MLB : Dodgers vs Red Sox Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Red Sox pregame 1 Q. When you were with the Rays and the Blue Jays, and even the Tigers, the Red Sox were always kind Q. I'm just wondering if you're going to warm up in of the enemy and maybe the bad guys to some the bullpen tonight, considering how well that degree. What's it been like over here, and worked out last time? especially this year's team? We've heard Cora talk DAVID PRICE: No, I'm not going to do that tonight. I a lot about the humility and the togetherness. had a good catch out there a little bit ago, so I'll carry DAVID PRICE: That was one of the things that Cora that into tomorrow. talked to us about, just going out there and playing the game the right way. I feel like Boston has played the Q. You said you found something when you did game the right way ever since I've been here. Just a warm up. What did you find and how is that lot of times they're better than anybody else, they get helping you? under your skin and they have a bigger payroll. I feel DAVID PRICE: Just something that makes my delivery like teams with lesser payroll could kind of resent the just flow a little bit better, kind of put my arm more on Red Sox in that way. time for every throw. Just put me in a position to execute every pitch. But we just need to continue to do what we've done all season long, starting in Spring Training, especially the Q. Can you talk about the Dodgers' lineup and what past or the last I think two weeks of Spring Training, we would be some of the keys facing the Dodgers. won quite a few games in a row. And that was good. DAVID PRICE: They have a very good lineup for a left- That was something that we talked about. And we handed and a right-handed pitcher. I'm familiar talked about winning the Grapefruit League with some of the guys in their lineup and just going out championship or whatever it is or for the best record there and executing pitches. This is the same game out of the Grapefruit League, which we were able to do. we've been playing all year long against a team that a And that was where it started. lot of us probably aren't that familiar with. I think we're all excited for it. And we've played very good baseball all year long. And AC has led us extremely well. So he deserves a Q. I'm going to throw in a Vandy question here: lot of this credit. How well do you know Walker Buehler? Do you guys workout together at all, and what impresses Q. Did you get a ring for that? you about what he's done and his first full Major DAVID PRICE: I think you get a trophy. League season? DAVID PRICE: I know Walker very well. We keep in Q. The clincher in Houston obviously was a big day contact. For him to pitch with the injury that he did, his for the Red Sox but also a big day for you junior year at Vandy and to still be drafted in the first personally. You've mentioned some of the round, and to be able to have surgery and to come narratives that you've been responsible for. Have back and to throw the baseball the way that he has, the days since then seemed a little bit lighter for that speaks volumes of Walker's work ethic. I know you, different at all? Do you feel a little relieved? Ron Porterfield, the trainer for the Dodgers, who was Do you feel better? How would you describe it? my trainer in Tampa for my entire career, he has put in DAVID PRICE: I guess "lighter" is a good word, yeah. a lot of work with Walker, as well. So I knew he was Yesterday we had media day. I didn't have to -- I got to going to be in good hands. look forward to it for the first time in a long time. Today it's definitely a weight lifted off of me for sure. Not like We speak every so often. I see his highlights on TV food tastes better or anything like that. But it was time. and stream him a message about that. But I'm happy And I'm definitely glad that the time came and we for him. I'm very happy. Hopefully -- obviously one of moved past it. And I look forward to doing the same us is going to win a World Series, hopefully it goes to thing tomorrow. the elder of the Vandy guys. Q. Your was huge against the Astros,

Rev #1 by #178 at 2018-10-23 22:08:00 GMT page 1 of 2 and obviously it was a great pitch against righty DAVID PRICE: I always enjoy doing this. Just because hitters. Can you talk about how you developed that I failed in October for about nine straight years, it didn't pitch and why it was so effective, why it's such an take away my passion from baseball. This is effective weapon for you? something I fell in love with whenever I was two years DAVID PRICE: James Shields is how I developed that old. So the ups and the downs, I knew they were going pitch, just being with him early on in my career and the to happen. I've definitely had many more downs than changeup that he has possessed over the course of his ups in October, but I've got a lot of baseball left. career, and for him to take me in the way that he did, and to play catch with me every day, unless him or I Hopefully I have a whole lot of October baseball left. were starting that game. And just being able to work This is why I came to Boston. I knew we would be in on it every day with him. One of the guys that had one this position, year in and year out. So I'm happy that of the best in all of baseball, to work with we have made it to point and everybody in our me on it every single day, that was huge. clubhouse, we all want four more wins.

Q. When you mentioned the Grapefruit League, winning Spring Training games, had that ever been an emphasis in all of your springs before, let's win as many Spring Training games that we can? DAVID PRICE: We didn't really talk about that. I think I remember AC talking to us about it. I think we had a chance to win that day. If we won that day then it was over, and I believe we did. He just brought it up. I don't think anybody else in the room -- I'm sure there were some guys that might have known our record at the time. I don't think I've ever known our record in Spring Training. But he knew. And he knew that was, I guess, kind of the first step. And I've never really heard of an emphasis put on winning Spring Training baseball games like that.

So that happened at a good time for us. AC said all the right things, and it kind of just carried on to the regular season.

Q. Everybody at the beginning of the games and throughout the games looks at the scoreboard for the radar gun and how fast the pitcher is throwing. I'm curious from you, early in the game does it matter or do you have a sense of how hard you're throwing or how well you're throwing? Does that radar gun matter to you or is it more about command and control? DAVID PRICE: I think the hitter will let you know how your fastball is that day, whether or not they're taking good swings or seeing it well or whatever it is. Honestly when I look up at the radar, it's after a changeup or a cutter, something of that nature. And I know the velos that I would like for both of those pitches to be at, and if they're not, I'm probably not throwing it like my fastball. That's one thing I look for. Whenever I'm looking at the radar gun, it's not for fastball velo. If I'm out there throwing 90, 92 and right- handed hitters are hitting it over the first base dugout, that tells me kind of everything I need to know.

Q. Are you having more fun than you've been having previously?

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