[Music] hello everybody Welcome to the Thursday edition of Dodgers territory alongside my host Clint pus I'm Alana Rizzo we are very happy to welcome back Blake Tran Dodgers reliever to the show always appreciate him taking the time to be with us as the Dodgers continue their trip in Philadelphia hopefully getting a win tonight against the fight in Phils and Blake congratulations first and foremost I know that you just hit 10 years of service time that is an accomplishment that not many people can say that they have done uh what does it feel like for you to know that you've been in the show over a decade fully vested and uh what what a what a moment for you I would imagine yeah I mean it's been a it's been a lot it's been a ride there's been ups and downs um ultimately I'm here by the grace of God and a lot of hard work that was instilled in me as a kid from my parents and then a lot of support from my wife for the last you know decade because we're going on our 10 year anniversary so as long as I've been in the big leagues we've been together so um yeah it's been quite the accomplishment I think sometimes you don't realize uh the feat that necessarily it is to get to 10 years and eventually it'll sink in but right now I'm just really focused on staying healthy and trying to help the Dodgers and enjoying uh the ride that is the rest of my career yeah we know it really sinks in once you get that card in hand and you know you can go to baseball games for the rest of your life so congrats again as Alana said uh through the positive of course we we we have the rigers of 162 Game season there are ups and downs in a in a long Major League Baseball season what's kind of the mood in the clubhouse right now of course so many veterans in that Clubhouse you guys have been through it what is the mood what's kind of the message the Mantra through a stretch like this well the one thing I've learned uh coming to the Dodgers is um there's not a lot of emotional highs and uh they do a really good job of stay even kill that starts with leadership as high as Andrew fredman down to Dave and and then into the for me as a bullpen guy you know our pitching coach and Mark and Conor and then down The Bard in the bullpen with us a lot of guys have understood that baseball season is long there are ups and downs and when you're winning you ride it as long as you can knowing that there is inevitably a low um I don't I don't see any pressing or or stress or anything you know the season has taken it toll on a few of our guys physically um we're trying to get the next man up type mentality uh and I think you know some of the young guys have done a pretty good job and and then learning to trust themselves in these situations as well is going to be huge for us uh down the stretch until we get some guys back I don't know that I can uh I apologize Blake I don't know that I can assess your mechanics but I can assess the eye test and you look filthy over your last 24 appearances I don't want to get into the numbers because you guys get mad at me when I do that so I won't but look you have a job I have a job we're fine looking at you you look so dialed in is that fair to say that uh I would I would say there are there are Innings that are a lot crisper and cleaner um than others there it is still a a you know a a little bit of a a process for me coming back from surgery but health I feel great it's just you know some days I I feel better than others and but for the most part I it is true that uh there are things that I'm accomplishing now that I necessarily haven't done in my career which is nice and um and there are things that like it's hard to just kind of let be and the competitive side of me wants a little bit of velocity but velocity is a luxury and command and movement is what will drive success in my opinion or at least it's what I'm being learned I'm learning through right now uh so I'm very grateful I've had I've got great people around me that have have produced the product that you see right now and you know by the grace of God I'm back and I'm throwing and and the shoulder feels good so um I would say things are going well yeah talking about movement that we can we said it last time your movement is nasty the stuff looks good scoreless in in 22 of 24 outings and I'm sure that is very meaningful to you we know it's meaningful uh to a baseball uh team and keeping keeping the game there it's important important part of your job you talked about the injuries earlier you talked about your own injuries uh injury worries and all of that we got a guy right now who's kind of going through through it with Walker bu injuries overall you know been a storyline for this team this is kind of more for fans like speaking to to fans for them to kind of understand you know what it takes coming back from major surgery let alone somebody like Walker coming back from you know his second Tommy John uh you know the process isn't lenar what do you kind of tell fans like you know give people some Grace in these moments where he's you know's trying to figure it out and trying to figure himself out what what do you how do you speak to that um honestly thank God we're not robots and we're still human you know everybody is different in their own way shape or form I had aspirations to come back last year I pushed as hard as I could but at a certain point in time you have to do what your body allows you to do and Walker beer is going to be good for years to come just like other guys who are going through some injuries right now are going to be good for in the next few weeks months years the problem that people run into is we get these Medical Tim taes that tell us oh he'll be back 12 to 14 weeks or 8 to 10 weeks and if we're not the exact perfect version of when we left before we got hurt they're starting to wonder well were they dedicated did they do it right was the surgery botched was this there's so many things that people try to understand but the biggest thing to know is that the body is unique in itself and we have plenty of people around us doing the best they can to get us right the worst thing that we can do as athletes is to come back too soon and force an issue and now something else gets hurt and you're looking at an even longer if not a career ending issue um you know something I ran into last year for instance was I tried pushing it and then all of a sudden my forearm started getting you know sore and achy so I'm like hey it's not a time to push right now it might be better to just have that fulltime window of recovery and then some through the off season and I've I've reaped the benefits and I'm hoping the Dodgers have reaped the benefits as well does the allstar break come at a good time for this club yeah I think the All-Star break comes at a good time for for everybody um no one's going to talk about you know how the body feels because in baseball we we play through a lot you know like some some days you feel great some days you don't it's 162 games in 180 something days uh somebody equated at one time the NFL is like wearing a bunch of Haymakers from like Tyson and the baseball's and and baseball's like just taking a bunch of body blows back to back to back and it doesn't bother you for a while but after a while it catches up to you and um just learning how to prepare and recover those few days are going to go a long way for I bet about everybody in baseball yeah stepping back a second I appreciate the insight there on uh the injury stuff I think a lot of people don't really understand that even me you know I I get to be harsh at this team I both cover the team as a you know reporter and as a fan and it's it's sometimes it's hard to differentiate try to do my best to Echo to people you guys are humans they're they're humans to you know stay out of the DMS give them some Grace sometimes it's it's you know obvious they're they're trying you guys are always trying your best um anyways I just wanted to throw that out there back on the All-Star break let's let's have a little fun with it what uh what's Blake Tran's off um you know those what four days off what do they look like for you uh I'm I'm gonna be with my family uh we're going to try to to get out of society and just and go camping get away from away from it all you know uh last year I really wasn't around anything but we decided to go camping and it was the best four days of an All-Star break I've probably ever had seeing the kids explore and just being around my wife and and my three little ones so it'll be a little little bit more lowkey um my wife being pregnant with our fourth and um so we can't probably push it like we did last year but this it'll it'll be fun I I'm looking forward to having time with my kids there's a couple of things I know about you and I I regret I didn't get to know you better while I was there but there's things I get I know about you you're a you're a man of an unbelievable work ethic you're a man of true Faith you're a man of character you're a man of family you um tell me about the the charity that you guys have put together in a way to help folks with cancer uh in the Northwest area um I know it's very near and dear to your heart all of us have been affected by CA cancer in some shape or form so tell me a bit more about Psalm 23 and and what you're doing with it and how we can help so this is something that we tried starting um in 21 after Katie's mom passed away Kirsten and the foundation was created in her name um she went through non- Hopkins lymphoma and it was probably the worst experience of Our Lives um seeing your wife go through something losing their best friend and really as anybody can attest a parent uh that that you lean on in any type of Life situation that's not there anymore is definitely hard but we got to see the ugly side of cancer um we got to see the ugly side of the medical uh field you know we we see people we pay health insurance our whole lives and the second that you know Kiren and her situation needed it the most they played the back and forth game and ended up delaying treatment that she wasn't able to qualify for anymore um so we were like there's got to be a better way um and we believe that spiritual healing is obviously a huge aspect in everything we have a we have a big God that's bigger than our circumstances that's why we named it Psalm 23 Ministries um but ultimately we want people to have the opportunity that if the medical system fails them there is natural ways that they can explore to see what works best for them and the hardest part for my mother-in-law and seeing what my father-in-law and her kids had to go through was the process of getting two and from treatments the the burden of providing food because you're putting all the money towards treatments the the burden of finances for you know if you're in a rural area you have to go get a hotel room or gas or maybe even treatments themselves it's it's a huge burden outside of just having cancer so we want to alleviate that stress on families and and hopefully provide them with links and sources to maybe meet them in a way that uh conventional medicine hasn't um so that's why we created uh Psalm 23 Ministry it's a nonprofit organization tax deductible um we are uh really just trying to meet and fill a gap for people who need to know that they're loved and there's people trying to support them through this process and uh really grateful for you guys we tried to get this started um back in 22 obviously I had the injury with my shoulder um I didn't didn't we didn't necessarily know how to get it kickstarted over the last couple years but um platforms like yalls and uh with the Dodgers organization in general um we are grateful that you guys are taking the time to even bring awareness to it because we just want to bless families and I want to go ahead and thank anybody who feels LED we just ask people to pray about it if you feel led to give we uh want you to know that all of that money goes towards the the the people dealing with cancer it goes there's it's a nonprofit We don't take anything and we just want people to have have have access to resources