{"id":6705,"date":"2014-03-13T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T04:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2014-03-13T00:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T04:10:34","slug":"watch-red-sox-catcher-crashes-into-screen-protector-chasing-after-foul-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/13\/watch-red-sox-catcher-crashes-into-screen-protector-chasing-after-foul-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Red Sox catcher crashes into screen protector chasing after foul ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/vazquezcatch.jpg\" alt=\"vazquezcatch\" width=\"802\" height=\"439\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6706\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/vazquezcatch.jpg 802w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/vazquezcatch-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><br \/>\nYou have heard it from a young age. Keep your eye on the ball.<\/p>\n<p>That saying should probably be amended to include the words &#8220;unless you are about to fall over yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez was uninjured on Wednesday after he ran into a movable protective netting while chasing a popup. Worst part is he did not get to the ball, though he did a good job of keeping his sunglasses on.<\/p>\n<p>The netting was designed to protect bat boys from foul balls but it can now add catchers to that list.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=31495051&#038;topic_id=6479266&#038;width=600&#038;height=336&#038;property=mlb' width='600' height='336' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vazquez, 23, spent last season at Double-A hitting .289\/.376\/.396 with five home runs and 48 RBI. Throughout his minor league career he has thrown out 35-percent of would be base stealers, we can only assume the percentage of screen nettings is significantly higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have heard it from a young age. Keep your eye on the ball. That saying should probably be amended to include the words &#8220;unless you are about to fall over yourself.&#8221; Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez was uninjured on Wednesday after he ran into a movable protective netting while chasing a popup. Worst part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,670,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-christian-vazquez","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705","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=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}