{"id":686410,"date":"2026-04-30T04:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/686410\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:21:29","slug":"brandon-nimmo-exits-game-against-yankees-with-hamstring-issue-in-rangers-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/686410\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Nimmo exits game against Yankees with hamstring issue in Rangers concern"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Brandon Nimmo walking on the field with Matt Lucero, Image 2 shows Texas Rangers right fielder Brandon Nimmo (24) hits an RBI sacrifice fly<\/p>\n

The Rangers\u2019 Brandon Nimmo left Wednesday\u2019s game with right hamstring tightness.<\/p>\n

During the bottom of the fifth inning against the Yankees in Arlington, the ex-Mets outfielder went from second to third base on a fielder\u2019s choice off the bat of Joc Pederson.<\/p>\n

After the play, Nimmo was checked on by the Rangers\u2019 trainer and manager Skip Schumaker and left the game after a brief conversation near the bag.<\/p>\n

Nimmo appeared to grab at his right hamstring before walking off the field.<\/p>\n

A replay showed Nimmo moving gingerly to third base.<\/p>\n

Nimmo downplayed the injury in a postgame press conference, saying he and Schumaker were \u201cbeing cautious\u201d in pulling him from the contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fully expect to be available Friday,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Texas Rangers\u2019 Brandon Nimmo (24) walks off the field with head athletic trainer Matt Lucero in the fifth inning on April 29, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. AP<\/p>\n

A long-term loss of Nimmo would be a major blow for a Rangers team that has enjoyed his presence in the lineup through the first month of the season.<\/p>\n

Nimmo, traded by the Mets to the Rangers in exchange for Marcus Semien<\/a> in November after 10 seasons in Queens, was hitting .287\/.358\/.459 with four home runs and 12 RBIs in 30 games before going down on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Mets haven\u2019t quite enjoyed their half of the trade.<\/p>\n

Semien is hitting just .214 with one longball in 103 at-bats headed into Wednesday\u2019s play.<\/p>\n

\"Texas<\/p>\n

Texas Rangers right fielder Brandon Nimmo (24) hits an RBI sacrifice fly during the third inning against the Athletics at Globe Life Field. Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Mets have been one of the worst teams in baseball to date, sitting at 10-19 in a tie with the Phillies for last in the NL East, but Nimmo claims there\u2019s still time to turn it around.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I don\u2019t think anything surprises me anymore,\u201d Nimmo said Monday<\/a> before the Rangers\u2019 series opener against the Yankees. \u201cI was part of that team that started off [0-5 in 2024], and then from May 15 on was the best team in baseball. So I\u2019ve been on both sides of it. I wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019m surprised. Baseball, it takes a long time to have a good or bad season.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there\u2019s still plenty of time for them to right the ship. And there\u2019s still plenty of time for teams that are hot to go bad. So I wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019m surprised anymore. I\u2019ve seen baseball go a lot of different ways. So now it\u2019s just like, \u2018Well, yep, that\u2019s baseball.\u2019 Baseball\u2019s a crazy game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Brandon Nimmo walking on the field with Matt Lucero,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,226,6920,13,386,4,40,149,14902,64246,1567,69,3240,1949,812,3825,142],"class_list":["post-686410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-fifth-inning","tag-joc-pederson","tag-marcus-semien","tag-mlb","tag-phillies","tag-rangers","tag-skip-schumaker","tag-talkin39-baseball","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-the-athletics","tag-the-mets","tag-the-rangers","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116491746964294669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686410","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=686410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}