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Speaker 4: Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight here on
Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers get the
Speaker 2: second half underway, or the post All Star Break schedule
Speaker 2: underway tomorrow night in the Bronx, the site of Game
Speaker 2: five of the twenty twenty four World Series.
Speaker 4: That's right, the Dodgers will.
Speaker 2: Be back in the Bronx for the first time since
Speaker 2: winning the twenty four World Series the front end of
Speaker 2: the back to back championships. I feel like we forget
Speaker 2: too easily the twenty four World Series because of how
Speaker 2: dramatic Game seven and the entire twenty five World Series went.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the Dodgers are going back to Yankee Stadium
Speaker 2: for the first time since beating the Yankees and coming
Speaker 2: from behind dramatic fashion in that Game five to win
Speaker 2: the World Series. So that should be exciting. I'm excited
Speaker 2: to go back to Yankee Stadium and the Dodgers will
Speaker 2: be there for a three game series before heading back
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia and then to the White House and then
Speaker 2: back to New York to City Field to play the Mets.
Speaker 2: So a big ten day road trip for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: right out of the All Star Break. We got a
Speaker 2: great show for you tonight on the eve of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers starting up the post All Star Break part of
Speaker 2: their schedule. Mark Pryor and Blake Trinan will join us.
Speaker 2: At the bottom of the hour, the Dodgers pitching coach
Speaker 2: Mark Pryor will lay out and discuss how the Dodgers
Speaker 2: manage show hal Tany the pitcher the second half of
Speaker 2: the season and Blake Trinan, the forgotten reliever who played
Speaker 2: such a big part in the Dodgers winning the twenty
Speaker 2: four World Series, such a big part, and pitching in
Speaker 2: relief more pitches than he ever threw in a game
Speaker 2: in Game five of the World Series to set up
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller closing it out. Blake Trinon will also join
Speaker 2: us at the bottom of the hour and coming up
Speaker 2: in fifteen minutes, our very own Colin Yee's studio producer
Speaker 2: has put together a fantastic first half highlight montage with
Speaker 2: my guy Brad Paisley providing the musics. So that's coming
Speaker 2: up in fifteen minutes, the Colin Yee Dodgers first Half
Speaker 2: highlight Montage. All right, before we get to the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and their East Coast road trip, I'll just say my
Speaker 2: piece on the Home Run Derby and the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sit here and say both events were fantastic. No,
Speaker 2: they both fell flat this year and it will happen.
Speaker 2: But doesn't mean you have a overhaul of the Home
Speaker 2: Run Derby or overhaul of the rules of the All
Speaker 2: Star Game. No, it just so happened that Skiens and
Speaker 2: Miserowski and Yamamoto could not pitch. Now, Cam Schlittler, he
Speaker 2: should have pitched. It was his throat day on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: and he should have pitched. But you can't blame Skeens
Speaker 2: or Miserowski or Yama Moto.
Speaker 4: It's just the way it lined up.
Speaker 2: And the biggest of stars, sho Hao Tani, had to
Speaker 2: have his left knee drained. So, I mean, those are
Speaker 2: the extenuating circumstances of this year All Star Game. So
Speaker 2: I don't think it's a need to change or demand
Speaker 2: new rules to make sure these guys pitch when it's
Speaker 2: the All Star Game. No, this has happened before. It's
Speaker 2: just unfortunate that it happened this year. And it's the
Speaker 2: most unfortunate that you didn't have Aaron Judge in this
Speaker 2: game and you didn't have sho Hao Tani. Everybody keeps
Speaker 2: wondering why it was so flat. That's the reason you
Speaker 2: didn't have the game's two biggest stars on the field.
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is hurt, show Hao Tani's hurt, and you
Speaker 2: didn't have the biggest high profile pitcher pitching in the
Speaker 2: game and Jacob Mizerowski the Miz So those are the
Speaker 2: perfect storm of unfortunate events that lend itself to the
Speaker 2: All Star Game being flat this year. And congratulations to
Speaker 2: our guy Cody Bellinger for winning the All Star Game
Speaker 2: MVP and our guy Miguel Vargas for hitting the only
Speaker 2: home run in the All Star Game this year, two
Speaker 2: former Dodgers who have gone on to be rising stars
Speaker 2: with their own teams. I mean, Cody did everything with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, but Miguel Vargas having his true breakout season
Speaker 2: on the South side of Chicago. So congratulations to both
Speaker 2: those former Dodgers who mean a lot to me and
Speaker 2: certainly put in a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
Speaker 4: Wearing that Dodger uniform. And I know.
Speaker 2: Miguel Vargas wanted it to happen here, but it's unfortunate
Speaker 2: that there was just nowhere for him to play. Third
Speaker 2: base was taken by Max Munsey. First base was taken
Speaker 2: by Freddie Freeman. Now, as far as the home run
Speaker 2: derby goes, and just the whole weekend in Philadelphia, Philly
Speaker 2: did a great job. They did a great job hosting it.
Speaker 2: But here's the little secret that nobody wants to say
Speaker 2: out loud. All the Phillies disappointed. All the Phillies players
Speaker 2: didn't rise to the occasion.
Speaker 4: Of the or the fan base.
Speaker 2: I mean, Kyle Schwarber lost the home run derby to
Speaker 2: Jordan Walker. Bryce Harper could only hit two home runs out.
Speaker 2: So seems like a trend in Philadelphia where there's a
Speaker 2: lot of hype and not a.
Speaker 4: Lot of action to back it up.
Speaker 2: And in the game, Christopher Sanchez, Oh, Christopher Sanchez, he
Speaker 2: needs to.
Speaker 4: Start this game.
Speaker 2: Well, he's the one that gave up three runs in
Speaker 2: the first inning and that was it for the National League.
Speaker 2: So the host city did a great job. The Phillies
Speaker 2: players did not. And that's that's the dirty little secret.
Speaker 2: Nobody in Philadelphia will say out loud, but we will
Speaker 2: right here, all right. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number, Dodger talk David
Speaker 2: Vasse with you until the bottom of the hour. Blake
Speaker 2: Snell is going to make a rehab assignment this weekend.
Speaker 2: While the Dodgers are in New York, Snell will be
Speaker 2: in Tacoma, Washington, with ocal home of city, making his
Speaker 2: first rehab start. And Max Munsey, who was the starter
Speaker 2: for the National League obviously will be back in New
Speaker 2: York with the Dodgers. But I know everybody's concerned about
Speaker 2: a letdown or the Dodgers limping into September and October
Speaker 2: because they have the best record in baseball and a
Speaker 2: gigantic lead in the NL West eleven and a half games,
Speaker 2: despite being swept by the Diamondbacks before the All Star Break.
Speaker 2: Max Munsey, who's been on the Dodgers since twenty eighteen,
Speaker 2: has seen a lot of big leads turn into October clunkers,
Speaker 2: is confident that this Dodger team that has won back
Speaker 2: to back championships knows how to win and knows how
Speaker 2: to handle all this.
