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The Dodgers are wrapping up the series
in Pittsburgh, and I'm here with a

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man that certainly inspires his teammates by
the way he approaches the game. And

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last night, Jason Hayward did that. Man, you were an inspiration last

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night, the way you just kept
playing and the team almost came back to

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complete the comeback, no, no
doubt. One one a bad at a

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time, one pitch at a time, one play at a time. It's

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you know, it's fun to compete. You know, they played a really

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good game. They got off to
a nice start, and we kept having

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abs and our bullpen did a very
nice job. Come in. It sounds

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like you're quoting Creed the movie Creed, because that's what Rocky would tell Adonis.

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One step at a time, one
punch at a time, one round

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at a time. I've seen it, but I did not even think anything

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about that. But you know,
I think like that's you know, a

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big part of games like that one
when you go down early, it's like,

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you know, one thing at a
time, control what you can.

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You know, no different from any
other game, but still like literally you

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have to lock in and buy in, you know, to that. I

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thought we did a pretty good job
against their starter. He made pitches,

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but we had a B's you know, good AB's team. AB's put us

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from runs and like I said,
both Pink came into a nice job.

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They all sleved this last night.
Jason, do you feel like you're starting

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to get into the rhythm of the
season. Obviously it was stopped because of

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the back injury, but do you
feel like you're starting to get back into

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the rhythm. Yeah, definitely,
I would say so. And you know,

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in my mind, the rhythm is
all about adjusting, you know,

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one day at a time, take
what you got, focus on what you

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do have, not what you don't, go compete. So yeah, it's

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nice to be back in the floor
of that, you know, knowing my

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role right now is kind of be
ready for whatever it's always been that,

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you know with this group. But
uh, you know, still it's just

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nice to be focused on the day
to day and take care of what I

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can take care of and you know, compete with our guys. How would

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you take inventory of where you guys
are at as a team right now?

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We are playing the schedule. We're
playing the schedule and you know, competing

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every day. What I do love
is that you know, our thoughts and

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vibes are like, you know,
we do this together, you know,

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ups, downs, all that kind
of stuff, and you know it's all

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a part of it, you know. I'm I'm happy to be honest to

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see us like needing to figure things
out right, need to make adjustments,

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be aware of the details that we
you know, have to adjust to,

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whether it's on the fly or on
one day at a time, and then

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over the one sixty two. I
like what that, you know, the

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opportunity that gives us as a group
because obviously you know again like the cares

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there, the work ethics there,
but it's also nice to know like where

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you need to aim at work.
And that's that's what I really like about

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right now. No matter how the
stretches, is it fair to say that

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offensively or as a group, you
guys are experiencing more adversity than you did

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at any point in time during the
regular season last year. I have no

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idea. I mean, I think
when I say that, meaning you know,

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like schedules or schedules, like sometimes
you line up and you get everybody's

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best. Sometimes you catch one of
their best and and and get another you

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know, we'll see how you know, the rest of us have finishes out,

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We'll see how the second half goes
like. But at the same time,

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I think that's that's great with competition
is getting everyone's best and uh teams

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going forward, so they want to
do their best to line things up that

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way. But all in all,
you know, missing months is very tough,

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you know, me not being here
for you know that that amount of

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games was tough for for our balance
and whatnot. So if anything, I

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just think like the reality is like, yeah, it's fair to say you're

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trying to cover you know, more
things at once than than what we had

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to go through it in the point
last year health wise, But that's that's

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the name of the game, you
know, is how you handle injuries,

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how you handle depth and and make
up slack for things like that. But

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uh no, all in all,
you have to you know, understand like

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sometimes the offense is going to be
there, the pitching is going to have

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a tough game, sometime the picking
is going to be amazing, and the

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offense is not going to be there. But you keep pushing and you fight

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like hell to have that all line
up. Jason Hayward is our guest.

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And it's funny you mentioned when you
catch a team. I remember all the

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way back when Don Mattingly was managing
the Dodgers, he always said that it's

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not so much about the record,
it's when you're catching that team in the

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schedule, and then it's not excuses. It's just the reality of a one

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sixty two reality of even a postseason
series where you whether the game starts or

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whatever time, whether where you're traveling
to where you're traveling from your road to

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get there, and how you weather
that road. And you know, that's

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why I say, like for us
right now, like this is going to

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be one that's really cool to say
it. Our finish is we will be

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battle tested, and I think like
that it's going to go a long way

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into where we want. It feels
like just traveling with you guys, being

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with you, it feels like you
guys are Major League Baseball showcase team and

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the schedule is really not giving you
many breaks in that respect. And that's

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that's a part of it, you
know, like you know, most of

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us has to be here. You
know when I say that, like obviously

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guys that are drafted here or whatever, like that's you know that's their natural

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progression coming up as a young guy
at rookie. But this is what we

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signed up for, and we love
to be Dodgers. We love to compete.

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We love the opportunity that we're giving, you know, to play this

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game. And then yeah, like
MLB is gonna do that. They're gonna,

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you know, make sure that the
top teams and they're exciting teams,

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and the teams that are marketed are
are well seen and shown, you know,

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throughout the season. And I feel
like, you know, a cool

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thing about that is like a lot
of us on this team have experienced that,

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you know, before this year.
So that's that's naturally a part of

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it, you know, great,
great on MLB's part. But yeah,

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no, like when you are a
team picked to win it all, like

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you're not gonna get any slack anywhere
from anywhere. No one's gonna feel for

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you at any point. But nor
do we, you know, we we

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understand that it's real. We understand
travel, travel families and all that kind

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of stuff. But we still go
play, we still compete, we still

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work our asses. Okay, so
we're in Pittsburgh right now, obviously you're

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getting their best shot the Dodgers go
to New York and play the Yankees at

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Yankee Stadium. I'm sure you're aware
of the anticipation for that series. How

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do you guys approach that knowing that
all eyes of the baseball world is going

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to be on you guys on that
stage. I mean, that's fun.

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That's that's what you live for right
there. In my opinion, I can't

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speak for anyone else, but like, that's that's the fun stuff. I

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always love going to Yankee Stadium.
Always love you know, always always love

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those games. You know, it's
it's cool to be in that type of

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market. I've been fortunate enough to
do that, you know now, you

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know in parts of my career,
for the later part of my career,

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and like, that's so much fun. So we'll have that, we'll go

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compete. But again, in my
eyes, it's still it's feedback. It's

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instiant feedback on details like what is
it we're going to work on? What

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is it it? You know that
that we'd like about it? What didn't

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we like about it? And you
know how we leave it. Jay,

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thanks a lot for the time.
I love the respect your teammates have for

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you. You've earned that respect and
they certainly show that. So thank you

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for the time and we'll see on
the plane tonight. I appreciate you,

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bro. We'll have a good flight