April 7, 2021 • 48 mins
Episode 2 is here and David gives his thoughts on Kershaw finally winning a ring. Andre Ethier and Dodgers pitching prospect Ryan Pepiot join the show, and David gives us a stat of the week.
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have a great podcast, episode twofor you of Extra Innings. In case
you were expecting Brad Paisley, It'sa long story. None of it is
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Brad's fault. We will try toconnect with him on another episode. But
we have Andre Ethier and we alsohave one of the best pitching prospects in
the Dodger organization, Ryan Peppio onthis week's podcast, So a really fun
episode of Extra Innings coming year way. But first, the leadoff Spotty leadoffs
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most of the Extra Inny's podcast.David Fasse. All right, so as
we tape this podcast episode two,the Dodgers are in Oakland and Cody Bellinger
had to leave the game. Thesecond game of the three game series,
because in the ninth inning of thatsecond game, he beat out an infield
single but was stepped on by sixone, two hundred and forty two pounder
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JB. Wildekin A's relief pitcher,and we thought it was just him being
spiked, and then things kind ofgot a little confusing. Here's what Dave
Roberts said after that night's game aboutCody's injury. Cody got cleaded when he
led gout that single, So hegot cleat on the back lower part of
his calf. But it's just moresore. It's not an ankle thing.
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So he made a comment that theice that he was getting hurts worse than
the cleat marks. But so he'skind of with ct the day to day
and we'll see. We'll know moretomorrow morning. All right. So the
next day the Dodgers beat the A'sin game two of the series. Cody's
injury, by the way, thefirst game of the series, I was
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I misspoke right there, But anyway, the second game of the series,
no Cody Bellinger And after the game, this is the update from Dave Roberts.
Yeah, what I would I doknow is that there was no stress
fractures. There's still obviously residual soreness. So I don't know, you know
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what we're gonna do. As faras I no, I L but I
think that right now, you know, I think we're in a decent spot.
But even with that, I justdon't know when the return will be
huh. I mean, I don'tunderstand how it went from being spiked to
all of a sudden no stress fracture, and we're talking about an injuredless situation.
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It obviously was more than being spiked. I mean, he had a
two hundred and forty two pound picturerunning full steam and stepping on his left
ankle. And I'll tell you this, one thing that I will always remember
the rest of my career and lifewas the advice Scott Van Sli gave me
in spring training one year when JustinTurner and Adrian Gonzalez We're firing me baseballs
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and I was trying to catch them. He told me, simply trust your
eyes. So I'm gonna trust myeyes. And if you go back and
watch that play, it wasn't hiscalf, it was his ankle. Think
about that. It's and sense apicture is not going to step on Cody
Bellinger's calf as they're trying to makea run for first base. So obviously
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the pictures stepped on his ankle orhis achilles where his ankle meets the heel
of his foot, and it wasmore than a spike. It was maybe
twisted his ankle, maybe landed onhis ankle. So I just don't get
it. Just be honest with theinformation. Look, Dave Roberts is somewhat
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of the messenger. He's only allowedto say what the organization wants him to
say about a player's injury. Butgive us a little credit. Those were
two very conflicting explanations about the injury. So as you're listening to this,
I don't know if Cody goes onthe injured list or not. But obviously
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it was more than just being spiked. Now, the Dodgers are getting their
rings in the first home game ofthe season against the Washington Nationals. The
Washington Nationals, by the way,it was not a foregone conclusion that they
were going to make it to LosAngeles. Their first series of the season
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was canceled or postponed against the Metsbecause multiple Nationals came up positive for COVID
nineteen and others were part of thecontact tracing procedure. And I would say
that it would have really stunk ifthe Dodgers could not have had their ring
ceremony because the Nationals could not makeit out to Los Angeles. And Dave
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Roberts even admitted that he admitted asmuch that the Dodgers had had some internal
discussions about the fact that the Nationalsmay not have been able to come out
to Los Angeles to play that series. And who knows what the Dodgers would
have done if the Nationals could nothave made the trip to Los Angeles and
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spoiled their ring ceremony the day thatthey get their rings. And look,
the Nationals were a victim of COVIDnineteen baseball life last year. They had
no fans in the stands to celebratetheir World championship. But for the Dodgers,
think about this, so many guyshad waited and had a lot of
heartbreak to win the World Series lastyear. They couldn't celebrate with the champagne
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like you see all these other teams. They couldn't have a parade, and
now they were staring at the realitythat they may not be able to have
a ring ceremony the day it wasscheduled after starting the season on the road
the first seven games of the year. That's why I felt like Major League
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Baseball was kind of teasing the Dodgers, why not just have these guys start
the season at home, Let themhave their day and be on with it.
But thankfully, thankfully, the Nationalswill make it out to Los Angeles
and the Dodgers will get their WorldSeries rings and Clayton Kershaw still very emotional
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about winning his first ever World Serieschampionship. Yeah, it's uh, it's
been marks on the calendar for awhile now. I'm excited. I'm excited
that we're gonna have a few fansthere. First of all, I mean,
I think that'll be really cool.It's kind of the first time that
we've all been together with fans toget to celebrate last year. So I'm
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very excited about it. And youknow, we don't want to look too
far into the past. Obviously,we gotta play, we gotta win.
But Friday is gonna be really specialfor me for a lot of different reasons.
And it's just finally get to seethat ring. It'll be pretty special.
You know, I think you mentionedthis before, but you know,
just kind of this this feel thatyou know, how many people out there
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wanted wanted, you know, especiallyfor you. You know, what does
it kind of mean to be ableto kind of celebrate again, you know,
with with with all those fans,you know, given that Yeah,
it's uh, it's I don't knowthe right word. Humbling might not be
the right word, but it's justa it's just a grateful feeling, I
think, to know that so manypeople care about me in that way,
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that it's they wanted me to winso bad and maybe something that I took
for grant, a little bit ofrealizing how much it impacted the people around
me, and especially if my wife, I think she's gonna be pretty excited
too. So. But just seeingteammates get to celebrate with them, get
to see the rings, get todo all those things. It's it's gonna
be a special day for sure.Wow. I got emotional just listening to
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that answer. You know, that'sthe first time that you know, it
really hit me that he finally won, and you know, just to hear
how appreciative he is of winning theWorld Series and appreciative of how much people
are happy for him. It makesyou feel good. And I'm sorry,
I'm not trying to be corny here, but Clayton Kershaw, I've had a
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chance to watch him every day duringthe baseball season, and for me to
be there at the stadium in betweenstarts and to see how much work he
puts in for every fifth day andhow much he cares. That's why I'm
happy for him, because I knowhow much he pours into every start and
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how much he cares. So forme, that's why I'm emotional after hearing
what he just said right there.And I'm sorry. I know so many
of you are very quick to justthrow dirt on his career at one bad
start or one subpar start like onOpening Day, which by the way,
was not that bad. That's whyI continue to say his career is far
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from over and don't bet against Kershaw. He is going to find a way,
and he may not have his beststuff on certain nights. Is back,
maybe a little stiff certain nights,certain games, but he will find
a way, trust me, andI couldn't be happier for him. I
couldn't be happier for a lot ofguys on that team, but especially him
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because of how much work he putsin. And you know how many guys
can say that Clayton Kershaw invited themon the field to run his sprints in
between starts. This guy can.We were at Wrigley Field, I was
in my suit after doing a hitfor MLB Network. It was a day
game, and he just waved meout to the fields all let's go,
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challenged me to run those sprints withhim, So I ran him and Alana
Rizzo actually captured it on her igstory. She like it was a backhanded
compliment, but at least she capturedit and I could show my kids that
one day. But that was justan example of the work that he puts
in. And yeah, it justit's really awesome that he finally won.
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And I can't wait to see hisemotions on ring day. And if you
have a chance, I would saveit and replay it and keep it with
you every time you want to doubtclay Kershaw my favorite. Thank You'm glad
to see you're not wearing Khaki's yourfavorite. And not everyone holds himself to
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high physical standard around here, butprobably not Basset's favorite. I know no
one listens to your show. Sohow dare you? DV is joined by
andre eth here well episode two withAndre Ethier and for him to get here
this time was a little bit morechallenging than last week. And Andre,
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the Dodgers have multiple day games,and I know day games were a challenge
for every player, but your newlife as a dad sometimes can be just
as challenging as waking up for aday game. Hey, I would gladly
welcome a day game this morning.Probably wake up a little bit later than
I had you for school, butyes, it's hard for getting on here
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light and making you guys hold upthere. You know, it was blue
shirt Day. I would like tosay Dodger Day at school, but it
was blue day for autism awareness atschool. And we happened to forget that,
me and my wife and put ourkids in nodded blue shirts. And
wait a minute, it wasn't youand your wife. It was you.