Speaker 5: This group is a little bit different just the amount
Speaker 5: of experience we have on the team, and in the
Speaker 5: past we hadn't been as bought into just taking it
Speaker 5: day by day as we are now. And part of
Speaker 5: that is just understanding what the end goal is for us.
Speaker 5: And the only way you get the is you. You
Speaker 5: you show up every day and you you do what
Speaker 5: you have to do for that day. You can't worry
Speaker 5: about anything else that's going on. You can't worry about
Speaker 5: tomorrow or next week or the week after that. You
Speaker 5: have you know, tonight we have Kyle Freeland, Uh, the Rockies.
Speaker 5: How are we gonna win this game? And then when
Speaker 5: we show up tomorrow, we'll worry about tomorrow's pitcher. And
Speaker 5: that's that's just how we've been taking it every single day.
Speaker 5: And that's that's really what's helped us win two World
Speaker 5: Series back to back. Is you know, even in the postseason,
Speaker 5: it doesn't matter if you won the night before, you
Speaker 5: got to show up the next day and you play
Speaker 5: that game.
Speaker 2: Will that be the challenge in the second half for
Speaker 2: you guys to stay in the moment?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean obviously that's that's kind of always a challenge.
Speaker 5: But uh, you know, I think for us, like I said,
Speaker 5: having the experience that's been that's been helping us a bunch.
Speaker 2: We'll all find out together month see the rest of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, all of us will find out how the
Speaker 2: Dodgers handle this big lead. And it's not just about
Speaker 2: the NL West, it's about having a first round by
Speaker 2: because we all know a short, three five game series
Speaker 2: is not where you want to be. The Dodgers were fortunate,
Speaker 2: thanks to a huge hit by ta Oscar Hernandez and
Speaker 2: Philly to win that series and move on. You don't
Speaker 2: want to see the Phillies again in a five game series.
Speaker 2: You don't want to see any team in a short
Speaker 2: five game series because anything can happen. So it's not
Speaker 2: just about winning the West. It's about having a first
Speaker 2: round by. And also, let's not forget last year. If
Speaker 2: the Dodgers would have won one more regular season game,
Speaker 2: they would have had home field advantage in the World Series.
Speaker 2: Game seven would have been played at Dodgers Stadium instead
Speaker 2: of Canada, and who knows, with home field advantage, it
Speaker 2: maybe doesn't go seven games for the Dodgers last year.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the division, I'm not going to say it's over,
Speaker 2: but ah, the Eggs are cooling right now. But it's
Speaker 2: about getting a first round by, and it's about understanding
Speaker 2: every game counts because one game can decide whether or
Speaker 2: not you have home field advantage in an NLCS or even.
Speaker 4: In the World Series.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure the Dodgers are very aware of that,
Speaker 2: and I do believe Max Muncy and I feel like
Speaker 2: people don't give these Dodgers enough credit. They know how
Speaker 2: to win. They're not experienced, they know how to win,
Speaker 2: all right. As we continue until eight o'clock. We got
Speaker 2: a big show coming up next. The first half highlights
Speaker 2: courtesy of the Dodgers, courtesy of Rick Monday, Tim Neverett,
Speaker 2: Stephen Nelson, Charlie Steiner, the Full Boat, and courtesy of
Speaker 2: Brad Paisley providing the great music for a fantastic start
Speaker 2: to summer. And coming up at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 2: Mark Pryor and Blake Trning will join us as the
Speaker 2: Dodgers get set to open up the post All Star
Speaker 2: Game part of their schedule tomorrow night in the Bronx
Speaker 2: against the Yankees.
Speaker 4: Right here on A five to seventy Welcome back to
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vass with you until eight o'clock tonight here on
Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4: I'll be hopping on a bird.
Speaker 2: I'll be a Yankee Stadium tomorrow with the Dodgers to
Speaker 2: open up a nine game road trip to begin the
Speaker 2: second half of the season. It'll be in the Bronx,
Speaker 2: then Philadelphia, and then finishing up against the Mets at
Speaker 2: City Field in Queens. Coming up in our next segment,
Speaker 2: you'll hear from Dodger pitching coach Mark Pryor and three
Speaker 2: times World Series champion, Blake Trinan will join us to
Speaker 2: figure out when he may return and how much he
Speaker 2: has left in the tank. I say that because I
Speaker 2: know he would be upset if I even questioned that
Speaker 2: he has a lot left in the tank and certainly
Speaker 2: is going to be another one of the reinforcements the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are going to have coming up in the second
Speaker 2: half of the season. Edwin Diaz, Blake Trinan, Will Smith,
Speaker 2: Blake Snell, the list goes on and on, along with
Speaker 2: Tyler Glassnew and keyk Hernandez is expected also to rejoin
Speaker 2: the Dodgers when they return home from this nine game
Speaker 2: road trip. All right, our guy, Colin Yee, he is
Speaker 2: a magical musician and he put together the first half
Speaker 2: highlights of this incredible sixty plus win first half for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and underneath it, big time Dodger fan, loyal
Speaker 2: Dodger talk listener Brad Paisley, don't forget about it. You
Speaker 2: only get so many summers, and Brad has given us
Speaker 2: clearance to be able to use his music, So enjoy.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin Yee, Brad Paisley, and the Dodgers for
Speaker 2: providing us with so many highlights in the first half
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 7: Trying a battle behind one and two.
Speaker 1: Another offering from Gallant.
Speaker 6: Paz liften in the air left field in deep.
Speaker 4: It has gone.
Speaker 6: Andy Paz flips the scoreboard with a first Dodger home
Speaker 6: run of twenty twenty six. Base is empty, one out
Speaker 6: top of the eight.
Speaker 4: No, we make it.
Speaker 6: Pitch still, get ow rushing, Golf's another one out of here,
Speaker 6: keep to right field number two of the game for
Speaker 6: Tulton rushing. Oh, he is feeling it at the plate
Speaker 6: right now, here's.
Speaker 8: The old two these swings hits a high drive to
Speaker 8: right fail.
Speaker 1: It's going back. That is gone. Look up Winter Max
Speaker 1: one say.
Speaker 9: With two outs in the fat of the knife, Maxwell
Speaker 9: swinging a silver hammer his second career three home run game.
Speaker 1: Amma, Dodgers victorious tonight eight to seven.
Speaker 3: He home.
Speaker 9: My goodness, what a shot by Moncie four hundred.
Speaker 1: And one feet into those pavilion in right field.
Speaker 6: Two one Dodgers two out, faces empty the O two.
Speaker 1: Pitch swaying and of his strike.
Speaker 6: Thy show hey, Old Tony strikes out the side of
Speaker 6: the sixth. He's up to ten punch outs in six strong,
Speaker 6: keeping the Dodgers ahead two to.
