It's a beautiful Father's Day at Dodgers Stadium, and we're with a champion of
a father and the best third base coach in all of Major League Baseball,
the one and only Dino Ebel. Happy Father's Day, Dino. Oh,
thank you, Dave, and Happy father Days to you and all our great
fans out there today. That's gonna watch or listen to Dodger Baseball. I
always say that you used to be Deno Ebel, one of the best third
base coaches in the big leagues, but now you're known as Brady and Trey's
father. How does that feel. It's actually pretty good. The pressure is
off of me, so it's good. I mean, boys are you know,
they're good and they're starting their summer baseball. But yeah, thank you
for that, and I will just continue to move forward. And this is
not a father pressuring his kids to follow in his footsteps. This is them
wanting to pursue this dream. Absolutely from day one. I just brought him
to the park and never pushed baseball on him. And you know, we've
talked about in the past about all the travel ball and the Little League and
all that stuff that the kids go through. But I was a dad that
just sat back, and they truly love the game. They want to be
here with me now that you know they're going into their senior and junior year
seats, you know, junior seasons. But yeah, they they they love
the game and their dream is to be here one day and then they're they're
watching our guys perform every day. So it's good for me to bring him
to the park. I know Brady's older than Trey, and obviously he's getting
a lot of attention. Is it awkward at times when you know there's a
lot of people around here that have their eyes on your oldest son. Not
really. I think Trey's handled it well. I think his his time is
coming now that he's going to his junior season. And you know, he
was out here the other day taking ground balls, and a few few of
the scouts that were here, so they couldn't believe his arm strength and the
way you know, he fills the ball. So it's just it's just a
process. He sees his brother in front of him, and what I like
about it is they compete, so Trey watches him. He wants to be
better and his bigger brother, and then they come out here and you know
you have to perform in front of Mookie and Rojas and Kike and Big O
and you know Lux and Freddie Freeman. So it's constantly a competition for both
the Evil Brothers and I enjoy watching it. Dodger's third base coach. Do
you know Ebel is our guest? Do you know when you look at the
team basically the last twenty games you've been treading water but still have a big
lead in the division. How much more is there in this team? Oh?
There's a lot, David. You know teams, you know, we've
done this before, up and ups and downs throughout the game, but throughout
a long season. But you know, we always come out here. The
process is really good. The clubhouse is great. Dave does a great job
of keeping everybody in form, communicating, which he's he's outstanding in that.
And the guys come out and they do their work. Now, if there
was a left or right where now they're not coming out and they're in a
fielm sorry for themselves, I'll use that word, but you know they're not
coming out working. And you know what, now, as coaches, we
got to, you know, go to them and say, listen, let's
keep the process going, which has been great since spring training. You know,
you're not gonna get four hits a game. You're not. You might
make an error, you might throw a ball over the plate and the guy
here to home run. So it's part of it. You learn from it,
you turn the page, you come back out today and you win today's
ball game. Do you know you're right in the trenches with Mookie Betts on
a daily basis, three four hours before every game. Where is he as
far as the improvement? You know, he's getting better. I know he's
so, you know, like thinks he can be better than what he is.
But you know I'm speaking from me. You know I tell this to
Mookie all the time. Is you know, nobody is doing what you're doing.
Nobody has ever gone from a go glove right fielder to second base,
to right field, to shortstop to second to right and now you're an everyday
shortstop. So it's a process. And I saw the other day when he
said this is hard. It's hard, and we've told him that. But
he's such a good competitor athlete. He wants to be elite. He wants
to help his team win a championship. But again, you see it every
day, day in and day out. This guy doesn't miss a beat.
He wants to learn and he's pushing forward. So we just got to play
day by day, keep him healthy, which he is. His arm strength
is great, and get him going in the batter's box and he'll be the
mookie that everybody knows. And your positioning seems to help him out a lot.
The Dodgers are at the top of baseball with where you position guys for
certain hitters. Absolutely, our front office and our guys upstairs, you know,
they send down great information. We cross check it, you know,
I go over videos with certain pitchers, righty, lefties, and then how
many at bats they got off of our own pitchers. But yeah, we
try to put him in the best spot, which we do a good job
doing that, and then let the athleticism take over of our infielders and then
if they make a diving play, that's on them and that's why they're in
the big leagues. Deno Ebols known as obviously the best third base coach in
baseball, but also when people describe you, they describe you as an aggressive
third base coach. Do you feel like this Dodger team has matched your identity.
Well, yeah, yeah, you know, there's times where you have
to play the scoreboard. We got such a good offense, and you know,
as a third base coach, you know I'm never gonna be perfect.
I understand that. But sometimes with one out and two outs and you look
on deck or who's in the hole, which I do all the time,
you want some of your big hitters to get that at bat and trying to
you know, force the issue, and maybe he gets thrown out at the
plate. So there's gonna be times when I read the scoreboard, especially with
no outs. I just you know, I want to people to understand.
With no outs, if I can't get the guy home by standing, then
it's not a real good play on my part. I can't make it a
close play and he's saved when you got you know, no outs and you
got three guys coming up to drive a run in. So one out I
can be a little bit more aggressive. Two outs, I'm more aggressive,
But depending on who's on deck in situation in the game, I'll let the
big boys swing the bat behind him. Hey, that's why he's the best
hijack Dino's cell phone to do this interview on Father's Day. So here's your
cell phone and thanks a lot, Thanks David. I almost gave it to
you, but I need that phone. It's important. Do you know ebol
on Father's Day?