NL Championship Series: Dodgers vs Brewers Saturday, October 13, 2018 Justin Turner Cody Bellinger the dugout every day. Like he said, you don't see many Dodgers postgame 2 days like yesterday, and for him to come out and shrug it off and do that today is what makes him a Los Angeles - 4, Milwaukee - 3 professional hitter and something us young guys can kind of strive for. Q. Justin, what is it about this time of year that you think brings the best out of you? Q. Cody, first hit for you, at what point did you JUSTIN TURNER: Just opportunities. C.T. had a hell really start to feel the pressure to snap starting to of an at-bat battling, finding a way on base to start the hold you back? inning off, and looking for something to get in the air CODY BELLINGER: I think there's always pressure in there, and got a changeup that I didn't miss. So that the playoffs to perform and, obviously, when you're not felt good. performing, it's tough. But yesterday I felt as good as I have in a long time, no results. I felt good in LA and Q. Justin, you haven't had many bad nights lately, Atlanta and no results. And it's frustrating, but at the but you did have one yesterday. I'm just curious, same time, I've got the support of the teammates that told me to keep going that have been there, that have what's kind of your process for moving on from struggled. And that kind of helps me understand that those? Do you just watch a bunch of videos of it's a hard game. your at-bats. Are you able to forget it quickly? Does it kind of sit with you? How were you able to And I know that, but it's hard to snap out of it turn the page going into today? sometimes. But I felt good yesterday and it was nice to JUSTIN TURNER: Yeah, I think it's well documented get a hit today. that was probably the worst game of my career offensively. But I think you just shrug it off to be about Q. Cody, Matt was talking about how your baseball. We've got to go to sleep and show up and do relationship has developed over the course of this it again today. year, and he feels he can tell you things other people can't. How has that relationship sort of Yeah, obviously I wasn't feeling good about myself last night and wasn't happy with the results, but like I said, developed over the course of this year and how today was a new day and another chance to go out and has he sort of served as someone who can help win a ballgame. you when you're in some of these skids? CODY BELLINGER: It's a respect thing. He's been Q. Justin, were you surprised at all to see Jeffress there in LA. He's done it in LA. He's been a really, come back out for the 8th after that long 7th? really good player for a long time, and he's been great JUSTIN TURNER: I'm not surprised by anything these to me off the field, too, in the clubhouse. And like I guys do. They obviously like their bullpen and they said, just kind of watching these older guys play every trust their bullpen, and they want their bullpen in the day, I've been learning a lot this year. It's been really game as much as they can. I did see that Knebel was nice to, like I said, have professional guys every single in the bullpen warming up, but I don't know if he was up day to watch. in time or ready. So I got ready to face Jeffress. Q. Justin, it's such a deep roster that you guys Q. Cody, Dave Roberts was just in here and we have, obviously, and everybody, really except you were asking about Justin, and he said in a lot of and Manny, kind of shift in or out or change ways, he's the face of our club, he's the glue for positions. What kind of pressure does that put on our club is what he said. How do you see the guy you to know that everybody else can mix and to your right serve in a role and what kind of match, but you are going to be in there every game, example does he give for the rest of guys? all game long? CODY BELLINGER: I think it's just the everyday every JUSTIN TURNER: I mean, I think everyone wants to at-bat, professional hitter. And it's fun to watch from be there every game all game long, and that just speaks to the depth that our team has. I'm glad I get Rev #1 by #182 at 2018-10-14 00:21:00 GMT page 1 of 2 the opportunity to be out there every day, and I know Cody wants to be out there every day, whether it's a righty or a lefty. But we have a roster full of guys that are more than capable of doing that. It's just kind of a blessing and a curse that we have that we have so much depth and we can mix and match. And I think I talked about it earlier tonight, I think our guys do an incredible job of staying ready and being able to come into games in the middle of the game prepared, get big hits like Cody did tonight. That's something that's not easy to ask players to do, and we ask a lot of guys to do it. And they've been tremendous all September and through the playoffs of being ready and accepting it and being able to contribute every night. Q. For both of you, Justin's home run was game changing, series changing at this point. Can you kind of just take us through what both of you guys were thinking when that ball went out? CODY BELLINGER: I know from the dugout we were just trying to keep the chain moving. C.T. had a great at-bat against a really tough pitcher, and we liked our chances with J.T. coming up. Like I said, we just wanted to keep putting pressure on those guys, and we did a great job doing that today. JUSTIN TURNER: Yeah, like I said, I was just trying to elevate, get something in the air. I know Muncy is on deck behind me with only righties down there, and he's obviously done some incredible things this year. So last thing I want to do is put a ball on the ground. So I was just trying to get something up, and as soon as I hit it, it felt good. I knew it was a homer, and it's cool to run around the bases and see all your teammates going crazy, jumping up and down waiting for you. That's pretty cool. Q. It seems like almost like last year where you and C.T. were kind of feeding off of each other. Would you say that that kind of happened tonight when you were watching him in that at-bat and you kind of carried the momentum into your at-bat? JUSTIN TURNER: Yeah. C.T. is -- talk about professional hitters. He's been incredible for us, both last year and this year as well. I think if you ask him, things didn't probably go as good as he would have wanted for him this year, but when the lights turn on, he's a gamer, he's ready to go; he takes good at-bats. You saw last night in the ninth inning with the triple, finding ways to get on base, playing defense, moving all over the place. He can play five, six positions. Just the value that he brings to our team, the flexibility, the quality of at-bats is incredible. Rev #1 by #182 at 2018-10-14 00:21:00 GMT page 2 of 2.