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Well, yes, and I willI will tell you. I am,
I am. I am on morningduty, so it's my duty to get
the kids dressed with school in themorn and do that. So I did,
and I was reminded by my daughter, my four year old, that
it is I'm supposed to wear ablue shirt last night before bed, and
I totally forgot. And we showup to school and we see a sea
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of blue walking onto school and I'mlike, uh, hopefully they don't say
anything. And sure enough walk onthe campus and my foy looks at me
goes, but Dad, you forgotmy blue shirt. And I'm like,
oh gosh. So call mom andshe's like, well, I told you
last night. So I'm split thelast hour driving back and forth picking out
blue shirts as the closet and driveback and drop them off to school for
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them. So it was a wild, fun morning. And yeah, sometimes
it's nice to have that early wakeup call for a Dodger Day game,
even if it's on the East Coast. So honestly, this is payback for
all those years where you forgot somethingand you would shout out, Alex,
Alex, you forgot something in theclubhouse, and your clubhouse manager, the
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great Alex Torres, would have tofind it for you. So now you're
the clubhouse manager of your house andhad to go find that blue shirt for
your daughter. I think the clubhousemanager Alex gets more respected you around my
house, though, because I wasjust getting evil looks from my daughter and
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of course from my wife when Ishowed back up to the house to pick
up the blue shirts, and andyou know, being like, well,
you know, and then of courseit's like the you know, all things
can go wrong when they do andof course I'm I'm almost running out of
gas in my car. So I'mlike, okay, I am I gonna
make it. I'm gonna make itback and forth. Should I stop and
get gas? No if it taketoo long, you know, playing all
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those things. Yeah, So itwas a fun, adventuring morning to get
here and get on you know,the radio with you this morning. And
it's a podcast. It's a podcast. We're not on the radio podcast.
It's all the same, you know, interweb, interweb Internet, the same
multimedia platform star Andre Ethier every weekwith us on the Extra Innings podcast.
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All right, So it's been aweek and there's been a lot of crazy
things that happened to the Dodgers atcorps Field. I'm sure you've been part
of it. But how does CodyBellinger get himself into these situations where he's
always on the internet and on socialmedia. A cat running onto the field
and he's standing there, and he'sin every photo with this wild cat.
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Uh yeah, I mean I thinkwe've had a few animals things happened there
at Is. It's so cool.I don't even know what they call that
park now, still course Field.I know these parks change names every other
mother or something. But yeah,of course, I mean that cat was
a scary looking cat right there.But I think over the years, we've
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had so many of these moments.But for some reason, these these things
happened to find uh Cody and seecome out. I don't know if it's
his energy or he's putting off.But like I said to him this off
season, when everyone was kind ofmaking, you know, those things were
going out around the internet about howhis face looks, why is his face
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like at this? Like, whydoes your face? It's just my face,
man, It's just the face Ihad. That's what he That's what
he takes me back, and I'mlike, come on, I'm like,
well, what do you do andhe goes, no, that's just how
my face looks. I'm like,all right, I don't know if his
face always looks like that. Imean, suppose he does. He was
tending me photos of himself when heof the kidden. I mean, and
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he looked exactly like that. SoI let a little let a little credit
to the story that he was tellingme. But I mean, if you,
I mean, Google, look golook at his Little League World Series
stuff, and you can't tell methe guy was on, you know,
in some spiritual herbs back then whenhe was in when he was twelve years
old. Yeah, you're right.I don't think he was on any spiritual
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herbs. That's a really nice wayto put it. I've never heard anybody
say it that way. That's Hey, by the way, it's legal in
California. We could talk about thHC and CBD and all that. That's
all good at Calli. It's legalhere in Arizona now too. They voted
it through the people won. Hey, I was talking earlier about teams hiding
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injuries. Why wouldn't they just bedirect about what really happened to Cody in
Oakland when he got stepped on.It's not really that difficult either he got
spiked or he twisted his ankle.Why you've been on that side of things?
Why why are teams so protective overwhat really happened? I don't know,
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I mean, I understand the disclosureside. Now, you know,
there's so many rules with how injuriesand what gets reported and how it gets
reported, and I think it hasto be agreed upon with the player and
the team a little bit more ofhow they're going to report that injury,
of how it happened, you know, with more emphasis on the players having
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the rights. And I can rememberback in the day, and I can
remember the first couple years coming up, you got to hurt, you did
this, they would be reported andblasted out immediately, you know, even
before you'd be in the training roomand someone would be ten minutes later.
You'd have an in game report ofwhat happened. Now that's kind of held
close to vest. You know,they come up with maybe a timetable of
their return first before they really releasedwhat the you know, prognosis of that
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entire injury. But I think it'sjust part of the you know, Clo
Gagger game of you know, notletting the opponent know, uh, you
know, really of how they're goingto prepare, because that's what I mean,
you see it, Dave, Howhow late did these lineups come out
every day? And it's because theseteams not only from the from the coaches
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side, but from the front officeside, are game planning of how they're
going to have that game plan forthat game, uh, and so whatever
players available on that roster effects thatgame plan. So I think you see
it. You see the tun inhockey right lower leg lower leg injury or
lower lower body injury, and youknow they don't really disclose what the full
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uh injury is because uh, youknow, there's so much game planning going
on now with these pitching matchups,how they're going to get the lineup out
there. So I think that's partof it, at least in my observation
of why they're holding it back.I know you're not gonna like this,
but I used to talk to AdrianGonzalez about this when he played, and
he felt like it does the playermore of a service if he's upfront with
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whatever is hurting him, because,as you know, when you're hurt,
you don't play as well as younormally would, and when you're not playing
as well as you normally would,everybody starts to criticize you. Oh,
how do you feel about that?Are you a guy that feels that maybe
players should disclose their injury so theydon't get criticized for not playing well.
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You know what, the criticism isgonna come no matter what where they're injured,
playing good or playing not. It'sjust a part of the game.
It's part of what it is.I mean, it's a double edge both
sides. No one wants to hearexcuse afterwards and no wants to hear excuse
before. So yeah, disclosing ithelps at least he gives the people and
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the fans a better understanding what's goingon. But at the same time,
the injury, if you're out thereplaying, you're having to play through it,
which is not being done anymore,not like it was in the past.
You know, there's a big emphasisI'm making sure players are one hundred
percent. You know, That's whatI've heard reiterated, whether it's conversations with
you know, guys around the teamand how they're you know, the Dodgers
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to other teams. It's the sameway. They don't want players all out
on the field, especially beginning theseason, middle season, if they can't
be one hundred percent, because there'sguys that they can get to replace them
for a short spell that can goout there and be one hundred percent and
they want you to be you know, as close to one hundred percent as
you can for the longest part ofthe year. So you know, with
that being said, there's not manychances. Now, I don't believe that
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they're putting guys out there that they'rehaving a nurse injuries or nurse things,
because these front offices, these managershave the same frame of mind, we
can we have enough depth to haveplayers out there to replace you for a
short spurt that can give us thatfull effort rather than going out there and
having you try to nurse or youknow, go through a week or two
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of not filling your grade and putyou in a bad slump because of it,
put you in a bad you know, in some space like that.
And I think that's something, youknow, like Adrian said, maybe that
was something the past that would havebeen beneficial for how they handle stuff in
But I mean, you can seeDave right, someone gets a little nicked
up and it doesn't matter w are. You could be Lukey Betts highest paid
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contract on the team, or youcould be Zak McKinstry and if you're banged
up or nicked they're not going toput you out there to start and to
give you a day or two torest and recover. Usually, yeah,
and keep judging. Look at Cody, who knows how severe his injury is.
We don't know, but he wasn'tout there for a couple of games
in a row, and he mightbe on the injury list by the time
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you're listening to this podcast. Hey, by the way, speaking of Adrian,
he's gonna make a sort of comebackwith an expansion team in the Mexican
League. Do you need me topull some strings for you? Maybe I
could get you on the Guadalajara Mariachi's. I told you I've been practicing with
my trombone, but I forgot trump. Trombone isn't a part of the I
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need. I need to do instrotofment to be a part of the Trump.
But you know that's they're all aboutthe Trump. But you know what
that's honestly, you know, youfirst look at you like, what the
heck is the guy doing? Butyou know, and hey, if I
have the urge every morning to wantto go out there and do something,
but then all of a sudden,I you know, realize it's blue shirt
day and I have blue shirt.Uh, comp the obligations, and I
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don't you know, I'd honestly ratherbe doing that right now, you know,
had my great time plan doing allthat. If I would be lying
to tell you if I wasn't alittle jealous of him, knowing that he's
gonna be able to go out andplay baseball again and have fun and do
that, and I would love todo that myself. But you know,
it's just it's not where I'm atand where where I'm going. And you
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know, I wish him and helphim all the success, and I know
he has bigger aspirations beyond that isto you know, make his country's you
know, Olympic team and go representhis country, which is a great thing.
And uh, you know, ifthere's maybe I'll wind up for me
to make team us, say,maybe i'd be trying to go out there
make a comeback myself. But Ican let Mike Soso for you. He's
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the manager. I could let himknow, Yeah we can. Maybe I
could be the cobout. I'll pullsome strings for you because he's Italian.
