Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bass Saying for
Speaker 1: Dodger talking.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what today is snell Zilla Saturday, Blake
Speaker 2: Snell making his season debut, and No Mar Garcia Para
Speaker 2: is wearing his best tie, his best shirt, His beard
Speaker 2: is perfectly groomed, his hair is perfectly combed on a
Speaker 2: big night at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the time, No Mar.
Speaker 1: You met Dave, and especially I mean when your guy
Speaker 1: Blake is on the hill, you got to make sure
Speaker 1: you're dressed and ready to You're ready to perform and
Speaker 1: be out there, especially when we're doing the pre and
Speaker 1: postgame show.
Speaker 3: So I have to look my best for your guy Blake.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: All eyes on Dodger Stadium tonight, of course.
Speaker 1: And it's a bobbleheads. You know, people are lined up
Speaker 1: ready to come in and fill the stands and show
Speaker 1: their support. But honestly, you know what, it is really
Speaker 1: exciting to see that he's back out there.
Speaker 2: No Mar, obviously, your hitting IQ is next level. We
Speaker 2: learned so much watching you on Sports at LA. What
Speaker 2: is the state of the Dodger offense and was there
Speaker 2: signs of hope after last night?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean, they were facing a really tough
Speaker 3: pitcher last night. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: When you're placing a guy like Chris Sale, and the
Speaker 1: way they were able to manufacture runs, they had some
Speaker 1: timely hitting, they had capitalized on some opportunities because you know,
Speaker 1: Chrisale wasn't gonna give me any opportunity, so they were
Speaker 1: able to do that. So that was really good to see.
Speaker 1: So is there a promise? Absolutely? It was almost like
Speaker 1: yesterday where they almost do the book out. And what
Speaker 1: I mean by that, You're facing a guy with Chris
Speaker 1: Sale unbelievable fastball, unbelievable breaking stuff. I'm not really worried
Speaker 1: about the percentage of how many times he throw as
Speaker 1: a breaking ball, what he's starting to what count. I'm going,
Speaker 1: I gotta go battle, I gotta go out there. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's a fastball I can handle, and I got to
Speaker 1: put that ball and play. And it looks like that's
Speaker 1: what they were doing against him, rather than trying to
Speaker 1: worry about so much what does the book say or
Speaker 1: how he's gonna attack me, because even if you even
Speaker 1: if he tells you what's coming, it's really hard to hit.
Speaker 1: So it was almost like they were more focused on
Speaker 1: getting a pitch that they can handle in a spot.
Speaker 1: They were looking to try to do something, and I
Speaker 1: wish they just did that more. I think they give
Speaker 1: a lot of pictures so much like they are Chrissale
Speaker 1: throughout the league when they're not all like Chrisale.
Speaker 2: I heard you say a few times use this phrase
Speaker 2: that i've heard, paralysis by analysis. What does that exactly
Speaker 2: mean and how do you eliminate that?
Speaker 1: Well? I think there are times when you look at
Speaker 1: a scount of report. For example, I think I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember it might have been McGreevy or somebody they
Speaker 1: faced over in Saint Louis, but it was the guy
Speaker 1: didn't throw a whole lot of first pitch strikes yet,
Speaker 1: I mean, that was the book on not a lot
Speaker 1: of first pitch strikes, but doesn't walk a whole lot
Speaker 1: of people, so it's not technically wild. Maybe he's looking
Speaker 1: for pitches for you to chase, stays on the corners
Speaker 1: and that's his game. Yeah, that is true. But they
Speaker 1: took a lot. It seemed like they were taking fastballs
Speaker 1: down the middle then because they were thinking, well, doesn't
Speaker 1: throw a lot of first pitch strikes, so that means
Speaker 1: I take, I don't swing at the first pitch. No,
Speaker 1: that's you thinking way too much rather than going okay,
Speaker 1: he's going to try to get me to chase. He's
Speaker 1: going to try to stay on the corners. He doesn't
Speaker 1: walk anybody, so he's around the plate. That tells me
Speaker 1: I should be looking in my spot. And if it's
Speaker 1: the first pitches in my spot, whatever that zone is,
Speaker 1: I have to let it fly and let it go.
Speaker 3: I can't take, I can't assume.
Speaker 1: I can't be having all these numbers in my head
Speaker 1: thinking about okay, now that I'm oh one, well, oh
Speaker 1: one seventy percent of the time, he's gonna come at
Speaker 1: me with.
Speaker 3: A breaking ball.
Speaker 1: Okay, now I'm you know one oh or two oh
Speaker 1: two oh? He doesn't like throwing the fastball on this counter.
Speaker 3: What like? Enough.
Speaker 1: With all of that, you have to sometimes just trust
Speaker 1: and say, here's my zone.
Speaker 3: If I see it in this zone.
Speaker 1: Uh, he's got to prove to me that he is
Speaker 1: going to make me leave my zone.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to attack it and be able to
Speaker 3: hit these pitches.
Speaker 1: I think watching this offense at times that you can
Speaker 1: tell that they're thinking they're taking the pitches you know
Speaker 1: that they should be hitting. You can see them step
Speaker 1: out like, man, why'd I take that? And then they
Speaker 1: find themselves chasing pitches that they shouldn't because now they're
Speaker 1: kind of thinking in another another way.
Speaker 2: No Mare Garciapar from Sports net LA as our guest
Speaker 2: and no more one two batting titles. Being very aggressive
Speaker 2: on the very first pitch, being ready to hit on
Speaker 2: the first pitch. How important is that not to lose if.
