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<v Speaker 1>And an exclusive interview with David Bassey or Dodger talker.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey Tanner last night, big milestone in your career, five

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<v Speaker 2>hundredth career strikeout against your former team, the Marlins.

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<v Speaker 3>How where were you that you were getting close to

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<v Speaker 3>that number? Didn't even know.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't pay attention to it. I saw from my wife.

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<v Speaker 1>My wife let me know, and I was like, didn't

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<v Speaker 1>know that, but oh, well, on to the next one.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess, yeah, I guess, like when you get that

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<v Speaker 2>baseball after the game, though, to know it came kind

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<v Speaker 2>of full circle pitching against the team where you really

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<v Speaker 2>blossom blossom?

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<v Speaker 3>Did it mean a little bit more? I didn't get

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<v Speaker 3>the ball. You didn't get the baseball.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean I didn't know. I didn't know I had

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<v Speaker 4>any any meeting behind it.

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<v Speaker 1>And my wife was like, did you get the ball?

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<v Speaker 1>It's like I didn't even know about it. So, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>hopefully we got it somewhere, but if not, okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you take us through like what really clicked for

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<v Speaker 2>you with the Marlins to make you this guy that's

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<v Speaker 2>as respected as you are as far as closing games.

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<v Speaker 1>When I got there, I started working hard with Melsotomeyer

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<v Speaker 1>Junior and Wellington Cepada, and then just when we had

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<v Speaker 1>Skip Schumacher. I mean he was confident in me, and

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<v Speaker 1>I trusted my stuff. And confidence has a lot to

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<v Speaker 1>do with baseball. I mean, if you're confident out there,

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<v Speaker 1>just move on to the next pitch, and you're always ready, ready,

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<v Speaker 1>ready to go, and ready, ready for war.

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<v Speaker 2>And it seems like this year you're throwing more strikes

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<v Speaker 2>than you ever have before. Where have the Dodgers taken you?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's there's so many resources here, It's it's incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>I Mean I go back there and I talked to

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<v Speaker 1>Connor Mark Barto, and I just I just look at

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<v Speaker 1>what I was doing right what I need to fix,

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<v Speaker 1>because I mean every day I want to I want

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<v Speaker 1>to be better than I was yesterday.

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<v Speaker 3>But what is it about you throwing more strikes this year?

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<v Speaker 4>I got no clue. I just I'm just trying to

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<v Speaker 4>attack the That's what I was trying to go around

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<v Speaker 4>the question.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I don't know, just going out there and

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<v Speaker 1>just trying to get people out and three pitches or.

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<v Speaker 2>Less, where do you feel like your fastball's at? Where

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<v Speaker 2>do you feel like your slider's at?

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<v Speaker 3>At this point in the.

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<v Speaker 2>Season, answered, Uh, I was talking to Elvis Andrews in Texas.

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<v Speaker 3>He said, he faced you back in the day.

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<v Speaker 1>Elvis Andrews. I think I was with it goes with

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<v Speaker 1>Baltimore at the time. That's when it was just mainly fastball.

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<v Speaker 1>Those times were a lot of strikes, a lot of balls.

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<v Speaker 1>It was going everywhere. But uh no, I mean I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like they're both at a good place and uh yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna keep rolling with it.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you feel like you kind of ease into the

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<v Speaker 2>season or as a closer? Is there anything that you

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<v Speaker 2>can even come close to even thinking that way?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh? No, I mean, I mean baseball is hard.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean it's I think it's the hardest sport there

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<v Speaker 1>is and I mean you gotta go out there and

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<v Speaker 1>some days you're on, some days you're off, and when

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<v Speaker 1>you're off you have to figure it out. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>your team's teams are relying on you and you're trying

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<v Speaker 1>to get out and I mean, ultimately, you just you

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<v Speaker 1>just want to win every day, and I mean that's

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<v Speaker 1>our goal. We try to win every day and just

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<v Speaker 1>move on to the next. So, I mean, did it

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<v Speaker 1>start slow, Yeah, But I mean.

