{"id":2231,"date":"2013-04-28T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2013-04-28T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T14:54:05","slug":"red-sox-expected-to-return-hanrahan-to-closers-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/28\/red-sox-expected-to-return-hanrahan-to-closers-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox expected to return Hanrahan to closers role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2232\" alt=\"joelhanrahan\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/joelhanrahan.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/joelhanrahan.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/joelhanrahan-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Joel Hanrahan returns from the disabled list from a sore hamstring the Red Sox are expected to return him to the closers role.<\/p>\n<p>Hanrahan&#8217;s return to the closers role <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/baseball\/redsox\/2013\/04\/27\/john-lackey-ready-get-going-again\/bWuhXIqnzlkYTwlqpg617M\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">is expected<\/a> says Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, a move that could come as soon as Tuesday. Hanrahan is tentatively scheduled to pitch one inning at Triple-A on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>During Hanrahan&#8217;s time away from the team Andrew Bailey has served as the Red Sox closer. Bailey put together a good showing by converting five of six chances. In 12 appearances this year Bailey has a 1.59 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>er Abraham of the Boston Globe writes that &#8220;it is expected&#8221; that Joel Hanrahan (hamstring) will return to the ninth inning when he is activated from the disabled list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Joel Hanrahan returns from the disabled list from a sore hamstring the Red Sox are expected to return him to the closers role. Hanrahan&#8217;s return to the closers role is expected says Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, a move that could come as soon as Tuesday. Hanrahan is tentatively scheduled to pitch one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[301,27,115],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-andrew-bailey","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-joel-hanrahan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}