{"id":652149,"date":"2026-03-30T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652149\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:02:23","slug":"connelly-early-boston-red-sox-starting-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652149\/","title":{"rendered":"Connelly Early &#8211; Boston Red Sox Starting Pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt4 n6 nws clr-gray-04\">News: 11 hours agoEarly did not factor into the decision in Sunday&#8217;s 3-2 loss to the Reds, allowing one run on five hits and two walks with six strikeouts over 5.1 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt4 n6 spn clr-gray-04\">Spin: Early exited with a 2-0 lead and a runner on first in the sixth inning before Greg Weissert came on and allowed a three-run homer. The 23-year-old generated just seven swinging strikes in an otherwise solid debut, and it was encouraging to see manager Alex Cora let him reach 96 pitches. The southpaw posted a 2.33 ERA, 1.09 WHIP and 29:4 K:BB across 19.2 regular-season major-league innings last season and lines up for a home matchup against the Padres next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News: 11 hours agoEarly did not factor into the decision in Sunday&#8217;s 3-2 loss to the Reds, allowing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-652149","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\/116317320915006684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652149","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=652149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}