{"id":587654,"date":"2026-04-07T08:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:42:11","slug":"rangers-degrom-felt-something-in-right-knee-before-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587654\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; deGrom felt something in right knee before start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Two-time Cy Young Award winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/jacob-degrom\/e5cfe3b2-6596-4f08-bba7-f107ecae63c2\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"e5cfe3b2-6596-4f08-bba7-f107ecae63c2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacob deGrom<\/a> said he felt something in his right knee before Monday night\u2019s start, which limited him to five innings and 78 pitches in the Texas\u00a0Rangers\u2019 2-1 win\u00a0over the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said the staff didn\u2019t want to push the 37-year-old too hard. DeGrom allowed only one hit \u2013 a first-inning home run to\u00a02025 homer champ Cal Raleigh\u00a0on a 12-pitch at-bat \u2013 walked one and struck out six.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel OK,\u201d deGrom said, \u201cIt\u2019s a little tender, but I think we\u2019ll be OK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave up the homer to Cal, and I was like, \u2018I\u2019d better lock this in. This might be a pretty close game.\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom went 4 2\/3 innings, throwing 78 pitches, last Tuesday at Baltimore in an 8-5 Rangers win in his only previous outing this season. He was scheduled to make his first start on March 28 at Philadelphia, but was\u00a0scratched with neck stiffness.<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom made his 250th career start, ranking 18th among active pitchers. He was voted the A.L. Comeback Player of the Year last season, going 12-8 with a 2.97 ERA, after returning late in the 2024 season from the second major reconstruction surgery on his pitching elbow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, any day you\u2019re able to put this uniform on, you\u2019ve got to be thankful for that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom said he felt something in his right knee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-587654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587654","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=587654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}