a 7-0 loss to the Angels.<\/a> \u201cI mean, hopefully I\u2019ll make my next (start). We\u2019ll see. It was tight in the second inning, and it just didn\u2019t want to loosen up, so I don\u2019t know, I haven\u2019t really had this before.\u201d<\/p>\nThe 38-year-old right-hander, who has been dealing with a left hip and glute injury since the All-Star break, escaped a two-on, one-out jam in the first but gave up two runs and five hits during a 32-pitch second. He was replaced by right-hander Peyton Gray to begin the third with the Angels leading 2-0.<\/p>\n
It was the first time deGrom permitted five hits in an inning since Sept. 5, 2017, with the New York Mets.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to risk it once I heard (it was) the triceps,\u201d Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said. \u201cObviously, you don\u2019t want to hear anything arm-related. You pull a guy out in the second inning, it\u2019s concerning. But we\u2019ll figure it out when he gets some imaging. We won\u2019t know until they get in there.\u201d<\/p>\n
This seven-game road trip began with the Rangers placing pitcher Nathan Eovaldi on the 15-day injured list because of elbow inflammation Monday. Texas beat the Angels 4-1 that night but lost the next three games to fall to 60-62 and two games behind first-place Houston in the AL West.<\/p>\n
Now, the Rangers might have to navigate the next few weeks without their two best starting pitchers.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur starting pitching has taken a hit, that is reality,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cWith two guys going down, we\u2019ll see what it looks like, but it\u2019s never easy when you\u2019re No. 1 and No. 2 guys are down.\u201d<\/p>\n
A two-time Cy Young Award winner, deGrom allowed six hits, struck out three and walked one. He needs two strikeouts to become the ninth active pitcher and 94th in major league history to reach 2,000.<\/p>\n
In three starts against the Angels this season, deGrom has yielded 10 earned runs in 10 innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very disappointing,\u201d he said of Thursday night’s start. \u201cI needed to go out there and give us some length and wasn\u2019t able to do it. I said I could probably keep going, and they said, \u2018Well, we\u2019re not going to risk this right now,\u2019 so we\u2019ll just see how it is tomorrow and I\u2019ll go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of baseball\u2019s best pitchers when healthy, deGrom made at least 31 starts per season and pitched to a 2.53 ERA across 622 1\/3 innings from 2017-19 with the Mets.<\/p>\n
He won NL Cy Young Awards with New York in 2018 and 2019 and led the National League with 255 strikeouts in 2019 and 104 strikeouts during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.<\/p>\n
But deGrom made only 35 starts because of injuries from 2021-24 and underwent his second Tommy John surgery in June 2023, which sidelined him for much of his first two seasons with Texas in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Texas Rangers pitcher Jacob deGrom left Thursday night\u2019s start against the Los Angeles Angels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[556,555,150,152,151,557,223,154,27],"class_list":["post-407008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-associated-press","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407008","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=407008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}