Speaker 1: One, got two hounts of the one Y tucker Lin's
Speaker 1: inner the center flaner base hack. Dodgers are gonna win it.
Speaker 1: Here comes o'tiny rut third, he'll store talk about that
Speaker 1: second walk off win of the season for Tucker four
Speaker 1: career walkoff hits. And the Dodgers come back to the
Speaker 1: eleventh time this year and win the ball game of
Speaker 1: five to four. Oh, how do you like that?
Speaker 4: Woman?
Speaker 1: You on one out?
Speaker 8: Soroka chicks the runners out of the stretch, delivers home
Speaker 8: man this one pull down.
Speaker 1: The right field side, pay ball right on the line.
Speaker 8: Around third, comes rushing, he'll score. Freeland's gonna get waved around.
Speaker 8: Oh Tani around second.
Speaker 9: He's in the third with a pop up side safe.
Speaker 1: It's four nothing. Do rogeries on a two run triple
Speaker 1: for show.
Speaker 6: Hey, o'taniky bets on death.
Speaker 1: We'll count the payoff.
Speaker 4: Freeman.
Speaker 1: That's one fly in.
Speaker 6: The air at the deep right center field. We're at
Speaker 6: the wall and we're going home. Freddie Freeman with a
Speaker 6: walk of home run in the bottom of the ninth.
Speaker 8: Inning, sacrifice fly by pie his that's his third run
Speaker 8: banded into the game. Yeah, Freddy Freeman swings there. It
Speaker 8: is hit number twenty five hundred. It's a base hit
Speaker 8: to center. Freeman comes into score. Otani goes first to third.
Speaker 8: So Freddy Freeman with a milestone hit. Two thousand and
Speaker 8: five hundred career hits for Freddy Freeman, and they're asking
Speaker 8: for the ball.
Speaker 4: Don't play the umpire.
Speaker 8: This motion through the bowl with the Dodgers first base
Speaker 8: dugout and for Freddy Freeman, the souvenir well earned. Paul
Speaker 8: leads at second Ward at first two ounces of the
Speaker 8: one two pitch to Russian, he swings and rips into the.
Speaker 9: Right pill that's a face hit. Paul comes around card.
Speaker 9: Here's the prout of the play. Paul sides, here's safe.
Speaker 9: Then the ball gets away, Peer comes Ward.
Speaker 1: Dodgers win. Dodgers win.
Speaker 9: They come back and win for the twenty third time
Speaker 9: this year the Dodgers have come back to win six
Speaker 9: to five. The Dodgers win their forty ninth game of
Speaker 9: the season.
Speaker 1: The fell from right peel from todder O'Neill got away,
Speaker 1: and that allowed Ward to score the game winning run.
Speaker 8: Three two pitch to Bets, He swings at hammers one
Speaker 8: left center and deep.
Speaker 1: This ball heading back to the wall.
Speaker 10: It is gone a home run, Bookie.
Speaker 8: That's home run number nine and the Dodgers strike first.
Speaker 8: It's one nothing ohas off second. Rushing off of first,
Speaker 8: nobody out hits from Crook and o Tomy belts it
Speaker 8: high and deep to right.
Speaker 1: Forget it all. Is Paul's way out of here, over
Speaker 1: to the top of home run Hill between the trees.
Speaker 10: A three run home run for show Hey o' tony,
Speaker 10: his eighteenth of the season at his two hundred and
Speaker 10: ninety eighth career home run, a four hundred and thirty
Speaker 10: two foot blast.
Speaker 8: My goodness, he is a one man show when he's
Speaker 8: off first and second. Tommy Edmund, hitting right handed, slingson,
Speaker 8: hits the ball welders center field, going back onto his bolts, still.
Speaker 1: Going back, he looks up. It's going off the batter's eye.
Speaker 8: A home run for Tommy Edmund, his first of the season.
Speaker 1: It's a three run shot.
Speaker 8: And the Dodgers now lead at five to one. Dave
Speaker 8: Roberts will be in rare air roversus managerial records concerns.
Speaker 8: Two balls, two strikes, one strength to get and there
Speaker 8: it is on the outside corner. Monsey strike's out looking,
Speaker 8: Win number one thousand for Dave Roberts, win number ten
Speaker 8: for Justin Robleski, and win number fifty six for the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: One tonight tonight here in West Sacramento. One one ground
Speaker 8: ball basic down the left field line, rolling tour at
Speaker 8: the corner. In the score is rushing Edmund is on
Speaker 8: his way home.
Speaker 9: Man he will score a two RBI double for Andy Pajez.
Speaker 1: Folks, we're all tied up. It's six six Mounsey on
Speaker 1: deck two and two. That's bangs going into left center field.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be and they's hit that's gonna roll the wall.
Speaker 1: In the score is pa.
Speaker 9: Hes arriving at second base with the stand up double
Speaker 9: Mookie Betts and the Dodgers take a seven to six.
Speaker 1: League Too's got Hernandez.
Speaker 11: At the plate.
Speaker 6: Three nothing Padres in the bottom of the seventh, but
Speaker 6: the Dodgers have them loaded and nobody out. Tao against
Speaker 6: the left team winning home first pitch is hammered.
Speaker 11: This is way back then.
Speaker 6: It is gone grand slim too, Oscar Hernandez taale on
Speaker 6: time in the Dodgers lead four to three.
Speaker 1: What's too almost like pitch series?
Speaker 4: Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 8: These swims hits a drive deep bright center, fail way back.
Speaker 9: It does this past gone a harm run for Freddy.
Speaker 9: Home run number fifteen per Freeman, and that's two nothing
Speaker 9: Dodgers three hundred and eighty second career home run for Freddy,
Speaker 9: who continues to close in on that magic milestone at four.
Speaker 8: Hundred oh guys leading stretch by Yamamoto and the Dodger
Speaker 8: right handed flows pitch swung on it and there strike
Speaker 8: three got him with a splitter strikeout number ten, matching
Speaker 8: a season high, and the Pondres get no hits, but
Speaker 8: they leave a man.
Speaker 1: It is stretch time.
Speaker 8: And a standing ovation for Yamamoto as he heads over
Speaker 8: to the third base, dugout what a cat he's pitched.
Speaker 1: Russian swings hits a ground bowl that's drawing to center.
Speaker 1: Conchers win got to.
Speaker 9: Russian walks it off eight seven ta Oscar Hernandez stories
Speaker 9: Rushing hit up the middle past the tron and infield,
Speaker 9: and the Dodgers win their sixtieth game of the season,
Speaker 9: the fifth time walked off an opponent, and Rushing is
Speaker 9: being mobbed by his teammates on the infield over.
Speaker 1: Near third base.
Speaker 8: In the eleven innings, the first time the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Go to Exetras this season. They win the ballgame eight
Speaker 1: to seven on Dalton Rushing's.
Speaker 11: Third hit of the night. O.
Speaker 8: He strikes the night with a two ninety four average,
Speaker 8: fifty five runs banity two O swe on trilty too.
Speaker 8: The center failed in his packet is gone.
Speaker 1: Home run number three hundred for show. Hey o'tny.
Speaker 8: Oh he nashed a milestone in his first at bat.
Speaker 1: It's his thirty first career.
Speaker 9: Leadoff home run, his seventh this season.
Speaker 8: Instant offense for the Show that Never Ends. Won nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Thanks again to calling Ye for putting that all together
Speaker 2: the Monta.
Speaker 4: So the first half highlights for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: When we continue here on Dodger Talk, we will get
Speaker 2: to Mark Pryor, the Dodgers pitching coach, find out how
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are going to manage Otani in the second
Speaker 2: half of the season, and also three time World Series
Speaker 2: champion Blake Trying will join us as well. Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: until eight o'clock right here on a five to seventy a.
Speaker 1: LA Sports.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vase with you until eight o'clock tonight, and we're
Speaker 2: very lucky to have some time with the Dodger pitching
Speaker 2: coach Mark Pryor, who certainly has his plateful with so
Speaker 2: many different pitchers. Mark, thanks a lot for the time,
Speaker 2: and congratulations on keeping this thing together the first half
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I appreciate it. Yeah, it's it's been a
Speaker 7: fun season so far, and hopefully the second half, you know,
Speaker 7: we get off to a good start. Obviously we got
Speaker 7: there two good teams in the in the Yankees and
Speaker 7: the Phillies, and obviously the Mets are hard to play
Speaker 7: at the so you know, this should be a good
Speaker 7: fun road trip and kick it off here and you'd
Speaker 7: be ready to go.
Speaker 2: You were just explaining to me how you can only
Speaker 2: control what you can control and you're always in the moment.
Speaker 2: But when you do get to Yankee Stadium for the
Speaker 2: first time, will the memories come back of the way
Speaker 2: Game five and twenty four went down with Blake trying
Speaker 2: in and Walker Buehler and you guys winning the front
Speaker 2: end of these back to back championships.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure some of the memories will
Speaker 7: start to come back, you know. I mean, it is
Speaker 7: kind of surreal to think it's been almost two years
Speaker 7: since we've you know, we've been there, and you know,
Speaker 7: it was a special moment. For sure, it'll come back,
Speaker 7: you know, the way just kind of the game unravel,
Speaker 7: the way guys were into it, the way guys stepped up,
Speaker 7: you know, through that whole, you know, and two years
Speaker 7: ago when we wanted it was our bullpen that was
Speaker 7: able to put on a kind of a masterclass of
Speaker 7: passing the baton and picking each other up. And it
Speaker 7: was really fun to be a part of and watch
Speaker 7: these guys go out and perform. And so yeah, I mean,
Speaker 7: you know, the way that game started off, you never
Speaker 7: thought that, you know, three hours later or whatever we
Speaker 7: ended at that night, you know that, you know, Walker
Speaker 7: of all people would be you know, throwing a curve
Speaker 7: ball to finish the game. And and so it's it
Speaker 7: definitely brings back memories. You know, usually maybe I'll go
Speaker 7: out on the field, you know, the day before, and
Speaker 7: you know, you walk around and you think about all
Speaker 7: these things, and especially with playoffs, you feel like every
Speaker 7: time you play them, no matter if it's you know,
Speaker 7: two weeks later or two years later, it feels like
Speaker 7: it was just yesterday, So there will be a lot
Speaker 7: of probably emotions good and bad, you know, a lot
Speaker 7: of memories of just like the behind the scenes processes
Speaker 7: that go on. But then like once you know, you
Speaker 7: get into the pregame ritual of it, it all just
Speaker 7: goes right back to what it is every single day,
Speaker 7: and it's about winning the tonight's ball game and trying
Speaker 7: to put you know, the best you know performance and
Speaker 7: put guys out there in the best position of it
Speaker 7: to succeed. So you enjoy it, but then you move
Speaker 7: on pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: You might have Blake trending back on this road trip.
Speaker 2: How much do we forget how big of role he
Speaker 2: played to handle the ball to Bueler in the ninth inning.
Speaker 7: I mean, he was unbelievable that whole playoffs. And you know,
Speaker 7: Freddie obviously, you know, wins the MVP for for his
Speaker 7: heroics and what he did and sustains, you know, from
Speaker 7: an offensive standpoint, but it's almost like you need like
Speaker 7: a pitching MVP sometimes and and I don't think it's
Speaker 7: a stretch to say that he was the pitching MVP
Speaker 7: of that, of that of that season, or of that
Speaker 7: you know, that playoff run. You know, going in multiple innings,
Speaker 7: multiple times, coming in in some of the hottest situations
Speaker 7: that you can put anybody in, whether you're you know,
Speaker 7: a reliever or starter, and he just kept performing, kept
Speaker 7: getting outs, kept getting big outs, big moments, keeping the momentum,
Speaker 7: you know, either on our side or stomping their momentum.
Speaker 7: And then what he did in game five where he
Speaker 7: just was able to just kind of bear down and
Speaker 7: get a few more outs because the reality is is,
Speaker 7: you know, we didn't have anybody else after Walker. You know,
Speaker 7: we didn't know find out how to see it. You know,
Speaker 7: if we don't win that game, who knows what happened
Speaker 7: grad wal walked off that mound. We knew he was hurt,
Speaker 7: you know in that game. You know, Daniel Hudson, you know,
Speaker 7: hurt his elbow warming up for that game. So there
Speaker 7: was a lot of things that went on where Blake
Speaker 7: just kind of was able to kind of you know, wash,
Speaker 7: you know, put a cloth kind of over all those
Speaker 7: things that would have come out the next day but
Speaker 7: never did because he was able to get us to
Speaker 7: a position where at least we took our shot with Walker,
Speaker 7: and everything, you know, worked out. But he was unbelievable
Speaker 7: that year, and yeah, we probably do forget how great
Speaker 7: he was. And unfortunately, you know, last year was you
Speaker 7: know a little bit of a struggle and so far
Speaker 7: this year has been a little bit of a struggle.
Speaker 7: But he looks healthy and so we're excited to get
Speaker 7: him back and be a big part of this again.
Speaker 2: Hey, Mark, you just came up with a great idea
Speaker 2: that I'm going to start the trend on in the
Speaker 2: World Series. In the regular season, we have an MVP
Speaker 2: and we have a cy Young. Why not in the
Speaker 2: World Series a pitching MVP and a player MVP.
