{"id":289109,"date":"2026-05-12T05:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289109\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:30:08","slug":"josh-smith-hits-speed-bump-during-il-stint-dealing-with-new-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289109\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Smith hits speed bump during IL stint, dealing with new injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON \u2014 For\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers<\/a> second baseman Josh Smith, if it ain&#8217;t one thing, it&#8217;s the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/article\/texas-rangers-second-baseman-josh-smith-headed-22243130.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already on the 10-day injured list with a right glute strain<\/a>, came down with a case of &#8220;wrist inflammation&#8221; in the midst of his ramp up and will be down for &#8220;hopefully&#8221; just a couple of days per\u00a0Rangers manager Skip Schumaker. The 28-year-old has been sidelined since May 4 and is eligible to be activated Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said that he felt the soreness in his left wrist Saturday and acknowledged that his lower-body injury has largely healed up. He ran the bases before Monday&#8217;s loss vs. the Arizona Diamondbacks at Globe Life Field.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON \u2014 For\u00a0Rangers second baseman Josh Smith, if it ain&#8217;t one thing, it&#8217;s the other.\u00a0 Smith, already on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1638,8809,89415,87907,89898],"class_list":["post-289109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-brief","tag-solutions","tag-tp-globe-life-field","tag-tp-arlington","tag-tp-skip-schumaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}