Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be with anybody else before Game
Speaker 1: one of the NLCS, A proud new papa, and also
Speaker 1: a guy that has been a big part of the
Speaker 1: Dodger bullpen so far in October and this regular season,
Speaker 1: the one and only Blake Trining.
Speaker 2: I'm not lying. This is how I feel.
Speaker 3: I'm grateful for the nice introduction you just gave me,
Speaker 3: But can you be authentic one time?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? That's how I feel?
Speaker 4: Not one other person in this world you'd rather talk
Speaker 4: to right now?
Speaker 1: Well, I got a hug for Mookie Bets and now
Speaker 1: I'd rather talk to you right now.
Speaker 3: See the moments on it. The real person wants to
Speaker 3: talk to people's mookie Bets. But don't we all be
Speaker 3: You all have to settle for me.
Speaker 4: We'll make it work.
Speaker 1: Oh come on, you were a hard man to find.
Speaker 1: After that clinching victory, everybody wanted a piece of Blake trying.
Speaker 4: No, they didn't. I was. I was trying. I was
Speaker 4: trying to be out here with my friends and family.
Speaker 2: I saw you on National TV.
Speaker 4: Maybe don't I don't know what this? Hey? What questions
Speaker 4: you got? Let's go, Dan? What do you got? I'm
Speaker 4: I'm glad I'm here with you. Let's go. Let's it's
Speaker 4: a hot take. All right, this a serious five minute question.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Since you are a football fan, you always hear about
Speaker 1: group beings of football teams, special teams off defense. Is
Speaker 1: there such a thing as that on a baseball team?
Speaker 1: Is the bullpen a different like group of the rest
Speaker 1: of the team that embodies everything else? I mean, it
Speaker 1: feels like you guys are different down there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's units. You know.
Speaker 3: It's like I kind of view it as like you know,
Speaker 3: the military, there's different branches and we're all pulling on
Speaker 3: the same rope and going to war for the same
Speaker 3: common goal. So you know, we're our own unit in
Speaker 3: the bullpen, but we're still pulling the same string as
Speaker 3: like our position players and our starting pitchers. So you
Speaker 3: probably can say there's your core three yea.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know. I don't know if guys
Speaker 4: who come off the.
Speaker 3: Bench on a regular basis versus you know, everyday starters,
Speaker 3: if they're the ones that are kind of viewed as
Speaker 3: like the bullpen of the dugout or.
Speaker 4: I don't know how they view it, but like I
Speaker 4: just viewed it all as.
Speaker 3: Like offense, and then we've got our starting pitchers and
Speaker 3: us and we all just collectively try to pull together,
Speaker 3: but we have our own things we need to focus
Speaker 3: on so that we can be the best version of ourselves.
Speaker 2: How would you describe that group of relievers?
Speaker 4: Dogs? Dogs?
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of dogs, a bunch of dogs. So yeah,
Speaker 3: trying to be loud there, nos yeatly, we're a bunch
Speaker 3: of warriors down there.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: We've had a lot of guys that have gone through
Speaker 3: some stuff throughout the year. Obviously, there's no perfect stretch
Speaker 3: or very seldom is there a perfect stretch of a
Speaker 3: full season for a picture. I think Vessie is probably
Speaker 3: the closest that we had this year, but everybody else
Speaker 3: has picked each other up. Hudson, what he did this year,
Speaker 3: coming back from you know, two knee injuries over the
Speaker 3: last year and a half or two years really since
Speaker 3: twenty two, right, so, and having the year where he
Speaker 3: posted and put up sixty plus appearances and innings, and Evan,
Speaker 3: you know, being Evan, you know he's been he faces
Speaker 3: the heart of the lineup every time he's out there
Speaker 3: and does such great things for us, swinging miss stuff,
Speaker 3: and can't be a comfortable at bat and then Banda,
Speaker 3: Banda being a great, a great acquisition for us, and
Speaker 3: you know learning learning a new slider here is really
Speaker 3: taken off in his ability and lively. Arm is obviously
Speaker 3: speaks for itself and when's accomplished this year with us too.
Speaker 3: So having all those guys, you know, I got to
Speaker 3: speak about Brazier. We We've got some old guys down
Speaker 3: that have been around Brazier, Joe Kelly, but it's been
Speaker 3: it hasn't been like a consistent unit when it comes
Speaker 3: to faces all year.
Speaker 4: There's been guys who have gone through some stuff.
