Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk. Well,
Speaker 1: you never know who you'll see at Dodger Stadium, and
Speaker 1: I am so happy I found this guy because he
Speaker 1: was one of the greatest pictures of his generation. And
Speaker 1: certainly when you think about great Dodger pitchers, you have
Speaker 1: to think about the one and only Ramon Martinez. And
Speaker 1: let me just give you his resume. Ramo Martinez tied
Speaker 1: Sandy Kofax's eighteen strikeout game in nineteen ninety. He threw
Speaker 1: a no hitter in the mid nineties. He was the
Speaker 1: man not Pedro Ramon for the Dodgers. And Ramo Martinez
Speaker 1: is back at Dodger Stadium. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the time appreciated.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much to me.
Speaker 3: It's a great owner to be to be Au Wabin
Speaker 3: at Dodgers and I mean, I'm very happy to be
Speaker 3: here after a while. And it's unbelievable good. It's very nice,
Speaker 3: a very special place.
Speaker 1: When you first stepped into Dodgers Stadium, what memory do
Speaker 1: you have the most.
Speaker 3: Well, my memory walking in, I remember my first my
Speaker 3: first game when I pitched over here, my debut, and
Speaker 3: that was I'll go thirteen against the Giant, which it
Speaker 3: was amazing. I mean, like God gave me, like did
Speaker 3: the good taste of being the manual League.
Speaker 2: So that was unbelievable.
Speaker 4: You pitched really well that game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I pitched. Yeah, I pitched it, especially that
Speaker 3: I remember the we on Penna race. We were I
Speaker 3: had on the Western Division. We were head of the Giant,
Speaker 3: So it was good, especially with that rivalry that we
Speaker 3: the Dodger and.
Speaker 2: The Giant hat always has.
Speaker 1: If you were growing up in the nineties, Ramon Martinez
Speaker 1: was one of your favorite pitchers, if not your favorite pitcher.
Speaker 1: Eighteen strikeouts in nineteen ninety. You don't think I know
Speaker 1: the team I do the Atlanta Braves. You struck out
Speaker 1: eighteen Atlanta Braves, tying sand the Cofax's record.
Speaker 4: What do you remember about that night?
Speaker 3: But I think again, like that, to me, I remember
Speaker 3: every every moment everything, because I I remember the first
Speaker 3: when I first when I go through the first fifteen
Speaker 3: batter I got around twelve would strike out and it
Speaker 3: was like I would just tracking guys out. But I
Speaker 3: wasn't thinking about like, well it's on the record. Only
Speaker 3: when when I tied the record, that when I hear
Speaker 3: that everybody you know a whole fan, they would, they would,
Speaker 3: they would, you know, they were like wow. And then
Speaker 3: I checked the scoreboard and not see that I just
Speaker 3: tied a record. So it was it was unbelieable. Uh
Speaker 3: be one of those guys that, especially like Sandy my
Speaker 3: very I mean, like one of my mentor one of
Speaker 3: the guy that I did. I look up to, the
Speaker 3: guy that I talk a lot so give me good advice.
Speaker 2: So it was it was honor to me.
Speaker 1: The one thing I always hear Dominican players say, Romo Martinez,
Speaker 1: you talk about Sandy Kofax being your mentor.
Speaker 4: So many Dominicans say you were their mentor. What made
Speaker 4: you care about other players as much as maybe your
Speaker 4: own career?
Speaker 3: Well, I think you know, like especially when we come
Speaker 3: from I think some of the younger kids like you
Speaker 3: can give a good advice. So I learned that learn
Speaker 3: I learned from uh Drydale, I learned from uh Newcombe,
Speaker 3: Johnny Pade talk to me, my change, yep. I mean
Speaker 3: all those guys we had in Audio town, and uh
Speaker 3: it was easy to you know, get to them, talk
Speaker 3: to them. So you know, when you grew up with
Speaker 3: that and then you become a magi oliga so you
Speaker 3: can give you can get back to the youngest.
Speaker 4: How about Oral Hersheiser. You're here with Oral.
Speaker 1: He's brought you back for his car dealership for legends
Speaker 1: addic how much did Oral Herscheizer help you?
