{"id":83162,"date":"2024-08-11T22:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T22:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/11\/red-sox-starting-lhp-james-paxton-calf-strain-exits-in-1st-inning\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T22:30:19","slug":"red-sox-starting-lhp-james-paxton-calf-strain-exits-in-1st-inning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/11\/red-sox-starting-lhp-james-paxton-calf-strain-exits-in-1st-inning\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox starting LHP James Paxton (calf strain) exits in 1st inning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"0\" class=\" w-full\">\n<div class=\"xl:container mx-0 !px-4 py-0 pb-4 undefined\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/23973422.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/23973422.jpg\" alt=\"MLB: Houston Astros at Boston Red Sox\" class=\"w-full rounded-md\"\/><span class=\"text-0.8 leading-tight\">Aug 11, 2024; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Boston Red Sox starting pitcher James Paxton (65) is helped off the field by manager Alex Cora (13) (l) and medical staff during the first inning against the Houston Astros at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports<!-- --> <!-- --> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>Boston left-hander James Paxton strained his right calf after five pitches of his start Sunday against the visiting Houston Astros, the Red Sox announced.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>Paxton limped off the field after moving to cover first base on Yordan Alvarez&#8217;s grounder to first baseman Dominic Smith with two outs in the opening inning. Alvarez beat Smith to the bag for an infield single.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>Boston manager Alex Cora and a trainer visited Paxton, who limped to the dugout with the aid of the trainer. Right-hander Lucas Sims replaced Paxton.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>Boston traded for Paxton, who played for the Red Sox in 2023, on July 26 in exchange for minor league infielder Moises Bolivar. Overall, he is 9-3 with a 4.40 ERA in 21 starts this season.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<p>Paxton, 35, is a career 73-41 with a 3.77 ERA in 177 starts for the Seattle Mariners (2013-18, 2021), New York Yankees (2019-20), Red Sox (2023, 2024) and Dodgers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/red-sox-starting-lhp-james-paxton-calf-strain-exits-in-1st-inning\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 11, 2024; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Boston Red Sox starting pitcher James Paxton (65) is helped off the field by manager Alex Cora (13) (l)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}