Speaker 4: I like what you just came up with.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, well, you know that was good two years ago,
Speaker 7: and then you know, Yamamoto just kind of bucked that
Speaker 7: train and just took care of it himself. So but
Speaker 7: you know, I mean, I do think there is you know,
Speaker 7: there's an offensive side of it and then there's the
Speaker 7: pitching side, and sometimes maybe they do need to be
Speaker 7: you know, if we are you know, at that point,
Speaker 7: nobody even cares though about the individual awards, So I
Speaker 7: think that's just for us to talk about afterwards. But
Speaker 7: you know, there's there's always every every postseason there's always
Speaker 7: big moments from a hitter. There's always big moments in
Speaker 7: big you know, things done by pitchers or you don't.
Speaker 7: Some of them you don't expect, and some of them
Speaker 7: you do expect. It's just what makes the game so
Speaker 7: great is that we show up every day. You really
Speaker 7: have no idea what might happen, because things just play
Speaker 7: out differently every day.
Speaker 2: Dodger's pitching coach, Mark Pryor is our guest. All right, Mark,
Speaker 2: The debate rages on about show Hao Tani and the
Speaker 2: two way situation.
Speaker 4: At thirty two years old, had his left knee.
Speaker 2: Draine received an injection during the All Star break. How
Speaker 2: do you see managing go Tani the second half of
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm pretty much the same way we've always
Speaker 7: managed to. You know, we we go kind of day
Speaker 7: by day or start to start, and obviously there's a
Speaker 7: week between those starts usually and we're trying to listen
Speaker 7: to the show as much as possible. I mean to
Speaker 7: be able to him to manage his worklow between the hitting.
Speaker 7: You know, how much he's on the base pass. You know,
Speaker 7: sometimes I think dictates that. You know, we all like
Speaker 7: it when it goes over the park early over the fence,
Speaker 7: it's easier to kind of jog around the bases. But
Speaker 7: we just kind of go day by day, you know,
Speaker 7: and see where we're at. And so we'll just continue
Speaker 7: to kind of take that philosophy and then try to
Speaker 7: really understand where he's at. And if there's moments where
Speaker 7: it's not you know, perfect between the knee or whatever,
Speaker 7: he's just fatigued and tired from you know, playing the game,
Speaker 7: then we have to adjust. And I think that you know,
Speaker 7: we've kind of calculated that into you know, how we
Speaker 7: built the staff and what we have to do. That's
Speaker 7: usually why we've kind of put him in certain days,
Speaker 7: you know, through the first half of the season on Wednesdays,
Speaker 7: so hopefully capture those oft ENAs is. So, I mean,
Speaker 7: there's all those things. We try to use those tools
Speaker 7: at our advantage, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 7: it's you know, really trying to get an understanding of
Speaker 7: where he's at day to day, and and that's kind
Speaker 7: of how we've played it out these last year and
Speaker 7: a half as he's pitched, and I feel like that's
Speaker 7: probably just the way we're going to continue to go
Speaker 7: the second half and then you know, things come up,
Speaker 7: we'll make decisions accordingly.
Speaker 2: You were a right handed pitcher, so you understand the
Speaker 2: landing league and the force that comes down with the
Speaker 2: size of a guy like Otani. How much is that
Speaker 2: compromised And do you feel like whatever the draining and
Speaker 2: the quarterzone did can can ease the pain?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Not a not a doctor with the knee, I could.
Speaker 7: I can tell you some things about the shoulder, but
Speaker 7: you know, it's it's real. I mean, I mean when
Speaker 7: you're talking about lower half, you know, no matter what,
Speaker 7: whether you're pitching or hitting, I mean, it's obviously a
Speaker 7: huge part of everybody's and what they do and how
Speaker 7: you impact the ground and generate force. So you know,
Speaker 7: landing on your left knee and going into your you know,
Speaker 7: your lead leg block as we call it. And if
Speaker 7: it's compromising a little bit, yeah, it's gonna put some
Speaker 7: stresses on the other parts of the body as well
Speaker 7: as maybe some diminished you know, velocity or stuff. And
Speaker 7: only really he can be the one to articulate how
Speaker 7: much that is bothering him. We can see it in
Speaker 7: some of the numbers, but those can be misleading because
Speaker 7: he is a big, strong, powerful guy, and you know,
Speaker 7: we play in a game with the league compensators. They
Speaker 7: find other ways to be able to perform at their
Speaker 7: max level, even if it's not the most efficient way.
Speaker 7: But yeah, it's something that we're definitely keep an eye
Speaker 7: on as much as we can. And again, we go
Speaker 7: back to show and hope that he is our take
Speaker 7: articulating to us how he's feeling and how it is
Speaker 7: impacting his pitching, if it is impacting his pitching, and
Speaker 7: then we'll just make decisions based on what's best for
Speaker 7: the team after that.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, Mark Pryor, Dodgers pitching coach, is our guest
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk until eight o'clock tonight here on AM five
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers open up the second half
Speaker 2: in the Bronx at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 11: Before I let you go, you're the pitching coach.
Speaker 2: The pitcher catcher relationship is so important as well as
Speaker 2: with the pitching coach. How do you feel like Dalton
Speaker 2: Rushing is starting to keep the focus of his defense
Speaker 2: and not letting the offense bleed over?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think he's getting better. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's we talked about this beforehand. I mean, it's one
Speaker 7: of the most impactful and demanding positions that there is
Speaker 7: on this field. You know, shortstop obviously, you know it
Speaker 7: plays out, you know from a defensive standpoint, but you're
Speaker 7: not sitting back there trying to catch pitches, call pitches,
Speaker 7: have an understanding of every game situation. Clearly, he's he
Speaker 7: wants to hit as he should. He is a good hitter,
Speaker 7: and he's proved that at the at the minor leagues,
Speaker 7: and he's working his way at the big league level
Speaker 7: to sustain that offensive production. We've seen it with Will
Speaker 7: We saw it with Will Smith. You know in twenty
Speaker 7: and twenty one. He had a lot of you know,
Speaker 7: similar you know, maybe not as public growing pains and
Speaker 7: as far as like just understanding, you know, the experience
Speaker 7: you need experience at this level. The game is fast,
Speaker 7: it moves quick. Pitt are changing constantly what they're doing.
Speaker 7: It's not where it used to be like, oh, here's
Speaker 7: a guy throws a fastball slider and it stays that way.
Speaker 7: These guys will change pitches from outing to outing, and
Speaker 7: it's sometimes it is hard to keep up. I think
Speaker 7: he's been he's been great. You know, he's had his
Speaker 7: moments where he's you know, probably got a little bit
Speaker 7: too emotional and the hitting stuff, and we've talked about that.
