{"id":112536,"date":"2025-08-27T00:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112536\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:33:06","slug":"red-sox-rhp-fitts-lands-on-15-day-il-with-right-arm-neuritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112536\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox RHP Fitts lands on 15-day IL with right arm neuritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 26, 2025, 05:25 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>BALTIMORE &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> put right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4414243\/richard-fitts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Fitts<\/a> on the 15-day injured list Tuesday with right arm neuritis.<\/p>\n<p>Fitts left Monday night&#8217;s win over Baltimore after four innings with a right biceps issue. Manager Alex Cora said before Tuesday&#8217;s game he hopes Fitts can return before the end of the season. He did not commit to who will take Fitts&#8217; spot in the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46052238\/red-sox-move-walker-buehler-bullpen\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/0501\/r1486664_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fitts is 2-4 with a 5.00 ERA this season. Boston recalled left-hander Jovani Mor\u00e1n from Triple-A Worcester to take his roster spot. Also, Boston moved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39251\/walker-buehler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walker Buehler<\/a> from the rotation to the bullpen less than a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Cora said it&#8217;s his understanding that Fitts&#8217; injury is related to the biceps and nerve, not the ligament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 26, 2025, 05:25 PM ET BALTIMORE &#8212; The Boston Red Sox put right-hander Richard Fitts on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-112536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}