Yeah, exactly, that's our connectionkind of Hey, it's the only connection
you guys have, exactly, Andwe love to eat. That's that's about
it, hey, Andre. Speakingof the emotional side of baseball, Clayton
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Kershaw got emotional after his start inOakland when he was asked about the ring
ceremony at Dodger Stadium. And heseems to still have the same feelings that
we heard about during the off season. What do you feel about that ring
ceremony? And what do you believeyou've seen from Kershaw in his first two
starts of the season. You know, it's tough not to doubt Clayton when
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you see and I'm trying to thisperformance wife, when you see what he
went through or how he performed inspring training, right like, we see
it and we're like, oh gosh. I mean, you know, stuff
isn't looking great, but you can'tdeny the competitor and his will to want
to get stuff done. And Imean even that start in Colorado wasn't that
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you know that. I mean it'sColorado. Let's be really like a lot
of guys go there with great stuffand get touched up and have bad stuff.
And he didn't have really that greateststuff. And he went in there
and he pitched the team into agame where it was easily winnable for that
offense in that ballpark, and youknow they just got out, out run
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and outgunned in that stadium that day. And then you know, you see
last night where he goes and Imean, what didn't throw a pitch over
ninety one probably and just was locatingwell and and you know a few at
bats was well just the septive outof the zone pitches that looked like strikes.
But I mean I saw one atbad I think it was the catcher
Murphy there. He might have thrownone strike in the zone and the rest
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were chase pitches and the guy keptswinging at him. So you can see
he's out there competing, go whatit takes to win, and you got
to tip your hat to him.You know, we're not seeing the curse
that everyone you know expects and remembersfrom the past. But he's going out
there finding a way to win,and sen on that ring ceremony, you
can see like it still means something. And I think it's just that deep
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breath. I mean, the guywho's accomplished everything he's accomplished, and we've
talked about this day. He's afirst ballot Hall of famer. You can't
deny that he deserves every bit ofthat and to have that one thing hang
over his head, you know,not having the success in the postseason me
and you've seen it firsthand, andfor him to finally get over the humph.
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You know, I'm so happy andand excited for him to experience what
he's doing, your experience this weekendwith that ring ceremony and have his due
of what he's doing. Just putyou know a little more icing on that
cake, because he's already built.Can you explain why not only you,
as a former teammate and other formerteammates were happy for him, but can
you explain why players on other teamswere so happy for him to finally win
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the World Series? Well, he'sa he's a genuine guy. I mean
you just see it. I meansomeone that what was that whole thing JT
was doing on his Instagram, youknow, the phone thing? Yeah,
and I'll call you back that wholeYeah, I'll call you that thing.
And like someone even put it thisway, all those guys didn't you know,
Tater Row But like Clayton with allthis status, everything you get with
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Clayton, right, like we justsaid, first, Ayal hall Famer,
a generational pitcher, you know,uh leads the Dodgers in every category you
could probasibly have been pitching, youknow almost you know, is this like
top of the game and was Andyou just see the way he handled that
moment, Like he's just so genuineand on us and pure and like people
get to see that and like ishe really like that? Uh? You
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know every day and it's like isClayton this perfect, you know person all
the time? And it's sad tosay he really is, Like he really
is that great of a guy andgenuine. And you saw the way he
reacted with Jap, like out therewith this kid doing something and he has
that genuine smile and like, hey, what's up? You know what's going
on? I want to help?Every time I text him the same way.
And that's why he's with that withopposing players. I think you can
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see that that he's that way andit's not up front, it's not any
bit of fakeness to him and withsomeone and you know, as an athlete,
as another player, when you've hadthat much success and you've been that
close and you keep coming up short, you can't help. But root for
a guy, especially someone who's sogreat and genuine, Like, how do
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you root against something or someone likethat? I mean, have you ever
rooted against Clayton in any of histime? Have you? Day? I
get made fun of rooting for him. I get I get mocked for believing
in him, even in twenty twentyone, right, and I, Hey,
I'm as guilty's anyone, he said, Like I just told you.
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You see it starts and spree trainlike, man, this is it.
But then you see, like hehe gets the ball and he goes out
there and competes and just finds away and and you know, manages to
keep you know, himself going andand you know has a performance like he
did last night after you know,even though you're, like he said,
even you want to say if it'sa shaky one in Colorado, but I
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mean it's Colorado and it's a toughplace, and and he finds a way
to bounce back and get back andbe rolled into you know, a nice
celebration week in this you know thisweekend and Donner Stadium. All right,
Andre, another great appearance by youon this podcast. I don't know how
I'm going to repay you for agreeingto be on here every week. But
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I'll find a way. Maybe somegolf balls in your new life, maybe
some blue shirts for the kids,or maybe that call associate, get me
a all right, sounds good,I'll make that call. Yeah, we'll
talk to you next episode, nextweek. All right, I'll make sure
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next week is my green red shirtthere, ar, Yeah, get it
together. There's no Alex Torres foryou. You're that guy now, yeah,
yeah, I'm Alex Torres of myhouse. There he goes Andre Ethier.
He is one of a kind andwill always be a Dodger forever.
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This it's Dodgers Pipe Block scouting,the player development, the drafting, a
look at the major minor league stories. All right, this is going to
be our first pipeline guest on thepodcast, asked, and I'm very pleased
to have him on. He's agreat young man. A lot of people
were raving from what they saw inspring training from him. And he is
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a college pitcher. He's a ButlerBulldog. Was drafted out of Butler in
the third round of the twenty nineteendraft, and he holds the strikeout record
at Butler. And that is RyanPeppio Ryan, thanks a lot for coming
on. Appreciate it. No,thank you very much for having me.
So you're a Butler Bulldog. Thatmeans that you're very much into college basketball.
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Were you surprised by what you sawin March Madness? Yes, I
was. I was. I loveseeing some underdog stories. So I love
seeing loyal the Chicago make a run, Ucla coming in first four or first
four games or two games, theplaying games, yeah, and then making
it, making it as far asthey did to the final four. And
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then I mean Gonzaga had a greatrun, but I mean they ran into
the buzz saw Baylor in that tournament, and I mean I watched in that
game. I was kind of onthe edge of my seat, uncomfortable,
like with that defense. I'm gladI was not on the court. Plant.
Did you play basketball in high school? Yeah, I played for a
couple of years in high school andthen played all growing up. I'm from
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Indiana, so we have to playbasketball. Yeah, that is a birthright
out there, right, Yes exactly. So Butler is not a place that
I think baseball. We think basketballnow after what Brad Stevens built over there.
Why did you choose to go toButler for college baseball. I had
a checklist of things that I wantedto kind of cross off when I was
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looking through different schools like pros andcons. And then I wanted somewhere where
if baseball didn't work out for me, I wanted a strong academic school where
I could have a good degree tofall back on. And then I wanted
to go somewhere that was close tohome so that I could go back to
see my brother play while he wasin high school. And then I wanted
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somewhere where my parents and grandparents couldcome watch to play. And then I
wanted to also go somewhere that Iwould have the chance to compete for a
rotation spot as a freshman. Makessense, You got you checked all the
boxes right there. I like thatYou're a family guy, Ryan. I
stayed in my house until I wastwenty eight years old. Well, hey,
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you're saving money. Why are youlaughing? No, because I'm thinking
I'm doing the same, Ryan,You're doing the same. You could follow
Ryan on Twitter at Ryan Peppio twoand Ryan, I gotta tell you,
I heard a lot of great thingsabout you when I was in Arizona at
Camelback Ranch. What was the experiencelike for you, You've only had maybe
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a handful of games since being draftedby the Dodgers. It was a great
experience. I mean, I meaneveryone I'm sure says experience is great,
but it was really great learning experiencefor me, just being around the guys,
just being able to like watch ClaytonKershaw do things, David Price do
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things, Trevor Bauer do his things, Walker Bueler, all those guys who
have been in the league for awhile and who have been established studs,
and just being able to sit backand watch what they do and then pick
their brains a little bit and askingquestions and just have meaningful conversations with guys
that have been doing this for along time, so that I can pick
up little things that they maybe didwhen they were younger that they wished they
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would have done differently later on,or things that they added to their their
routines that I can take as wellto add to mine. You sound like
a well adjusted young man, andI'm curious were you Were you intimidated to
go up to Kershaw or Bueller orDavid Price to ask them something. Definitely
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the first few days, definitely Iwas like I just kind of stayed in
the background for the first few days, kind of just watched and like let
them do their thing. I didn'twant to be I was like definitely had
like the starstruck us like the firstfew days. But after after a couple
of days, I was like,Okay, like you're here, you belong
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here, you can do this.Like they're still people, you can say
hi, and you can talk tothem. So after a couple of days,
I would I finally gave myself thecourage and finally started talking to people
and introducing myself and everything rather thanjust sitting back and watching from from afar.
Is there one thing that sticks outthat you could share with us as
far as a piece of advice yougot from Kershaw? I didn't really talk
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to him that much, so Ididn't really I didn't get actual if you
get too close you'll growl. No. But but from David Price, I
would say, like he just toldme to just be myself and then just
listen to everybody in the organization.We have the greatest, greatest organization in
baseball, and then everyone there theywant everything that's best for each and every
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one of us. So if theysay something, they see something, take
it and run with it. Hey, David Price seems like a real generous
guy to young players, not onlywith his time, but were you one
of the beneficiaries of what he didfor Dodger minor league players last year.
Yes, he's a generous guy andjust a awesome dude to be around,
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Like just genuine, super nice guy, like a great clubhouse guy. Just
I mean, you can't say enoughabout him. Yeah, and he's a
dog guy. He's allergic to cats. Well, you know, I don't
know how Tony feels about that one, but that's a top question for me.