Speaker 3: Of course I'm breaking in my I remember my first
Speaker 3: game when I pitched. Also, like I spent time with
Speaker 3: orl Uh and my you know and and uh. When
Speaker 3: I became a party man roster, that's when I got
Speaker 3: more time to spend time with him, and I would
Speaker 3: I would just take in every little detail whatever, you know,
Speaker 3: watch him watching pitch how I do?
Speaker 2: How smart it is?
Speaker 3: I mean, it was like unbelieble, so must of to
Speaker 3: pitch that way the way I did it was it
Speaker 3: was it was because of him, because he was the
Speaker 3: guy who who could learn how to change speed on
Speaker 3: the game. I can move in the ball, I mean
Speaker 3: I have. I mean he was the guy who told
Speaker 3: me a lot of them about pitching.
Speaker 1: Ramo Martinez always paying it forward. All right, I got
Speaker 1: two more questions for you. I know, no mar is
Speaker 1: over there, your brother's old teammate, But we care about
Speaker 1: Romot Martinez in La as far as your no hitter.
Speaker 4: What do you have from that game?
Speaker 2: Still?
Speaker 4: Was it nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3: Five, nineteen ninety five, Yes, yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 3: a great game. It was a very excited game. I
Speaker 3: remember that I was perfect for us. I think it
Speaker 3: was just seven and seven and two thirty. I think
Speaker 3: it was going to perfect. But you know, you know,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of butterfly when you pass. When you
Speaker 3: passed the fifteen, and you kind of take everything count,
Speaker 3: you tag what I'm getting closed. And then when I
Speaker 3: remember the eighth when I walked, uh.
Speaker 2: When I walked the guy, the only walk that I have.
Speaker 3: It, I kind of released a little bit and then
Speaker 3: come back and you know, come back and finish it up.
Speaker 2: So it was Unbolia expirs.
Speaker 4: We're right in front of the Dodger Dugout.
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to have seats on the field level,
Speaker 1: right behind third base in the field level. Nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 1: the game right before the All Star break.
Speaker 4: You know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 1: Roma Martinez was on his way to the cy Young
Speaker 1: but the San Diego Padres third baseman Jack Howe hit
Speaker 1: a line drive off your pitching shoulder. How much do
Speaker 1: you remember about that and how much did that change
Speaker 1: the team?
Speaker 4: Yeah, remember, I'll be surprised. I know that Ramone.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm kind of surprising because that was that was
Speaker 3: that was breaking. That was my last start that I gonna.
Speaker 3: I was I was supposed to open the I supposed
Speaker 3: to open Toronto, the outside game in Toronto. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: because that land drive, I can pay. So I just
Speaker 3: made appearance. But he affected the team because we won't
Speaker 3: we won't contend that we we will you know that
Speaker 3: were nine games up. Yeah, yeah, so it was like,
Speaker 3: you know, it was hard for me because he heard me,
Speaker 3: and uh, I was trying to do my best at
Speaker 3: that time, but it was it was kind of angeriously
Speaker 3: bothered me a lot.
Speaker 1: Hey, in the eighties it was oral Herscheizer and Fernando Venezuela.
Speaker 4: In the nineties it was Ramone Martinez.
Speaker 1: It's so great to have you back here, and as
Speaker 1: long as I'm here, nobody will forget the contributions you
Speaker 1: made to this organization.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. It's to me. It's a it's
Speaker 2: a great honor. I'm a I'm a dodgy friend. Oh
Speaker 2: the way I will be.
Speaker 3: I followed them and uh, I mean it's greater to
Speaker 3: me the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They make the difference.
Speaker 3: And even when looking back, I think we were ahead
Speaker 3: of the time at that point because so everything what
Speaker 3: we did, it was everything discipline, the teacher, disciplined, the teacher,
Speaker 3: how to play the game. I mean, it was unbelievble
Speaker 3: experience that I have in my career as a Dodger.
Speaker 4: Thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 1: I think you still are wearing the same sunglasses used
Speaker 1: to wearing the dugout.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, it's uh yeah yeah, just uh hey.
Speaker 1: Ramo Martinez a big fan. Thank you for the time,
Speaker 1: and like I said, great to have you back in LA.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.