August 8, 2025 • 5 mins
Blake shares his experiences being teammates with Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, sometimes tim people just appear, and you know it's
meant to be Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Who's the perfect Dodger to talk to?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, a guy that was teammates with both of them,
and that is two time World Series champion Blake Trying
and Blake thanks a lot for the time, and man,
this was meant to be.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, you know, you've got a lot of teammates who
are teammates with both of them, Dave, you know Max
was a teammate over here. Yes, but you different teams.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I get it. Yes, you could have set that up
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, I don't want to get into twenty twenty one.
I have some mixed I have some mixed feelings about
twenty twenty one. Blake, all right, one of the questions,
all right, you've been around this game for a while.
You've seen both these guys at their best, at their peak.
What has made them so great and what has made
these guys able to still pitch in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, I think a competitive drive is a huge part
of it. Stuff and making sure the body is healthy
enough to keep doing it. And obviously Kursh has had
his bumps in the road like many people who get
up in the upper thirties and Sarser I think might
be close to forty. So they've both got a lot
of miles under their belt. They've got a lot of experience.
(01:17):
They've learned how to adapt, you know, when things maybe
aren't the same as they used to do when they're younger.
But if you're not competitive as stuff maybe isn't the same,
you're not gonna be successful. Both of them have been
pretty successful. Max's last couple starts have been pretty awesome.
Kursch has been throwing the ball extremely great for us
this year. So I think two phenomenal competitors and when
it comes to game prep, also two really good guys.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was gonna ask you, what is the difference what
are the similarities on game day between these two guys.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
There's really not a lot of similarities. They do things
a lot differently. The only thing is maybe they're in
their own world until the until the game starts, and
when the game's over, they they're able to take a
deep breaths as best they can. But they're old school.
There's not a lot of uh you know, mingling. It's
very like focused and directional. Outside of that, Uh, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Kursh is a north south thrower.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Max is Uh he's got some funk, low slot, rotational
delivery and overall, Max I think has more pitches, But
the quality of command and in the quality of the
three that that Kersh has is what what makes him
so great. So, uh, there's there's two very different uh
styles of pitching, but both have found a way to
make themselves hall of famers.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
In the baseball world. This is a big deal today.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Do you think these two guys are excited about facing
off against each other again or is this David Vasse
generated hype.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Machine percent of vass generated height machine.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No, I think I think for them, the game is
they're really good at simplifying, so they're just focused on
the batters and not really worried about who they're scoring
up against other than who's in the box.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So you're not going to see them.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Talk about the game more than what people ask in
the question, and they'll be respectful and probably answer the same.
Oh yeah, it's an honor to throw against this guy. Uh,
But really they're competing against the guys in the box
and we're trying to get a win.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
What do you remember the most about being teammates with Max.
Sure's they're in Washington.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I don't even talk about it, you know, something staying
in the clubhouse, Dave. But no, he's just an ultra competitor.
He's an ultra competitor.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
When you look at these two guys and how they
got to three thousand strikeouts, do you feel like they
did it the same way or do you feel like
Max was a little bit more overpowering the way he
used his fastball. Kershaw known for the curveball and slider.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You know, the game is still pretty simple. It's one
pitch at a time. When you get two strikes, if
you can put them away, you get a strikeout. It's
kind of the same, two different types of things. You know.
Kershaw was really good at commanding every pitch in different quadrants.
Max is a guy who's got, you know, just pure
stuff and just throws it over over the plate.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He does command his.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Fasketball pretty well and has changed up at the bottom
of the zone, but everything else is just like over
the plate, down, over the plate, up out over It's
not you know, as precision as maybe Kersh was, but
you know, like for as much stuff as sure as had,
he commands it extremely well, doesn't walk people, So it's
hard to nitpick. I think when it comes to pure command,
I think Kursh Kursh probably had has the uh has
(04:09):
the bill on that one.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We were just talking about one of your other former teammates,
Chris Bassett, a pitcher, not a thrower. Do you feel
at this stage of the game and the way baseball
has evolved and hitters chasing that slug guys like Kershaw,
Schurzler and even Chris Bassett have an advantage because they
are pitchers and somewhat outthink the hitters.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, Chris was a very cerebral guy. He knows how
to change speech, change elevation. You know, he's I think
his biggest He's got a couple of big assets is
his availability is a huge asset, and his ability to
honestly keep a hitter off balance.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's hard, it's hard to say things, but like.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You know, he's he's not a guy who's got you know,
an eighty grade heater. He's not a guy that has
like an eighty grade curveball or an eighty grade cutter
or an eighty grade. He's just got four or five pitches,
maybe more by now. Uh that he commands extremely well
and changes speeds and depths and and eye levels, and
he is he's kind of like a gift to the
(05:08):
game to watch somebody pitch like that, because not a
lot of guys actually pitch anymore. And uh yeah, it's
really it's really fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
All right, Blake, thanks a lot for the time. Really
appreciate it. I'll try to be better next time.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh, you're fine. You're fine, Dave, so hard on yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Big night, tonight, Blake, big night.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
First one of the many, Dave. The biggest game is
the game that's right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That's right. I'm only as good as my last interview.