Hey, Ryan, I don't thinkpeople realize it and quite grasp that
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you really have not had the classicexperience after being drafted by a major league
team with the pandemic hitting in twentytwenty. You were drafted in twenty nineteen,
you had nine games at Great Lakes, and then in twenty twenty absolutely
nothing as far as competing against otherminor league players. What was twenty twenty
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like for you? Twenty twenty was, Oh, it was an interesting year,
to say the least. It was. I was blessed to be able
to have gone to the alternate siteand throw in one of the summer camp
games just to be able to havesome sort of a season. I mean,
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I hope we never have to gothrough an experience like that again,
but I was definitely a beneficiary ofbeing able to do that. So it
was kind of like a spring trainingtype feel over at the alternate site,
But it was the coaches there andstaff there wanted to make it seem like
it wasn't so that it wasn't likethe same thing over and over and over
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again for how long tune or threemonths it was, So it was it
was good to just being able tobe out there. I mean, you
can't beat sunny California in the summertime, so it was. It was a
interesting season, if you want tocall it a season, but it was
I was glad to have been ableto get some sort of innings in for
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the year. Did you feel likeyou got better facing some of the other
top minor league players in the Dodgerorganization. Absolutely, I mean when you're
going out there every day and you'refacing mckinstreet, Hosey, Michael Bush,
Luke Raley, DJ Peters, DevinMann, Jacob Amiah, I mean I
could list the whole alternate site squadwhen it's you're going through the bus.
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Saw the entire organization every day,every fifth day, so it was go
every fifth day, same lineup prettymuch each time. Maybe a couple of
guys that were on on your sideof the field every other time, but
it was pretty much the same thingeach each start. And I mean they'd
seen me multiple times, I'd seenthem multiple times, so it was it
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was a it was a good funbattle every time we were out there.
All right, Ryan, you're agood picture and they're good players. But
even in the major leagues, thereare certain hitters that just have a picture's
number and vice versa. So whowas the hitter that you had their number?
And what hitter had your number?Luke rarely took to me about four
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hundred and fifty feet a couple oftimes, like on top on top of
the parking garage. I know you'rea humble guy. What what guy do
you feel like? You had theirnumber? Your teammates now your teammates,
So it's all good. It's now, so it's all good. I would
say, I'm probably gonna have tobuy his next round of golf if he
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listens to this. So Devin Man. Oh yeah, Devin Man's on Twitter.
He's an active Twitter guy. Hemight be listening active guys. So
if he listens, then I mean, Devin, if you're listening, I
have your next round of golf.I'm sorry. All right, I'll pay
half of that round of golf becauseyou're in my in the minor league.
Still, Ryan, I'll help youout for forgetting you to be honest with
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your answer. Hey, so fastforward to this spring training. I guess
it was your first major league pitchin spring training in the Cactus League.
Take us through getting ready for yourfirst game, and you know, just
do your experience pitching in these gamesthis spring. Well, first off,
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it was awesome to be able tobe out there, and then on top
of being out there, having peoplein the stands again, that was amazing.
But I mean I was just outthere. I mean, I think
it was like first few games Igot to throw, one of the first
few games I got to throw,and know, it's definitely nervous, definitely
excited, amped up, and thenI mean just go out there, just
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try to be myself and try notto do too much and just have fun.
It's baseball. It's the same gameI've been playing since I was a
little kid, So I just justdone a little bit bigger stage. I've
heard so much about your changeup.Where did you cultivate that changeup? Was
that something that you found at Butleror was it something you had in high
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school that you got better at Butler? I wish I had it in high
school. It was something It wassomething I had started to work on after
my freshman summer summer going into mysophomore year of college, I played out
in the New England College League,and I kind of got shelled a little
bit just because I didn't have achangeup that was very, very good.
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So I just started messing around withdifferent grips and while playing long toss with
it and was trying to like honeit back into get into a sixty feet
distance wise, and I finally Ifound one that I liked that looked similar
to how the fastball came out ofmy hand, and then just kind of
ran with it and it started todevelop into what it is today. I've
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heard Kershaw talk about changeup envy.Is that a real thing where for pitchers
that can't throw the changeup or you'relearning to throw the change up. You
have to continue to throw it tomake it better. Absolutely, It's like
it's a it's a field pitch forsure. So it's like you just gotta
throw it and throw it and throwit until you feel something that that makes
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sense or something something clicks. Andwould you say in these games, in
these spring training games, when you'regetting ready to throw that changeup, you
have a lot of conviction behind it. That's a big part of being effective
with any pitch, right, yes, correct, all right, yeah,
don't don't want to tip your handtoo much on the pitch. It's huh
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no, You're good. No,Ryan, It's been awesome to have you
on. You're a real star.You set the bar high for any other
minor league that's coming on this podcastthe rest of the regular season. So
I just want to let you knowyou have set the standard high. If
Devin Mann is listening and he comeson this podcast. When he does come
on this podcast, not only doeshe have to play around a golf with
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you and be reminded of your dominanceagainst him at USC, but also he
has to live up to the greatanswers that you gave today. Well,
thank you very much for having me. I had a blast. All right,
do you want to give one onelittle nugget about Butler that we don't
know about? Or is that toshock chock sports talk radio question? Actually,
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if people didn't know, Butler doeshave a baseball team, we have
other sports besides basketball. But no, I mean, Butler is a great
place, great school. So ifanyone's looking to get out there, go
to a small school in the Midwest. I highly recommend Butler University. I
have a feeling you're going to putButler baseball on the map in Los Angeles.
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I think I think Butler, basedon on the coaches, would enjoy
having some guys from from Los Angeles. I know they have one guy from
San Diego area. We usually haveone or two guys from California on the
roster at a time. All right, but hey, before you go,
can I ask you something else?Of course, I'm just saying the Dodgers
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have found a way to put pictureson their major league roster if they're ready
and they could help the major leagueteam. Have you let your mind wander
that way that maybe August September,if your season goes well, that maybe
the Dodgers may need you in thebullpen this year. I would hope so,
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but there's a lot of things thatI can't control that have to happen
for that to happen, So Itry not to think about it too much.
I can always hope and dream,but I'm not gonna put too much
of that in my mind space becauseI'm not the one who's making the decision
for me to go up there.It's other people making that decision, and
I can't control what they do everypitch, every day, right, day
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by day, every pitch exactly.You said it, Live in the moment.
That's what rich Hill lives by,Peppio. You got to remember that
rich Hill mantra, live in themoment. I have to You have to
live in the moment. You looktoo far forward, you lose sight of
what's going on in the present.Damn right, Peppio. I like that.
I like that. Thanks a lotfor coming on. We'll keep in
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touch. Thank you for having me. Sounds great. Do you feel like
I'm a person you want to keepin touch with after this interview? Absolutely?
Thanks a lot. I appreciate that. You're a great guy, so
I wish you all the best forsure. Thank you. Very much.
There he goes Ryan Peppio, ourfirst guest on the Dodger Pipeline segment right
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here on the Extra Innings podcast.Warning to every other Dodger minor leaguer that
I come calling for. He mayhave been the best interview of any minor
leaguer I've ever talked to. Heis really a great kid, and I
mean obviously easy to root for.And as you heard on our first episode,
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Mark Pryor said that there is nothingthat would stop the Dodgers from having
a guy like Peppio or Nick Robertsonor Bobby Miller come up to the major
leagues this season if they can helpthe Dodgers win. So I would keep
my eye on what Pepio does oncethe minor league season begins and whether or
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not the Dodgers need some bullpen help, because I feel like right now it's
good for the first month or two, but as you know, the pieces
always change to the puzzle, andAndrew Friedman is really good at moving those
pieces. So Ryan Peppio might bea guy that you want to keep tabs
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on, and you can follow himon Twitter at Ryan Peppio. Two.
My thanks to Andre Ethier and RyanPeppio, who you may see at the
end of this season at some pointcoming out of the Dodger bullpen. So
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thanks to those guys, I hopeyou enjoyed the podcast this week. We'll
be back with you with episode threenext Wednesday. Now, before we go,
thanks to our guy producer, engineerDwayne the Note McDonald sometimes known as
Dwayne Squeeze Time McDonald, he gaveus our NEDO stat of the Week.
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Sorry, Ernie Johnson stole it forthis week. Sorry. The Dodgers have
led the National League and home runsand each of the last three seasons.
The last National League team to dothat were the Rockies the Blake Street Bombers
ninety five to ninety seven. Thelast team to lead the National League and
home runs for four consecutive years wasyour Los Angeles Dodgers, who did it
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for five straight years from nineteen seventyseven to nineteen eighty one, which,
by the way, the Dodgers arecelebrating their fortieth anniversary of that eighty one
championship. And if you remember innineteen seventy seven, the start of that
five consecutive years of leading the NationalLeague in home runs, the Dodgers were
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the first team ever in baseball historyto have a quartet of teammates hit thirty
home runs in the same season.Do you know who those four were?
