{"id":106666,"date":"2024-04-09T20:53:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/watch-pirates-1b-defends-closer-after-another-blown-save\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T20:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:53:43","slug":"watch-pirates-1b-defends-closer-after-another-blown-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/watch-pirates-1b-defends-closer-after-another-blown-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Pirates 1B defends closer after another blown save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates are 9-3 and off to one of their best starts in decades. The only real negative so far this season has been All-Star closer David Bednar blowing three saves in his first four appearances. The third of those blown saves came on Tuesday afternoon in a 5-3 loss to the Detroit Tigers as Bednar allowed four runs in the ninth inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As he was removed from the game, Pirates fans booed him. It was a strange scene to watch unfold as not only has Bednar been one of the league&#8217;s top closers the past two years, but he is also from the Pittsburgh area.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates first basemen Rowdy Tellez did not appreciate hearing that and passionately defended his closer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/watch_pirates_1b_defends_closer_after_another_blown_save\/s1_13132_40216188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates are 9-3 and off to one of their best starts in decades. The only real negative so far this season has been All-Star closer David Bednar blowing three saves in his first four appearances. The third of those blown saves came on Tuesday afternoon in a 5-3 loss to the Detroit Tigers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-106666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}