Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are in Milwaukee and the Dodger bullpen has
Speaker 2: pitched twenty nine consecutive scoreless innings as a group, using
Speaker 2: ten different pitchers, and I'm joined right now by two
Speaker 2: of those guys, Will Klein and Kyle Hurt. Klein, thanks
Speaker 2: a lot for the time, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having us.
Speaker 4: Kyle Hurt, this is on the up and up, So
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 2: All of you have seemed to done your part in
Speaker 2: a big way. Is it more rewarding that all of
Speaker 2: you as a group have been able to help the
Speaker 2: team win games, including a bullpen game Friday night last
Speaker 2: week in Anaheim?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so. I mean, we have so many talented
Speaker 3: hitters and so just to be able to go out
Speaker 3: there put up a zero, give them a chance to
Speaker 3: you know, go do their thing. And you know the
Speaker 3: fact that we've had so many guys be able to
Speaker 3: contribute and do it over and over it just gives
Speaker 3: our like, here are so many opportunities to win us games,
Speaker 3: and so it's nice a little part of that, you know.
Speaker 4: Kyle, What's it been like for you.
Speaker 2: You've been able to come in this season in Denver
Speaker 2: and show that you belong.
Speaker 1: It's been great.
Speaker 5: Lot of good guys down in the bullpen, and I
Speaker 5: think I gotta give some credit to the hitters.
Speaker 1: They're playing some great defense. You know.
Speaker 5: I feel like I've given up some pretty hard hit
Speaker 5: balls and some guys are making some really, really good plays.
Speaker 1: But overall, everyone's doing a great job.
Speaker 4: Why why are you saying, don't do that.
Speaker 3: Everyone gives up hard hit balls. You don't need to,
Speaker 3: you know, say anything. I feel like, you know, but
Speaker 3: we have I don't know, I just it's part of
Speaker 3: the game. But we have great defense out there, any
Speaker 3: Mookie everyone, you know, Max playing great there at Freddie
Speaker 3: great first, but I mean everyone's playing crazy defense.
Speaker 1: It's it's nice to let.
Speaker 3: Him put the ball and play and know, you know
Speaker 3: they're gonna make plays behind you.
Speaker 2: Lake trying to come over here. This is a group,
Speaker 2: come on over here. No, he doesn't want in Kyle.
Speaker 2: That's got to give you confidence. Just the fact that
Speaker 2: these guys believe in you and maybe have confidence in
Speaker 2: you the way that most relievers don't get love from
Speaker 2: their teammates.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's just one pitch out of time.
Speaker 5: You know, things can happen and you can't really predict.
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: You just gotta be be in the moment and throw
Speaker 5: that exact pitch and let the defense do their thing.
Speaker 2: I remember you told me when you first started to
Speaker 2: get some reps this season that you stop thinking so much,
Speaker 2: that you just knew you had to be yourself.
Speaker 4: Is that a constant reminder?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I try not to do a whole
Speaker 5: lot of thinking out there. You know, just whatever pitch
Speaker 5: is called, you know, you just have to execute it.
Speaker 5: If you don't execute it, it might get hit, it
Speaker 5: might not.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Will kleinb this year started a bullpen game.
Speaker 2: He has a hold, and he has his first career save.
Speaker 2: I broke to Klein the other day that he wasn't
Speaker 2: the first pitcher to do that. He's actually one of
Speaker 2: nineteen this season, a half all three.
Speaker 4: I thought I was.
Speaker 3: I was excited someone relayed false information. But it's cool
Speaker 3: to be a part of that.
Speaker 4: Club, you know.
Speaker 3: Just I feel like I'm ready to for whenever, you know,
Speaker 3: Doc might need me to pitch. You know, it's it's
Speaker 3: kind of fun to be able to go in first going,
Speaker 3: in the seventh, going, the ninth leg. It's I think
Speaker 3: every one of our guys would would do that in
Speaker 3: a heartbeat, and so it's you know, I feel like
Speaker 3: we're well oiled machine right now out there, and you know,
Speaker 3: everyone's just doing whatever whatever they can whenever they're called upon.
Speaker 3: So it's it's fun.
Speaker 2: Will Klein and Kyle heard our guest. It's a team
Speaker 2: effort in the bullpen. There's their pitching coach Connor McGinnis.
Speaker 2: Everybody very jealous that I have the two right hand
Speaker 2: or high leverage Righty's right here before the first pitch.
Speaker 1: Great to be with you, Dave, so excited.
Speaker 4: Hey, what's the dynamic out there? It seems like.
Speaker 2: All of you have a good sense of humor, but
Speaker 2: a lot of times it's very awkward sense of humors
Speaker 2: from Tanner Scott to Blake Tryn And how do you
Speaker 2: guys handle all that.
Speaker 5: We're just being ourselves and we're having some fun and
Speaker 5: it's a really solid group of guys down there. Even
Speaker 5: our bullpen catchers Hammer and Chico or are getting in
Speaker 5: on the fun, you know.
Speaker 1: So we're just living day by day out there.
Speaker 2: Do you really believe Kyle Hurt lives his life the
Speaker 2: way he wants us to believe.
Speaker 1: He does.
Speaker 3: That man does whatever he wants, whenever he wants.
Speaker 1: And you know what, that's not true.
Speaker 3: This is ever his wife wants whenever he wants.
Speaker 4: Hey, he understands.
Speaker 1: I do understand that far. Yep.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, thanks a lot for stopping. Really appreciate
Speaker 2: it and keep it going. And certainly it's not one guy,
Speaker 2: it's a group of you. But I felt like this
Speaker 2: is the only only way I could harness this interview
Speaker 2: with just two of you.
Speaker 4: Not more than two.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 4: No, it's just like the rule of the Sith. There's
Speaker 4: only two.
Speaker 1: You get Josh bart on the MIC.
Speaker 4: He has not been on in like five years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you could do Barto get an interview, that'd
Speaker 3: be impressive.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, whatever he's doing coaching you guys up
Speaker 2: down there, it's working.
Speaker 4: So thank you Will Klein, Thank you Kyle Hurt.
Speaker 3: Thanks for setting this up.
Speaker 4: Dave, Thank you Dave.