{"id":657011,"date":"2026-04-01T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657011\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:56:24","slug":"athletics-ben-bowden-makes-season-debut-at-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657011\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics&#8217; Ben Bowden: Makes season debut at Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ATH\/athletics\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/311.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/3088354\/bowden\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bowden<\/a> (lat) struck out a batter and allowed one earned run on three hits over an inning of relief Monday in Triple-A Las Vegas&#8217; 13-8 loss to Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>After closing out the 2025 season on the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ATH\/athletics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a>&#8216; injured list while recovering from a left lat strain, Bowden re-signed with the franchise on a minor-league deal over the winter but didn&#8217;t end up appearing in any games during the Cactus League. However, the veteran southpaw was evidently healthy enough to avoid a stint on Las Vegas&#8217; injured list to begin the season. He should serve as a key reliever for the Triple-A club while he awaits a potential call-up to the big-league bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowden (lat) struck out a batter and allowed one earned run on three hits over an inning of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,35483,28,4,3226],"class_list":{"0":"post-657011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-ben-bowden","11":"tag-fantasy-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-athletics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116330509412713460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657011","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=657011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}