Speaker 7: I do my best to get these guys' space because
Speaker 7: I do want them to feel like they can you know,
Speaker 7: they do play the other side of the baseball. These
Speaker 7: guys have an offensive you know, skill set that they
Speaker 7: need to be able to impact the team. But at
Speaker 7: the end of the day, when they you know, when
Speaker 7: you walk up these steps, like you got to be
Speaker 7: a catcher first, and and I know Doc talks about it,
Speaker 7: We talk about it is kind of a servant industry
Speaker 7: as being a catcher, and I think he's starting to
Speaker 7: understand that. You know, when we have conversations in the dugout,
Speaker 7: he needs to be able to flip that script. He's
Speaker 7: not an infield or outfielder where they can wait until
Speaker 7: they hit the warning track to flip the script. He
Speaker 7: needs to do it almost as soon as he takes
Speaker 7: off his helmet and his batting gloves. And so he's
Speaker 7: talked about it. He's he's committed to trying to improve
Speaker 7: on that and really understand that, and we're gonna hold
Speaker 7: him accountable to it. And so but I think overall,
Speaker 7: he's been great. I think he's he's made moment. He's
Speaker 7: had moments where he's you know, pivoted and called really
Speaker 7: you know, aggressive pitch calling that we needed in certain situations.
Speaker 7: And then he's also been burned by being too aggressive
Speaker 7: with certain situations. And those are the things that back
Speaker 7: and forth, they're never gonna get You're never gonna get
Speaker 7: me perfect with it. And so I think he's improven
Speaker 7: day to day. And I think, you know, you find
Speaker 7: a guy who at the end of the year will
Speaker 7: be able to go home and then he'll be able
Speaker 7: to think and be able to kind of you know,
Speaker 7: compartmentalize all these different experiences, and then hopefully next year,
Speaker 7: you know, he grows in more ways. So it's it's
Speaker 7: it's just part of the game. And but our relationships great.
Speaker 7: He cares so deeply, and I think that's first and foremost.
Speaker 7: He cares about winning, and he cares about his teammates.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's as honest of an answer I've gotten regarding
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing. I think everybody appreciates how much he cares.
Speaker 2: But obviously, you know he's got some tough love from you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's you know we've talked, Like I said,
Speaker 7: we've we've talked here a handful of times, as a
Speaker 7: lot of other people, and I support him as we
Speaker 7: all support him. I don't think there's anybody who doesn't
Speaker 7: support him. But you know, our job is also to
Speaker 7: to to try to shorten that learning curve as best
Speaker 7: as possible, and the only way is to just be
Speaker 7: honest with him about like this needs to get better,
Speaker 7: and he knows it. But again, it's not coming from
Speaker 7: a selfish place. It's coming from almost a place of
Speaker 7: caring too much how much he wants to do something
Speaker 7: to help this team win and help his teammates win.
Speaker 7: And then just understand it's you know, best ares in baseball,
Speaker 7: Freddie Freeman, he's a three hundred hit. There's gonna be
Speaker 7: times where you do get out. There's gonna be times
Speaker 7: where you call the right pitch and a guy over
Speaker 7: there who's getting paid a lot of money's gonna hit
Speaker 7: the ball out of the park too. You know, Like
Speaker 7: that's the give and take of understanding that this game
Speaker 7: is not perfect and just because you might even have
Speaker 7: the right process, you might not always get the right
Speaker 7: result or the result that you intended so I said,
Speaker 7: he's I think he's starting to come to understand that.
Speaker 7: And again, he's been great to work with and I
Speaker 7: don't want to like Bamy, and he's been really great
Speaker 7: to understand. And it's fun for us because this is
Speaker 7: part of our job as coaches, is to to develop
Speaker 7: him and to a big league and kind of hopefully,
Speaker 7: you know, polish off some of the rough edges around
Speaker 7: it and make them, you know, hopefully going to make
Speaker 7: them a finished product by the end of the year.
Speaker 2: Mark, thanks a lot for the time and being so candid.
Speaker 2: I want to say thank you. You're a tough guy
Speaker 2: to you know, buy a gift for Christmas, must be
Speaker 2: tough for your wife.
Speaker 4: So you love coffee, you love the pour over.
Speaker 2: Do I actually have to go somewhere to ground the
Speaker 2: beans or can I just bring you a bag of beans?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: What will satisfy the generosity of this interview?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, No, we have.
Speaker 11: We have multiple grinders in the clubhouse.
Speaker 2: We're good on the So you want the beans, but
Speaker 2: gifts are not my thing, you know, So I have
Speaker 2: to go to Latin America to get the beans for
Speaker 2: you to satisfy this.
Speaker 7: No, we're all good. We got plenty of beans, so
Speaker 7: I enjoy I have no problem talking and no gifts necessary.
Speaker 2: Okay, I would never offend you with a chain coffee restaurant.
Speaker 7: That's fair. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the time, and we'll see in
Speaker 2: the second half.
Speaker 7: Okay, appreciate it. Thank you from.
Speaker 2: Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior to one of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: key relievers over the course of their three championship runs,
Speaker 2: especially in twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, the one
Speaker 2: and only Blake Tryning joined us. Enjoy the conversation with
Speaker 2: one of the Dodgers' key relievers who is on the
Speaker 2: horizon to returning three time, three time World Series champion.
Speaker 2: Blake Tryning joins us as the Dodgers are getting set
Speaker 2: for the second half of the season, starting at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2: Trying will not be active for that, but one day
Speaker 2: we'll return to Yankee Stadium, where he helped the Dodgers
Speaker 2: win Game five of the twenty four World Series.
Speaker 11: Appreciate Hey, you know what, I'm super grateful to experience
Speaker 11: that Game five. But uh, it's twenty twenty six, Dave,
Speaker 11: and we got bigger things to worry about.
Speaker 4: I knew you were gonna say that, but I'm an
Speaker 4: ostalt you guy.
Speaker 11: Every interview since then, you just don't let it go.
Speaker 11: I you know what, My kids and family would really
Speaker 11: appreciate you talking like that, But for me, it's like
Speaker 11: what else you got on the docket for today? The
Speaker 11: people want to hear about the present. Let's go, Dave,
Speaker 11: Come on, Blake.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me the next time you step in
Speaker 2: to Yankee Stadium, those memories are not gonna fled through
Speaker 2: your mind.
Speaker 11: They always will. No, those are That was a gift.
Speaker 11: That was a gift from God. I'm never gonna downplay
Speaker 11: a Dave. I just thought you had twenty twenty six
Speaker 11: aspirations to talk about.
Speaker 9: I do.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 2: All right, let's start with you in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling and do you feel like you
Speaker 2: can contribute the second half of the season.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, I feel really good. Just a little hiccup
Speaker 11: with with some wear and tear, and everything.
Speaker 7: Feels really good.
Speaker 11: You had great reviews from the from the MRIs and
Speaker 11: everything with the elbow, so yeah, now it's just you know,
Speaker 11: you're down for seven or eight days, letting some swelling
Speaker 11: go down and building back up. So yeah, should he
Speaker 11: should be ready shortly here after the break starts back up.
Speaker 2: Feels like there's a big crew of you guys that
Speaker 2: is ready for the first home stand after the All
Speaker 2: Star break. Key k Hernandez said he's coming back, Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz said he only needs two or three more rehab appearances.