Dusty Baker, Reggie Smith, RonSay and Steve Garvey. By the way,
Dusty hit his thirtieth on the finalday of the regular season against the
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you were expecting Brad Paisley, It'sa long story. None of it is
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Brad's fault. We will try toconnect with him on another episode. But
we have Andre Ethier and we alsohave one of the best pitching prospects in
the Dodger organization, Ryan Peppio onthis week's podcast, So a really fun
episode of Extra Innings coming year way. But first, the leadoff Spotty leadoffs
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most of the Extra Inny's podcast.David Fasse. All right, so as
we tape this podcast episode two,the Dodgers are in Oakland and Cody Bellinger
had to leave the game. Thesecond game of the three game series,
because in the ninth inning of thatsecond game, he beat out an infield
single but was stepped on by sixone, two hundred and forty two pounder
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JB. Wildekin A's relief pitcher,and we thought it was just him being
spiked, and then things kind ofgot a little confusing. Here's what Dave
Roberts said after that night's game aboutCody's injury. Cody got cleaded when he
led gout that single, So hegot cleat on the back lower part of
his calf. But it's just moresore. It's not an ankle thing.
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So he made a comment that theice that he was getting hurts worse than
the cleat marks. But so he'skind of with ct the day to day
and we'll see. We'll know moretomorrow morning. All right. So the
next day the Dodgers beat the A'sin game two of the series. Cody's
injury, by the way, thefirst game of the series, I was
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I misspoke right there, But anyway, the second game of the series,
no Cody Bellinger And after the game, this is the update from Dave Roberts.
Yeah, what I would I doknow is that there was no stress
fractures. There's still obviously residual soreness. So I don't know, you know
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what we're gonna do. As faras I no, I L but I
think that right now, you know, I think we're in a decent spot.
But even with that, I justdon't know when the return will be
huh. I mean, I don'tunderstand how it went from being spiked to
all of a sudden no stress fracture, and we're talking about an injuredless situation.
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It obviously was more than being spiked. I mean, he had a
two hundred and forty two pound picturerunning full steam and stepping on his left
ankle. And I'll tell you this, one thing that I will always remember
the rest of my career and lifewas the advice Scott Van Sli gave me
in spring training one year when JustinTurner and Adrian Gonzalez We're firing me baseballs
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and I was trying to catch them. He told me, simply trust your
eyes. So I'm gonna trust myeyes. And if you go back and
watch that play, it wasn't hiscalf, it was his ankle. Think
about that. It's and sense apicture is not going to step on Cody
Bellinger's calf as they're trying to makea run for first base. So obviously
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the pictures stepped on his ankle orhis achilles where his ankle meets the heel
of his foot, and it wasmore than a spike. It was maybe
twisted his ankle, maybe landed onhis ankle. So I just don't get
it. Just be honest with theinformation. Look, Dave Roberts is somewhat
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of the messenger. He's only allowedto say what the organization wants him to
say about a player's injury. Butgive us a little credit. Those were
two very conflicting explanations about the injury. So as you're listening to this,
I don't know if Cody goes onthe injured list or not. But obviously
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it was more than just being spiked. Now, the Dodgers are getting their
rings in the first home game ofthe season against the Washington Nationals. The
Washington Nationals, by the way,it was not a foregone conclusion that they
were going to make it to LosAngeles. Their first series of the season
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was canceled or postponed against the Metsbecause multiple Nationals came up positive for COVID
nineteen and others were part of thecontact tracing procedure. And I would say
that it would have really stunk ifthe Dodgers could not have had their ring
ceremony because the Nationals could not makeit out to Los Angeles. And Dave
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Roberts even admitted that he admitted asmuch that the Dodgers had had some internal
discussions about the fact that the Nationalsmay not have been able to come out
to Los Angeles to play that series. And who knows what the Dodgers would
have done if the Nationals could nothave made the trip to Los Angeles and
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spoiled their ring ceremony the day thatthey get their rings. And look,
the Nationals were a victim of COVIDnineteen baseball life last year. They had
no fans in the stands to celebratetheir World championship. But for the Dodgers,
think about this, so many guyshad waited and had a lot of
heartbreak to win the World Series lastyear. They couldn't celebrate with the champagne
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like you see all these other teams. They couldn't have a parade, and
now they were staring at the realitythat they may not be able to have
a ring ceremony the day it wasscheduled after starting the season on the road
the first seven games of the year. That's why I felt like Major League
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Baseball was kind of teasing the Dodgers, why not just have these guys start
the season at home, Let themhave their day and be on with it.
But thankfully, thankfully, the Nationalswill make it out to Los Angeles
and the Dodgers will get their WorldSeries rings and Clayton Kershaw still very emotional
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about winning his first ever World Serieschampionship. Yeah, it's uh, it's
been marks on the calendar for awhile now. I'm excited. I'm excited
that we're gonna have a few fansthere. First of all, I mean,
I think that'll be really cool.It's kind of the first time that
we've all been together with fans toget to celebrate last year. So I'm
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very excited about it. And youknow, we don't want to look too
far into the past. Obviously,we gotta play, we gotta win.
But Friday is gonna be really specialfor me for a lot of different reasons.
And it's just finally get to seethat ring. It'll be pretty special.
You know, I think you mentionedthis before, but you know,
just kind of this this feel thatyou know, how many people out there
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wanted wanted, you know, especiallyfor you. You know, what does
it kind of mean to be ableto kind of celebrate again, you know,
with with with all those fans,you know, given that Yeah,
it's uh, it's I don't knowthe right word. Humbling might not be
the right word, but it's justa it's just a grateful feeling, I
think, to know that so manypeople care about me in that way,
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that it's they wanted me to winso bad and maybe something that I took
for grant, a little bit ofrealizing how much it impacted the people around
me, and especially if my wife, I think she's gonna be pretty excited
too. So. But just seeingteammates get to celebrate with them, get
to see the rings, get todo all those things. It's it's gonna
be a special day for sure.Wow. I got emotional just listening to
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that answer. You know, that'sthe first time that you know, it
really hit me that he finally won, and you know, just to hear
how appreciative he is of winning theWorld Series and appreciative of how much people
are happy for him. It makesyou feel good. And I'm sorry,
I'm not trying to be corny here, but Clayton Kershaw, I've had a
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chance to watch him every day duringthe baseball season, and for me to
be there at the stadium in betweenstarts and to see how much work he
puts in for every fifth day andhow much he cares. That's why I'm
happy for him, because I knowhow much he pours into every start and
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how much he cares. So forme, that's why I'm emotional after hearing
what he just said right there.And I'm sorry. I know so many
of you are very quick to justthrow dirt on his career at one bad
start or one subpar start like onOpening Day, which by the way,
was not that bad. That's whyI continue to say his career is far
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from over and don't bet against Kershaw. He is going to find a way,
and he may not have his beststuff on certain nights. Is back,
maybe a little stiff certain nights,certain games, but he will find
a way, trust me, andI couldn't be happier for him. I
couldn't be happier for a lot ofguys on that team, but especially him
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because of how much work he putsin. And you know how many guys
can say that Clayton Kershaw invited themon the field to run his sprints in
between starts. This guy can.We were at Wrigley Field, I was
in my suit after doing a hitfor MLB Network. It was a day
game, and he just waved meout to the fields all let's go,
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challenged me to run those sprints withhim, So I ran him and Alana
Rizzo actually captured it on her igstory. She like it was a backhanded
compliment, but at least she capturedit and I could show my kids that
one day. But that was justan example of the work that he puts
in. And yeah, it justit's really awesome that he finally won.
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And I can't wait to see hisemotions on ring day. And if you
have a chance, I would saveit and replay it and keep it with
you every time you want to doubtclay Kershaw my favorite. Thank You'm glad
to see you're not wearing Khaki's yourfavorite. And not everyone holds himself to
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high physical standard around here, butprobably not Basset's favorite. I know no
one listens to your show. Sohow dare you? DV is joined by
andre eth here well episode two withAndre Ethier and for him to get here
this time was a little bit morechallenging than last week. And Andre,
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the Dodgers have multiple day games,and I know day games were a challenge
for every player, but your newlife as a dad sometimes can be just
as challenging as waking up for aday game. Hey, I would gladly
welcome a day game this morning.Probably wake up a little bit later than
I had you for school, butyes, it's hard for getting on here
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light and making you guys hold upthere. You know, it was blue
shirt Day. I would like tosay Dodger Day at school, but it
was blue day for autism awareness atschool. And we happened to forget that,
me and my wife and put ourkids in nodded blue shirts. And
wait a minute, it wasn't youand your wife. It was you.
