Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: All right, the Dodgers are getting set for a doubleheader
Speaker 2: in the Bronx, and I'm joined right now by one
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers super relievers. I say one of them,
Speaker 2: because the Dodger bullpen has been phenomenal all season long.
Speaker 2: And that's the one and only Tanner Scott. Thanks a
Speaker 2: lot for the time this morning, Tanner.
Speaker 3: Thanks Dave, Thanks a double header day. Thanks, You're welcome.
Speaker 4: How do I look? How do I look right now?
Speaker 3: I mean tired? I mean no good good.
Speaker 1: It's probably uh not Travis made might be missing man
Speaker 1: it is, and those genes might be Travis Mathews.
Speaker 4: I just meant the face.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I don't know what I'm there.
Speaker 4: So what did you do with your night off in
Speaker 4: New York? Last night?
Speaker 1: Hung out with the family, went to uh is it
Speaker 1: called Lego World or just just Lego Lego Lego store
Speaker 1: and bought some Legos for my son.
Speaker 4: That's a very wholesome night in New York.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I wanted to stay inside.
Speaker 4: Hey, Tanner, on a daylight today.
Speaker 2: We all know about starters and players, but for relievers,
Speaker 2: how do you guys prepare mentally and physically for a
Speaker 2: double header.
Speaker 1: One game out of time. Yeah, I mean it's just
Speaker 1: one game at a time. We got a Yama starting
Speaker 1: game one, so that's huge. And then I mean just
Speaker 1: go out there and try to get the first win
Speaker 1: and then move on to the second.
Speaker 2: You guys have a routine before every game, will you
Speaker 2: repeat that routine between games? I mean, well, you guys
Speaker 2: go out there and throw, you stretch.
Speaker 1: Some some guys might go out there and throw in between,
Speaker 1: but I mean usually some guys will do stuff in
Speaker 1: here like bios or something. But it's all about getting
Speaker 1: your body right. Worst case scenario, you can go down
Speaker 1: to the bullpen and they called down.
Speaker 3: You just throw a little more.
Speaker 1: But uh no, I don't know how many guys have
Speaker 1: done twelve seven double headers, but yeah, it all works out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it always does. Tanner Scott is our guest. This
Speaker 2: bullpen has a group. I know you're not about yourself,
Speaker 2: but as a group, have you guys been able to
Speaker 2: put it together in different ways? Because you look at
Speaker 2: your style completely different than Jack Dryer or completely different
Speaker 2: than how Alex Vesia does it. Do you feel like
Speaker 2: that's an advantage. How you guys give hitters different looks.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, yeah, I mean everyone everyone in
Speaker 1: our bullpen's got great stuff. Jack has a pretty great
Speaker 1: curveball he uses. And then Vessa's change up just came
Speaker 1: out of no or So that's sweet.
Speaker 3: No, just going out there and just being who you are.
Speaker 4: Vesia has been working on that change up.
Speaker 3: It's good. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: I usually I don't really stand by him during catch play,
Speaker 1: but yesterday I saw it and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I see.
Speaker 3: I see what it.
Speaker 2: Is as a reliever when you're trying to develop a
Speaker 2: new pitch like he is and use it in a game.
Speaker 4: I got two pitches, I know, but as far as
Speaker 4: he can.
Speaker 3: I got two bitches. You can look at my track
Speaker 3: record I throwing one change up in the big leagues.
Speaker 4: I know, I went to the backstop.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: But do you do you appreciate how a guy trusts
Speaker 2: like that new pitch in a game.
Speaker 4: That's kind of a leap of faith.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was working on a late last year.
Speaker 1: And I mean, if you go in a full offseason,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you work on it, and then I mean,
Speaker 1: our pitching coaches are great that hear that, just tell
Speaker 1: him to throw it during like catch play, long toss.
Speaker 3: I mean that's when you get a feel of it.
Speaker 3: And he used it all off season, so it's been good.