Speaker 2: Snell Zilla, the other blake in my life, is about
Speaker 2: to come back too. So it feels like, you guys
Speaker 2: with the best record in baseball and you haven't even
Speaker 2: tapped into a lot of you guys the second half
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a unique year, right, Like, anytime you can
Speaker 11: put up sixty wins, sixty plus wins in the first half,
Speaker 11: it's pretty incredible. And we've done it without ever being
Speaker 11: full strength. I think, I don't know if we've had
Speaker 11: anybody like we haven't had our full complement of assets
Speaker 11: out there at the same time. And I think that
Speaker 11: just goes to show how well this organization provides depth
Speaker 11: and how committed they are to winning. You know, we
Speaker 11: get people like Snow and Glass and Diaz and key K.
Speaker 7: And will back.
Speaker 11: It's like, man, we were in such a great spot
Speaker 11: and Yeah, so just get everybody ready down the stretch,
Speaker 11: be ready at the right time, Like we're all trying
Speaker 11: to play one hundred and sixty two games, minus me
Speaker 11: because I'm a reliever. But yeah, the biggest thing is
Speaker 11: can we be full strength and clicking at the right
Speaker 11: time of year. And you know, for the most part,
Speaker 11: since I've been here, it's a pretty good track record.
Speaker 11: There's only been a couple years. I think you can
Speaker 11: say we've been pretty frustrated with the results at the
Speaker 11: end of the year. So yeah, this try to run
Speaker 11: something down that's pretty special here in twenty six.
Speaker 2: Can you explain the difference between an experienced team and
Speaker 2: a team that knows how to win? Because there are
Speaker 2: other teams that are out there experience, but they don't
Speaker 2: know how to win the way you guys have learned
Speaker 2: the last couple of years.
Speaker 11: That's a hard question to answer because there's a lot
Speaker 11: of people on every team that know how to win.
Speaker 11: It's just as a collective, can you put it together
Speaker 11: at the right time? And the hardest thing. The best
Speaker 11: way I can explain it is executing every out until
Speaker 11: the last out and not giving away out because in
Speaker 11: the playoffs, every out is magnified. We've seen it happen
Speaker 11: for us and against us, and if you look at
Speaker 11: our World Series runs, there's always something small. It's like
Speaker 11: for all the kids out there doing the little things
Speaker 11: right that have either helped us or hurt us. And
Speaker 11: the last two years it's helped us a lot, you know,
Speaker 11: over the last you know. And it's not like these
Speaker 11: players are doing anything that are so egregious. It's like,
Speaker 11: you know, it's just like a slight mental laps. And
Speaker 11: in the playoffs everything matters. So and if you give
Speaker 11: a team a foothold, you've seen like we've got a
Speaker 11: guy right here taking ground ball. It's like he ran
Speaker 11: out a ball in New York that more times than not.
Speaker 11: I mean it was miscommunication, right, So like it's not
Speaker 11: like it happens. It just sucks, like for those players
Speaker 11: that it happened in that on that stage in that game.
Speaker 11: But Mooki, that doesn't even happen if Mooki's not busting
Speaker 11: at one hundred percent down the line. So those are
Speaker 11: little things that kids should pay attention to. So when
Speaker 11: you talk about like winning, it's it's not taking anything off.
Speaker 11: Every bat matters, every pitch matters. Every ball that you
Speaker 11: run out matters. Every ground ball you feel and throw
Speaker 11: is with a purpose. And that's what this team does
Speaker 11: extremely well without any lapse. And I think that is
Speaker 11: the difference maker because we played Toronto, who is a
Speaker 11: super hot team, and honestly, you know you could run
Speaker 11: that back. However, many times if one play doesn't go
Speaker 11: our way to those last two games, we could be
Speaker 11: not having a chance to run down three in a
Speaker 11: row because they were so good in New York. Was
Speaker 11: a phenomenal team that we just had two hot games
Speaker 11: here at home and the pressure led back in New York.
Speaker 11: We played hot and we beat him at the right
Speaker 11: time because their offense was getting going to So we're
Speaker 11: talking about like winning culture. It's just from top to
Speaker 11: bottom is there like this desire to win above all else.
Speaker 11: And this team is bought in because they were tired
Speaker 11: of having the heartbreak of going home early. Ever since
Speaker 11: twenty twenty one, two and three, it's like, how are
Speaker 11: we getting outed when we feel like we've got teams
Speaker 11: to make deep runs, if not win a World Series.
Speaker 11: So finally it's stuck in twenty four with our backs
Speaker 11: against the wall. I mean, we didn't we lost glass
Speaker 11: Now in Atlanta? Yeah, you know, and that was that
Speaker 11: was a back breaker. And then last year, you know,
Speaker 11: our started were phenomenal and we wrote them. So it's
Speaker 11: just such a wild thing. We'll see what this year
Speaker 11: has has a whole.
Speaker 2: Blake trying to is our guest three time World Series champion.
Speaker 2: I know you said don't look back, but that day
Speaker 2: that glass Now went down, everybody talks about what Dave
Speaker 2: Robert said in Atlanta.
Speaker 4: To try to pick everybody up.
Speaker 2: What has he done in the last couple of years
Speaker 2: to really help you guys get over the finish line
Speaker 2: as well?
Speaker 11: Well, managers have a unique role, right so you know, yeah,
Speaker 11: they're not the ones playing the game. They're they do.
Speaker 11: We've got coaches like like Woodward out here and an
Speaker 11: evil and and and you know, I'm gonna forget everybody else.
Speaker 11: I don't see him right now, so I can't really
Speaker 11: corn him out. But we've got all these these coaches
Speaker 11: who commit so much time to our craft individually, and
Speaker 11: and Dave's job is to find the way to push
Speaker 11: the right buttons, you know, like when do you when
Speaker 11: do you actually pull out a speech? Because I'm sure
Speaker 11: there's times where he's like, I should address the guys. Now,
Speaker 11: let's let them try to figure out on their own.
Speaker 11: So it's like parenting a little bit. How do you
Speaker 11: parent adults to where you let them have their growth
Speaker 11: and then also force some growth on them. And Dave
Speaker 11: does a great job of pushing the right buttons, and
Speaker 11: you know, the thing that he does well is reminding
Speaker 11: us like, you know, we're the Dodgers and no one
Speaker 11: feels sorry for you. And if you don't like it,
Speaker 11: then you know sign somewhere else. So the lights are
Speaker 11: different here they are and I think what's cool is
Speaker 11: like when you've played here for a while, there's always
Speaker 11: people will say, oh, I relish the pressure of performing
Speaker 11: with a team of expectations to win a World Series
Speaker 11: every year. I say bs, because until you've actually lived
Speaker 11: it and tried to run it down, there was always
Speaker 11: that nerve of man, there's like, no, there's no relaxing
Speaker 11: moment when you have that. Well, when you're here and
Speaker 11: you see the winning culture and you know that is
Speaker 11: the expectation and you grow through those nerves and now
Speaker 11: there's like actually peace, It's like, yeah, we know the
Speaker 11: World Series is the is the goal every year and
Speaker 11: the standard, and it's not like there's any extra pressure.
