{"id":678547,"date":"2026-04-18T18:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678547\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:24:38","slug":"rangers-news-skip-schumaker-wyatt-langford-get-real-after-big-mariners-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678547\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers news: Skip Schumaker, Wyatt Langford get real after big Mariners win"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Texas Rangers had been suffering from competitive losses<\/a>, the team needed a convincing win at this point of the season, as they got just that in Saturday’s 5-0 win over the Seattle Mariners. As Rangers starting pitcher Jacob deGrom led the staff<\/a> to a shutout win, the offense led by Wyatt Langford was great, as manager Skip Schumaker spoke about the win.<\/p>\n

Schumaker would speak highly of Texas’ pitching staff, which started with deGrom, though the pitch count for him got high early, as he only pitched four innings, throwing 88 balls.\u00a0 Still, it was an effective four innings, as Schumaker spoke to MLB.com about how Friday was a \u201creally good execution of the game plan.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s just a good team win overall,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cI mean, we did the little things well, got the bunts, got the guy over, got him in, drove the ball, had extra base hits. I mean, I think just overall, just really good execution of the game plan, and played baseball tonight, it was fun to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

A much-needed game for Rangers’ Wyatt Langford<\/p>\n

It was a good showcase for Langford as he’s been slumping to start the 2026 season, but Friday was a sign of good things to come, as he recorded three hits.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, he’s such a hard worker, such a good kid,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cUsually, hard work equals good luck. I think a broken bat, you know, whatever fell in, and then it just starts rolling. And so it’s not surprising. He’s one of the best players in the big league. So there’s a lot of guys that are not off to great starts around the league.\u201d<\/p>\n

Langford admitted the \u201cslow start\u201d<\/a> to his third MLB season, but isn’t shying away from the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot really what I wanted to happen, but just going out there and playing every day. I mean, it’s a fun group to play with, finding ways to win. So it’s easy to go out there and have fun,\u201d Langford said Friday.<\/p>\n

The Rangers and Langford look to keep it going against the Mariners throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n

After the Texas Rangers had been suffering from competitive losses, the team needed a convincing win at this point of the season, as they got just that in Saturday’s 5-0 win over the Seattle Mariners. As Rangers starting pitcher Jacob deGrom led the staff to a shutout win, the offense led by Wyatt Langford was great, as manager Skip Schumaker spoke about the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Texas Rangers had been suffering from competitive losses, the team needed a convincing win at this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,149,1567,69,3240,385],"class_list":{"0":"post-678547","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","14":"tag-wyatt-langford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116427113355505713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678547","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=678547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}