The Dodgers. I Mets wrapping up this three game series at City Field,
and we're joined right now by Dodgers second baseman Gavin Lux. Gavin, thanks
a lot for the time, appreciate it. We've found a corner in the
clubhouse to get away from Walker Buehler and Austin Barnes. Yeah, tough crowd
over there, tough crowd. It's all right. So hey, it feels
like still with veterans like that, you're still the younger brother. Yeah,
no, I know, I've been around since twenty nineteen and I still Yeah,
we got an older team, so I feel like a little kids.
So what's it like being around these group of players? I mean, like
you said, you've been here since twenty nineteen, but it feels like in
a lot of ways it's a new team. Yeah. Definitely a lot of
guys you can learn from a lot of you know, a couple guys that
are probably gonna be in the Hall of Fame one day, so you know,
just that's always you never stop learning. So you know, day to
day it's been great and even through you know, a little rough patch here,
you know, vibes are still good. Yeah, So it's just it's
never it's never any learning process. Really, it feels like the vibe has
completely changed from the first day you guys got to New York to where you're
at right now after that doubleheader sweep. Yeah for sure. I mean,
you get the monkey off your back a little bit, you get a couple
of wins, play much better baseball. But it's a long season. Man.
You got one hundred and sixty two of these on top of spring and
postseason, so you're going to hit a rough patch and you just kind of
got to weather the storm and keep moving. But yeah, I mean,
you get the monkey off your back. Everyone's a little looser, everyone's a
little more happy. So just keep trying to ride that wave. What's the
balance of that, knowing that it's may knowing there's a long season, but
obviously not getting used to losing. Yeah for sure. I mean, you
know, especially Dodgers and the team we have, I think everyone expects us
to win and compete, and we expect ourselves to compete and win. So
you know, when we're going through rough patches like that, I don't think
anyone's happy. You know, it's part of baseball, and you know it's
going to happen. But at the same time, it sucks and we all
expect ourselves to be better. So and I think so to our fans.
So does that everybody, And you know, well deserved obviously with the roster
we have so but yeah, it's a long season. You just gotta kind
of keep chipping away and grinding away. Gavin Lux is our guest here in
the Big Apple at City Field. I got to ask you about that first
game ninth inning, Daniel Hudson up to his hips and crocodiles, and you
were the one that made the final loud catching the pop up from Jeff McNeil.
What did that say? And how much of a lift did that give
everybody? And then the shush emoji. Man. Yeah, he's a dog,
hud He's got some big set of nuts. Excuse my language, but
yeah, I mean he just competes his ass off, and you know,
every time he goes out there, he's gonna throw strikes, he's going to
be in the zone, he's going to compete, and he's got great stuff.
I mean, he's back throwing ninety eight after coming off of a knee
surgery and he looks as good as he ever has. But yeah, to
shush the crowd. And then you know, he came in said, sometimes
you got to remind him that we're the Dodgers. And I think that's kind
of the motion energy that we needed right there, and especially like we keep
talking about us coming off like a weird stretch we were playing good. Him
to show that kind of emotion I think has helped us all and pumped us
up a little bit for sure. Yeah, I feel like you guys need
that alpha some of that swag back totally totally, and I think you know,
he did it. And then to him him saying to his credit like,
hey, sometimes you got to like tell people, show people where the
Dodgers, and and a veteran like that to come in and do that and
and get out of a huge jam like that where you know, easily we
could have lost and him to to to fight out of it, and uh,
I mean, yeah, that was that was awesome. And then in
the second game, you guys hit two home runs, one of them from
Miguel Vargas. As you know, everybody's career is not linear. How happy
were you for him? Yeah? I mean I was pumped up. He's
been working hard and and he's an extremely talented hitter and you know, just
more at bats. He's gonna he's gonna keep figuring it out. And it's
it's a tough league and and when uh, you know, you're you're trying
to fight for for at bats, and it's it can get tough. And
he's a he's a very talented player, and you know he's just gonna keep
getting better and better, and people forget he's still only twenty four with probably
not even a full season of major league at bats yet. So he's gonna
keep figuring out and he's just too talented, not too I feel like this
is a great opportunity to remind Gavin Lux how good you are. Are you
starting to remind yourself that you are that guy? Yeah, it's you know,
there's there's always ups and downs. Obviously the first two hundred at bats
weren't great. So just continuing to try to figure out where my body is
and different cues and stuff that that work for me that I may have forgotten
about or stuff that used to work, and positions I would get into that
I probably can't quite get into yet, just coming off the surgery, So
just trying to piece it together and compete, you know, you grind away
in the cage and you keep working on stuff, and then once the game
starts, you just try to compete and help the team win. But yeah,
I think as the season goes you get more at bets, you try
to figure it out and just keep trying to piece it together. You are
that guy, Gavin Lux, thanks a lot for the time. Really appreciate
it. Glad Los Angeles could hear your voice today. I love you.
Oh yeah, my guy. The Pride of Kenosha, Wisconsin