Speaker 11: It's like learning to ride your bike. You know, you're
Speaker 11: trying to do what feels normal. And that's not a
Speaker 11: knock to the league. It is extremely hard to win
Speaker 11: one game, let alone the last game of the year,
Speaker 11: but it's knowing, like what you're capable of doing and
Speaker 11: what you prepare for. And we have a lot of
Speaker 11: guys who hold each other accountable, and so Dave does
Speaker 11: a great job of pushing buttons when it needs to
Speaker 11: and reminding us who we are and our identity as
Speaker 11: players in this game. So from top to bottom, you
Speaker 11: have to go to the top. You Mark Walters. Then
Speaker 11: we go to Friedman who designs and crafts this thing
Speaker 11: that the fans get to love and enjoy.
Speaker 4: He found Blake Trnon out of Oakland.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was actually kicked to the curve and he's like, hey,
Speaker 11: this guy needs a job.
Speaker 7: Let's see if you'll signing.
Speaker 11: With us, and yeah, so then I've been blessed ever since.
Speaker 2: So Blake Chrinan is our guest. The Dodgers open up
Speaker 2: in New York against the Yankees. Okay, I've talked to
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman about this. I've talked to Clayton Krushaw during
Speaker 2: last season. They both have said that they allow themselves
Speaker 2: to enjoy the moments more at this stage of their career.
Speaker 2: There's no guarantees that you pitched next year, do you well?
Speaker 4: I don't know. Are you do?
Speaker 2: You want to make that announcement and I'm busted. I
Speaker 2: think this could be the last dance. It could be
Speaker 2: it could be the last dance.
Speaker 11: I have no idea. I gotta talk to my family.
Speaker 11: I gotta pray about it. See if doors are open?
Speaker 4: Is this the last dance?
Speaker 1: Dave?
Speaker 11: I have to get back from the il first, okay,
Speaker 11: and then when I do that, I want to be
Speaker 11: electric so that fans have something to cheer for and
Speaker 11: not boo, and then win a world series. Let me
Speaker 11: enjoy that.
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Are you allowing yourself to enchain?
Speaker 11: Here's the question, David? Right, I have the mic, Dave?
Speaker 11: Is this your last year?
Speaker 4: Every year?
Speaker 2: It could be my last year. I'm on a one
Speaker 2: year dealer. That's a ride comment. It's unbelievable. I'm coming back.
Speaker 2: I'm coming back.
Speaker 11: I have some confidence too.
Speaker 4: I'll be back next year. You gotta pollo.
Speaker 7: Now you actually look put together. You're coming back.
Speaker 2: I said I would reach job security. I said when
Speaker 2: Kershaw retired, I would retire. But then Freddie's still here,
Speaker 2: Blake Trenton still here. You guys are going for the three,
Speaker 2: so I gotta stick around.
Speaker 11: So you're greedy, I want more?
Speaker 4: All right, you're greedy too, And in the ring, I
Speaker 4: have an attitude.
Speaker 7: Your attitude, your deal, Dave.
Speaker 11: I gotta I gotta live up to my expectations. Let's
Speaker 11: go now, I'm a little bit on the on the
Speaker 11: light side.
Speaker 7: I gotta get it.
Speaker 4: I gotta start lifting some heavyweight. When will you pitch again, Dave?
Speaker 11: There's a process. I don't know if you've is this
Speaker 11: your first year round baseball. I'm gonna explain to you
Speaker 11: something when when somebody, when somebody has an ailment that
Speaker 11: keeps them from performing at the ability that the that
Speaker 11: the organization expects, it's called I l you go to
Speaker 11: the iell okay, and when you're on the aisle. That
Speaker 11: means you have to recover from something. Once you're in
Speaker 11: a place where you can throw the ball, then you
Speaker 11: gotta build back up. Once you build back up, like hey,
Speaker 11: now you can touch the mound for a bullpen. When
Speaker 11: you throw a bullpen and it goes well, then you
Speaker 11: move on to facing hitters. When you face hitters ball,
Speaker 11: then you go to your rehab assignment, and if you
Speaker 11: make it through that, then you come back to that.
Speaker 4: You don't need to rehab the assignment.
Speaker 11: Listen, we can have that debate another time.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm declaring you ready, how about that?
Speaker 11: Thank you? We need you to my next live. You
Speaker 11: can come stand in.
Speaker 4: I would love that.
Speaker 11: It's a win win for you. You're expected to punch out,
Speaker 11: You're expected. We need an arm guardoks, we don't need
Speaker 11: another broken arm. Okay, and maybe a shin guard in
Speaker 11: case you do touch it and filed off your shins.
Speaker 4: Would you come inside the kitchen.
Speaker 11: Always you need to feel it and understand that. Like
Speaker 11: I'm League average at ninety five, and there's guys that
Speaker 11: throw one hundred and five now, okay, figure.
Speaker 1: That one out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they're not as nasty as you.
Speaker 11: I mean, Mishowski's pretty gross, and so's Chatman. So I
Speaker 11: think we're and uh Miller, Mason Miller's.
Speaker 2: Pretty good too, Okay, Okay, Hey, thanks a lot for
Speaker 2: the time. I know there's fans here there wearing number
Speaker 2: forty nine. You want to go meet that one guy?
Speaker 2: You have the rank your jersey, we have we what
Speaker 2: do we call that?
Speaker 11: We have revenue? We have one jersey sale revenue and
Speaker 11: this is great. Thanks for looking up your NIL would
Speaker 11: not be my NL. Will buy me a burrito at Kidoba.
Speaker 2: Hey, Blake, I know you don't like me seeing these
Speaker 2: kind of things, but I appreciate everything you've done for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. You've left it all out there on the mound,
Speaker 2: and you're far from over. I tell Freddy that I
Speaker 2: told Kershaw that you're far from over, so you got
Speaker 2: more in the tank.
Speaker 11: Appreciate you. We'll be done when God says it's done.
Speaker 11: So all right, just pray about it and then we
Speaker 11: obey it.
Speaker 4: All right, love it. You're you're the man. Thank you
Speaker 4: for the time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no worries.
Speaker 2: There it goes. Blake trining has been our guest. Thank
Speaker 2: you to Mark Pryor and Blake Trinan for joining us.
Speaker 4: Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: We will talk to you tomorrow from Yankee Stadium, a
Speaker 2: three game series to begin a nine game road trip
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers New York Philly and then New York again,
Speaker 2: so we look forward to speaking to you. Then, our
Speaker 2: coverage begins at three o'clock for pregame, and first pitch
Speaker 2: from the Bronx will be at four fifteen. Thanks to
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