In the Bullpen with the L.A. Dodgers

In the Bullpen with the L.A. Dodgers
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It's playoff time at Dodgers Stadium, and YH heads there for Game 3 of the NLDS to chat with the hometown boys! Chris Capuano, Andre Ethier, Tim Federowicz, Adrian Gonzalez, Mark McGwire, Kenley Jansen, and Michael Young tell us how they prepare for the post-season, and then we catch up with "American Idol" finalist Jessica Sanchez after she delivers the National Anthem! Hosted by Lesley Robins (@lesleymia).
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What's up, guys? Leslie Robbins here for Young Hollywood, coming to you from Dodger Stadium. It is game three of the NLDS and I am bringing you all the action. So post season is going to be packed.
It's empty now. The fans are going to get you guys excited. Yeah, I mean this place is loud anyway, but uh, you know, we expect it with our sound system and with a packed stadium. It's just going to be hopping in here. So, we're going to try to feed off that energy and use it.
Post season. Any superstitions going in?
Uh, not right now, other than uh, just make sure my socks are clean and uh, I have my favorite undershirt and uh, that's all that's usually in my locker, so uh, we're good to go for that. I don't have a ton of superstitions. I mean, for me, it's just it's all about the routine, you know. I mean, nothing funny like, you know, the same underwear or anything like that, but uh, for me, it's just doing everything I normally do during the regular season and not trying to do anything different because it's a big game. All the same video preparation, the same physical preparation, mental, so
Hockey has the playoff beard, I see you have a goatee going. Is that your thing?
Yeah, kind of. I've been growing it ever since we kind of went on our run after the All-Star break, so I'm just trying to keep it going.
How do you mentally prepare for postseason versus regular season?
Uh, just a little more video, a little more preparation and uh, you know, just uh, have fun. My mind's always good. Um, I I I never uh, really sleep that much, you know. It's like, I'm constantly looking at video. Um, sometimes I wish I'm playing. There's a lot of pitchers out there I see I really like to fit my eye perfectly. Um, you just pass on myself and John Vason. We do a lot of good work down in the down in the cage prior to the game. You know, your adrenaline's much higher, you know, so you get kind of tough sleep sometimes, but, you know, what can you do? You gotta tough it out and uh, still come here to the ballpark and focus and try to help the team win.
Now, I'm seeing some guys throw on some cologne. What's your go-to smell for the game?
Uh, I just got uh, just the natural body musk. Absolutely, you gotta smell good, uh, if you wanna go out there and play good. So, I try to make sure I'm uh, got enough cologne on and everything, so.
What's your go-to cologne? You smell good.
Uh, I usually uh, John Varvatos is actually my real cologne.
This is the most noise I've heard coming off the field for BP, so fans are excited, we're excited. I'm excited. I've crashed BP. What else are you doing to warm up today?
Uh, just the same thing I usually do and, you know, it's it's fun. It's fun being postseason and it's fun being around our our our our fans, too. Uh, now after this, I mean, everybody takes their ground balls. Infielders take ground balls, after they'll take their fly balls, and after that, just get in there and get mentally locked in.
I'm in the dugout with you because it is blazing hot out there.
It isn't too bad, actually. I mean, if you get uh, warm weather in October, you're pretty thankful for it because the deeper you get and uh, the farther you advance here, likely gets some cold weather. So, we're gonna enjoy this while we can.
I think you'd want to enjoy it, given who cares what month it is, you're in the playoffs.
We're in the playoffs, we're in the playoffs in L. A. , so it's a pretty special thing. This is why you do it is to get in the playoffs and have a chance to win a World Series and uh, you have a tied series coming back here and you're looking forward to playing back in front of our home crowd.
Oh, say can you see? By the dawn's early light. Jessica Sanchez, you just sang the national anthem, you killed it.
Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. I mean, this is not my first Dodger's game, but it's sold out. There's like 50,000 people here, so this is exciting.
Now the last time we saw you, you sang in our studio, epic. And you grew up a Dodger fan.
Yeah, pretty much. I mean, I'm from San Diego, but Dodgers, you know, it's such a big team, I'm like, hey, what's up? I just moved here, so it makes even more sense.
Well, Don Mattingly says you guys have a fun clubhouse, you're fun guys. Who's the clown?
Uh, Nick Punto, Skip Schumacher. They have some funny stuff going. So, it's just it's just fun to be in the uh, locker room with these guys. Punto's always Punto and Schumacher always playing practical jokes, most on each other. They they always have a great time. Uh, this is one of the one of the better teams I've seen as far as everybody getting on everybody. Usually you find a couple of sensitive guys, but uh, we've had a couple of sensitive guys, now they're not sensitive anymore.
Everyone keeps bringing up the word fun. Don Mattingly said he has a fun clubhouse and he says, the boys are fun. Is that still the mentality out there? There's no pressure?
I mean, depends what you think pressure is. I mean, for me, pressure's kind of, you know, when you're afraid to fail and as a baseball player, you can't be that way. You just gotta go out there, be prepared, um, be a lot be very confident in who you are and what you can do and go out there and cut it loose.
I'm talking World Series. What are we thinking?
Yeah, World Series. I mean, that's that's it. That's why we're here, so it's gonna happen. Put myself in the best frame of mind to go out and execute.
Well then I'll see you at the World Series.
Sounds good.
Well go get a W for me.
Yeah, for sure. You know, we got that team, we got the ability, we got the talent, we got everything, so yes, I can see us in there.
Now, they're all super cute. If you could pick like one player that you would follow on Twitter, who would it be? Come on.
I can't do that to me. I love all of them, they're amazing.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Lesley Robins
Host of the video for Young Hollywood
- Chris Capuano
L.A. Dodgers player interviewed
- Andre Ethier
L.A. Dodgers player interviewed
- Tim Federowicz
L.A. Dodgers player interviewed
- Adrian Gonzalez
L.A. Dodgers player interviewed
- Mark McGwire
L.A. Dodgers coach mentioned
- Kenley Jansen
L.A. Dodgers player interviewed
- Michael Young
L.A. Dodgers player interviewed
- Jessica Sanchez
American Idol finalist who sang the National Anthem
- John Vason
Teammate mentioned by Adrian Gonzalez
- Don Mattingly
Dodgers manager mentioned by Jessica Sanchez
- Nick Punto
Dodgers player mentioned as a clubhouse clown
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