Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker.
Speaker 1: It's time for the managers meeting with the man that
Speaker 1: has won three World Series championships at the helm of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and that is the one and only Dave Roberts. Dave,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for the time. Great to be on
Speaker 1: the field with you.
Speaker 2: No, this is great.
Speaker 3: This is our kickoff conversation interview, so this is going
Speaker 3: to be fun. So I'm looking forward to this, Dave,
Speaker 3: just being able to talk Dodgers baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, so much has been talked about,
Speaker 1: and you've talked so much about the dissection of the
Speaker 1: World Series in Game seven, but again today at two o'clock,
Speaker 1: you had the same key players, Miguel Rojas, Mookie Betts,
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman all out here doing infield work. And the
Speaker 1: infield was in and people want to know how to
Speaker 1: plays like Game six and Game seven happen. But it
Speaker 1: starts in April, it starts in March and continues through
Speaker 1: the summer.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 3: And that's one of the things that I'm really really
Speaker 3: proud of with our guys, and I think that, yeah,
Speaker 3: you look at a Game seven, you look at the
Speaker 3: play that Mickey made or the double play that Mookie.
Speaker 2: Turned to end the World Series.
Speaker 3: We do this all year long, and I think for
Speaker 3: us is that there are certain situations or plays that
Speaker 3: might not show itself.
Speaker 2: But you know, even right.
Speaker 3: Now we're marred and not playing good baseball, not winning
Speaker 3: a lot of games. But I think for me, the
Speaker 3: behind the curtain, under the hood, the work is consistent,
Speaker 3: and we do PFPS every other week. That's pitchers fielding practice.
Speaker 3: We practice infield in every single day. Outfielders are throwing
Speaker 3: to the bases a couple times a week. So all
Speaker 3: this stuff happens every day. And then with the talent
Speaker 3: that we have, those are the bets that we're going
Speaker 3: to win more than we lose.
Speaker 1: How do you look at it as the manager always
Speaker 1: wanting more, never satisfied you're in first place and your
Speaker 1: offense still hasn't even scratched the surface of what it
Speaker 1: should be.
Speaker 3: I think if you look at you know, listen to
Speaker 3: me and people that do know me, I'm really big
Speaker 3: on the process, and I think for me is I
Speaker 3: would I just want to see you know, better quality
Speaker 3: at bats, swinging the strikes, taking balls, you know, taking
Speaker 3: walks when they're given to us, run the base as well,
Speaker 3: play good defense, and we've gotten a lot of good pitching.
Speaker 3: And for me, if those things and the work before
Speaker 3: the games are kind of in check, I'll bet on
Speaker 3: the results on the back end. So I really don't
Speaker 3: fret over results. And I understand fans, you know, live
Speaker 3: and die by every win, and I get that, but
Speaker 3: baseball is a marathon of a season, and we just
Speaker 3: got to continue to plug away. And like I said,
Speaker 3: we've gone through this every single year and we're looking
Speaker 3: at winning three in a row.
Speaker 2: So it happens everything.
Speaker 1: When you look at yesterday's game, we saw something that
Speaker 1: you don't see, that we haven't seen if you've been
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles since nineteen eighty six, a pitcher going
Speaker 1: into the ninth and and coming close to a complete
Speaker 1: game even though the score was on the other side.
Speaker 1: How impressive was it to have Robleski do what he
Speaker 1: did yesterday considering where your bullpen was at.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 3: And so essentially everyone has had the last two out
Speaker 3: of four days off, given the off day that we
Speaker 3: had before the series and yesterday, and we're in.
Speaker 2: The middle of thirteen in a row.
Speaker 3: And so for a Robo to you know, be in
Speaker 3: a game that's at of balance at that point in time,
Speaker 3: but still have enough pitches to continue to go out
Speaker 3: there and ultimately have a chance to finish the game,
Speaker 3: which he was one out away from doing.
Speaker 2: That was a big relief for our pen.
Speaker 3: That's going to help us when you know the you
Speaker 3: know games going forward in this stretch that we're in.
Speaker 3: So it is a little old school, and I give
Speaker 3: Robo a lot of credit. He's done a lot of
Speaker 3: good things for us. Six shutout, seven innings and this
Speaker 3: time eight plus, so he's been a huge additive to
Speaker 3: our pitching staff.