and a burden lifted off because cancer is not an easy thing to go through and again we said every single one of us has been affected uh by cancer in some way shape or form you know we've had people in our lives our families our friends affected uh by it have lost people to it um and you're absolutely right there's so much more that goes into what people are battling that have nothing to do with the actual illness it's everything else that they have to go through as well well and and what Psalm 23 Ministries is doing is so important and you can help it's easy you know if you can pray about it of course as Blake asked you to do but you can also open up your wallet Psalm 203.org is how you can help uh and you know 100% of the proceeds go to the benefit to benefit those families um and folks in need um Blake before we let you go because obviously that's a heavy topic but we did want to talk to you about it and let our viewers know about what you're doing um as you look back on your career and again I've asked Clayton this a thousand times and he's like I'm not ready to look back at it yet because he's still you guys are still in the middle of it right and Clayton's not one to ever admit anything that he's accomplished even though he's a first ballot Hall of Famer um if you look back at the career now that you're fully vested and you have that 10 years of service time is there anything that you would have done differently or perhaps one thing that you're most proud of to this point because you're not done yet uh you know maybe maybe a couple interactions uh I would I would like to change I mean we can always nitpick my biggest thing when I leave this game I want to I want people to think of me as like a phenomenal teammate who helped encourage and and uplift through the the highs and the lows it is not an easy game I have certainly experienced the hard struggles of it physically mentally performance- wise um you know so I really just I would I would hope that most of my interactions if not all of them have been in a positive light to those around me um you know so in the second half of your question you might have to refresh me I was focused on the first part um you said something about like things to come anything that you're proud of you know something that you're really proud of because you're not you're not done yet and you know you look back and it's so difficult to do what you guys do forget striking a guy out forget hitting a single just what you do on a day in and day out basis over the course of 10 years is difficult so is there anything in particular that you're proud of so far yeah I think man uh it's hard to hard to say like the the personal accolades you know with with being an All-Star and being able to experience that and then winning a World Series with the Dodgers has been obviously pretty amazing um but I think the thing I'm probably most proud of is um I think you hear from people as your your career goes on how you've impacted either their child or uh my own kids I I want them to see the best in me through the ups and downs because life's not easy so I think I'm the most proud of like when I'm handling it the best so that my kids can see things and and and lean on it when they're older and be proud of their dad um so I I I mean I the accolades are easy to to to to be excited about um but I'm I'm probably just Mo most proud of um having the opportunity to to just be a light with my teammates and my kids that's probably honestly but the one thing I'm most excited about Blake I'm going to send you off with a real tough one here um we see clean shaven Blake trying in oh yeah we see the the the look uh you know the 2020 World Series look you got the beard how do we know when Blake dryan is really feeling himself is it bearded try okay so here's the problem I get to see my family for the first time in like a month and a half my wife's not a beard fan she doesn't like the mustache I shaved into a mustache for one day because bard is always busting us for people who do mustaches on purpose well then his son's around and he's got a mustache on purpose and I'm like I'm long enough I have to try a mustache so I did it and then we lost pretty good the other night so I had to I had to shave it off and um but I if I could I would grow the beard out I just really yeah I really like when my wife's happy with how I look so I'm not gonna you know the the co beard was one of my favorite uh favorite things I just had to get rid of it cuz it's like a repellent you know like she doesn't really like the beard so I try to keep it shaved as much as I can well I mean you guys are having your fourth kids so obviously you're doing something right like trying something's working yeah we've got a we've got a house full of kids yeah yes but after the All-Star break I see my family for that home stand and then afterwards I don't know if I see him for a while so I get to grow the beard out and I'll be excited yeah gonna say it's the playoff beard but hopefully the family's with you for the postseason so Blakey congratulations 10 years of service time you are a pleasure to get to know pleasure to talk to pleasure to watch your career uh over the course of the so um and best of luck with uh Psalm 23 again Psalm 23. org that's how you can help folks in the Pacific Northwest and best of luck the wrest way can you please win a game against the Phillies that'd be great Blake I know we we will we will um I just really want to thank you guys again for taking the time to plug the organization just trying to help as many as we can so um and uh go Dodgers I guess we got a win gight yeah all right BL tarted you be good we'll we'll talk to you soon all right Clint always a pleasure to have players on of course um let's talk about some stuff we don't want to talk about and that's blue balls good Lord our pitching staff not only do we have an unbelievable pitching staff on the I we have a very key piece to our rotation that has got to work out some kinks in Bobby Miller and he got option to Triple A I mean yeah this this is