Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Red Sox Move

Courtesy of the Boston Red Sox

For Immediate Release

July 11, 2007

RED SOX SEND RHP JOEL PIÑEIRO ON REHAB ASSIGNMENT TO LOWELL

BOSTON, MA—The Boston Red Sox today sent righthanded pitcher Joel Piñeiro on rehab assignment to Single-A Lowell of the New York-Penn League.

Piñeiro is scheduled to start for the Spinners, when they host Batavia on Wednesday night at LeLacheur Park in Lowell.

Piñeiro has been on the disabled list since June 30, retroactive to June 28, with a right ankle sprain. He is 1-1 with a 5.04 ERA in 27 relief appearances with Boston in 2007.

TICKET SALES NUMBERS: As of July 10, the Red Sox had sold a total of 2,865,879 individual tickets for games in the 2007 season. That is the second highest number of tickets sold in any full season in team history, surpassed only by the final total of 2,930,588 in 2006. The total includes tickets sold for games already played and advance sales for the remainder of 2007.

Boston’s home attendance through the first 42 dates of 2007 is 1,540,301, compared to 1,521,334 in the first 42 home dates a year ago. The Red Sox enter Thursday’s game with Toronto with a streak of 349 consecutive regular season sellouts at Fenway Park.

ALL-STAR LEFTOVERS: With his victory on Tuesday night in San Francisco, Josh Beckett became just the third Red Sox pitcher to ever win an All-Star Game, the first in relief. Roger Clemens was the starter and winner for the American League in 1986 at Houston, and Pedro Martinez earned the victory after starting the 1999 Midsummer Classic at Fenway Park.

Beckett (2.0 IP) and Jonathan Papelbon (1.0 IP) combined to pitch 3.0 shutout innings in the American League’s 5-4 victory on Tuesday night at AT&T Park. It marked just the third time ever that two Red Sox pitchers had seen action in the same All-Star Game, the others being Clemens and Jeff Reardon in 1991 and Derek Lowe and Ugueth Urbina in 2002.