{"id":569454,"date":"2026-04-07T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569454\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:42:10","slug":"jacob-degrom-limited-by-tender-knee-in-rangers-win-vs-ms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569454\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob deGrom limited by &#8216;tender&#8217; knee in Rangers&#8217; win vs. M&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; Two-time Cy Young Award winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32796\/jacob-degrom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob deGrom<\/a> said he felt something in his right knee before Monday night&#8217;s start, which limited him to five innings and 78 pitches in 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>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/game\/_\/gameId\/401814836\/mariners-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-1 win<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said the staff didn&#8217;t want to push the 37-year-old too hard. DeGrom gave up only one hit &#8212; a first-inning home run to 2025 homer champ <a data-player-guid=\"6c27dcb5-a741-d526-b5ac-f3988e288a70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41292\/cal-raleigh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Raleigh<\/a> on a 12-pitch at-bat &#8212; walked one and struck out six.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel OK,&#8221; deGrom said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a little tender, but I think we&#8217;ll be OK.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48415700\/seattle-mariners-catcher-cal-raleigh-hits-first-hr-season\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775551330_195_r1639615_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I gave up the homer to Cal, and I was like, &#8216;I&#8217;d better lock this in. This might be a pretty close game.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom went 4\u2154 innings throwing 78 pitches last Tuesday at Baltimore in an 8-5 Rangers win in his only other outing this season. He was scheduled to make his first start March 28 at Philadelphia but was scratched because of neck stiffness.<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom made his 250th career start, ranking 18th among active pitchers. He was voted the American League 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>&#8220;Obviously any day you&#8217;re able to put this uniform on you&#8217;ve got to be thankful for that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom said he felt something in his right knee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-569454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}