Tuesday\u2019s start<\/a> after only five innings, but the issue was not his arm and he does not believe he will miss a start. The cause: Soreness in the upper leg\/hip area. It\u2019s something deGrom has battled between starts in the past. The difference: It lingered this time, causing him to cut his pre-game bullpen short a bit to save what he had for the game. \u00a0<\/p>\nAnd truth be told, save for the typical first-inning slip-up that has ever-so-slightly tainted his season, he looked like he had plenty left.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was fighting the whole game,\u201d manager Skip Schumaker said. \u201cSo, for him to give us five innings like he did was really impressive. He gutted it out and provided enough innings. It shows what he\u2019s made of.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was good enough to pitch five innings, and I think he could have probably gone out again, but I just felt like it wasn’t smart with where we’re at in the season to push for one more inning. \u00a0Hopefully he will make his next start. I think there’s a really good chance he will, but I have to see where he’s at.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
DeGrom, who was scratched from his first start of the season with a stiff neck, has made every start since and has started 48 games since the beginning of 2025. While his\u00a0fastball seemed to tick down a bit as he got to the fifth inning, the bigger issue, he said, was his changeup, for which he felt off stride due to the leg. The fastball, which averaged 98 mph in the first inning, averaged 96.1 mph by the fifth. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
He compensated by throwing more curveballs than usual.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually ended up striding a little farther on my changeup, so I wasn’t throwing that very well,\u201d deGrom said. \u201cI didn’t want to just be fastball-slider and then saw the swings I was getting on the curveball and had a pretty good feel for it. [Catcher Elias Diaz] thought the same thing. It worked out to where we were able to use it in some situations where we needed outs.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
And about that hip\/leg? \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter I pitch, I get sore,\u201d he said. \u201cIt just lingered this week. It will be manageable. We’ll be good to go.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, maybe now, you can breathe easier.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON \u2013 Deep, slow breaths. Deep, slow breaths.\u00a0 Jacob deGrom left Tuesday\u2019s start after only five innings, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,89744,91832],"class_list":["post-364953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-tp-texas-rangers","tag-tp-jacob-degrom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364953","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=364953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}