{"id":301439,"date":"2025-09-08T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/301439\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:51:10","slug":"former-rangers-closer-is-making-history-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/301439\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rangers closer is making history in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5p\">If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/red-sox\/boston-red-sox-news\/red-sox-flamethrower-nearing-124-year-mlb-history-pat3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aroldis Chapman had been this dominant <\/a>when he was a member of the 2023 Texas Rangers World Series championship team, it would have made things a lot easier on the nerves of the fans during that epic playoff run.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">Two years later, the 37-year-old flame-throwing lefty has been rejuvenated for the Boston Red Sox and is on a historic stretch. <\/p>\n<p>Aroldis Chapman is on an insanely dominant run as a reliever<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">The Red Sox are currently 79-65 and appear to be a lock to make the playoffs as a wild card team. Much of their success this season, especially after the All-Star break, is due to the dominance of Aroldis Chapman coming out of their bullpen to close out games.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"61\">After collecting his 29th save on Sunday with a rare four-strikeout 9th inning in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/cora-gets-600th-win-with-red-sox-sogard-hits-2-run-double-in-9th-of-7-4-win-over-diamondbacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>, Chapman has now retired an amazing 50 straight hitters.  Equally jaw-dropping, he has not surrendered a hit in his last 17 appearances, dating back to July 23, a dominant streak not been seen since 1901.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"64\">During his hitless streak, Chapman has fanned 15 and four free passes while lowering his already low ERA from 1.34 to 0.98. With that, Boston signed him to a contract extension for 2026 at the beginning of September.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman joined the Rangers midseason in 2023<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">The six-foot-four, 235-pound hurler was acquired by Chris Young and the Rangers in late June 2023 from the Kansas City Royals and served as <a href=\"https:\/\/nolanwritin.com\/texas-rangers-bullpen-woes-ugly-head-prompting-rangers-fans-to-ask-what-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">both a closer and late-inning reliever<\/a> for the team during their World Series-winning season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">Unfortunately, for Young, manager Bruce Bochy, and Rangers fans, Chapman was not nearly as effective during his stint in Arlington. While a Ranger, Chapman posted a 3.72 ERA often hitting well over 100 mph with his fastball but had an issue with control as he allowed 16 walks and eventually ceded the closer role to Jose Leclerc.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">During the Rangers postseason run, Chapman allowed just two runs in eight innings pitched and was a big part of the bullpen that closed out the D-Backs for the World Series title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Aroldis Chapman had been this dominant when he was a member of the 2023 Texas Rangers World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-301439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115169714817362062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}