it right now honest goodness Mexican rug dealer the Dodgers currently it is a mash unit for goodness sake yeah it's it's tough and and you know what Alana you're the one who kind of was shining the light on this for a while you had that worry we talked about it on Monday too what does this team do when they lose Tyler glas now you mentioned Bobby Miller who's getting sent down while fully healthy that's another whole conversation but you know Tyler glaz now goes down uh you know with the black back injury or whatever it is very clearly back is it's very tight feeling tight like a tiger uh you know well timed break for uh for glasnow who we all know we were talking about the Innings concerned and and all of that but this this starting rotation I mean we've we've mentioned May one guy do you think this is a team that needs to to go out and acquire two starters how do you feel about the rotation at this moment absolutely before before glas now had back tightness which I think they're just giving him a blow honestly I think they're just giving him you know what like let's make sure he doesn't have this start before the All-Star Game let's give him the All-Star break and then we'll reassess I really do believe they're just kind of spacing him out because this is a guy we all know everyone's talked about it at nauseum he's going to pass his Innings Mark for the season um he's been tremendous but I do I do believe this wholeheartedly work out the cobwebs for Bobby Miller get back on track perhaps get some confidence up you're facing not to not to take anything away from triaa hitters but they're not big Leaguers yet right so get your confidence up against some big League uh or excuse me some you know some AAA guys down in Oklahoma City figure it out um and figure out whatever I don't believe with Miller it's anything mechanics wise or anything physical I think it's between the ears I think he's he's in his head and can't get out of his head right now so I think that's a good move but yes to answer your question I do believe you have to get two I wanted to say one front line starter but now I think you definitely need two starters um because you don't know what the situation is with Yamamoto you don't know if berer is going to get back on track after his second TJ you don't know what you're going to get from kersch the good thing about kersch is he will be fresh and kers is a competitor and I don't think that they will let him come back unless he's fully able to go as as hard as he wants to um you cannot count on Gavin Stone Bobby Miller and Landon Knack who are were throwing up against I'm sorry I'm not trying to be disrespectful they're not ready for this that's not a championship rotation to Phil these lineup like that it's not and again it's no disrespect it's just a matter of look at the back of their baseball cards these are guys and I maintain this from last season these are guys are getting called up out of necessity not out of experience and production it's because this pitching staff is decimated and again I know everybody loves to hate the Dodgers nobody feels sorry for us I understand that but I am worried about this Dodger starting rotation I have been since the onset no you have I I'll give this much or or or try to maintain some positivity I mean they entered the season you know we knew Kershaw was going to be out they decided they were going to go you know give Walker bu that that first first month off maybe it was kind of a little bit of they didn't know where the stuff was at where the mechanics were at uh Dustin may on the iil emiten done for the year T Tony gonin done for the year everybody wants to forget about Tony gonlin as a piece of this rotation then as the season goes along you you lose Yamamoto uh somebody like Kyle hurt where thankfully I I got some reports from a source I'm gonna go sources on this show I feel important but all all the scans came back positive on hurt or or negative on hurt I should say they're good there's good news on hurt hopefully be back in throwing in a month but it's still just it's tough It's it's a painful watch fans are are uh they're feeling the hurt along with the rest of this team that's down an entire starting rotation plus a little bit of depth but but through all this what is it I have notes somewhere uh 22 and 20 since May 21st and they've only lost a half game in the standings nobody's jumping to Lea frog the Dodgers here in the that's the thing though that's the thing though Clint thank God thank God that the division is as weak as it is because if the Giants were playing as well as we thought they were going to at the beginning of the season when they signed Chapman when they signed snow when they signed I mean I real snow was towards the end of spring you know whatever I get it was a late sign but if if the Giants were playing as well as we thought they were going to play if the Padres with if you look at the Padre's roster I mean it's a it's a very dangerous team on paper if those two teams again no disrespect to the to the you know National League winners in the uh Arizona Diamondbacks but they have not played as well as we thought and I and the Rockies whatever are the Rockies but if those teams were playing up to the expectations the Dodgers could be in a much tighter race than the National League West yeah yeah and you know I mean n has had its own injury issues all around team has yeah and that that's that's part of baseball it's 162 like we said over 180 days uh but we care about the Dodgers so we're more annoyed and we're more sad about this but if this team doesn't go out and add at least one guy and then you are banking on on health you are banking on guys coming back and I was going to say as part of my my positive as well uh with Clayton Kershaw I always trust Clayton k to figure out how I mean he could probably go out there and throw right-handed and put you up like you know five innings and three earned or something like that Kershaw can figure it out if he can go out and post a you know 25 ER with his shoulder falling off