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<v Speaker 3>That's whatever. Yeah, I hear. You just keep going a

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<v Speaker 3>specially in your position.

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<v Speaker 2>How do you make those mechanical adjustments when you're being

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<v Speaker 2>called upon on a nightly basis in the highest of

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<v Speaker 2>leverage positions?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I mean we have so many resources with Connor,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm just going there and look at all all

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<v Speaker 1>the numbers and see where I'm at, see where my

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<v Speaker 1>release sight is, see.

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<v Speaker 3>Where everything is.

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<v Speaker 4>And I'm a guy that I need visuals before like

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<v Speaker 4>reading the numbers.

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<v Speaker 1>Like if he'll show me the visuals and I like

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<v Speaker 1>look at it and then I'll try to go correct

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<v Speaker 1>it that day.

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<v Speaker 3>And catch what tenn Or.

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<v Speaker 2>Scott's got his best buddy with him, Evan Phillips. It

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<v Speaker 2>was just you might hate him more now because you

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<v Speaker 2>guys are around each other a lot more down there

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<v Speaker 2>in the bullpen. You guys have been good friends. What's

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<v Speaker 2>it like finally to be together in that bullpen.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh no, it's good. I mean, it's it's like old

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<v Speaker 1>times back in back in Baltimore from eighteen nineteen all

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<v Speaker 1>the way up. I mean, we're close in the offseason.

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<v Speaker 1>It's good to have him down there.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a friendly face coming to a new place, and

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<v Speaker 4>it's awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>How much is it at this point in time, time

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<v Speaker 2>of the season, does a bullpen start to come together

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<v Speaker 2>as its own group.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a small family's oide of a big family.

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<v Speaker 1>So I mean it starts, it starts as very training

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<v Speaker 1>and then day one it's it's it's we're locked and loaded,

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<v Speaker 1>ready to go.

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<v Speaker 2>It feels like everybody has their own different role as

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<v Speaker 2>a personality. You know, who's the guy that cracks the

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<v Speaker 2>jokes to keep things.

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<v Speaker 1>Like Kirby Definitely Kirby ates the guy's a character.

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<v Speaker 3>It's awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>Back in the day, maybe two or three years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>they used to keep tallies on home run predictions for

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<v Speaker 2>your own team.

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<v Speaker 3>Did they still do anything similar to that? Down there?

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<v Speaker 1>It seems like a personal question. So, uh, maybe maybe

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<v Speaker 1>there is, maybe there's not. Maybe I'm on the board

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<v Speaker 1>a couple.

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<v Speaker 4>Of times, but maybe I'm not. Okay, hell, but so

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<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna leave the answer.

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<v Speaker 2>But Tanner Scott's a man of mystery. Why don't you

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<v Speaker 2>show America that beautiful bald head of yours? Tony Gonsolin

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<v Speaker 2>showed his yesterday.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, Tony is Tony's like a half bald person like

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<v Speaker 1>he doesn't fully commit on shaving every other day.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, if you're gonna be bald, you got the

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<v Speaker 4>it every other day. It's gotta be a nice shine.

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<v Speaker 3>Show us how it looks.

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<v Speaker 4>Can't do that, I mean just just zooming on owl.

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<v Speaker 4>Al's got a beautiful bald head. I'm like, how do

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<v Speaker 4>I get that? I want that?

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<v Speaker 2>You are truly a man of mystery. Won't show the

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<v Speaker 2>head without the hat. You won't tell us what's going

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<v Speaker 2>on in the bullpen?

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<v Speaker 3>Pooled back there?

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<v Speaker 4>All right, I'll bolt, I'll show my bald head when

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<v Speaker 4>you shave yours.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, deal, let's do it perfect.

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<v Speaker 4>So that's never gonna happen exactly.

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<v Speaker 3>I need to keep as much as I got tannered.

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<v Speaker 3>Dang it.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks a lot for the time, and Lad, you're on

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<v Speaker 2>the Dodgers side now, so is Otani.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm happy to be his team and I don't want

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<v Speaker 4>to have to face him.

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<v Speaker 3>Thanks a lot for the time, No problem, Thank you,