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Oh baby! Joel Hanrahan rocked again | Boston Herald FORT MYERS About the only good thing about Joel Hanrahans rough outing yesterday was that his wife, Kim, wasnt around to watch it.Luckily I didnt put her in labor she was at the doctor today so she couldnt watch, said Hanrahan, who is leaving camp after his appearance tomorrow in order to fly home to Texas for Mondays scheduled birth. Their son will be named Ryan, dads middle name, and its fair to say dad will not be going into too much detail about what he was doing at work leading up to the birth.Hanrahans spring transition into life as the Red Sox closer has not been a smooth one thus far. After four appearances and three innings, he has allowed six earned runs, four walks and nine hits. Thats not anywhere near the kind of numbers the Red Sox are expecting from the ex-Pirates closer and it is certainly not what Hanrahan is expecting from himself,jordan retro 11 for sale.And even though he could have said he was distracted by the impending birth of his first child, Hanrahan did not offer that or any other excuse.What he does have is experience on his side,jordan retro 4, and an explanation about how that experience will help turn around his results.When (Pirates manager) Clint Hurdle named me the closer in 2011, people were calling for my head. I think I went out and I was giving up a couple of runs every game and having a terrible spring and then that last week to 10 days, it kind of came back to me, said Hanrahan,jordan 9 cool grey. Ive got to take it like Ive got two spring trainings. This ones been good so far, but when I come back Ive got to put my foot down and start getting some people out.It took very little time to discover that Hanrahan did not have his foot down yesterday.Coming in to replace starter Clay Buchholz (three scoreless innings) with an 8-0 lead, Hanrahan promptly walked the first batter. And, then with alarming regularity, the next four Twins batters took batting practice by lining singles, the last two knocking in a run. Hanrahan was allowed to stay in for one more batter and recorded a strikeout before manager John Farrell sent Hanrahan on his way.A number of fastballs found the middle of the plate, they put some good swings on them, said Farrell. I think the most important thing is he doesnt have to be perfect. Hes got very good stuff but when he tried to overthrow a little bit, sometimes some fastballs came back toward the middle of the plate.Hanrahan felt he was lucky that if he was going to throw batting practice, at least he was down in the zone or else there would have been a couple more hit on that Six Mile Cypress (Parkway) out there (beyond the outfield fence). .,.,. Fortunately I was able to keep the ball down, just missing in the middle. Unfortunately it was an ugly, ugly day.Hanrahan was good at putting the performance in perspective.You can make up excuses all day if you want to for me, its still trying to get people out and put up zeros no matter where youre at, he said. Can you emulate the ninth inning in Fenway or Yankee Stadium, No, its just impossible to do here but thats something fortunately a lot of us have done that before and we know how to handle it when that situation comes. Its a little different when its 40,000 people and stuff like that. In spring training youre still trying to get people out.Hanrahan has not been able to get people out down here.Thats to come, in Part 2 after Ryan arrives.The middle of spring training, thats when you really try to turn it on and focus on setting guys up and putting guys away, said Hanrahan. Im not concerned about it,jordan retro 9, I dont think (pitching coach) Juan (Nieves) is concerned about it. Obviously, its different because were all new to each other but I think well be fine.