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Well, yes, and I willI will tell you. I am,
I am. I am on morningduty, so it's my duty to get
the kids dressed with school in themorn and do that. So I did,
and I was reminded by my daughter, my four year old, that
it is I'm supposed to wear ablue shirt last night before bed, and
I totally forgot. And we showup to school and we see a sea
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of blue walking onto school and I'mlike, uh, hopefully they don't say
anything. And sure enough walk onthe campus and my foy looks at me
goes, but Dad, you forgotmy blue shirt. And I'm like,
oh gosh. So call mom andshe's like, well, I told you
last night. So I'm split thelast hour driving back and forth picking out
blue shirts as the closet and driveback and drop them off to school for
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them. So it was a wild, fun morning. And yeah, sometimes
it's nice to have that early wakeup call for a Dodger Day game,
even if it's on the East Coast. So honestly, this is payback for
all those years where you forgot somethingand you would shout out, Alex,
Alex, you forgot something in theclubhouse, and your clubhouse manager, the
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great Alex Torres, would have tofind it for you. So now you're
the clubhouse manager of your house andhad to go find that blue shirt for
your daughter. I think the clubhousemanager Alex gets more respected you around my
house, though, because I wasjust getting evil looks from my daughter and
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of course from my wife when Ishowed back up to the house to pick
up the blue shirts, and andyou know, being like, well,
you know, and then of courseit's like the you know, all things
can go wrong when they do andof course I'm I'm almost running out of
gas in my car. So I'mlike, okay, I am I gonna
make it. I'm gonna make itback and forth. Should I stop and
get gas? No if it taketoo long, you know, playing all
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those things. Yeah, So itwas a fun, adventuring morning to get
here and get on you know,the radio with you this morning. And
it's a podcast. It's a podcast. We're not on the radio podcast.
It's all the same, you know, interweb, interweb Internet, the same
multimedia platform star Andre Ethier every weekwith us on the Extra Innings podcast.
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All right, So it's been aweek and there's been a lot of crazy
things that happened to the Dodgers atcorps Field. I'm sure you've been part
of it. But how does CodyBellinger get himself into these situations where he's
always on the internet and on socialmedia. A cat running onto the field
and he's standing there, and he'sin every photo with this wild cat.
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Uh yeah, I mean I thinkwe've had a few animals things happened there
at Is. It's so cool.I don't even know what they call that
park now, still course Field.I know these parks change names every other
mother or something. But yeah,of course, I mean that cat was
a scary looking cat right there.But I think over the years, we've
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had so many of these moments.But for some reason, these these things
happened to find uh Cody and seecome out. I don't know if it's
his energy or he's putting off.But like I said to him this off
season, when everyone was kind ofmaking, you know, those things were
going out around the internet about howhis face looks, why is his face
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like at this? Like, whydoes your face? It's just my face,
man, It's just the face Ihad. That's what he That's what
he takes me back, and I'mlike, come on, I'm like,
well, what do you do andhe goes, no, that's just how
my face looks. I'm like,all right, I don't know if his
face always looks like that. Imean, suppose he does. He was
tending me photos of himself when heof the kidden. I mean, and
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he looked exactly like that. SoI let a little let a little credit
to the story that he was tellingme. But I mean, if you,
I mean, Google, look golook at his Little League World Series
stuff, and you can't tell methe guy was on, you know,
in some spiritual herbs back then whenhe was in when he was twelve years
old. Yeah, you're right.I don't think he was on any spiritual
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herbs. That's a really nice wayto put it. I've never heard anybody
say it that way. That's Hey, by the way, it's legal in
California. We could talk about thHC and CBD and all that. That's
all good at Calli. It's legalhere in Arizona now too. They voted
it through the people won. Hey, I was talking earlier about teams hiding
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injuries. Why wouldn't they just bedirect about what really happened to Cody in
Oakland when he got stepped on.It's not really that difficult either he got
spiked or he twisted his ankle.Why you've been on that side of things?
Why why are teams so protective overwhat really happened? I don't know,
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I mean, I understand the disclosureside. Now, you know,
there's so many rules with how injuriesand what gets reported and how it gets
reported, and I think it hasto be agreed upon with the player and
the team a little bit more ofhow they're going to report that injury,
of how it happened, you know, with more emphasis on the players having
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the rights. And I can rememberback in the day, and I can
remember the first couple years coming up, you got to hurt, you did
this, they would be reported andblasted out immediately, you know, even
before you'd be in the training roomand someone would be ten minutes later.
You'd have an in game report ofwhat happened. Now that's kind of held
close to vest. You know,they come up with maybe a timetable of
their return first before they really releasedwhat the you know, prognosis of that
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entire injury. But I think it'sjust part of the you know, Clo
Gagger game of you know, notletting the opponent know, uh, you
know, really of how they're goingto prepare, because that's what I mean,
you see it, Dave, Howhow late did these lineups come out
every day? And it's because theseteams not only from the from the coaches
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side, but from the front officeside, are game planning of how they're
going to have that game plan forthat game, uh, and so whatever
players available on that roster effects thatgame plan. So I think you see
it. You see the tun inhockey right lower leg lower leg injury or
lower lower body injury, and youknow they don't really disclose what the full
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uh injury is because uh, youknow, there's so much game planning going
on now with these pitching matchups,how they're going to get the lineup out
there. So I think that's partof it, at least in my observation
of why they're holding it back.I know you're not gonna like this,
but I used to talk to AdrianGonzalez about this when he played, and
he felt like it does the playermore of a service if he's upfront with
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whatever is hurting him, because,as you know, when you're hurt,
you don't play as well as younormally would, and when you're not playing
as well as you normally would,everybody starts to criticize you. Oh,
how do you feel about that?Are you a guy that feels that maybe
players should disclose their injury so theydon't get criticized for not playing well.
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You know what, the criticism isgonna come no matter what where they're injured,
playing good or playing not. It'sjust a part of the game.
It's part of what it is.I mean, it's a double edge both
sides. No one wants to hearexcuse afterwards and no wants to hear excuse
before. So yeah, disclosing ithelps at least he gives the people and
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the fans a better understanding what's goingon. But at the same time,
the injury, if you're out thereplaying, you're having to play through it,
which is not being done anymore,not like it was in the past.
You know, there's a big emphasisI'm making sure players are one hundred
percent. You know, That's whatI've heard reiterated, whether it's conversations with
you know, guys around the teamand how they're you know, the Dodgers
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to other teams. It's the sameway. They don't want players all out
on the field, especially beginning theseason, middle season, if they can't
be one hundred percent, because there'sguys that they can get to replace them
for a short spell that can goout there and be one hundred percent and
they want you to be you know, as close to one hundred percent as
you can for the longest part ofthe year. So you know, with
that being said, there's not manychances. Now, I don't believe that
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they're putting guys out there that they'rehaving a nurse injuries or nurse things,
because these front offices, these managershave the same frame of mind, we
can we have enough depth to haveplayers out there to replace you for a
short spurt that can give us thatfull effort rather than going out there and
having you try to nurse or youknow, go through a week or two
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of not filling your grade and putyou in a bad slump because of it,
put you in a bad you know, in some space like that.
And I think that's something, youknow, like Adrian said, maybe that
was something the past that would havebeen beneficial for how they handle stuff in
But I mean, you can seeDave right, someone gets a little nicked
up and it doesn't matter w are. You could be Lukey Betts highest paid
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contract on the team, or youcould be Zak McKinstry and if you're banged
up or nicked they're not going toput you out there to start and to
give you a day or two torest and recover. Usually, yeah,
and keep judging. Look at Cody, who knows how severe his injury is.
We don't know, but he wasn'tout there for a couple of games
in a row, and he mightbe on the injury list by the time
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you're listening to this podcast. Hey, by the way, speaking of Adrian,
he's gonna make a sort of comebackwith an expansion team in the Mexican
League. Do you need me topull some strings for you? Maybe I
could get you on the Guadalajara Mariachi's. I told you I've been practicing with
my trombone, but I forgot trump. Trombone isn't a part of the I
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need. I need to do instrotofment to be a part of the Trump.
But you know that's they're all aboutthe Trump. But you know what
that's honestly, you know, youfirst look at you like, what the
heck is the guy doing? Butyou know, and hey, if I
have the urge every morning to wantto go out there and do something,
but then all of a sudden,I you know, realize it's blue shirt
day and I have blue shirt.Uh, comp the obligations, and I
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don't you know, I'd honestly ratherbe doing that right now, you know,
had my great time plan doing allthat. If I would be lying
to tell you if I wasn't alittle jealous of him, knowing that he's
gonna be able to go out andplay baseball again and have fun and do
that, and I would love todo that myself. But you know,
it's just it's not where I'm atand where where I'm going. And you
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know, I wish him and helphim all the success, and I know
he has bigger aspirations beyond that isto you know, make his country's you
know, Olympic team and go representhis country, which is a great thing.
And uh, you know, ifthere's maybe I'll wind up for me
to make team us, say,maybe i'd be trying to go out there
make a comeback myself. But Ican let Mike Soso for you. He's
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the manager. I could let himknow, Yeah we can. Maybe I
could be the cobout. I'll pullsome strings for you because he's Italian.
Yeah, exactly, that's our connectionkind of Hey, it's the only connection
you guys have, exactly, Andwe love to eat. That's that's about
it, hey, Andre. Speakingof the emotional side of baseball, Clayton
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Kershaw got emotional after his start inOakland when he was asked about the ring
ceremony at Dodger Stadium. And heseems to still have the same feelings that
we heard about during the off season. What do you feel about that ring
ceremony? And what do you believeyou've seen from Kershaw in his first two
starts of the season. You know, it's tough not to doubt Clayton when
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you see and I'm trying to thisperformance wife, when you see what he
went through or how he performed inspring training, right like, we see
it and we're like, oh gosh. I mean, you know, stuff
isn't looking great, but you can'tdeny the competitor and his will to want
to get stuff done. And Imean even that start in Colorado wasn't that
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you know that. I mean it'sColorado. Let's be really like a lot
of guys go there with great stuffand get touched up and have bad stuff.
