Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm Scott Ray, your host, Dean of Faculty, Professor of Christian Ethics at

Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

We were the very, very special guest, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.

We're at Spring Training in Arizona.

Dave, thanks so much for being with us after the afternoon game this afternoon.

We're also joined by my colleague Brandon Cash,

who's been a long-time chaplain for the Dodge's organization.

So Dave, thank you very much for taking time to be with us and

to answer a few questions for us. No, absolutely Scott, it's a pleasure to sit down

and talk about my faith and baseball as well. I have to tell you before we get into some of those questions

the president by only university Barry Corey is a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan and he

said if you get a chance to sit down with Dave Roberts, you have to ask him about the most famous stolen base in Red Sox history.

So tell our listeners a bit, what's he talking about?

Well, it's one of those things where you got the Red Sox and the Yankees and just such

history and just a bitter rivalry and so I take you back to 2004 the Red Sox which team I was on we were

down 3-0 to the Red Sox or to the Yankees and Mariano Riveravere, probably the best closer in history is on the mound.

And I get summoned out to pinch run and lead off a walk by Kevin Milar, so I get out there and

hadn't played in probably eight days have it hasn't haven't seen the field and so up into those eight days there was a lot of preparation

video work and just preparing for one moment and that was my moment right there and so you

rewind about three years prior in my work with Moray Wills a great mentor of mine

when I was with the Dodgers and gearing me for one moment that everyone in the

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