{"id":605456,"date":"2026-03-04T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605456\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:58:18","slug":"red-sox-prospect-erik-rivera-pitches-in-boston-uniform-for-puerto-rico-in-exhibition-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605456\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox prospect Erik Rivera pitches in Boston uniform for Puerto Rico in exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Red Sox minor league left-hander Erik Rivera pitched in his Boston uniform Tuesday night for Puerto Rico against his major league team in a preseason exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox made some players available to Puerto Rico because that team was short on personnel. One those included Rivera, a Puerto Rico native.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rivera entered with two outs in the sixth inning and didn&#8217;t record an out. He faced three batters, walking two and allowing a hit before being removed in Puerto Rico&#8217;s 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p>That was one of several games between major league clubs and teams from different countries as players prepare for the World Baseball Classic that begins Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Rivera spent last season playing for the Red Sox&#8217;s High-A affiliate in Greenville, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Red Sox minor league left-hander Erik Rivera pitched in his Boston uniform Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,78678,346,4,2528,89,2543],"class_list":["post-605456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-erik-rivera","tag-major-league-team","tag-mlb","tag-puerto-rico","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116170319865539462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605456","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=605456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}