We are here with the first ever Dodger to win the Home Run Derby, and he brought the trophy the one and only te Oscar Hernandez. Welcome home as the home Run Derby champ. Thank you man, Thank you appreciate it. It feels good to be back home, especially because I got a chance to bring this, uh with Can you show off the trophy to everybody at home? They want to see that, they want to see it here. It's a little it's a little dirty, but you know, it's nice to
have this and be the first Dodgers to win it. Yeah, no doubt. And this is something that you told me you wanted to do going back a month. How rewarding is it to not only be invited, but to win it, you know, to have the opportunity. Uh, I already tend thanks everybody that has UH to do anything with my participation in the derby this year for the chance and more special because it's the first time. This is uh bring this is bring here to LA. So really happy. I
enjoy the best. It was an incredible moment. How did you feel after everybody talks about how exhausting the Home run Derby is? Did you feel exhausted after not really I was you know, I was good, a little sore, but nothing big. It just it was a really, really good moment. I wasn't thinking about anything else and the excitement that I get in the competition. How big of a role did Dino Ebel play and you winning this? I mean, I think there's not a chance if you don't have anybody
throwing good pitches to here. And Dina was amazing. It was thanks to him that I got this today. This had to be an amazing All Star experience for you, not only winning the home run derby but also starting in center field. Was it as great as it seemed to be for you? It was amazing experience. It was great. I enjoy my family, enjoy my brother's got a chance to be there for the first time. I was there with my whole family, parents, friends, Coustin's, my wife,
my kids. This is my first time that the kids we're there in twenty one. I only have two. Julian wasn't here, but you know, it was a great moment for my career and for my family. Hey, it's great. The kids haven't broken the trophy yet. I don't think they're gonna broke baseline because it's really heavy, it's metal. So you know, happy, happy to win this and just to be the first one to bring it here. Tay Oscar, we saw your old friend Vladimir Guerrero Junior wearing
your Blue Jays jersey. Did you send him home with a Dodger jersey? No, not not yet, not yet, but he said that he won one of my jerseys. Obviously, I'm gonna give one to him. You know, his special He's spared my family now and he was there supporting me the same way that I was there when he competed in those It was in Cleveland in nineteen and then Seattle last year. I was not in the LSAR game, but I was in Seattle, so I was watching. I call
him and just you know, just cheering for him. Now, back to work. First half begins tonight against the Red Sox. Do you feel like the All Star break came at the perfect time to wash away that last road trip? Yeah, it was. It was not great for us, you know, especially because we had a lot of injuries at the end, but that's war a baseball. We just have to keep fighting, be better and
just trying to win. To come back to Dodger Stadium tonight. I'm sure it's going to be electric with the Boston Red Sox here, But more importantly, you and the rest of the team back here in action. Are you anticipating a huge ovation when you take the field, when you step in the batter's box, because you know they're going to show highlights of the home run
derby. I wasn't thinking about it, you know, but it's definitely feel great to be back home, especially to hear them from the fence, and like you say, facing that organization, the Boston Rexas, they've been playing a really good baseball, which is things gonna be a good show tonight. Man. I wish I had some seeds for you right now. I wish I was at the derby. I could have thrown some seeds when you won that derby. That's okay, we can do it today. We can celebrate
today if I hit home. All right. Great to see you and great to see that smile all week and Arlington, Texas with ti Oscar Hernandez. Congratulations. Everybody says you deserve this. You're a great player, but everybody that knows you knows how great of a person you are. So well deserved. Thank you, appreciate it. Hold up that trophy one more time. Come on, there you go. Can I touch it? Oh? Right, there we go, There we go.