Speaker 1: The Dodgers are starting their road trip in Houston, and
Speaker 1: I'm joined by yesterday zero, one of the newest Dodgers,
Speaker 1: Nick Ahmed. Nick, thanks a lot for the time, straight
Speaker 1: out of the cold, tough.
Speaker 2: For this, Yeah, just fitting it in and talk with you.
Speaker 3: It feels good to be part of this organization and
Speaker 3: take a take an end of this road trip.
Speaker 2: You know, we got a great team here. Excited to
Speaker 2: be part of it.
Speaker 3: Nick.
Speaker 1: There's always new dynamics when you join a team, but
Speaker 1: to do it the way you did it, it's got
Speaker 1: to feel good and make things a little easier when
Speaker 1: you delivered the way you did yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: You know anytime you jump to a new team, you
Speaker 3: want to contribute and help. Spend a long time on
Speaker 3: one spot, but two teams this year and hopefully take
Speaker 3: this team into the playoffs and we do some damage
Speaker 3: in October.
Speaker 1: What's it like being teammates with some of the players
Speaker 1: that you played against for so many years.
Speaker 3: There's some familiarity for sure, just playing against this group
Speaker 3: and you know, seeing and competing against them from across
Speaker 3: the field, which makes it a.
Speaker 2: Little bit more comfortable for me. And just a great
Speaker 2: group of guys here.
Speaker 3: Everybody's been welcoming and gray so far and extremely helpful
Speaker 3: to help me get settled in. So excited to be
Speaker 3: a part of a great team and some great individual players,
Speaker 3: but I think an even better team.
Speaker 1: Usually you don't need dat a home run to be
Speaker 1: welcome by a team, but to hit a home run
Speaker 1: in that spot yesterday, I'm sure it broke the ice
Speaker 1: in a big way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, especially against the Giants, a division rival,
Speaker 3: and helping us to take the series from them.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of funny yesterday.
Speaker 1: Can you describe the feeling you had yesterday at Dodgers
Speaker 1: Stadium rounding the bases after you hit that home run?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean the last two and a half weeks has
Speaker 3: been crazy for me, getting let go by the Giants
Speaker 3: and then you know, really not getting any phone calls
Speaker 3: for a long time and just being like, hey.
Speaker 2: Is this gonna happen at some point?
Speaker 3: And then the Dodgers called late Tuesday night and we
Speaker 3: got it done and flew out Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2: It's just been a crazy few days.
Speaker 3: And to be able to play the Giants and face
Speaker 3: a team that just released you and hit a game
Speaker 3: running homer only God can read a.
Speaker 2: Script like that.
Speaker 1: Nick I met is our guest in front of first
Speaker 1: pitch in Houston. Everybody keeps asking me, how did you
Speaker 1: stay ready for those two weeks? How did you stay ready?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: The first few days, it was just take care of
Speaker 3: my body, you know, get in the gym, get with
Speaker 3: my physical therapist, and make sure my body was healthy,
Speaker 3: knowing that the opportunity would come, and just wanted to
Speaker 3: make advantage take advantage of that physically.
Speaker 2: And then it was just getting in the cage working.
Speaker 3: I made some good adjustments actually right before I got
Speaker 3: released by.
Speaker 2: The Giants, so I feel like my swing was in
Speaker 2: a good spot.
Speaker 3: I didn't have to go make any swing changes or
Speaker 3: overhaul is just continue to work on what I was
Speaker 3: doing and then just kind of simulated, you know, at
Speaker 3: bats as best I could. With the guy throwing to me,
Speaker 3: Danny Lutz down in Arizona, big help for me. He
Speaker 3: was just throwing fastball, breaking ball, and simulated at bats,
Speaker 3: and we were just doing situational stuff too, so as
Speaker 3: best I could without facing a picture I was.
Speaker 2: I was staying locked in.
Speaker 1: Well, whatever you were doing, it worked, continued success. Great
Speaker 1: to have you on the Dodgers and we look forward
Speaker 1: to this road trip with you awesome.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me