{"id":826460,"date":"2026-10-10T22:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/826460\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T22:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:51:21","slug":"red-sox-pitcher-played-through-insane-injury-during-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/826460\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox pitcher played through insane injury during playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boston Red Sox<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-team=\"10000025\" data-name=\"Boston Red Sox\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Boston Red Sox\"><\/a> pitcher Garrett Whitlock<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-athlete=\"10009404\" data-name=\"Garrett Whitlock\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Garrett Whitlock\"><\/a> unknowingly pitched through an absurd injury down the stretch of the season and into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whitlock spent the latter part of the season pitching on a fractured tibia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2026\/10\/09\/red-sox-garrett-whitlock-injury-fracture-recovery-surgery-spring-training-lockout-mlb-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Gabrielle Starr of the Boston Herald<\/a>. The injury was initially misdiagnosed by Boston\u2019s medical staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The injury was only discovered via imaging following the team\u2019s loss to the New York Yankees<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"mlb\" data-team=\"10000029\" data-name=\"New York Yankees\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"New York Yankees\"><\/a> during the American League Division Series. Whitlock was never sent for imaging despite spending the last month or so of the season in pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whitlock struggled in his only playoff appearance, but did not allow an earned run in 7.1 September innings. That is quite remarkable considering the pain he was apparently pitching through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Red Sox training staff might face some questions over Whitlock being misdiagnosed. That comes after the front office <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/baseball\/red-sox-players-alex-cora-firing-reactions\/751829\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has also faced some questions over its methods<\/a> in the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox pitcher Garrett Whitlock unknowingly pitched through an absurd injury down the stretch of the season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4506,4,89,2543],"class_list":["post-826460","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-garrett-whitlock","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117419067509424486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826460","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=826460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}