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The Dodger bullpen has been stellar all
season long, and a big part of

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it is their left hand or Alex
Vessia. Thanks a lot for the time.

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Great to be with you in the
concrete jungle of New York. Thanks

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Dave. Happy to be here,
you got me, had a good time.

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We got route about ten minutes before
we go and play some catch and

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feeling good. Yeah, so a
daylight today, coming off the high of

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last night. How is it for
you to be out here? It's great?

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Let's do it again tonight. Yeah. I love that attitude got to

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in the bullpen, and that's the
goal is to be ready day in and

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day out. You know, it's
yeshair was a good one. Today we

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have the opportunity to do it again. Am I allowed to ask you about

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last night? Sure? Absolutely?
What you got? Well? I thought

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it was so impressive. Number one, you come in with the bases loaded

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in the sixth inning, no margin
for error against one of their better hitters

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and Anthony Volpi. How do you
manage that knowing that there's nowhere else to

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put them one pitch at a time. Yeah, that was basically my mentality.

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It was keeping the heart rate down, making sure I was, you

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know, going to my strengths,
and I felt like Will and I were

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on the same page right from the
get go. And you know, we

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executed some pretty good pitches, got
them to pop out. So for me,

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all I was looking for in that
situation was one out, didn't I

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didn't care how it came. Yeah, all good. That's gotta be the

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biggest key to being a pitcher,
and certainly a relief pitcher. Not getting

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too far ahead. Yep. Absolutely, try to stay in the moment.

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Like I said, one pitch at
a time, right, you know,

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everybody loves you, but yeah,
it's you know, for myself, not

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focusing on the pitch before or even
what pitch I'm gonna throw in two or

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three pitches, it's basically the pitch
at hand, making sure it's executed to

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my best abilities. Alex Vessi is
our guest and front of Sunday Night Baseball

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at Yankee Stadium. The guy that
just called you the goat is pretty good

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himself, Blake trying in. You're
surrounded with Daniel Hudson as well, Evan

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Phillips. The great group of guys
you have, Yeah, absolutely veterans that

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I've I've picked their brain on multiple
occasions over the last two three years.

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They have definitely helped me in more
ways than one, you know. And

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the thing that I cherish the most
is that they don't sugarcoat anything. You

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know, They've been blunt, they've
been brutal at times. But it's that's

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what great friends do. You know, that they tell you how they see

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it and and and sometimes how it
is. You know, it makes me

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look myself in the mirror and and
you know where I have to make the

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hard decisions and go through, you
know, go through hard times, right

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like that's you know, I've I've
had failure, I've had success. You

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know, I feel like I've done
a little bit of everything, you know,

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and you know, when things are
going good, you stay on your

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routine and it's you know, like
I said, it's clicking, you know,

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one one inning at a time,
one pitch at a time. We

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just take it day by day.
Man. It's uh, you can't think

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too far ahead, you know,
it's we got to win today. What

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can you say about Blake trying and
being back this year and Daniel Hudson being

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back this year, just seems like
that bullpen is just nothing tangible, but

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just something a little bit more stronger. Yeah, I mean we with Huddy

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specifically, I got to play with
him last the last couple of years.

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We we thought last year was gonna
be his last year, and you know,

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we had shared a moment last year
after the playoffs, and and then

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when I saw it on Twitter that
he was back, immediately called him and

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I couldn't you know, I was
super happy to have him back. Blake.

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You know, it when when guys
go through injuries, you know,

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sometimes it's out of their control,
you know, and for what Blake has

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had to deal with the last two
years, I couldn't be more happy for

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him getting back out on the mound
and then having success right out right out

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the gate. You know, we
we used him in a couple really tight

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spots right out the gate, and
the guys just meant for it. You

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know. He he does his thing
and gosh, it's it's it's always fun

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to go on Twitter after his outings
and see all the nasty pitches that that

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pitching ninja will will post because it
literally it doesn't look real, you know,

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video game. It's yeah, it's
one hundred percent video game. So

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yeah, he's he's a special human
and yeah, I give him a lot

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of credit, a lot of credit. Alex VESSI is our guest before I

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let you go. Like you said, it's day to day. You're only

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as good as your last pitch or
lest outing. So what's the vibe when

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you go out and play catch and
the vibe in that bullpen tonight, knowing

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that you've already won this series.
You guys have done a great job all

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year. What can you describe just
the vibe in that bullpen? Yeah,

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so we're I mean, we'll go
play catch, well, you know,

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make sure everybody's you know, feeling
good. I'll talk with Barto and Connor

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about about some pitching stuff maybe see
if I'm hot or not tonight that that'll

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be decided a little bit later.
But you know, the vibes are good

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in the bullpen. Vibes are really
good, man. We we love the

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attention that we've been getting lately,
you know, with with Mookie and the

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guys that you know, when they
do hit a double, they they say,

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what's up to us out in the
bullpen? Like you know, that's

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cool, you know, because we
don't get to be in the dugout where

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you know, for for too long, whether in the first inning or it's

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after we're done pitching, you know. So yeah, to have to have

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that that little uh we'll call it
the spotlight. Right. It's fun,

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man, We have a good time
and you know it's fun out there.

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We've got some good guys. Yeah, you do. Great team, Alex

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Vessia. So happy for you.
You've been such a big part of this

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team the last three or four years. And keep it rolling. Thank you,

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thank you. I gotta get to
catch play. I'll talk catch it.

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See right there he goes, Alex
Vessia out with his boys in the bullpen.