for most of the second half last year he can figure out how to do it with a with a brand new feeling shoulder so Kershaw will come back he will give this team meaningful Innings and he will be uh an important part of a potential postseason rotation or you know what whatever role he ends up having pretty sure Clayton Kershaw is starting games maybe as your number four starter if he end if he has to move up in the rotation though that's where you got to be worried and that's where you feel um you can look back or you can look yeah in September in October you can look back at July and be annoyed you can be pissed at the front office for not doing enough moves this this uh this trade deadline it can't be a lance Linn trade deadline it can't be a Joe Kelly trade deadline like we saw last year this needs to be a splash this needs to be like 202 where they went out and got Trey Turner Max Scherer from the Washington Nationals they need to move Big Max Max Sherer worked out real well for us um in that trade um and I understand and thank you Max for coming on foul territory I I love you for that I do and I love you and Erica for saving dogs um that to me is is far more impressive than your Hall of Fame career because ma year there will be a Hall of Famer my point is I don't like the arm fatigue at when we needed him most here's the thing though there are teams that have covered the gaps made up a lot of room look at the freaking Astros look at the Boston Red Sox I just think that the 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stimulation he will be put to sleep by 4M today if he is not rescued today um they are killing perfectly healthy dogs in shelters across our nation California is one of the worst places for it so if you are in the San Bernardino area uh and you're interested in Oli please let us know at grig guardian.org or call the San Bernardino shelter directly if you want to save alli's life um I hate to be the downer but that's just the reality of the shelter crisis that we're in right now but before we say goodbye here on Dodgers territory again thank you to Blake Tran for his time um we have been clamoring Clint pus to have a Dodger in the Home Run Derby uh I thought it I wanted Shi I think the world wants Shi I understand why he's not in it but I'm all for Teo getting in I mean this guy has been to me the MVP of the first half of our season um I can't I can't wait to see him in this what's your take on it yeah no um I'm happy there is Dodger representation I think this is not the most exciting Home Run Derby we've seen in our life our lifetime or in recent vintage but if somebody can go out there and drop some bombas I I feel like teoscar Hernandez can do it and I think the whole world we don't need to get into why but I think the whole world is rooting for him in that first round he'll be in in the derby but it's good it's good for teoscar he said he wanted to do it and um he's getting that opportunity and he's got big boy strength that's what I like about you've seen some of these Dodgers in the past where you know Alana you've seen them hit in batting practice the Dodgers Don't Preach like swinging for the fences they the the approach is very calm very selective but you get guys from out of the organization like I I remember watching in in batting practice other teams show up and then they're they're putting balls halfway up the bleachers during BP guys like T tear they can put on a show guys like sh Otani can put on a show listen I'm I'm putting a very small amount of money into not actually betting because I don't I don't bet you're not allowed to bet we're not allowed to bet we're not allowed to bet don't get yourself in trouble don't get yourself into [Music] trouble as long as as long as Tay Oscar doesn't have H five o'clock power I'm good with it Ken Rosenthal thinks that Ozuna is gonna win the Derby uh we just talked to him on a fair territory I'm going to go with Alonzo just because of experience I know the I know the rules have changed this this year but I'm going to go with always been in it two other times by the way what do you think about this Scott Brun just told us that on uh foul territory that Kenley Jansen said that he wants to retire as a Dodger listen if you can get Kenley back in the right situation um you can bring your alltime saves leader back home I think a Lana I mean I know how much you love these guys in particular guys that were with you the the most of the entirety of your time covering team Kenley Justin Turner uh there there is the right time for reunions there's a wrong time for reunions and if the time is right I'm more than happy to see KJ 74 come back home and uh you know hopefully you know he he does the right thing and W you know comes out to California Love we can get chills going again because he did change the song at one point but I know he did while he was still in California and it irritated me um by the way you can go back and watch it on the foul territory Channel because he just said that on foul we're obviously on after foul so go ahead and check that out I don't want it though if that means sending ber awake I know that's been talked like oh would you take Kenley back if that means trading ber no Walker ber is going to be back to his walker beer butane f m mfing s so all right what's coming up on what's coming up on all Dodgers uh tonight we will be post gaming myself and uh producer Kevin so hopefully we're talking about a Dodgers win uh I did predict this series they would win one game and I was kind of had the back of Mind fear could get swept because there's a reality the Dodgers are hurt they got a lot of problems they're tired and the Philadelphia Phillies are a really really good baseball team so guys pull up a chair pull up a beer we'll be on after the baseball game 6 PM or whatever it ends up being I don't know what time the game ends but yeah just all Dodgers with Clint pasas that's me all right all Dodgers withas on thirsty Thursday I am on my way to Logan Airport I am flying to Tampa to see Morgan Wallen enjoy bye bye