Gray was activated from the injured list Wednesday after being sidelined since being hit by a line drive during a spring training game in March.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old Gray relieved Patrick Corbin<\/a>, who was signed three days after Gray was injured. Gray entered the one-run game with runners on the corners in the sixth inning and two out. A’s pinch-hitter Tyler Soderstrom<\/a> hit a long fly ball to center, with Michael Helman<\/a> racing to make a backhand catch two steps from the fence.<\/p>\n “He’s really the hero,” Gray said about Helman, who was recalled from Triple-A Round Rock on Monday.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks Gray retired his first six batters before giving up a two-out single to Brent Rooker<\/a>, his final batter.<\/p>\n “It was just really intense,” Gray said. “The first couple of pitches weren’t that great.”<\/p>\n “I was hoping to find a little softer landing for him,” manager Bruce Bochy said.<\/p>\n Gray is in the final season of a $56 million, four-year deal signed in 2021, and is 22-21 while starting 72 of his 77 games since then.<\/p>\n Reliever Luke Jackson was designated for assignment to make room on both the 26-man active roster and the 40-man roster before the Rangers played the finale of a three-game series against the Athletics.<\/p>\n Gray was 5-6 with a 4.47 ERA in an injury-marred 2024, when he spent time on the injured list because of a strained groin before his season was cut short by a bothersome right foot issue.<\/p>\n Colorado took him with the third overall pick in the 2013 amateur draft and he spent his first seven big league seasons with the Rockies. He was struck by a 106.4 mph comebacker off the bat of Rockies slugger Michael Toglia<\/a> in a spring training game on March 14.<\/p>\n The Rangers signed Gray in the same offseason that they added World Series MVP shortstop Corey Seager<\/a> on a $325 million, 10-year contract, and second baseman Marcus Semien<\/a> got a $175 million, seven-year deal.<\/p>\n Jackson was 2-5 with nine saves and a 4.11 ERA in 39 appearances this season. The right-hander had only one save since April 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 24, 2025, 12:17 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas right-hander Jon Gray won in his return from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-19863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/0724\/r1522866_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center\")
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