NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: DODGERS VS BREWERS

October 15, 2025

Tyler Glasnow

Dodger Stadium

Los Angeles Dodgers

Workout Day Press Conference

Q. Obviously you've got your own style. You've got your own hopes of how you're going to pitch tomorrow. What goes through your mind when you watch what Blake and Yoshinobu did in the first two games of the series?

TYLER GLASNOW: Just super impressive. I think just to start a series like that on the road and to pitch two really good games and come out with two wins is huge.

So I'm in a good spot for tomorrow, and yeah, I'll do what I do, do my game planning, and then go out and hopefully pitch well.

Q. Freddy, Mookie and some of the vets on this team always say hitting can be contagious, slumps can be contagious. Can pitching be contagious? Could you pick up off that momentum of what the two guys before you did in these last two games?

TYLER GLASNOW: I hope so. I don't know, for me, I think sometimes I think it sounds cool and it's kind of magical, but I think it's kind of like if you just go out and pitch well -- because we have a lot of good starting pitching, I think because we have a lot of good hitting, I think a lot of times it will line up all together at some points, and the then sometimes in the season it won't.

I just think statistically the odds are that we will pitch good all together at some point, or if it does kind of have some sort of momentum effect. I hope it does because then it would help me out tomorrow.

But I don't know. I think, I hope, I guess is my short answer.

Q. Just to follow up on that a little bit, you think of everything the rotation has been through this season, there's been injuries, there's been slumps. What does it mean to have everybody clicking right now?

TYLER GLASNOW: Yeah, it's perfect timing. I feel like towards the end of the season we started playing really good baseball and then as the postseason has started we've all just kind of clicked and gotten on a new level.

The vibe is really good in the clubhouse. Everyone is feeling great. It's just a good time to get hot for sure.

Q. Tyler, you've always been really good compartmentalizing and you've used that word before. How were you able to compartmentalize in that first game --

TYLER GLASNOW: It's a hard one.

Q. Hard word to say. How do you approach the next one?

TYLER GLASNOW: Just not try to do too much, make it any bigger than it needs to be. Just game plan like any normal start and just let the extra adrenaline have my stuff play up and bit go into it trying to do too extra or too little.

Just treat it like normal. I think it helped me with my last start in Philly, and I'm feeling good right now physically, so just kind of take it like a normal start.

Q. You've been around Blake Snell probably longer than anybody on your team. He seems like a guy that's very obsessive about getting an edge, holding an edge, not giving it away. Can you describe his competitiveness and wanting that edge and do you have any stories about his competitiveness?

TYLER GLASNOW: Yeah, I think he's just the ultimate competitor, works really hard, has his own game plan. He's like unique in his own sense. I think about how he attacks guys and how he goes about training.

So I think I've heard from third-party people even when he plays video games he's like, got to win. He's always about winning. He'll get mad on the video games, too. He's like, you guys aren't playing together. We need to step it up and stuff like that.

I remember the Rays guys were telling me that and some guys on the Dodgers as well.

I think with a lot of people who are good at -- who are competing, you kind of have it on all the time, and I think he's one of those guys.

Q. You've pitched in the playoffs before, you've pitched in the World Series before, but last year you got to watch what it took to win it all. I know it was a different recipe, but is there anything you can apply from that journey and that run last year now that you're pitching every series this year?

TYLER GLASNOW: I think just how strong we are together as a team. We do so much stuff together. Playing, bus rides, everything all together.

I think that's like -- I don't even know who started doing that, but I think we've made it, like, a point to just do everything together and practice and planes and everything. Even like small group stuff like Miggy or Mookie or I don't know. I think just that. I think that's what I noticed the most last year, just how it almost felt like Little League again in a way, like busing to games together.

I know other teams fly, but we have our own plane and it's just a really, really tight-knit group, and I think last year I saw how helpful that was, and I think we're just running it back this year. It's nice to be a part of.

Q. You've been here for a couple seasons now. I'm curious if the effect of being a local guy, pitching for the Dodgers on this huge stage, does that still have an effect on you, or have you had to completely wipe that out to just do your job?

TYLER GLASNOW: Not really. I think it's just if I think about it, it just feels like a cool feeling. It doesn't add pressure or anything. I just like the fact that I am home and I'm pitching for the Dodgers and it just adds kind of like a nice cool thing.

But I think maybe early on when I first got here it was a little bit more in my head, and now I've been here a while, I don't really think about it too much anymore. I mean, I appreciate it but it doesn't stick in my brain all the time, I guess.