The Boston Red Sox placed starter Richard Fitts on the 15-day injured list with a right pectoral strain and called up pitcher Michael Fulmer from Triple-A Worcester, the team announced Sunday.
Fitts was pulled from Saturday’s game against the Chicago White Sox after pitching five scoreless innings with two hits, one walk, and five strikeouts. The 25-year-old right-hander is 0-2 with a 3.18 ERA in three starts this season.
Fulmer, the 2016 AL ROY and 2017 All-Star, hasn’t pitched in the big leagues since 2023, when he had Tommy John surgery.
The 32-year-old righty has a 3.09 ERA with 18 strikeouts in three games for Worcester this season. He also pitched in five games for Boston during spring training, posting a 0.79 ERA.
The New York Mets took Fulmer in the first round of the 2011 draft. He boasts a 3.94 career ERA in 262 major-league games.
He was signed by the Red Sox to a minor-league deal in February 2024 but missed that entire season while recovering from the surgery, which he had the previous October.
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