And he didn't have really that greateststuff. And he went in there
and he pitched the team into agame where it was easily winnable for that
offense in that ballpark, and youknow they just got out, out run
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and outgunned in that stadium that day. And then you know, you see
last night where he goes and Imean, what didn't throw a pitch over
ninety one probably and just was locatingwell and and you know a few at
bats was well just the septive outof the zone pitches that looked like strikes.
But I mean I saw one atbad I think it was the catcher
Murphy there. He might have thrownone strike in the zone and the rest
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were chase pitches and the guy keptswinging at him. So you can see
he's out there competing, go whatit takes to win, and you got
to tip your hat to him.You know, we're not seeing the curse
that everyone you know expects and remembersfrom the past. But he's going out
there finding a way to win,and sen on that ring ceremony, you
can see like it still means something. And I think it's just that deep
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breath. I mean, the guywho's accomplished everything he's accomplished, and we've
talked about this day. He's afirst ballot Hall of famer. You can't
deny that he deserves every bit ofthat and to have that one thing hang
over his head, you know,not having the success in the postseason me
and you've seen it firsthand, andfor him to finally get over the humph.
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You know, I'm so happy andand excited for him to experience what
he's doing, your experience this weekendwith that ring ceremony and have his due
of what he's doing. Just putyou know a little more icing on that
cake, because he's already built.Can you explain why not only you,
as a former teammate and other formerteammates were happy for him, but can
you explain why players on other teamswere so happy for him to finally win
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the World Series? Well, he'sa he's a genuine guy. I mean
you just see it. I meansomeone that what was that whole thing JT
was doing on his Instagram, youknow, the phone thing? Yeah,
and I'll call you back that wholeYeah, I'll call you that thing.
And like someone even put it thisway, all those guys didn't you know,
Tater Row But like Clayton with allthis status, everything you get with
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Clayton, right, like we justsaid, first, Ayal hall Famer,
a generational pitcher, you know,uh leads the Dodgers in every category you
could probasibly have been pitching, youknow almost you know, is this like
top of the game and was Andyou just see the way he handled that
moment, Like he's just so genuineand on us and pure and like people
get to see that and like ishe really like that? Uh? You
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know every day and it's like isClayton this perfect, you know person all
the time? And it's sad tosay he really is, Like he really
is that great of a guy andgenuine. And you saw the way he
reacted with Jap, like out therewith this kid doing something and he has
that genuine smile and like, hey, what's up? You know what's going
on? I want to help?Every time I text him the same way.
And that's why he's with that withopposing players. I think you can
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see that that he's that way andit's not up front, it's not any
bit of fakeness to him and withsomeone and you know, as an athlete,
as another player, when you've hadthat much success and you've been that
close and you keep coming up short, you can't help. But root for
a guy, especially someone who's sogreat and genuine, Like, how do
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you root against something or someone likethat? I mean, have you ever
rooted against Clayton in any of histime? Have you? Day? I
get made fun of rooting for him. I get I get mocked for believing
in him, even in twenty twentyone, right, and I, Hey,
I'm as guilty's anyone, he said, Like I just told you.
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You see it starts and spree trainlike, man, this is it.
But then you see, like hehe gets the ball and he goes out
there and competes and just finds away and and you know, manages to
keep you know, himself going andand you know has a performance like he
did last night after you know,even though you're, like he said,
even you want to say if it'sa shaky one in Colorado, but I
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mean it's Colorado and it's a toughplace, and and he finds a way
to bounce back and get back andbe rolled into you know, a nice
celebration week in this you know thisweekend and Donner Stadium. All right,
Andre, another great appearance by youon this podcast. I don't know how
I'm going to repay you for agreeingto be on here every week. But
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I'll find a way. Maybe somegolf balls in your new life, maybe
some blue shirts for the kids,or maybe that call associate, get me
a all right, sounds good,I'll make that call. Yeah, we'll
talk to you next episode, nextweek. All right, I'll make sure
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next week is my green red shirtthere, ar, Yeah, get it
together. There's no Alex Torres foryou. You're that guy now, yeah,
yeah, I'm Alex Torres of myhouse. There he goes Andre Ethier.
He is one of a kind andwill always be a Dodger forever.
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This it's Dodgers Pipe Block scouting,the player development, the drafting, a
look at the major minor league stories. All right, this is going to
be our first pipeline guest on thepodcast, asked, and I'm very pleased
to have him on. He's agreat young man. A lot of people
were raving from what they saw inspring training from him. And he is
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a college pitcher. He's a ButlerBulldog. Was drafted out of Butler in
the third round of the twenty nineteendraft, and he holds the strikeout record
at Butler. And that is RyanPeppio Ryan, thanks a lot for coming
on. Appreciate it. No,thank you very much for having me.
So you're a Butler Bulldog. Thatmeans that you're very much into college basketball.
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Were you surprised by what you sawin March Madness? Yes, I
was. I was. I loveseeing some underdog stories. So I love
seeing loyal the Chicago make a run, Ucla coming in first four or first
four games or two games, theplaying games, yeah, and then making
it, making it as far asthey did to the final four. And
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then I mean Gonzaga had a greatrun, but I mean they ran into
the buzz saw Baylor in that tournament, and I mean I watched in that
game. I was kind of onthe edge of my seat, uncomfortable,
like with that defense. I'm gladI was not on the court. Plant.
Did you play basketball in high school? Yeah, I played for a
couple of years in high school andthen played all growing up. I'm from
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Indiana, so we have to playbasketball. Yeah, that is a birthright
out there, right, Yes exactly. So Butler is not a place that
I think baseball. We think basketballnow after what Brad Stevens built over there.
Why did you choose to go toButler for college baseball. I had
a checklist of things that I wantedto kind of cross off when I was
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looking through different schools like pros andcons. And then I wanted somewhere where
if baseball didn't work out for me, I wanted a strong academic school where
I could have a good degree tofall back on. And then I wanted
to go somewhere that was close tohome so that I could go back to
see my brother play while he wasin high school. And then I wanted
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somewhere where my parents and grandparents couldcome watch to play. And then I
wanted to also go somewhere that Iwould have the chance to compete for a
rotation spot as a freshman. Makessense, You got you checked all the
boxes right there. I like thatYou're a family guy, Ryan. I
stayed in my house until I wastwenty eight years old. Well, hey,
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you're saving money. Why are youlaughing? No, because I'm thinking
I'm doing the same, Ryan,You're doing the same. You could follow
Ryan on Twitter at Ryan Peppio twoand Ryan, I gotta tell you,
I heard a lot of great thingsabout you when I was in Arizona at
Camelback Ranch. What was the experiencelike for you, You've only had maybe
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a handful of games since being draftedby the Dodgers. It was a great
experience. I mean, I meaneveryone I'm sure says experience is great,
but it was really great learning experiencefor me, just being around the guys,
just being able to like watch ClaytonKershaw do things, David Price do
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things, Trevor Bauer do his things, Walker Bueler, all those guys who
have been in the league for awhile and who have been established studs,
and just being able to sit backand watch what they do and then pick
their brains a little bit and askingquestions and just have meaningful conversations with guys
that have been doing this for along time, so that I can pick
up little things that they maybe didwhen they were younger that they wished they
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would have done differently later on,or things that they added to their their
routines that I can take as wellto add to mine. You sound like
a well adjusted young man, andI'm curious were you Were you intimidated to
go up to Kershaw or Bueller orDavid Price to ask them something. Definitely
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the first few days, definitely Iwas like I just kind of stayed in
the background for the first few days, kind of just watched and like let
them do their thing. I didn'twant to be I was like definitely had
like the starstruck us like the firstfew days. But after after a couple
of days, I was like,Okay, like you're here, you belong
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here, you can do this.Like they're still people, you can say
hi, and you can talk tothem. So after a couple of days,
I would I finally gave myself thecourage and finally started talking to people
and introducing myself and everything rather thanjust sitting back and watching from from afar.
Is there one thing that sticks outthat you could share with us as
far as a piece of advice yougot from Kershaw? I didn't really talk
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to him that much, so Ididn't really I didn't get actual if you
get too close you'll growl. No. But but from David Price, I
would say, like he just toldme to just be myself and then just
listen to everybody in the organization.We have the greatest, greatest organization in
baseball, and then everyone there theywant everything that's best for each and every
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one of us. So if theysay something, they see something, take
it and run with it. Hey, David Price seems like a real generous
guy to young players, not onlywith his time, but were you one
of the beneficiaries of what he didfor Dodger minor league players last year.
Yes, he's a generous guy andjust a awesome dude to be around,
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Like just genuine, super nice guy, like a great clubhouse guy. Just
I mean, you can't say enoughabout him. Yeah, and he's a
dog guy. He's allergic to cats. Well, you know, I don't
know how Tony feels about that one, but that's a top question for me.
