Speaker 1: Let's introduce who we have here. President and CEO Stan
Speaker 1: Caston is here. President of Baseball Ops Andrew Friedman, Executive VP,
Speaker 1: General manager Brandon Gomes is here. Manager Dave Roberts is here,
Speaker 1: and the rest of the Los Angeles Dodgers are here,
Speaker 1: and it's time to present the Commissioner's Trophy. Commissioner, all
Speaker 1: you on behalf of all of us in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: I want to congratulate the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 2: It's not my pleasure and honor to present.
Speaker 1: This trophy to the President the Dodgers, Stan casting Well,
Speaker 1: we were just talking, Sam. That was a wild ride.
Speaker 1: What was it like watching this whole postseason and especially
Speaker 1: this series.
Speaker 3: I mean it was tense every night, every game until
Speaker 3: the very last out.
Speaker 4: But I tell you what, I know why they call
Speaker 4: it the.
Speaker 3: World Series, because this is the best feeling in the world.
Speaker 1: Raise that up and enjoy us. Stand congratulations. Let's bring
Speaker 1: on Andrew Friedman here. And Andrew, you know, the depth
Speaker 1: of this team was really tested this whole postseason, right,
Speaker 1: all the injuries you dealt with two during the regular season.
Speaker 1: The most gratifying thing for you about this whole organization
Speaker 1: and this team is what I.
Speaker 2: Gotta tell you. The number of fingerprints all over this
Speaker 2: win from our scouting departments, player development analysts. There's just
Speaker 2: a number of people who contributed to add to this group,
Speaker 2: this special group of players that not only competed the
Speaker 2: way they did, they prepared and what Blake Trying and
Speaker 2: Walker Bueher did to finish this game out is incredible.
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Dave Roberts. Huh, Dave, when you wanted
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty, you didn't get your parade because of
Speaker 1: the COVID situation. Well, you said you wanted a parade.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get your parade. How does that sound?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who wants a parade?
Speaker 3: Bertie? I'm just so first and foremost, I thank god.
Speaker 3: I think my players they're families, the coaching staff, training staff, ownership, scouting,
Speaker 3: player development. As Andrew said, the fingerprints on Dodger Nation.
Speaker 3: This trophy belongs to everybody, Dave.
Speaker 1: This team's so resilient, obviously the incredible winning game one.
Speaker 1: You're down five to nothing in this game. How unbelievable
Speaker 1: was it to watch your guys keep fighting back?
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable, you know, We had a great season, went
Speaker 3: to a lot of adversity, A lot of people counted
Speaker 3: us out, but every single one of these guys and
Speaker 3: a lot of people that aren't here with us on
Speaker 3: this stage made it. Im back, and these guys believed
Speaker 3: in one another. Even when we were down five nothing,
Speaker 3: they persevered, kept fighting, and now we're world champion.
Speaker 1: Here you are, Dave. One last one about this game, specifically,
Speaker 1: big moment. There were so many. But you go out
Speaker 1: to the mound in the eighth and you talk to
Speaker 1: Blake trying it and you leave him in the game.
Speaker 1: Tell us about that conversation and why you left him in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, I just wanted to look in
Speaker 3: Blake's eyes. Blake's our guy, Blake's been our guy. I
Speaker 3: just wanted to slow the game down a little bit.
Speaker 3: I looked in his eyes. I said, how you feeling?
Speaker 3: How much more you got? He said? I wanted? I
Speaker 3: trusted him?
Speaker 1: World Champs? How does that sound, Dave?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: My World Champions.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got one more thing to do. Come
Speaker 1: on over here, Freddie. This is the Willie Mays Most
Speaker 1: Valuable Player Ward, presented by Chevrolet. Freddie Freeman, It's all yours.
Speaker 1: After everything that you've gone through this year. How special
Speaker 1: is this? This whole thing, winning at all the MVP
Speaker 1: to you?
Speaker 4: This is this is everything.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be here without this. Of everybody in these
Speaker 4: shirts tonight. It's been a grind these last three months,
Speaker 4: but this organization, Stan Andrew Brandon, Doced, my teammates, my family,
Speaker 4: it's it's been it's been a lot, and this is
Speaker 4: this is it right here?
Speaker 5: Not this that one, that one. That's what it's about.
Speaker 5: That's what it's about. Freddy, you were in Yeah, there
Speaker 5: you go. How does she feel?
Speaker 4: She feels good every spring training. This is our goal
Speaker 4: and for it to come true with this group of guys,
Speaker 4: I couldn't ask for a better year.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, Freddy you were you were on a heater man.
Speaker 1: You tied a world series record with twelve MVP. Twelve
Speaker 1: RBIs in this series, every time you step to the plate,
Speaker 1: we feel like you were gonna do something big and
Speaker 1: you did. What was it like to be in that zone?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Twelve RBIs That means there's a lot of my
Speaker 4: teammates on base. Heck of a job by everyone in
Speaker 4: this series. Uh, just I'm glad I was able to
Speaker 4: get hot at the right time.
Speaker 1: All right, tonight, tell us how you did it. You're
Speaker 1: down five nothing after Mookie Bets beats that single out
Speaker 1: in the infield, right, you come up, tell me what
Speaker 1: you're thinking there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think we are all saying it the
Speaker 4: first three endings. Let's just get one, just chip away.
Speaker 4: We can do this when once, uh, there's a couple
Speaker 4: of mistakes that happened, and when you got to capitalize.
Speaker 4: I gave us some extra outs and we were able
Speaker 4: to do that. Mooki putting in play, hustling down line,
Speaker 4: getting the hit Tao big two run double.
Speaker 1: Tide the game.
Speaker 4: I think we got to get Dacas Flowers ending in
Speaker 4: a third and he and he covered that in that
Speaker 4: game with our bullpen. Our bullpen did an incredible job.
Speaker 4: This is this is awesome.
Speaker 1: This is Freddie Freeman, MVP World Series Champion. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, you're world champion Los Angeles does Or's everyone,
Speaker 1: let's hear it for him.