Speaker 1: What a season for Landon Neck, making his major league debut,
Speaker 1: winning his first.
Speaker 2: Major League game, and being part of this.
Speaker 1: Dodger starting staff as they head into October, Landon, thanks
Speaker 1: a lot for the time.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I always love hopping on with you.
Speaker 1: Hey, Landon, I actually wanted to ask one of you guys.
Speaker 1: You're wearing a fifty to fifty O tawny shirt. The
Speaker 1: entire team has been wearing it ever since he accomplished that.
Speaker 1: In Miami you usually only see fans wear this shirt.
Speaker 1: But he must mean a lot more to this team
Speaker 1: for everybody to continue to wear this shirt.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, No, He's a.
Speaker 3: Heartbeat the lineup, absolutely, Like, just brings the energy every
Speaker 3: time I get out there right now, right now, He's
Speaker 3: so hot swinging it. Every time he gets on base,
Speaker 3: he's fired up. And so yeah, no, you can't help
Speaker 3: it but love the guy and want to support.
Speaker 1: Is there some sense with all the great players on
Speaker 1: this team all of you are looking to him to
Speaker 1: not only lead you on the field, but maybe emotionally.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, him and Mookie and Freddie and them. Of course
Speaker 3: they are like you look at them as kind of
Speaker 3: the leaders of this team. And so absolutely, you know,
Speaker 3: you look towards him as kind of the energy, the
Speaker 3: mindset you see him going in with out there where
Speaker 3: he's just ready to attack as soon as he gets
Speaker 3: in the box. So yeah, absolutely he is.
Speaker 2: He's just bringing the energy for US.
Speaker 1: Landon Dave Roberts said yesterday you are one of his
Speaker 1: four starting pitchers.
Speaker 2: For the NLDS. What does that mean to you? It
Speaker 2: means a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, obviously, I've been very excited over the course
Speaker 3: of the year. You know, it's been kind of back
Speaker 3: and forth between here and OKC and kind of just
Speaker 3: battling through things, trying to stay as consistent as possible,
Speaker 3: and so getting that kind of nod right there from him.
Speaker 2: Means a ton to me.
Speaker 3: And I'm just excited to contribute and towards our ultimate.
Speaker 2: Goal of World Series.
Speaker 1: Can you look back at where your season started and
Speaker 1: where it's going headed to the playoffs, do you feel
Speaker 1: like you're starting to get some traction to your season,
Speaker 1: some regularity to it again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think kind of being able to get
Speaker 3: up here this last time and just kind of being
Speaker 3: able to settle in for the last month and kind
Speaker 3: of stick around up here and kind of get back
Speaker 3: into a normal routine instead of the kind of back
Speaker 3: and forth and starts moving around to kind of fit
Speaker 3: with the needs here and being able to just kind
Speaker 3: of have that consistency being part of the team and
Speaker 3: just getting to stay here. It's made everything feel a
Speaker 3: lot easier.
Speaker 2: Landed Neck is our guest.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the celebration of the NL West Championship.
Speaker 1: What was it like for you to be part of that,
Speaker 1: since you obviously have had a big part of this
Speaker 1: second half.
Speaker 2: It was surreal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the getting to be here and actually be around
Speaker 3: for when we clinch, get into pop bottles with these
Speaker 3: guys and kind of celebrate this entire season's where the work.
Speaker 3: I mean, it meant a ton to me. That was
Speaker 3: so much fun, kind of just getting in there and
Speaker 3: celebrating with everybody. It was just a moment I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: Kind of the first time pop and bottles up here.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you envisioned that the last few years watching
Speaker 1: this team do exactly what you were.
Speaker 2: A part of.
Speaker 1: To be part of it this time, do you feel
Speaker 1: like that's another box you've checked in your career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Guys, there's a lot of people who play
Speaker 3: baseball around this league that don't get to experience that
Speaker 3: for a long time if ever. And so getting to
Speaker 3: be a part of that my rookie year, getting able
Speaker 3: to kind of be able to come up here and
Speaker 3: experience popping bottles and celebrating inn nl WES championship, I
Speaker 3: mean is it is absolutely an amazing feeling and it's
Speaker 3: just something I definitely don't take for granted.
Speaker 1: During that celebration, Gavin Stone was in there twenty five starts,
Speaker 1: the most on the team. He pitched the most innings
Speaker 1: of any pitcher on this staff all year, unfortunately the
Speaker 1: shoulder injury.
Speaker 2: What was it like celebrating with him? It was great.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad he was able to be there, to
Speaker 3: be a part of that. He's been such a huge
Speaker 3: part of this team the entire year. Seeing the way
Speaker 3: he went out there and just took such a massive
Speaker 3: step forward established himself here this year. It was a
Speaker 3: lot of fun obviously coming up with Gavin, like it's
Speaker 3: somebody that like you want to see do well, you
Speaker 3: want to see succeed, and you just care about him,
Speaker 3: and so it's been It was awesome for him to
Speaker 3: be able to be there celebrate everything that he helped
Speaker 3: us accomplish this year because he was such a big
Speaker 3: part of it, and uh, and it.
Speaker 2: Was just great. Landon Neck is our guest.
Speaker 1: All right, before I let you go, we all saw
Speaker 1: it the standoff yesterday before the game after the national
Speaker 1: anthem Dodger fans, I have seen that before between Joe
Speaker 1: Kelly at the time a Cardinal and Scott Vance like
Speaker 1: a Dodger.
Speaker 2: How did that all come about? Did you arrange that? No?
Speaker 3: I actually had no plan of doing that at all.
Speaker 3: And then uh, the color guard here, I was gonna
Speaker 3: I just always wait for them to get off the field,
Speaker 3: and instead of they were starting behind second had to
Speaker 3: walk all the way to the left field corner and
Speaker 3: so it was taking a long time, and I just
Speaker 3: kind of half peeked over there their line and saw
Speaker 3: Freelan just eyeing me down. And so as soon as
Speaker 3: I saw him staring at me, I was like, well,
Speaker 3: I have to say, yes, I can't just not accept.
Speaker 2: That, like you're you're clearly challenging me. All right, let's
Speaker 2: do it. And uh so yeah that was fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously UH hate that. Uh the umpire
Speaker 3: came to me first, of course, to get me out
Speaker 3: of there.
Speaker 2: But uh, that was that was fun.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was the rookie thing to do
Speaker 1: by the umpire right, not go to the veteran in
Speaker 1: his home ballpark, but to come to the rookie.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he knew exactly what he was doing.
Speaker 2: He knew that he could.
Speaker 3: He could get the rookie a little bit more just
Speaker 3: like being with it, like hey, it's an ejection and
Speaker 3: some other stuff. If you don't get off, I'm like, ah,
Speaker 3: you're right, all right, I'll get i'll go, i'll go.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so it was that.
Speaker 1: Was that was fun one, all right, Landed, thanks a lot,
Speaker 1: love seeing your personality and these type of games, and
Speaker 1: very happy for you to be part of this uh
Speaker 1: October roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely can't wait