<p>By Jason Mastrodonato and Michael Perriatt / MLB.com | 7/20/2013 10:11 P.M. ET</p><p>BOSTON -- Closer A got hurt, Closer B got hurt, and Closer C has been among the best in baseball.</p><p>Koji Uehara feels no pressure in his new role. He's reassuring both with his words and performance. As Andrew Bailey considers season-ending surgery and Joel Hanrahan has already had it, the ninth-inning duties have fallen to Uehara, who the Red Sox never mentioned as a possible closer candidate in Spring Training.</p><p>Since taking over the role in late June, the 38-year-old Uehara had allowed just one earned run on five hits over 13 1/3 innings entering play Saturday. Of the 40 outs he'd recorded, 19 of them had been via strikeout.</p><p><a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130720&content_id=54161830&notebook_id=54161508&vkey=notebook_bos&c_id=bos">Keep reading...</a></p>