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Then you throw it back to me.” Ellis couldn’t contain his laughter. “You go over there and I’ll stand over here. On the morning Greinke threw his first bullpen session for the Dodgers the following spring, Ellis approached him and asked him how he liked to warm up.Greinke smirked and stared at his feet. “And that was when I realized it was better if I didn’t try to talk to him when he pitched,” said Ellis. Ellis called out to hi, “Hey! Get the ball down!” Annoyed, Kerhsaw looked back at Ellis and yelled: “Hey! Relax!” Frustrated by the pitch’s lack of deception, he kept throwing it high and away so the batter wouldn’t swing at it. Ellis went to catch one of Kerhsaw’s bullpens in Jacksonville when Kershaw was working on his changeup. Though Ellis and Kershaw would later become the best of friends, their first meeting was no lovefest. Because he didn’t yet have an effective changeup, the Dodgers wanted him to throw fifteen of them a game, no matter what, to try to develop one. At the beginning of the 2007 season, Kershaw skipped High-A ball and went from Low-A ball to Double-A Jacksonville.

Ellis and his different relationships with the Dodgers’ star pitchers, Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke.Įllis had caught Kershaw when he was working on a new pitch before, with mediocre results.

Two stories from the very good baseball book I’ve been reading, The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse by Molly Knight.

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“Candlesticks always make a nice gift.” In the most famous mound conference in baseball movie history in one of the best baseball movies, Durham Bulls catcher Crash Davis (Kevin Costner, center) does what good catchers have to be able to do: swallow their pride and sublimate their egos for the good of the team. Still catching up on notes from past family movie nights.