Speaker 1: It's the final six games of the regular season, and
Speaker 1: we're joined right now by a man that has had
Speaker 1: a great regular season with the Dodgers, and that is
Speaker 1: the one and only Miguel Rojas. Mickey, thanks a lot
Speaker 1: for the time, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, and it's always a pleasure for me
Speaker 2: to talk to you a little bit about baseball.
Speaker 3: And well, it is actually happened right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now it's Dodgers Padres. The streets of Los
Speaker 1: Angeles are buzzing right now about these two teams facing
Speaker 1: each other. What's the player's feelings about this series?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for us, he's a previous for the playoffs. You know,
Speaker 2: we know we already in it. But the goal is
Speaker 2: it remains the same, which is winning the division, and
Speaker 2: we know that that's that we have ahead. This team
Speaker 2: has been playing pretty good baseball ever since.
Speaker 3: Mate.
Speaker 2: I think, uh, they're they're being really hot and playing
Speaker 2: really good baseball. So we gotta take it like like
Speaker 2: what what it is, you know, a pretty important series
Speaker 2: and we're ready for it. We've been playing really good
Speaker 2: baseball as well, and uh, Phil's gonna be a good match.
Speaker 3: Miguel.
Speaker 1: You know when the pod is play you guys, going
Speaker 1: back to last year and even before you were back
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, they seem to get emotionally high. Do
Speaker 1: you have to match that or do you just have
Speaker 1: to be or even keel selves.
Speaker 2: I don't really know, and it's really hard to tell
Speaker 2: you that we need to change our style of playing.
Speaker 2: You know, they have their own team there that they're
Speaker 2: pretty emotional and they do things their own way, and
Speaker 2: we do things a little.
Speaker 3: Bit different on this side. You know, like we we.
Speaker 2: Can't really switch the change that switch from from one
Speaker 2: day to another. We're going to continue to be ourselves
Speaker 2: and count on on the baseball that we've been playing.
Speaker 2: I feel like, uh, the atmosphere, the intensity and knowing
Speaker 2: that we're getting ready for the playoff, it's going to
Speaker 2: be what drivers during this series and knowing that this
Speaker 2: is just going to prepare us to what is coming next,
Speaker 2: and this is a great opportunity for us to feel
Speaker 2: what is like a playoff series right before the playoff.
Speaker 2: I think that's why it's been missing with this team
Speaker 2: the last couple of years, because it's been like one
Speaker 2: way in September, you clinch early and then you kind
Speaker 2: of like roll through September. Winning some games in the
Speaker 2: regular season, it's never the same that in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So for us right now to have this opportunity and
Speaker 2: the privilege of playing a three game series that matters,
Speaker 2: I think it's just gonna get us better for what
Speaker 2: is coming in October.
Speaker 1: I get asked the same questions that you get asked,
Speaker 1: but I'd love to hear from your perspective. How different
Speaker 1: does this September feel from a year ago?
Speaker 3: Oh, it feels a lot different.
Speaker 2: Last September, we were just trying to stay healthy, planning
Speaker 2: on how the five days we're gonna be. You know
Speaker 2: what we're gonna do in those five days. Right now,
Speaker 2: we're not thinking about that. We're thinking about putting our
Speaker 2: best team over there for nine innings and battle and
Speaker 2: fight for every single win.
Speaker 3: And it haven't been easy.
Speaker 2: You know, even we play the Martlins, we play the Rockies,
Speaker 2: and it haven't been like an easy game to win.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's always being like really close games until like maybe
Speaker 2: later that we scoll a couple rounds or whatever. But
Speaker 2: it's been like really intense, and I feel like that's
Speaker 2: going to help us understanding that every little win that
Speaker 2: we can get in September is important because our most
Speaker 2: memory is going to remember that when we play in October,
Speaker 2: and we're going to have a little bit more of
Speaker 2: preparation going into what we want to do, which is
Speaker 2: going deep in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas is our guest. He's been one of the
Speaker 1: steadying forces all season long, going back to spring training.
Speaker 1: When you look at this season and where you guys
Speaker 1: are at, are you in a good spot to win
Speaker 1: this division?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean this is all you can ask for, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure if you ask all the other teams
Speaker 2: out there, twenty nine of them want to be in
Speaker 2: the position that the Daughters are right now, best record
Speaker 2: in baseball. You can ask for anything else than that,
Speaker 2: you know, like, yeah, obviously we would like to have
Speaker 2: a better you know, like maybe more wings or whatever.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, we have the
Speaker 3: best record in baseball right now. So feel pretty good
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: Feel pretty good about kind of like everybody who has
Speaker 2: stepping in and the line up when someone is down,
Speaker 2: you know, Mookie went down for five six weeks, Freddie
Speaker 2: was out for a couple of weeks. We got a
Speaker 2: couple of guys that haven't been able to play like
Speaker 2: they used to, like every single game, and still we
Speaker 2: have the best record in baseball.
Speaker 3: A couple of pitchers down.
Speaker 2: I think that's that talks a lot about like the organization,
Speaker 2: the planning, uh, putting everybody on the right place, and obviously,
Speaker 2: like we gotta count on our big boy.
Speaker 3: You know, show has been He's been amazing for us.
Speaker 2: The Oscar has been like every single day out there, Uh,
Speaker 2: wheel behind the play is being like every single day
Speaker 2: that he got to start, he's there.
Speaker 3: So we got a couple of.
Speaker 2: Guys that we kind of like being relying on because
Speaker 2: they've been there every single day. And I just feel
Speaker 2: happy that I'm prout of of this group.
Speaker 1: You can add Miguel Rojas's name to that list. I
Speaker 1: love the celebration you have, by the way, we've seen
Speaker 1: it a lot recently with all the tiny home runs.
Speaker 1: I love what you got going here at the end
Speaker 1: of the line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a long season, you know, Like we
Speaker 2: spend a lot of days together, almost two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty days a year. So for me knowing how special
Speaker 2: was that day the deco, his dog was in the
Speaker 2: park and then the little celebration with the dog tongue out.
Speaker 2: It's been good, and I mean, it's been fun to
Speaker 2: be part of this amazing and historical season. And I
Speaker 2: will never forget every time that I watched these pictures.
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 2: Twenty years from now or fifty years from now, knowing
Speaker 2: how special that season was.
Speaker 1: That's amazing that you can have that perspective while you're
Speaker 1: in it. You're part of history.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm not taking for granted, you know,
Speaker 2: Like I leave a lot of years of my life
Speaker 2: thinking about what the future is going to be like
Speaker 2: now I'm finally understanding and realizing the moment Dan, I'm
Speaker 2: you know. And as soon as I got traded back
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers last year, I make a promise to
Speaker 2: myself to enjoy this opportunity a little bit more than
Speaker 2: the first time because it went by fast. I just
Speaker 2: I play I make the first playoff, but I didn't
Speaker 2: enjoy the atmosphere being in this position, playing big series,
Speaker 2: being part of history and stuff like that. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to enjoy as much as I can right now because
Speaker 2: you don't even know when it's going to be the
Speaker 2: last one, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Miguel, you've been such a big part of this team.
Speaker 1: Next time we talk, I plan on you being full, wet,
Speaker 1: full of champagne.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 2: I'm planning on it too, and I mean, I mean
Speaker 2: you have to drink big and hopefully that's the first
Speaker 2: one of our couple more that we're going to do
Speaker 2: during October.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 1: Best attitude right there set the tone for the Dodgers today.
Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas