Seager exits game in 5th after taking pitch off left hand
BALTIMORE — Already hamstrung by injuries in a lot of ways this year, the Rangers received another enormous scare on that front Saturday night.
Texas superstar shortstop Corey Seager left the club’s game against the Orioles with an apparent hand injury after being struck in the left hand/wrist area by a Cade Povich pitch in the fifth inning. Seager fell to the ground and, though quickly standing up under his own power, he then exited the game immediately.
Seager cleared his hips as if to begin swinging at the left-handed Povich’s 90.5 mph sinker before recognizing it was boring in on him — and fast. That’s how it struck his left, trail hand, on what ended as a check swing. Davis Wendzel replaced Seager on the bases and stayed in the game at third while Josh Smith shifted over to shortstop the following inning.
At that point, the Rangers’ only run of the night had come on Seager’s 15th home run, a solo shot off Povich in the first.
The Rangers have played most of the year without key regulars Max Scherzer (recently returned), Jacob deGrom and Josh Jung, with the latter having been shut down again Saturday due to continued inflammation in his surgically-repaired right wrist.
Last year’s World Series MVP, Seager is hitting .260 with 37 RBIs and a .796 OPS in 72 games this season.
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