“It’s just a spasm. It should be gone in a couple of days,” he said through a team translator after the Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3<\/a> for a series victory.<\/p>\n In to face the top of the Dodgers’ order, his velocity was noticeably down to mid-90 mph on his fastball instead of the high 90s to low 100s. Manager Alex Cora and a trainer came out to the mound to visit him after Shohei Ohtani<\/a> flew out to the left-field warning track.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks Jordan Hicks<\/a> entered and got out of a two-on, one-out mess when Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> lined to second and Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> dove to the bag, beating Hyeseong Kim<\/a> for double play. Hicks pitched the ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n “Tight back. He should be OK,” Cora said of Chapman.<\/p>\n Both Chapman and Cora said they didn’t think there would be a trip to the injured list.<\/p>\n “I was definitely determined to stay out there, work through it,” Chapman said. “Alex thought it would be better, smarter that we just ‘call it’ to avoid anything down the line.”<\/p>\n The 37-year-old Chapman is having one of his better seasons in the majors with 18 saves and a 1.30 ERA, with much better control. He’s walked just 11 in 41\u2153 innings.<\/p>\n In early July he earned his 350th career save and said he’d like to reach 400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 27, 2025, 06:56 PM ET BOSTON — Boston Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman thinks he’ll be able…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-28242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1524487_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n