Speaker 3: Have myself included where you know I was, I was
Speaker 3: away for a short period of time. There was you know,
Speaker 3: Joe's going through some stuff and then you know, Brazier
Speaker 3: went through some stuff. Evan went through some stuff, Bando
Speaker 3: went through some stuff. You know, Yarborough's not here right now,
Speaker 3: but he was huge for us in the first half
Speaker 3: and can't forget about him. And so yeah, just I
Speaker 3: think as a whole we down there have done a
Speaker 3: great job.
Speaker 4: You know, in Bardo talking to.
Speaker 3: Us about it is when our name is called trust,
Speaker 3: our preparation and don't try to be careful, go out
Speaker 3: there and just be uh, you know, on on the offence,
Speaker 3: like try to try to enforce your will.
Speaker 4: And your game plan.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I think we believe so much in each
Speaker 3: other that there's an accountability that is rarely seen as
Speaker 3: deep as it is down there, Like from top to bottom,
Speaker 3: everybody holds each other accountable.
Speaker 4: So that's what's.
Speaker 1: Nice trying in is our guest in front of first
Speaker 1: pitch of the NLCS. So much attention has been given
Speaker 1: to you guys now, but we've seen it all regular
Speaker 1: season long. How much pride did you guys take and
Speaker 1: what all of you accomplished in game four and what's
Speaker 1: ahead of you in the NLCS.
Speaker 3: Well, I think we're really just you know, satisfied with
Speaker 3: you know, not giving in that last series. You could
Speaker 3: have easily, you know, taken a turn for the worse
Speaker 3: when the Padres had a really good offensive output against.
Speaker 4: Us, and was it game two, game two?
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, you know, they answered, they answered back after
Speaker 3: you know, we had a really good team winning game one.
Speaker 3: It's not easy staring down a you know, a ten
Speaker 3: to two win or whatever it was and or a
Speaker 3: loss for us. But uh, you know, I think the
Speaker 3: biggest thing is, you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter how you win, or it could be
Speaker 3: a one run, one run victory or you know, a
Speaker 3: ten run victory, but the end of the day, as
Speaker 3: long as we have more wins than they do at
Speaker 3: the end of the series, that's really the goal. So
Speaker 3: not getting caught up in that, I think our team
Speaker 3: did a great job of, you know, going right back
Speaker 3: to what we do best, and that's focusing on the
Speaker 3: next day and attacking each situation.
Speaker 4: That we have.
Speaker 3: And we didn't. We didn't let you know, having a
Speaker 3: loss like that dictate the momentum.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And you know, they did win the next game, but
Speaker 3: you know, it was one inning that really kind of
Speaker 3: bid us. And that's really the one inning outside of
Speaker 3: Game two that they they did anything.
Speaker 4: And that's a really talented team.
Speaker 3: So for our guys to stay focused and and lock
Speaker 3: and lock in and execute on the pitching side of things, starters, relievers,
Speaker 3: and uh, the game game plan prep from our you know,
Speaker 3: our our game planners. It's a pretty pretty cool overall
Speaker 3: team like series win because that's a very talented team
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be a dog fight for the division
Speaker 3: for probably the foreseeable future.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's a fun series.
Speaker 2: Blake Trenton is our guest.
Speaker 1: I mentioned at the beginning that during this playoff run,
Speaker 1: the Trnon family added one more. It grew by one
Speaker 1: during the off day of the last n l DS. Uh,
Speaker 1: this has got to be such a special month for you.
Speaker 1: How did you balance all of that?
Speaker 4: Well, even even before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we welcomed Quinn to the world on the tenth
Speaker 3: and it was really special. I mean, the more kids
Speaker 3: you have, I feel like the more you you just
Speaker 3: appreciate those little moments. Early on, you're just trying to
Speaker 3: survive and figure out life as a parent, and.
Speaker 4: The more you have, you're like, oh, it's not like
Speaker 4: I can I can enjoy these moments a little better.
Speaker 4: My wife and I just have kind of laughed about.
Speaker 3: It because she's such a sweet little baby, and our
Speaker 3: kids are so enthralled with being involved. Just only two
Speaker 3: or three days into it now, and like, hoe, what
Speaker 3: is today's date? The thirteenth? Yeah, okay, so yeah, day
Speaker 3: three of it. You know, like our whole family is
Speaker 3: just enthralled with being either big sis, big brother, and
Speaker 3: Katie just you know, soaking up the moments of being
Speaker 3: a mom again so well again, but like I'm a newborn,
Speaker 3: so uh yeah, And you know, I just grateful for
Speaker 3: my family and having the opportunity to view with them.
