{"id":667747,"date":"2026-04-07T05:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667747\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:31:26","slug":"jacob-degrom-limited-by-tender-knee-in-rangers-win-vs-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667747\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob deGrom limited by ‘tender’ knee in Rangers’ win vs. M’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas — Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom<\/a> said he felt something in his right knee before Monday night’s start, which limited him to five innings and 78 pitches in the Texas Rangers<\/a>‘ 2-1 win<\/a> over the Seattle Mariners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said the staff didn’t want to push the 37-year-old too hard. DeGrom gave up only one hit — a first-inning home run to 2025 homer champ Cal Raleigh<\/a> on a 12-pitch at-bat — walked one and struck out six.<\/p>\n

“I feel OK,” deGrom said. “It’s a little tender, but I think we’ll be OK.<\/p>\n

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“I gave up the homer to Cal, and I was like, ‘I’d better lock this in. This might be a pretty close game.'”<\/p>\n

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

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

“Obviously any day you’re able to put this uniform on you’ve got to be thankful for that,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas — Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom said he felt something in his right knee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,149,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-667747","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-rangers","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-rangers","13":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116361789865300128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667747","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=667747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}