Keith Foulke
Keith Foulke
Keith Charles Foulkeis a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. A graduate of Hargrave High School in Huffman, Texas, Foulke attended Galveston College and Lewis–Clark State College. Between 1997 and 2008, he pitched for the San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians. Foulke was an All-Star in 2003 and he earned the final out of the 2004 World Series...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth19 October 1972
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We finally got my legs fixed. I realized that you don't have to cover first 1,000 times to be ready for a season. I'm worried about pitching this year, and that's it.
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My lower half was not there. At times it was like I was trying to pitch stiff-legged. Physically, I fell into some bad habits, and that hurt my arm. It got to a point where I wasn't even a big-league pitcher.
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It was definitely nice to pitch good today. Hopefully, I won't get booed Tuesday.
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It will probably be the first time I'll actually look forward to going down there. We've got a lot of work to do, but after struggling the entire year, I'm really excited about getting back to the way I know I can pitch and, hopefully, get back to being a dominating pitcher.
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I actually find baseball kind of boring. It's not my life. Pitching is something I enjoy doing and I'm probably going to get a lot of people that are a little chapped at me for saying that, but just don't take it the wrong way.
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I don't need to prove anything to opponents. Hopefully, if I go out and do my job and I'm the pitcher that I'm capable of being, I don't care if they take notice or not. They don't have to like me. They don't have to do anything. But they do have to face me and respect me.
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I made some better pitches today. I had a little better snap on the ball. I felt better today than I have in a long, long time. The velocity is back up in the high 80s. But more important, it was getting on the hitters pretty quick. That's what I need to do. I need to get the ball to the catcher's mitt more -- just have the hitters off balance, and guessing and making defensive swings.
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The Sox won. That's always my first concern. It's one of those deals were, hell, when I get my stuff together and I go back and earn the spot, so be it. As long as we win, that's all that really matters.
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Don't know, don't know. No way to tell. I'd like to say we'd be up five games and they'd be starting to chill the champagne right now, but I have no idea, ... There's no way to tell. That's why we have to go out there and actually do it. You can't write the script in this game.
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I was trying to shorten my stride up mechanically, and when you start taking the lower body out of it, you start putting a lot more strain -- the shoulder has to try to stop itself, instead of using the body to stop it -- and that's probably what happened,
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I tell you guys all the time -- I'm a bullpen guy. I don't wake up in the morning and go to the grocery store and tell everybody I'm a closer. I'm here. I'm a Boston Red Sox. That's what I am. Go out there and win a World Series, that's all I'm here for.
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Maybe I'm just getting old. I don't know what the deal is. A few years back I was a 90-93 guy, consistently. That's when I was dominating. That's where I want to be. Hopefully, over the next month or so we can get back there and keep working toward next year.
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One season I was to the top and the very next season I was Public Enemy No. 1, but I learned about myself. I'm going to fight. I fought all winter to get back. I'll continue to fight for the rest of my career.
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My arm feels better now than it has in probably a couple of years. I can throw the ball now, and it's got some life and some carry and some zip behind it, and that makes me happy.