{"id":24897,"date":"2025-05-13T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/24897\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:54:10","slug":"texas-rangers-luke-jackson-dodges-bullet-after-frightening-injury-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/24897\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers\u2019 Luke Jackson dodges bullet after frightening injury scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">ARLINGTON \u2014 It appears the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\">Rangers<\/a> &#8211; and more importantly &#8211; reliever Luke Jackson dodged a bullet on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jackson reported significant improvement in the state of his right hand and wrist after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/05\/12\/texas-rangers-rp-luke-jackson-exits-game-after-line-drive-comebacker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/2025\/05\/12\/texas-rangers-rp-luke-jackson-exits-game-after-line-drive-comebacker\/\">he was hit by a line drive by Colorado\u2019s Ryan McMahon a night earlier on the first pitch he threw<\/a>. The area swelled up immediately and Jackson left the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">After initial X-rays showed no fracture, further evaluations confirmed a positive outlook. Jackson arrived at Globe Life Field on Tuesday with soreness, but no real pain. When he spoke to the media on Tuesday, he squeezed a brain-shaped stress ball to continue trying to pump blood out of the affected area. Trainers also applied a salve meant to additionally push blood out of the swollen area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cAs soon we get the blood and swelling out, it should be fine,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cYour right arm is what you make your living with, so it would be pretty frustrating if I broke something. I\u2019d probably miss a ton of time. I guess, after your head, it\u2019s the worst place to get hit. But we got good results.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Rangers<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Be the smartest Rangers fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The liner, which left the bat at 111 mph, caught Jackson flush on the point where the wrist meets the hand. He said it was the hardest he\u2019s ever been hit by a ball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I was rehabbing from Tommy John, I couldn\u2019t throw 90 mph,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cFirst pitch I throw, guy hits it 106 off my back. And I started throwing harder. So maybe this will help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Rangers were prepared to call up reliever Cole Winn from Triple-A Round Rock, but held off after the promising report concerning Jackson. Winn, the Rangers\u2019 first round pick in 2018, has thrown 23 \u2153 innings at Round Rock without allowing an earned run. He\u2019s held hitters to a .147 batting average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Rangers coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click or tap here to sign up for our Rangers newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON \u2014 It appears the Rangers &#8211; and more importantly &#8211; reliever Luke Jackson dodged a bullet on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,3245,149,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-24897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-texas-rangers","11":"tag-rangers","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-rangers","14":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114503225450085679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}