Hey, Ryan, I don't thinkpeople realize it and quite grasp that
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you really have not had the classicexperience after being drafted by a major league
team with the pandemic hitting in twentytwenty. You were drafted in twenty nineteen,
you had nine games at Great Lakes, and then in twenty twenty absolutely
nothing as far as competing against otherminor league players. What was twenty twenty
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like for you? Twenty twenty was, Oh, it was an interesting year,
to say the least. It was. I was blessed to be able
to have gone to the alternate siteand throw in one of the summer camp
games just to be able to havesome sort of a season. I mean,
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I hope we never have to gothrough an experience like that again,
but I was definitely a beneficiary ofbeing able to do that. So it
was kind of like a spring trainingtype feel over at the alternate site,
But it was the coaches there andstaff there wanted to make it seem like
it wasn't so that it wasn't likethe same thing over and over and over
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again for how long tune or threemonths it was, So it was it
was good to just being able tobe out there. I mean, you
can't beat sunny California in the summertime, so it was. It was a
interesting season, if you want tocall it a season, but it was
I was glad to have been ableto get some sort of innings in for
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the year. Did you feel likeyou got better facing some of the other
top minor league players in the Dodgerorganization. Absolutely, I mean when you're
going out there every day and you'refacing mckinstreet, Hosey, Michael Bush,
Luke Raley, DJ Peters, DevinMann, Jacob Amiah, I mean I
could list the whole alternate site squadwhen it's you're going through the bus.
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Saw the entire organization every day,every fifth day, so it was go
every fifth day, same lineup prettymuch each time. Maybe a couple of
guys that were on on your sideof the field every other time, but
it was pretty much the same thingeach each start. And I mean they'd
seen me multiple times, I'd seenthem multiple times, so it was it
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was a it was a good funbattle every time we were out there.
All right, Ryan, you're agood picture and they're good players. But
even in the major leagues, thereare certain hitters that just have a picture's
number and vice versa. So whowas the hitter that you had their number?
And what hitter had your number?Luke rarely took to me about four
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hundred and fifty feet a couple oftimes, like on top on top of
the parking garage. I know you'rea humble guy. What what guy do
you feel like? You had theirnumber? Your teammates now your teammates,
So it's all good. It's now, so it's all good. I would
say, I'm probably gonna have tobuy his next round of golf if he
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listens to this. So Devin Man. Oh yeah, Devin Man's on Twitter.
He's an active Twitter guy. Hemight be listening active guys. So
if he listens, then I mean, Devin, if you're listening, I
have your next round of golf.I'm sorry. All right, I'll pay
half of that round of golf becauseyou're in my in the minor league.
Still, Ryan, I'll help youout for forgetting you to be honest with
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your answer. Hey, so fastforward to this spring training. I guess
it was your first major league pitchin spring training in the Cactus League.
Take us through getting ready for yourfirst game, and you know, just
do your experience pitching in these gamesthis spring. Well, first off,
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it was awesome to be able tobe out there, and then on top
of being out there, having peoplein the stands again, that was amazing.
But I mean I was just outthere. I mean, I think
it was like first few games Igot to throw, one of the first
few games I got to throw,and know, it's definitely nervous, definitely
excited, amped up, and thenI mean just go out there, just
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try to be myself and try notto do too much and just have fun.
It's baseball. It's the same gameI've been playing since I was a
little kid, So I just justdone a little bit bigger stage. I've
heard so much about your changeup.Where did you cultivate that changeup? Was
that something that you found at Butleror was it something you had in high
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school that you got better at Butler? I wish I had it in high
school. It was something It wassomething I had started to work on after
my freshman summer summer going into mysophomore year of college, I played out
in the New England College League,and I kind of got shelled a little
bit just because I didn't have achangeup that was very, very good.
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So I just started messing around withdifferent grips and while playing long toss with
it and was trying to like honeit back into get into a sixty feet
distance wise, and I finally Ifound one that I liked that looked similar
to how the fastball came out ofmy hand, and then just kind of
ran with it and it started todevelop into what it is today. I've
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heard Kershaw talk about changeup envy.Is that a real thing where for pitchers
that can't throw the changeup or you'relearning to throw the change up. You
have to continue to throw it tomake it better. Absolutely, It's like
it's a it's a field pitch forsure. So it's like you just gotta
throw it and throw it and throwit until you feel something that that makes
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sense or something something clicks. Andwould you say in these games, in
these spring training games, when you'regetting ready to throw that changeup, you
have a lot of conviction behind it. That's a big part of being effective
with any pitch, right, yes, correct, all right, yeah,
don't don't want to tip your handtoo much on the pitch. It's huh
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no, You're good. No,Ryan, It's been awesome to have you
on. You're a real star.You set the bar high for any other
minor league that's coming on this podcastthe rest of the regular season. So
I just want to let you knowyou have set the standard high. If
Devin Mann is listening and he comeson this podcast. When he does come
on this podcast, not only doeshe have to play around a golf with
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you and be reminded of your dominanceagainst him at USC, but also he
has to live up to the greatanswers that you gave today. Well,
thank you very much for having me. I had a blast. All right,
do you want to give one onelittle nugget about Butler that we don't
know about? Or is that toshock chock sports talk radio question? Actually,
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if people didn't know, Butler doeshave a baseball team, we have
other sports besides basketball. But no, I mean, Butler is a great
place, great school. So ifanyone's looking to get out there, go
to a small school in the Midwest. I highly recommend Butler University. I
have a feeling you're going to putButler baseball on the map in Los Angeles.
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I think I think Butler, basedon on the coaches, would enjoy
having some guys from from Los Angeles. I know they have one guy from
San Diego area. We usually haveone or two guys from California on the
roster at a time. All right, but hey, before you go,
can I ask you something else?Of course, I'm just saying the Dodgers
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have found a way to put pictureson their major league roster if they're ready
and they could help the major leagueteam. Have you let your mind wander
that way that maybe August September,if your season goes well, that maybe
the Dodgers may need you in thebullpen this year. I would hope so,
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but there's a lot of things thatI can't control that have to happen
for that to happen, So Itry not to think about it too much.
I can always hope and dream,but I'm not gonna put too much
of that in my mind space becauseI'm not the one who's making the decision
for me to go up there.It's other people making that decision, and
I can't control what they do everypitch, every day, right, day
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by day, every pitch exactly.You said it, Live in the moment.
That's what rich Hill lives by,Peppio. You got to remember that
rich Hill mantra, live in themoment. I have to You have to
live in the moment. You looktoo far forward, you lose sight of
what's going on in the present.Damn right, Peppio. I like that.
I like that. Thanks a lotfor coming on. We'll keep in
(44:31):
touch. Thank you for having me. Sounds great. Do you feel like
I'm a person you want to keepin touch with after this interview? Absolutely?
Thanks a lot. I appreciate that. You're a great guy, so
I wish you all the best forsure. Thank you. Very much.
There he goes Ryan Peppio, ourfirst guest on the Dodger Pipeline segment right
(44:54):
here on the Extra Innings podcast.Warning to every other Dodger minor leaguer that
I come calling for. He mayhave been the best interview of any minor
leaguer I've ever talked to. Heis really a great kid, and I
mean obviously easy to root for.And as you heard on our first episode,
(45:17):
Mark Pryor said that there is nothingthat would stop the Dodgers from having
a guy like Peppio or Nick Robertsonor Bobby Miller come up to the major
leagues this season if they can helpthe Dodgers win. So I would keep
my eye on what Pepio does oncethe minor league season begins and whether or
(45:38):
not the Dodgers need some bullpen help, because I feel like right now it's
good for the first month or two, but as you know, the pieces
always change to the puzzle, andAndrew Friedman is really good at moving those
pieces. So Ryan Peppio might bea guy that you want to keep tabs
(45:59):
on, and you can follow himon Twitter at Ryan Peppio. Two.
My thanks to Andre Ethier and RyanPeppio, who you may see at the
end of this season at some pointcoming out of the Dodger bullpen. So
(46:22):
thanks to those guys, I hopeyou enjoyed the podcast this week. We'll
be back with you with episode threenext Wednesday. Now, before we go,
thanks to our guy producer, engineerDwayne the Note McDonald sometimes known as
Dwayne Squeeze Time McDonald, he gaveus our NEDO stat of the Week.
(46:43):
Sorry, Ernie Johnson stole it forthis week. Sorry. The Dodgers have
led the National League and home runsand each of the last three seasons.
The last National League team to dothat were the Rockies the Blake Street Bombers
ninety five to ninety seven. Thelast team to lead the National League and
home runs for four consecutive years wasyour Los Angeles Dodgers, who did it
(47:09):
for five straight years from nineteen seventyseven to nineteen eighty one, which,
by the way, the Dodgers arecelebrating their fortieth anniversary of that eighty one
championship. And if you remember innineteen seventy seven, the start of that
five consecutive years of leading the NationalLeague in home runs, the Dodgers were
(47:30):
the first team ever in baseball historyto have a quartet of teammates hit thirty
home runs in the same season.Do you know who those four were?
Dusty Baker, Reggie Smith, RonSay and Steve Garvey. By the way,
Dusty hit his thirtieth on the finalday of the regular season against the
(47:52):
Houston Astros. That'll do it forus for another great week of Extra Innings.
Will be back with you with episodethree on next Wednesday thanks to Corona
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