{"id":703543,"date":"2026-05-20T00:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703543\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:36:17","slug":"rangers-get-good-news-on-mackenzie-gore-wyatt-langford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703543\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers get good news on MacKenzie Gore, Wyatt Langford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers<\/a> right-handed pitcher MacKenzie Gore said he felt good Tuesday after he was removed from the prior night&#8217;s game with what was announced as lat tightness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was more of a spasm underneath the shoulder blades,&#8221; Schumaker said. &#8220;That was a good thing. He didn&#8217;t feel a pull or a tug. It was just kind of a weird spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Left fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/article\/rangers-wyatt-langford-waiting-swing-progression-22255807.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wyatt Langford<\/a>, sidelined since April 22 with a\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/article\/texas-rangers-wyatt-langford-injury-22219011.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">right forearm strain<\/a>, could swing a bat by the end of the week. He passed a strength test Sunday and, if he passes another Wednesday, can restart his hitting progression Friday. The grip test that Langford must complete uses the baseline measure he posted in spring training as a threshold, and if his strength is at least 80% of what it was in camp, it&#8217;s considered a success.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014\u00a0Rangers right-handed pitcher MacKenzie Gore said he felt good Tuesday after he was removed from the prior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,771,4,149,1567,69,3240,87966,83514,88469],"class_list":["post-703543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-tp-skip-schumaker","tag-tp-texas-rangers","tag-tp-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116604107705736415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703543","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=703543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}