker 1: that come from? As far as the attention to detail
Speaker 1: on defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this uh, this organization, this club probably pays more
Speaker 2: attention to detail than any baseball team in this world.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it means everything. It changes the game when
Speaker 2: things start to speed up on other guys. It allows
Speaker 2: us to one hold the trust, but also hold the
Speaker 2: upper hand on knowing what to do with the baseball,
Speaker 2: knowing what's smart, knowing what's safe. Like I said, last
Speaker 2: night was a really weird situation, and I think as
Speaker 2: a catcher kind of filled general side of things, it
Speaker 2: feels really good to know that that moment didn't speed
Speaker 2: up on us at all. As weird and unorthodox of
Speaker 2: a play as it was, it would have been very
Speaker 2: easy to just kind of speed up, get rid of
Speaker 2: the ball and then boom, it kind of blows up
Speaker 2: in your face. But yeah, I thought it was really
Speaker 2: cool out of all of us as a defense to
Speaker 2: take advantage of that moment, and obviously the mistakes made.
Speaker 1: Dalton Rushing is our guest. He's back in the starting
Speaker 1: lineup tonight and has had a huge impact behind the
Speaker 1: plate on this road trip. He caught Yamamoto's complete game,
Speaker 1: and then last night you helped Tanner Scott navigate a
Speaker 1: five out safe. I think back to the eighth inning
Speaker 1: rush as far as how you guys went to work
Speaker 1: against Shoreber and Harper Schwarber especially.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are two of the best hitters in the
Speaker 2: game right now and have been for a long time.
Speaker 2: So it's, uh, you got you gotta dive in a
Speaker 2: little deeper for those guys, and they're playing their home ballpark.
Speaker 2: You know, they're juiced up for a moment like that.
Speaker 2: They live for moments like that, so kind of you
Speaker 2: kind of call pitches accordingly and see what they're doing
Speaker 2: in the box and just understand what their main objective
Speaker 2: is and that a bat and uh, yeah, thank god
Speaker 2: Tanner Tanner put his stuff on the table for us
Speaker 2: and gave us a chance to win that game. Regardless
Speaker 2: of how the ninth went and the blow up that happened,
Speaker 2: I think that eighth inning was very crucial for us,
Speaker 2: and for us to get those three big outs against
Speaker 2: obviously some of their best hitters is pretty crucial.
Speaker 1: You're the perfect guy to ask this question too. You've
Speaker 1: had a front row seat to this version of Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1: Why has he been Tanner Scott again this season?
Speaker 2: It's conviction. I think it's confidence and conviction. It's uh,
Speaker 2: he's convicted and getting ahead. He's got the confidence that
Speaker 2: his stuff's better than you, and it's hard to beat
Speaker 2: a guy that has that type of confidence up there.
Speaker 2: We watch guys like show Hey, we watch guys like
Speaker 2: Yamamoto and obviously tons of other arms in this clubhouse,
Speaker 2: and how they pitch with confidence and they use it
Speaker 2: to their advantage, I guess you could say, and it
Speaker 2: pays off in the end. And so being able to
Speaker 2: get a little more confidence back into him after last
Speaker 2: year is huge for us as a team. Obviously, but
Speaker 2: also him as a person and him as a player.
Speaker 1: Hey, there we go a guy that can articulate better
Speaker 1: than the guy that's throwing the ball right there, that's
Speaker 1: our guy, Dalton Rushing. All right, before I let you go,
Speaker 1: I usually ask the questions, but I'm just gonna leave
Speaker 1: you with the piece of advice. Since we are in
Speaker 1: the city that Rocky Balboa made famous. Here we go.
Speaker 1: Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past.
Speaker 1: He must fight to keep them alive.
Speaker 2: Oh I like that, mass I like that. That's a
Speaker 2: good one. I'm gonna keep that in the back of
Speaker 2: my head tonight.
Speaker 1: I love it. Maybe even put it another tattoo right there?
Speaker 1: How about that.
Speaker 2: We'll get another tattoo of it with David Vasse right
Speaker 2: under it. Get a picture of your face on my forearm.
Speaker 1: That would be electric.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you would like that for the advertisement.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, speaking of that, my guy Dalton Rushing
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Speaker 1: a lot rushing
Speaker 2: Thanks Mass always good