{"id":92640,"date":"2025-08-24T03:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92640\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T03:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:02:12","slug":"rangers-2b-marcus-semien-on-il-for-just-2nd-time-in-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92640\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers 2B Marcus Semien on IL for just 2nd time in career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 23, 2025, 06:09 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4fa2cf46-09fc-255f-74a1-2a8857b0e671\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> placed second baseman <a data-player-guid=\"7e94f7f5-8502-7d28-e783-61e674f58107\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32146\/marcus-semien\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Semien<\/a> on the 10-day injured list Saturday for just the second time in his 13-year career with a left foot contusion and activated right fielder <a data-player-guid=\"36716788-f41e-30b6-0816-45ff0e6a3e89\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35537\/adolis-garcia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adolis Garcia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Semien fouled a pitch off the foot in the first inning of a 6-4 loss in <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City<\/a> on Thursday, and the Rangers say they still aren&#8217;t sure the extent of the damage. The three-time All-Star is in a walking boot.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was activated the first day he was eligible after being out with a left ankle sprain. He took live batting practice Friday before Texas&#8217; 4-3 victory over <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ad8fa03-36bc-baab-c76a-345b6544424d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland<\/a> in the opener of a three-game series. Garcia was in the lineup Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Semien&#8217;s only other trip to the injured list came with the Athletics early in the 2017 season, when he missed almost three months with a right wrist injury. Before the foot injury, Semien had missed just six of the Rangers&#8217; 615 games since joining them before the 2022 season on a $175 million, seven-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s going to be grouchy, I can tell you that,&#8221; manager Bruce Bochy said. &#8220;I think he looks at himself as, &#8216;I need to be out there every day.&#8217; For him to say it&#8217;s probably going to be awhile, you know there&#8217;s something going on there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Semien was injured in the same game that <a data-player-guid=\"513890e1-c391-388e-b18a-02eae6e615d1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917921\/evan-carter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Carter<\/a> fractured his right wrist when he was hit by a pitch. Carter went on the 10-day IL on Friday but could be out for the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Semien is hitting .230 with 15 homers, 62 RBIs and a team-leading 62 runs. He leads Texas in games (609), hits (610), triples (12), walks (239), runs (386) and total bases (1027) since joining the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 23, 2025, 06:09 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; The Texas Rangers placed second baseman Marcus Semien on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-92640","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\/92640","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=92640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}