MLB : Dodgers vs Red Sox Sunday, October 28, 2018 Steve Pearce Red Sox postgame 5 Q. When you just think about this season, where it Red Sox - 5 Dodgers - 1 started, being in and now being here as World Series MVP, how do you put into words this Q. Is this beyond your wildest dream to be the MVP wild ride that 2018 has been? of the World Series? STEVE PEARCE: You know, is a funny game. STEVE PEARCE: It sure is. It sure is. This has been You never know where the game will take you. And I've a lifelong journey. And to be here right now is a dream gone through a lot in my life or in my career to be here, come true. and I couldn't be more thankful. Q. What was it like out there celebrating right after Q. How much would you love to return to this team the game with your teammates? next year and in the future? STEVE PEARCE: Best feeling in my life. This is what STEVE PEARCE: I would definitely love it. We're you grow up wishing that you could be a part of world champions. To be able to be open up next something like this. With that special group of guys out season at with the ring ceremony and there, to celebrate with them, that was awesome. everything that goes along with it and to drop the banner for the 2018 world champions, that would Q. You've obviously been on a lot of teams, why did definitely -- I would love that. this one strike you as special from the outset? STEVE PEARCE: You know, you see how much fun Q. You obviously had a great series, they have, playing against them all the time and how also had a great series for you guys. What kind of good they are. And to come over and be a part of that lift did he give you guys, not just tonight but really team, the chemistry that they had, they welcomed me with open arms from day one. And they made it very the last two series? easy for me to play my game of baseball, and I couldn't STEVE PEARCE: He was dominant. We love when be any happier. he's on the mound. When he takes it, he's a bulldog. He competes. And I couldn't be any happier for him. It was an awesome performance, and he shut one of the Q. Anybody tell you the history you made tonight? best teams down, and he pitched in a game-clinching STEVE PEARCE: No. World Series game. That's the guy we want on the mound and he delivered. Q. That would be you joined and as the only players 35 or older with Q. You guys down 4-0 top of the 7th in Game 4. multiple-homer games in a World Series. Does They sense maybe they're going to draw the series that, being mentioned with Babe Ruth in the World even and everything switched. Mitch and you with Series and history, mean something special to the home runs. Take us through what's kind of you? going through your mind from that moment on STEVE PEARCE: Sure, that's great company. Those yesterday to winning it all? guys were the best. And if my name gets to sit right STEVE PEARCE: Well, I mean that's what this team is next to theirs, I know I've accomplished something. all about, we grind together. And I think that's one of the best things that probably the sum-up of our season, Q. If I could follow up real quick, getting off to start we're together. And we got the ball rolling late in the that you guys did, and thanks to your , game, and when Mitch delivered that home run, we what did that mean against Clayton tonight right off knew we were going to find a way to win that game. the bat? And we got back to our baseball because we played STEVE PEARCE: It's big. You've got to strike early on about 20 innings of sub-par offense. Once Mitch that guy. You saw how he settled in in the middle delivered that boom, it kind of sparked us and lifted us. innings. And, yeah, just to be able to get my pitch and And we got back to playing our type of baseball. not miss it, and give us an early lead, that was big for our club. Q. Just to share this moment with Jensen, to have

Rev #1 by #178 at 2018-10-29 04:09:00 GMT page 1 of 2 your family here, what does all of this mean with you? STEVE PEARCE: This is the greatest feeling of my life, when you're a kid, this is where you want to be. And it's happening right now. And I get to celebrate it with my family and friends back there. And I know they're happy. They're on cloud nine, as I am. How are you feeling? She's feeling good. This is a great moment. I'm so glad I get to share it with everybody.

Q. In the short period you were here, what was it like to play for as the manager, especially since he's a guy who's in his first year? STEVE PEARCE: You know, he's an amazing man. He always seems to make the right moves. Whatever he says, we listen and we do it. We gelled together behind him, and everybody knew their roles because he was such a great leader, we followed him. I couldn't have asked for a better manager to play with, play for. In this great moment that we've had, it's been a great season, and he's definitely been the head of all of it, and it's great playing for him.

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