{"id":665849,"date":"2026-04-06T04:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665849\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:34:24","slug":"pete-fairbanks-gets-start-leaves-marlins-for-birth-of-child-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665849\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Fairbanks gets start, leaves Marlins for birth of child"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Pete Fairbanks<\/a> was given a rare start by the Miami Marlins<\/a> on Sunday to allow the closer to get home for the birth of his child.<\/p>\n

The team said Fairbanks’ wife was set to have labor induced Monday morning and the Marlins planned to put him on paternity leave.<\/p>\n

Fairbanks threw a 27-pitch first inning against the Yankees, giving up Ben Rice<\/a>‘s three-run homer that put New York ahead 3-1. Left-hander Andrew Nardi<\/a> relieved for the bottom of the second.<\/p>\n

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Around the scheduled 1:35 p.m. start time of a game that began after a 3-hour, 35-minute rain delay, the Marlins said Fairbanks was starting instead of Chris Paddack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 32-year-old right-hander, Fairbanks had last pitched Tuesday. His previous start was on Sept. 21, 2020, when he pitched a 1\u2154 innings for Tampa Bay at the New York Mets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Pete Fairbanks was given a rare start by the Miami Marlins on Sunday to allow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-665849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marlins","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-miamimarlins","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116355903529590677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665849","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=665849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}