{"id":21505,"date":"2014-07-30T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/red-sox-recall-workman-deal-doubront\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T19:00:00","slug":"red-sox-recall-workman-deal-doubront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/red-sox-recall-workman-deal-doubront\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox recall Workman, deal Doubront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox recalled pitcher Brandon Workman from Triple-A Pawtucket to make Wednesday&#8217;s start in place of Jon Lester in the finale of a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>Red Sox manager John Farrell cited the possibility of Lester being traded as the reason for the change. Farrell made the announcement in the postgame press conference following Boston&#8217;s 4-2 loss to Toronto on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Lester, however, will start Friday if he isn&#8217;t dealt by Thursday&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Workman is 1-3 with a 4.13 earned run average over 11 games (eight starts) for Boston this season. He has produced a 6-1 record and 4.45 ERA in 10 starts for Pawtucket.<\/p>\n<p>The Sox also dealt left-hander Felix Doubront to the Chicago Cubs for a player to be named later.<\/p>\n<p>Doubront was 2-4 with a 6.07 ERA in 17 appearances for Boston this season. The 26-year-old will depart New England after going 26-22 with a 4.82 ERA and three saves over 98 games (69 starts) since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox recalled pitcher Brandon Workman from Triple-A Pawtucket to make Wednesday&#8217;s start in place of Jon Lester in the finale of a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays. Red Sox manager John Farrell cited the possibility of Lester being traded as the reason for the change. Farrell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,188,30,207,208,189],"class_list":["post-21505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs","tag-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}