Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker.
Speaker 2: We're live at Dodgers Stadium. After Miguel Rojas hits his
Speaker 2: first career pinching a home run at Dodgers Stadium his
Speaker 2: second career pinching a home run in the seventh inning. Miguel,
Speaker 2: obviously you've done that before. We've seen you go over
Speaker 2: the left field wall, but for you to do it
Speaker 2: against that left in that situation, what were you thinking
Speaker 2: coming off the bench?
Speaker 1: It was a special you know, every time you had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to give your team, UH the w with
Speaker 1: a one swing off the off the bench, he means
Speaker 1: allah for those players that are coming uh that are
Speaker 1: not playing every day, but we always ready for the
Speaker 1: opportunity and UH looking forward to uh to help the
Speaker 1: team win and and continue to do a job and
Speaker 1: be the best of what we do, which is coming
Speaker 1: off the bench and and giving this guys break. It
Speaker 1: means it means a lot. I've been working really hard
Speaker 1: to get better as a pinch here. This is something
Speaker 1: that I have never done in my career. UH. This
Speaker 1: this often like right now, I'm trying to work on
Speaker 1: my swing and my mechanics to be ready for those opportunities.
Speaker 1: It's just one pitcheon done. So I've been talking to
Speaker 1: a lot of people who had experience on it, and
Speaker 1: I think I think the results of the past couple
Speaker 1: of days has been better.
Speaker 2: What did you take into that bat from who you've
Speaker 2: talked to?
Speaker 1: I just feel like you've gotta be ready to uh
Speaker 1: to attack, you know, like you can really go out
Speaker 1: there and and feel like, Okay, what what what am
Speaker 1: I gonna do right here to feel good about myself?
Speaker 1: You're gonna be ready to go if it's in the
Speaker 1: strike zone. And and That's what I've been doing. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who I face, you know, I'm I'm positive
Speaker 1: that I can handle left and the pitcheon and and
Speaker 1: the numbers said it, and I just I just go
Speaker 1: in with the confidence that I gonna attack the strike
Speaker 1: zone as soon as I throw one in there. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's a fastball, corboll change or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. I just gonna be ready to attack. And
Speaker 1: and that's what happened tonight. Is sometimes like that I
Speaker 1: walk to because I'm aggressive in the song and I'm
Speaker 1: taking pitches away from the songe Nikki.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of energy in the crowd. Tonight
Speaker 2: Filipino Heritage Night. What did you tell show hey when
Speaker 2: you crossed home plate.
Speaker 1: We did our little celebration and I was asking if
Speaker 1: if Dickoy wasn't the understand so he wasn't here today,
Speaker 1: but uh, we always asked something to our celebration and
Speaker 1: he's nice. When we hit home runs, he obviously he
Speaker 1: went way more than me. But when I hit them
Speaker 1: and I see the best player in the world waiting
Speaker 1: for me at home play, that make it extra special.
Speaker 2: Last question, do you want to buy a vowel?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, let's let's do an e he for Enrique.
Speaker 1: Thanks for stopping me here he goes
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas, the champion of the night and also the
Speaker 2: champion of Wheel of Fortune, amongst his teammates.