Price thinks Pedroia may have solved the puzzle

NEW YORK — Struggling Red Sox ace David Price got a mechanical tip from teammate Dustin Pedroia that he thinks can make a significant impact going forward.

“You know, he was just watching video of himself hitting off lefties and I came into that video and he showed me,” said Price. “We were talking in the food room — and he was like, ‘Man, something, you know, something doesn’t like right. Something looks a little off.’ And he showed me a picture of myself in 2012, ’13, ’14, and then, you know, what I’ve done so far this year.”

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Pedroia noticed that Price’s hands weren’t going up and down enough during his delivery.

“Whenever I talk to other pitchers or at baseball camps, it’s something that I always say. I want my hands and my right leg or my right knee to be connected by a string,” Price said. “Whenever my knee goes up, I want my hands to go up. Whenever my knee goes back down, I want my hands to go back down.

“My hands have stayed [in one place], and that’s not allowing me to get my full leg lift. It’s been about a half of a leg lift of what I’m used to and it takes away, you know, the rhythm of what I do out there on the mound. And whenever my hands stay here, I have to be able to time it up perfect for me to be able to execute that pitch. It gives me no margin of error, because I don’t have that rhythm.”

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