Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: It's Game one of the NLCS and Dodger catcher Will
Speaker 1: Smith has been in the postseason every single season in
Speaker 1: the big leagues. Will thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Does this ever get lost on you that what you've
Speaker 1: done in your career? Not a lot of players get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to be part of the postseason every season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's special. You know. I'm fortunate to be
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers. You know, we're in a spot we're
Speaker 2: good every year, so we get to play in these
Speaker 2: late late October games. I'm trying to do it again
Speaker 2: this year, trying to, you know, have a good series
Speaker 2: against the Brewers. They're a good team, come out and
Speaker 2: eliminate them and move on to the World Series.
Speaker 1: Other Dodgers have told me how much they love hitting
Speaker 1: in this ballpark. What is it about this ballpark that
Speaker 1: makes it so hit her friendly?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I've I don't know, honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 2: So hit her friendly, but got a good place to
Speaker 2: hit you can see the ball well here, I don't know.
Speaker 2: They got some good arms there though. They throw the
Speaker 2: ball hard, so it'll be it'll be a good test.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know the reason, I really don't, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's a good backdrop over there.
Speaker 1: Well, this Brewers team puts the ball in play a lot.
Speaker 1: They forced the issue taking the extra base, stealing bases.
Speaker 1: They've led the National League and stealing bases this year.
Speaker 1: How much is that in the back of your mind
Speaker 1: and putting it in the forefront of Pitcher's minds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's definitely. Know what they're good at. They
Speaker 2: do the little things well, they take the extra base,
Speaker 2: they they keep pressure on the other team. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to do our best to you know,
Speaker 2: slow them down, keep them off the bases now then
Speaker 2: go to that extra ninety feet. But yeah, we just gotta
Speaker 2: play good baseball. You know, Pitcher's gotta pitch, give me
Speaker 2: a chance to throw them out if they go, you know,
Speaker 2: make make the plays in the field and not give
Speaker 2: them any extra any extra bases.
Speaker 1: I know, every situation dictates what's more important than another,
Speaker 1: but how important is it to try to control them
Speaker 1: and stealing bases?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, ninety feet huge. You know, you go from
Speaker 2: first to second, you're a score position in base knock
Speaker 2: is a run, so it's big. We gotta cut him down.
Speaker 2: You know, pitches gotta be quick, but they still got
Speaker 2: to make their pitches. And you know, I gotta make
Speaker 2: a good throw Mooki or Muki or Tommy or Miggey,
Speaker 2: whoever's out there. It's got to get a good tag.
Speaker 2: So it'll be tough. But uh, you know, I feel
Speaker 2: like we've done a pretty pretty good job with it
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna point to the fact they beat you all
Speaker 1: six times this year, But how different is this Dodger
Speaker 1: team compared to the one that they saw in July
Speaker 1: six times in ten days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they they beats pretty handley. That was that was
Speaker 2: kind of our roughest stretch was right around them. But
Speaker 2: they're a good too. Yeah, we've got to play good baseball.
Speaker 2: You know, it's gonna start with h Blake the offense
Speaker 2: to good start, and uh, yeah, I try to win
Speaker 2: a game one.
Speaker 1: Blake Snell has really shown what he's all about in
Speaker 1: the first couple of starts in the postseason. What have
Speaker 1: you seen from him? Just in these handful of starts
Speaker 1: that you've caught.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's been dominant. I only call it the
Speaker 2: one inning for him from Philly. But uh, just watching
Speaker 2: him Againt Cincinnati, watching mister Phillies in early in that series,
Speaker 2: it was it was. It was awesome, man, it was.
Speaker 2: It was impressive what he was doing. It's he's mixing pitches.
Speaker 2: He's just making pitches. He's executing, getting ahead of guys,
Speaker 2: putting guys away, missing barrels. It's it's been fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Early in the start. Can you tell when he's on?
Speaker 1: Is it about the fastball command up in the zone?
Speaker 1: Is it the change up? What is it that tells
Speaker 1: you Okay, he's got it tonight.
Speaker 2: Uh, he's usually pretty on. You know, usually stuff's there,
Speaker 2: he's making pitches. But yeah, it's just the command, it's
Speaker 2: how it's how the hitters are reacting to it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just just mixing speeds, keep him off balance, being unpredictable,
Speaker 2: putting guys away, and you know, getting outs and putting
Speaker 2: on zeros.
Speaker 1: Before I let you go. It seems like the talk
Speaker 1: about your right hand has quite it quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Is that just a product of the fact that it's
Speaker 1: not affecting you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's feeling good. It's feeling good, no worries at all,
Speaker 2: still doing you know, the daily treatment all that. So
Speaker 2: it's feeling good. Uh but yeah, we're in a really
Speaker 2: good spot right now. All right.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks a lot for the time, appreciate it, and
Speaker 1: good luck this series and I'll stay away from the slide,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: Thanks,