Speaker 3: You miss them a lot when this game has so
Speaker 3: many like cool moments that you that you live for,
Speaker 3: that you that you prepare for and you get to
Speaker 3: experience by the grace of God, it's been it's been
Speaker 3: a fun year. But you also, family is the most
Speaker 3: important thing when it comes if you just choose between
Speaker 3: baseball and family, family needs to be number one. And
Speaker 3: I'm grateful for the opportunity to have been able to
Speaker 3: get back. You know, the Dodgers that really really blessed
Speaker 3: me with uh you know, finding into good like kind
Speaker 3: of getting everything navigated for me to get home and
Speaker 3: because i mean I'm so focused on baseball and you know,
Speaker 3: we've got a great team in the front office that
Speaker 3: kind of helped figure that out for me. And so
Speaker 3: I'm grateful for them for that and that way I
Speaker 3: was able to get home and get back and not
Speaker 3: really miss anything game wise, and uh and not not.
Speaker 4: Missing any thing from a family perspective.
Speaker 3: My wife, I gotta give my wife credit. I know
Speaker 3: I'm long winded here. I'm sorry, but I gotta give
Speaker 3: my wife, you know, a huge shout out. I hate
Speaker 3: saying shout out. This is such a more endearing term
Speaker 3: that I'm looking for. But she, you know, has was
Speaker 3: so great at just saying, you know, go go be
Speaker 3: a part of the playoffs. Thank you for being here,
Speaker 3: and thank you Dodgers for letting my husband come back,
Speaker 3: because she should be focused on our family and celebrating
Speaker 3: the life of our daughter and not so much baseball first.
Speaker 4: And it's a hard thing as a husband to see.
Speaker 3: But you know, we've we kind of understand the lifestyle
Speaker 3: a little bit, but we're grateful that it worked out
Speaker 3: in the best way possible.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, how many hours did you have to
Speaker 1: spare before the baby was born? Were you there three
Speaker 1: hours ahead of time? Were you there right when labor started?
Speaker 1: How did you and then you show up and you
Speaker 1: close out game five. I mean, there's not many guys
Speaker 1: that can do that.
Speaker 3: Not many people have probably had that opportunity. So I'm
Speaker 3: not going to say that I'm like I had.
Speaker 4: This superhero scenario.
Speaker 3: It was just it's what we were dealt and we
Speaker 3: made the most of it, and you know, as we
Speaker 3: got to witness a mini miracle and our daughter being
Speaker 3: born healthy.
Speaker 4: And my wife being healthy, and and then.
Speaker 3: God blessed me with an opportunity to finish the game
Speaker 3: the next day. So but yeah, your question about hours,
Speaker 3: we had a scheduled, you know, induction for that day
Speaker 3: and we went in at six am, and so I
Speaker 3: I got back at like one in the morning and
Speaker 3: then slept for about four and a half hours and.
Speaker 4: Went in and then I was there all day. And
Speaker 4: then it's weird. You get to go home and be
Speaker 4: with your kids.
Speaker 3: So I got to sleep in our bed because we
Speaker 3: can't have the kids in the room. So I went
Speaker 3: home and was with the kids, and then got up
Speaker 3: the next morning and went in and was with Katie
Speaker 3: and Quinn, And.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was there for a few hours, and then
Speaker 4: I had to get a flight and come back here.
Speaker 4: So it was nice.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Katie Trnnon for being a great mom
Speaker 1: and also a great woman, all star mom to be
Speaker 1: able to handle all that and support her man to
Speaker 1: be able to come out and help the Dodgers win
Speaker 1: a world series. Blake Trannon, I love sharing who you are.
Speaker 1: I really do appreciate sharing who you are. You're a
Speaker 1: great guy. You're an amazing person to be able to
Speaker 1: focus on your family but give everything you have during
Speaker 1: this time of baseball. So congratulations and a blessing to
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 4: Thanks man.
Speaker 3: I mean, Dodgers invested me and my family and we
Speaker 3: just want to do the best we can.
Speaker 4: To out bless them, you know.
Speaker 3: So They've given us a lot and we're trying to
Speaker 3: outdo it for them and the fans and my teammates.
Speaker 1: So yep, just doing what I can, doing all he can,
Speaker 1: striking out guys, delivering babies and all in while keeping
Speaker 1: his hair perfect and that goate soul patch immaculate.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Blake, Thanks for making it awkward.