Speaker 1: That's the voice of the manager, Dave Roberts before first pitch,
Speaker 1: Dodgers and Giants opening up a four game series here
Speaker 1: at Dodgers Stadium. And when you look at this stretch
Speaker 1: of seven games, day four against the Giants, who are
Speaker 1: having a lot of issues, the Angels are having a
Speaker 1: lot of issues. Do you circle a number? Do you
Speaker 1: have a number of wins that you want this week
Speaker 1: going into San Diego?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't.
Speaker 3: I will say this is the Giants beat us up
Speaker 3: in the Bay two out of three, and so we've
Speaker 3: got some payback that we got to kind of redeem ourselves.
Speaker 3: So I expect to win the series, but it starts
Speaker 3: by winning tonight, and then the Angels for some reason,
Speaker 3: they've had our number and so you know, we got
Speaker 3: to find.
Speaker 2: A way to beat those guys.
Speaker 3: And obviously every year is different, and I think for me,
Speaker 3: Dave is just I just want to play good ball,
Speaker 3: and it's not perfect baseball, but you know, in all
Speaker 3: the different facets of the game, go out there compete.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to get Mooki back in the lineup, so
Speaker 3: that's kind of some infusion of some newness to our
Speaker 3: ball club, which we're all excited about. But again, just
Speaker 3: more to play good baseball and we'll win our fair
Speaker 3: share games.
Speaker 1: You have Mookie Bets hitting second tonight. It's the same
Speaker 1: three that led you to the World Series last year, Otani,
Speaker 1: Mookie Freddie. Do you feel like that tree is going
Speaker 1: to help get things going again?
Speaker 2: I do. I do. I think that.
Speaker 3: You know, you look at the one, two, three, It
Speaker 3: certainly looks good on paper, But now I think we
Speaker 3: got to get show Hey swinging the bat the way
Speaker 3: he's capable of, which I think will turn obviously Freddie.
Speaker 3: I think he's shown some signs of breaking out of it,
Speaker 3: but he's always given you a good at bet every
Speaker 3: time he steps in the box. And then obviously Mooki
Speaker 3: behind him, and I think or MOOKI Freddie behind Muki,
Speaker 3: And I think for me is just a way to,
Speaker 3: you know, break up those two lefties at the top.
Speaker 3: And I think for me today I have Tucker in
Speaker 3: the four. I just felt that giving our lefties four
Speaker 3: out of five of the first five hitters a good
Speaker 3: crack at this starter today. So today is more of
Speaker 3: the mindset up beat that starter today.
Speaker 1: Is it fair to say, pahez a Muncie, I've been
Speaker 1: your two best players so far?
Speaker 2: It is? It is? I think that.
Speaker 3: And you're talking about in totality obviously taking putting, taking
Speaker 3: show Hey off the table as far as pitching and hitting,
Speaker 3: but as far as what Andy has done in centerfield
Speaker 3: and how he's been so good offensively, he's been a
Speaker 3: very very good player. And I think with Max, what
Speaker 3: he's done in the box, what he's done at third base,
Speaker 3: he's been a very good player. So I think to
Speaker 3: your question, yeah, they've been our two best players.
Speaker 1: All right before I let Dave Roberts go tomorrow. Ice
Speaker 1: Cube is throwing out the first pitch. The bobblehead with
Speaker 1: him and the Lowrider like at the parade, is going
Speaker 1: to be given out tomorrow. And we all know about
Speaker 1: Dave's dancing moves. We've seen that at the parade. So
Speaker 1: I know you're an ice Cube NWA fan. So what
Speaker 1: do you have in store for tomorrow? What are they
Speaker 1: expecting out of Dave Roberts tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Well, definitely, I hope the listeners have forgotten my lack
Speaker 3: of dancing skills. I had an out of body experience
Speaker 3: on stage a couple of years ago. But I am
Speaker 3: excited to have ice Cube here. And it's just so cool,
Speaker 3: you know, for pop culture, you know, and ice Cube
Speaker 3: is transcended decades of music and he's an icon and og,
Speaker 3: one of the Ogs, and so it is cool to
Speaker 3: have him, you know, rocking to LA and coming out
Speaker 3: to Dodge Stadium and having his own bobblehead.
Speaker 2: But I won't be doing any.
Speaker 3: Making it drop, making my three letter word drop, and
Speaker 3: it ain't gonna be doing that tomorrow.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Dave, thanks a lot for the preview. We appreciate it
Speaker 1: and tonight. It's a great night to get a win
Speaker 2: All right, Dave, thanks for having me