Speaker 2: Tanner at Gardo Enriquez a man of mystery. Obviously English
Speaker 2: is not his first language.
Speaker 4: What can you do?
Speaker 3: He's awesome, He's awesome.
Speaker 1: Today he's wearing a messag jersey, so I don't understand
Speaker 1: that it's not Venezuela, but I'll give it to him.
Speaker 2: So what have you seen as far as growth from
Speaker 2: him from last year to this year?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Just's he's comfortable. He's comfortable, confident and just goes out
Speaker 1: there and he knows how to attack and he's got
Speaker 1: great stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like he's evolving into a picture more
Speaker 2: than a thrower.
Speaker 3: Oh for sure.
Speaker 5: I mean he's twenty four or five and he throws
Speaker 5: up to one hundred and four, so I mean he's
Speaker 5: definitely from when I was with the Padres and I
Speaker 5: saw him throw when he first debuted, and.
Speaker 3: He was he had a live arm. But now it's
Speaker 3: like he's a pitcher.
Speaker 4: I did some research on you, Tanner.
Speaker 1: Scott one change up as a research to the backstop
Speaker 1: Anthony Rendo.
Speaker 2: Oh geez, you make it sound like it was yesh
Speaker 2: two count.
Speaker 3: Pitchclock got down in one second. They called it change
Speaker 3: up and I threw it.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's okay, okay, ny four change up
Speaker 2: registered fastball hurt my FeelA that day. Hey, before I
Speaker 2: let you go, if you go back to spring training,
Speaker 2: you mentioned to some reporters about a side session and
Speaker 2: Oral Herdscheiser was a guest instructor.
Speaker 4: Did he really help you trying.
Speaker 3: To get a free car? No, I'm just joking. No,
Speaker 3: he's uh, he's great. I mean I talked to him
Speaker 3: all the time, and when he comes on the.
Speaker 1: Road and he does it's road broadcasting. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he's just a great dude. I mean he he wants
Speaker 1: to be in your corner at all times and to
Speaker 1: learn from someone that's done it.
Speaker 3: For so long. It was so good. I mean, what
Speaker 3: was his scoreless.
Speaker 2: Streak fifty nine in the regular season, but in the
Speaker 2: postseason you include that sixty seven.
Speaker 1: I know. So, I mean he's good knowledge everywhere. I mean,
Speaker 1: whole organizations built off a lot of history. So it's
Speaker 1: it's great to pick minds of people that like when
Speaker 1: Sandy comes in there too.
Speaker 3: Wow, Sandy, that's a legend.
Speaker 2: You've talked to Sandy Kofax about pitching.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, Hey, I'm Tanner. Nice to meet you.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I don't I don't really know them.
Speaker 4: I would ask curse, but no, okay, okay, but no, just.
Speaker 1: All those all those legends that have been here, and
Speaker 1: they're all so nice and if you if you want
Speaker 1: to talk to them, they'll they'll they'll give you their knowledge.
Speaker 2: Was there something that really clicked in spring with oral
Speaker 2: rhiz there.
Speaker 3: I wanted a car? No, I mean, I don't. We
Speaker 3: just it's you take you.
Speaker 1: Take small things from conversations. You can't take it all
Speaker 1: at once. If you take all at once, you get
Speaker 1: kind of overwhelmed by it. So it's just here and there,
Speaker 1: here and there, here and there, And you gotta play
Speaker 1: with the chip on your shoulder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it, you do, so do I broadcast
Speaker 2: with a chip on my shoulder.
Speaker 3: I'm wiping my eyes because that was not I'm just sure.
Speaker 4: Thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 2: I know you don't do this too, and so I
Speaker 2: appreciate it, especially the day before or right before the first.
Speaker 4: Game of a double header.
Speaker 3: How much time are we at?
Speaker 4: We're good about quality, not quantity.
Speaker 3: I gotta go shave my head now. Okay, Shine, it's
Speaker 3: guta shine,