{"id":3223,"date":"2013-06-20T22:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2013-06-20T22:48:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T02:48:16","slug":"andrew-bailey-out-as-red-sox-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/20\/andrew-bailey-out-as-red-sox-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Bailey out as Red Sox closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3224\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3224\" alt=\"andrewbailey\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/andrewbailey.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/andrewbailey.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/andrewbailey-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/andrewbailey-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andrew Bailey blew his second consecutive save on Thursday night &#8211; and his third over his last five attempts &#8211; which was enough for Red Sox manager John Farrel to pull the plug.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the ninth inning the Red Sox held a 3-2 lead but Bailey quickly coughed it up when Jhonny Peralta hit a two-run home run to give the Tigers a 4-3 win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Bailey was calm post game said its John Farrells decision if he wants to make a change even if just temporary. Said he needs to be better<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanDrellich\/statuses\/347901846049935360\">June 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 24 gamest his season Bailey has a 4.03 ERA and a 1.30 WHIP. He has saved 8 games for the Red Sox and has been charged with four blown saves.<\/p>\n<p>Junichi Tazawa and Koji Uehara could both be in line for save opportunities as the Red Sox will seek an internal option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Bailey blew his second consecutive save on Thursday night &#8211; and his third over his last five attempts &#8211; which was enough for Red Sox manager John Farrel to pull the plug. Entering the ninth inning the Red Sox held a 3-2 lead but Bailey quickly coughed it up when Jhonny Peralta hit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[301,27],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-andrew-bailey","tag-boston-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}