Thank you for that. You're great.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
All right, sound four hours sleep this one off
And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, sometimes tim people just appear, and you know it's
meant to be Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Who's the perfect Dodger to talk to?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, a guy that was teammates with both of them,
and that is two time World Series champion Blake Trying
and Blake thanks a lot for the time, and man,
this was meant to be.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, you know, you've got a lot of teammates who
are teammates with both of them, Dave, you know Max
was a teammate over here. Yes, but you different teams.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I get it. Yes, you could have set that up
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, I don't want to get into twenty twenty one.
I have some mixed I have some mixed feelings about
twenty twenty one. Blake, all right, one of the questions,
all right, you've been around this game for a while.
You've seen both these guys at their best, at their peak.
What has made them so great and what has made
these guys able to still pitch in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, I think a competitive drive is a huge part
of it. Stuff and making sure the body is healthy
enough to keep doing it. And obviously Kursh has had
his bumps in the road like many people who get
up in the upper thirties and Sarser I think might
be close to forty. So they've both got a lot
of miles under their belt. They've got a lot of experience.
(01:17):
They've learned how to adapt, you know, when things maybe
aren't the same as they used to do when they're younger.
But if you're not competitive as stuff maybe isn't the same,
you're not gonna be successful. Both of them have been
pretty successful. Max's last couple starts have been pretty awesome.
Kursch has been throwing the ball extremely great for us
this year. So I think two phenomenal competitors and when
it comes to game prep, also two really good guys.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was gonna ask you, what is the difference what
are the similarities on game day between these two guys.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
There's really not a lot of similarities. They do things
a lot differently. The only thing is maybe they're in
their own world until the until the game starts, and
when the game's over, they they're able to take a
deep breaths as best they can. But they're old school.
There's not a lot of uh you know, mingling. It's
very like focused and directional. Outside of that, Uh, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Kursh is a north south thrower.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Max is Uh he's got some funk, low slot, rotational
delivery and overall, Max I think has more pitches, But
the quality of command and in the quality of the
three that that Kersh has is what what makes him
so great. So, uh, there's there's two very different uh
styles of pitching, but both have found a way to
make themselves hall of famers.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
In the baseball world. This is a big deal today.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Do you think these two guys are excited about facing
off against each other again or is this David Vasse
generated hype.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Machine percent of vass generated height machine.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No, I think I think for them, the game is
they're really good at simplifying, so they're just focused on
the batters and not really worried about who they're scoring
up against other than who's in the box.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So you're not going to see them.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Talk about the game more than what people ask in
the question, and they'll be respectful and probably answer the same.
Oh yeah, it's an honor to throw against this guy. Uh,
But really they're competing against the guys in the box
and we're trying to get a win.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
What do you remember the most about being teammates with Max.
Sure's they're in Washington.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I don't even talk about it, you know, something staying
in the clubhouse, Dave. But no, he's just an ultra competitor.
He's an ultra competitor.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
When you look at these two guys and how they
got to three thousand strikeouts, do you feel like they
did it the same way or do you feel like
Max was a little bit more overpowering the way he
used his fastball. Kershaw known for the curveball and slider.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You know, the game is still pretty simple. It's one
pitch at a time. When you get two strikes, if
you can put them away, you get a strikeout. It's
kind of the same, two different types of things. You know.
Kershaw was really good at commanding every pitch in different quadrants.
Max is a guy who's got, you know, just pure
stuff and just throws it over over the plate.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He does command his.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Fasketball pretty well and has changed up at the bottom
of the zone, but everything else is just like over
the plate, down, over the plate, up out over It's
not you know, as precision as maybe Kersh was, but
you know, like for as much stuff as sure as had,
he commands it extremely well, doesn't walk people, So it's
hard to nitpick. I think when it comes to pure command,
I think Kursh Kursh probably had has the uh has
(04:09):
the bill on that one.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We were just talking about one of your other former teammates,
Chris Bassett, a pitcher, not a thrower. Do you feel
at this stage of the game and the way baseball
has evolved and hitters chasing that slug guys like Kershaw,
Schurzler and even Chris Bassett have an advantage because they
are pitchers and somewhat outthink the hitters.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, Chris was a very cerebral guy. He knows how
to change speech, change elevation. You know, he's I think
his biggest He's got a couple of big assets is
his availability is a huge asset, and his ability to
honestly keep a hitter off balance.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's hard, it's hard to say things, but like.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You know, he's he's not a guy who's got you know,
an eighty grade heater. He's not a guy that has
like an eighty grade curveball or an eighty grade cutter
or an eighty grade. He's just got four or five pitches,
maybe more by now. Uh that he commands extremely well
and changes speeds and depths and and eye levels, and
he is he's kind of like a gift to the
(05:08):
game to watch somebody pitch like that, because not a
lot of guys actually pitch anymore. And uh yeah, it's
really it's really fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
All right, Blake, thanks a lot for the time. Really
appreciate it. I'll try to be better next time.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh, you're fine. You're fine, Dave, so hard on yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Big night, tonight, Blake, big night.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
First one of the many, Dave. The biggest game is
the game that's right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That's right. I'm only as good as my last interview.
Thank you for that. You're great.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
All right, sound four hours sleep this one off
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