Speaker 3: You're a hitter.
Speaker 1: Listen, I think everybody just assumed I was just I
Speaker 1: wasn't a free swinger and just thinking I was, just
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, ready to hit on the very first pitch.
Speaker 3: The game told me the type of hitter.
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be at that particular at that
Speaker 1: So whether man on second base, nobody out and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about moving that guy over, I would think about
Speaker 1: guys who are how they're hitting behind me, Guys even
Speaker 1: after that, who's in the bullpen? The game told me
Speaker 1: so much on that at bat. Am I leading off
Speaker 1: the inning? How good that picture is up there? As well?
Speaker 1: Am I just trying to get on base? So all
Speaker 1: those things factored in prior to when I stepped into
Speaker 1: the batter's box. So the game told me, Okay, here's
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do. Well, when I have that
Speaker 1: idea of what I'm trying to do that particular at bat,
Speaker 1: there's either certain areas I'm looking or certain pitches that
Speaker 1: I'm looking, and a lot of times it was area.
Speaker 1: For example, if I'm thinking going the other way, I'm
Speaker 1: looking away to try to get that accomplished, you know,
Speaker 1: to try to make sure to move the guy over
Speaker 1: at the very least, and I'm going to try to
Speaker 1: give myself. Maybe I always thought it wasn't three strikes
Speaker 1: in I'm out. I got three chances to accomplish my goal,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to just let you take away
Speaker 1: a chance. So if it's the first pitch that allowed
Speaker 1: that you throw in the area that I'm looking at
Speaker 1: and try to accomplish my goal and that at bat,
Speaker 1: I'm going to let it fly. So I'm ready to
Speaker 1: do my job from the very first pitch. I don't
Speaker 1: need to wait to see one.
Speaker 3: I've been looking at the picture from the side of
Speaker 3: the entire time. I don't need to wait to see one.
Speaker 1: I don't need that I've already done all of that
Speaker 1: I'm ready the moment I step in.
Speaker 2: No mark before I let you go. Obviously, Shoho Tani
Speaker 2: has set the expectations and the bars so high with
Speaker 2: what he's done in his entire career and especially the
Speaker 2: last two years with the Dodgers. Do you believe the
Speaker 2: pitching is affecting the hitting? And do you see a
Speaker 2: guy that is a little tired even though we're just
Speaker 2: in May.
Speaker 1: I think it's that's the easy thing to say, he's
Speaker 1: he's he in a corner, and I think it's just
Speaker 1: unfair to say that, because it's really to say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: he's struggling. This is why hitting is hard, extremely hard.
Speaker 1: Everybody goes through slumps. Everybody goes through struggles, whether you're
Speaker 1: just a DH and all you are is focusing on hitting,
Speaker 1: or whether you're playing defense, or whether you're like it's hard.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to say his pitching is affecting
Speaker 1: is hitting. That is way too easy and that's assuming
Speaker 1: so much. When I watch show, Hey, I just think
Speaker 1: his mechanics are off. I think right now he's where
Speaker 1: the times that we've seen in the past since he's
Speaker 1: been in the Dodger uniform, he went through slumps, even
Speaker 1: when he wasn't pitching, when all he did was the
Speaker 1: age when that fifty to fifty season, that was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: He went through a slump. He went through stretches where
Speaker 1: he was pulling off the ball. He went through stretches
Speaker 1: where he was rolling over. He went through stretches where
Speaker 1: it looked like he was chasing out.
Speaker 3: Of the zone. He went through all of those stretches.
Speaker 3: We're seeing that right now.
Speaker 1: And to me, when I look at his swing, his
Speaker 1: bat path and some of the mechanics, I think the
Speaker 1: same thing back then that got him that he struggled with,
Speaker 1: is happening right now. I just think we're seeing that
Speaker 1: more where the front side, his front hip and his
Speaker 1: front shoulders are bailing out together at the same time,
Speaker 1: and that pulls off the ball rather than your front
Speaker 1: your your hip can open up, but his top upper
Speaker 1: half would stay closed longer, and he stays on the
Speaker 1: ball longer. When he does that, he stays on more pitches,
Speaker 1: he sees pitches longer, and he drives the ball, especially
Speaker 1: the other way.
Speaker 3: Right now, he's just not doing that. I've seen him do.
Speaker 1: That in the past where he struggles, So I don't
Speaker 1: want to say it's pitching by any means, and I
Speaker 1: can't say that it's unfair.
Speaker 3: But I think he'll get back on track, all right.
Speaker 2: I believe everything no Mar says. I mean, he is
Speaker 2: definitely a hitting coach on tell and certainly a guy
Speaker 2: that had a great all around baseball feel. Thanks a
Speaker 2: lot for the time, Nomar.
Speaker 3: You bet, Dave. Always good to talk to you.
Speaker 2: I don't want to put you in that box, Nomar.
Speaker 2: You are more than just a great hitter.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that you know you try to be
Speaker 1: more than just that. You know you you cared about
Speaker 1: both sides of the plate. Dave.
Speaker 3: You know that that's right.
Speaker 2: And I'm here for Nomar. Not only is he here
Speaker 2: for us, I'm here for him. Just a reminder, NOMR.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow's Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Dave. I appreciate that you're exactly right.
Speaker 1: So Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mother's out there.
Speaker 1: And I gotta make sure I'm gonna call my mom
Speaker 1: and call my wife, and you know those two are
Speaker 1: definitely calls for sure,