Speaker 1: And an exclusive interview with David Bassey or Dodger talker.
Speaker 2: Hey Tanner last night, big milestone in your career, five
Speaker 2: hundredth career strikeout against your former team, the Marlins.
Speaker 3: How where were you that you were getting close to
Speaker 3: that number? Didn't even know.
Speaker 4: I don't pay attention to it. I saw from my wife.
Speaker 1: My wife let me know, and I was like, didn't
Speaker 1: know that, but oh, well, on to the next one.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, I guess, like when you get that
Speaker 2: baseball after the game, though, to know it came kind
Speaker 2: of full circle pitching against the team where you really
Speaker 2: blossom blossom?
Speaker 3: Did it mean a little bit more? I didn't get
Speaker 3: the ball. You didn't get the baseball.
Speaker 4: I mean I didn't know. I didn't know I had
Speaker 4: any any meeting behind it.
Speaker 1: And my wife was like, did you get the ball?
Speaker 1: It's like I didn't even know about it. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: hopefully we got it somewhere, but if not, okay.
Speaker 2: Can you take us through like what really clicked for
Speaker 2: you with the Marlins to make you this guy that's
Speaker 2: as respected as you are as far as closing games.
Speaker 1: When I got there, I started working hard with Melsotomeyer
Speaker 1: Junior and Wellington Cepada, and then just when we had
Speaker 1: Skip Schumacher. I mean he was confident in me, and
Speaker 1: I trusted my stuff. And confidence has a lot to
Speaker 1: do with baseball. I mean, if you're confident out there,
Speaker 1: just move on to the next pitch, and you're always ready, ready,
Speaker 1: ready to go, and ready, ready for war.
Speaker 2: And it seems like this year you're throwing more strikes
Speaker 2: than you ever have before. Where have the Dodgers taken you?
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's so many resources here, It's it's incredible.
Speaker 1: I Mean I go back there and I talked to
Speaker 1: Connor Mark Barto, and I just I just look at
Speaker 1: what I was doing right what I need to fix,
Speaker 1: because I mean every day I want to I want
Speaker 1: to be better than I was yesterday.
Speaker 3: But what is it about you throwing more strikes this year?
Speaker 4: I got no clue. I just I'm just trying to
Speaker 4: attack the That's what I was trying to go around
Speaker 4: the question.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, just going out there and
Speaker 1: just trying to get people out and three pitches or.
Speaker 2: Less, where do you feel like your fastball's at? Where
Speaker 2: do you feel like your slider's at?
Speaker 3: At this point in the.
Speaker 2: Season, answered, Uh, I was talking to Elvis Andrews in Texas.
Speaker 3: He said, he faced you back in the day.
Speaker 1: Elvis Andrews. I think I was with it goes with
Speaker 1: Baltimore at the time. That's when it was just mainly fastball.
Speaker 1: Those times were a lot of strikes, a lot of balls.
Speaker 1: It was going everywhere. But uh no, I mean I
Speaker 1: feel like they're both at a good place and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep rolling with it.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you kind of ease into the
Speaker 2: season or as a closer? Is there anything that you
Speaker 2: can even come close to even thinking that way?
Speaker 4: Oh? No, I mean, I mean baseball is hard.
Speaker 1: I mean it's I think it's the hardest sport there
Speaker 1: is and I mean you gotta go out there and
Speaker 1: some days you're on, some days you're off, and when
Speaker 1: you're off you have to figure it out. I mean,
Speaker 1: your team's teams are relying on you and you're trying
Speaker 1: to get out and I mean, ultimately, you just you
Speaker 1: just want to win every day, and I mean that's
Speaker 1: our goal. We try to win every day and just
Speaker 1: move on to the next. So, I mean, did it
Speaker 1: start slow, Yeah, But I mean.
Speaker 3: That's whatever. Yeah, I hear. You just keep going a
Speaker 3: specially in your position.
Speaker 2: How do you make those mechanical adjustments when you're being
Speaker 2: called upon on a nightly basis in the highest of
Speaker 2: leverage positions?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean we have so many resources with Connor,
Speaker 1: and I'm just going there and look at all all
Speaker 1: the numbers and see where I'm at, see where my
Speaker 1: release sight is, see.
Speaker 3: Where everything is.
Speaker 4: And I'm a guy that I need visuals before like
Speaker 4: reading the numbers.
Speaker 1: Like if he'll show me the visuals and I like
Speaker 1: look at it and then I'll try to go correct
Speaker 1: it that day.
Speaker 3: And catch what tenn Or.
Speaker 2: Scott's got his best buddy with him, Evan Phillips. It
Speaker 2: was just you might hate him more now because you
Speaker 2: guys are around each other a lot more down there
Speaker 2: in the bullpen. You guys have been good friends. What's
Speaker 2: it like finally to be together in that bullpen.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's good. I mean, it's it's like old
Speaker 1: times back in back in Baltimore from eighteen nineteen all
Speaker 1: the way up. I mean, we're close in the offseason.
Speaker 1: It's good to have him down there.
Speaker 4: It's a friendly face coming to a new place, and
Speaker 4: it's awesome.
Speaker 2: How much is it at this point in time, time
Speaker 2: of the season, does a bullpen start to come together
Speaker 2: as its own group.
Speaker 4: It's a small family's oide of a big family.
Speaker 1: So I mean it starts, it starts as very training
Speaker 1: and then day one it's it's it's we're locked and loaded,
Speaker 1: ready to go.
Speaker 2: It feels like everybody has their own different role as
Speaker 2: a personality. You know, who's the guy that cracks the
Speaker 2: jokes to keep things.
Speaker 1: Like Kirby Definitely Kirby ates the guy's a character.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, maybe two or three years ago,
Speaker 2: they used to keep tallies on home run predictions for
Speaker 2: your own team.
Speaker 3: Did they still do anything similar to that? Down there?
Speaker 1: It seems like a personal question. So, uh, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: there is, maybe there's not. Maybe I'm on the board
Speaker 1: a couple.
Speaker 4: Of times, but maybe I'm not. Okay, hell, but so
Speaker 4: I'm gonna leave the answer.
Speaker 2: But Tanner Scott's a man of mystery. Why don't you
Speaker 2: show America that beautiful bald head of yours? Tony Gonsolin
Speaker 2: showed his yesterday.
Speaker 1: Okay, Tony is Tony's like a half bald person like
Speaker 1: he doesn't fully commit on shaving every other day.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're gonna be bald, you got the
Speaker 4: it every other day. It's gotta be a nice shine.
Speaker 3: Show us how it looks.
Speaker 4: Can't do that, I mean just just zooming on owl.
Speaker 4: Al's got a beautiful bald head. I'm like, how do
Speaker 4: I get that? I want that?
Speaker 2: You are truly a man of mystery. Won't show the
Speaker 2: head without the hat. You won't tell us what's going
Speaker 2: on in the bullpen?
Speaker 3: Pooled back there?
Speaker 4: All right, I'll bolt, I'll show my bald head when
Speaker 4: you shave yours.
Speaker 3: All right, deal, let's do it perfect.
Speaker 4: So that's never gonna happen exactly.
Speaker 3: I need to keep as much as I got tannered.
Speaker 3: Dang it.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the time, and Lad, you're on
Speaker 2: the Dodgers side now, so is Otani.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to be his team and I don't want
Speaker 4: to have to face him.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the time, No problem, Thank you,