Speaker 1: An exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker. All right,
Speaker 1: game six is upon us, and we're here right now
Speaker 1: with the man that's been with the Dodgers longer than
Speaker 1: anybody else this side of Clayton Kershaw, and that's the
Speaker 1: one and only Key K Hernandez key K. Thanks a
Speaker 1: lot for the time and appreciate it and great to
Speaker 1: catch up with you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, key K.
Speaker 1: When you look at the situation you guys are in,
Speaker 1: you've been in this spot before, as recently as last
Speaker 1: year in the NLDS. Do you guys draw upon that
Speaker 1: feeling and the way you responded?
Speaker 2: Ah, I mean, yeah, you you got to try to
Speaker 2: find a positive way to think about things. And you
Speaker 2: know what better way to think about that. We've been
Speaker 2: here before, and we've gotten out of this hole before,
Speaker 2: and I think under even tougher circumstances. You know, going
Speaker 2: into Game four last year down two to one against
Speaker 2: the Padres at their place, with no starting pitcher kind
Speaker 2: of put us in a tough spot. But uh, you know,
Speaker 2: knowing that we came from we came from behind from
Speaker 2: that and we were able to, you know, to to
Speaker 2: do it. And for me, you know a few of
Speaker 2: those guys here, we're here in twenty twenty when we
Speaker 2: came from behind three to one. There's some of us
Speaker 2: that have been there, done that, So you know, you
Speaker 2: just got to find a way to, you know, flesh
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 1: When you have a picture like Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound,
Speaker 1: for you guys, is that where some of this confidence
Speaker 1: comes from that you can force a game seven?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think with our story in rotation,
Speaker 2: no matter who's on the mountd we feel really good
Speaker 2: about it. Obviously, you know who was probably the guy
Speaker 2: that throwing the ball the best and no better guy
Speaker 2: to take the mount and again than him with a
Speaker 2: season on the line, And obviously we know as an
Speaker 2: offense that we need to we need to pick it
Speaker 2: up and we need to do our jobs.
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of your Playoffs series before. There's
Speaker 1: been times where there's been a lot of overthinking trying
Speaker 1: to play that chess game with the other pitcher the
Speaker 1: other team. Do you feel like you're at that point
Speaker 1: in this series where at some point you guys should
Speaker 1: just got to find a way to compete in the
Speaker 1: batter's box and and not worry about what they're trying
Speaker 1: to do to you, but play to your strengths.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, I just we need to be better overall.
Speaker 2: I mean just not one thing or the other. We
Speaker 2: just need to be better. We need to fight. We
Speaker 2: need to find that fight, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 2: I'm confident that we're gonna We're gonna show up and
Speaker 2: we're gonna do that. Obviously, it's a it's a winner
Speaker 2: go home. So uh, you just gotta leave it all
Speaker 2: in the field and and compete to the best of
Speaker 2: your abilities.
Speaker 1: You guys said that you Savage did some different things
Speaker 1: in game five than what you saw in game one.
Speaker 1: Do you expect Kevin Gosman to do anything differently or
Speaker 1: is it going back to what we talked about just
Speaker 1: seeing what he has that night in a justin game.
Speaker 2: No. Yeah, I think we're gonna do a better job
Speaker 2: adjusting in game. It's just, uh, I don't necessarily think
Speaker 2: that Gosman is gonna come out differently. He Uh, he
Speaker 2: had really good stuff his last time out. He had
Speaker 2: really good command, he was he threw a great game
Speaker 2: Game two. Is just we were able to get to
Speaker 2: him in the seventh inning. So hopefully we can get
Speaker 2: to him before before the seventh this time through, you're
Speaker 2: one of.
Speaker 1: The more direct guys, so I'll ask you this direct question.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are speculating and talking about whether
Speaker 1: or not that eighteen inning game took a lot out
Speaker 1: of the team these last two games. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like that's just something people are trying to grasp to
Speaker 1: or is there something to it.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously people were going to talk about they
Speaker 2: got to you know, you got to find that when
Speaker 2: things are not going well, they're going to speculate about
Speaker 2: X and ys. And I think we go out, we
Speaker 2: win Game four, nobody was going to be talking about
Speaker 2: you know, that took a lot of out of us.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just even in Game three, in that
Speaker 2: eighteen inning game, we were just not really doing much
Speaker 2: as an offense, and the only difference was that their
Speaker 2: offense wasn't doing anything as well. So the last couple
Speaker 2: of days or their offense has been able to capitalize
Speaker 2: on when they when they've had traffic, they've hit some
Speaker 2: key homers and we haven't been able to do that.
Speaker 2: I think for us, it's just a matter of you know,
Speaker 2: going back to bases and just competing.
Speaker 1: Does anything need to be said before the game? Where
Speaker 1: was anything said on the plane ride here? Or does
Speaker 1: nothing need to be said?
Speaker 2: Uh? I think things that happen in locker rooms should
Speaker 2: stay in the locker room. I don't think that's uh.
Speaker 2: You know. I'll let you guys create narratives, but I
Speaker 2: think the locker room is his or own private space
Speaker 2: and what happens in there should probably stay in there.
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good? I love it. Thanks K, Thank
Speaker 1: you for the time.
Speaker 2: Cool Thanks