{"id":737134,"date":"2026-06-27T20:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/737134\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T20:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:24:31","slug":"why-wyatt-langford-was-scratched-from-rangers-blue-jays-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/737134\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Wyatt Langford was scratched from Rangers-Blue Jays on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers<\/a> outfielder Wyatt Langford was scratched from Saturday&#8217;s game against the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre with left hamstring tightness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Langford, who has suffered both a quad and forearm strain already this season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/article\/wyatt-langford-all-star-texas-rangers-padres-score-22306451.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been the club&#8217;s hottest hitter since his most recent return from the injured list.<\/a> He&#8217;s slashed .317\/.371\/.634 with seven home runs since he returned from a Grade 1 flexor strain in his right arm, and despite the fact that he&#8217;s only barely played half of the season&#8217;s games, his 1.4 WAR, per\u00a0FanGraphs, ranks fourth among all American League left fielders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old missed three weeks in his rookie season with a hamstring strain. It was the first of five trips he&#8217;s taken to the injured list in two-plus seasons because of soft tissue injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014\u00a0Rangers outfielder Wyatt Langford was scratched from Saturday&#8217;s game against the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,3417,4,149,1567,69,3240,83514,88469],"class_list":["post-737134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-brief","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-tp-texas-rangers","tag-tp-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116823946932992541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737134","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=737134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}