Rangers Notebook: Langford Avoids Going on IL
Wyatt Langford gets good news about right quad tightness, won't be going on Injured List for Texas Rangers.
While the Texas Rangers were trying to get a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers, which they did on Sunday, the team got some good news about Wyatt Langford. Langford left Friday night's opener against the Dodgers on Friday night with right quad tightness. But, after getting checked out medically, it appears that Langford is day-to-day right now.
Getting that type of news was a breath of fresh air for Langford, along with the Rangers themselves. “It’s always a little nerve-wracking, just because sometimes with something like this they want to put you on the IL if it’s going to be five or six days, because it’s hard to be down a guy,” Langford said during a pregame chat on Saturday, according to MLB. com .
“So it’s definitely good news not to be going on the IL. ” On Friday night, Langford happened to feel some tightness in his leg. It happened as he was going around the bases after hitting his first home run this season.
“When you have one of your best players dodge an IL, hopefully, that’s a big deal,” Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said. “We’ve said it [since the] beginning of Spring Training, keeping these guys healthy is going to be the most important thing of our season," Schumaker added. "We’ve caught a little bit of the injury bug early on with Game 2 with (Jacob) deGrom, and luckily we avoided that.