Texas shortstop Corey Seager held out with lingering results of thumb damage

ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas Rangers All-Star shortstop Corey Seager was held out of the Texas Rangers’ beginning lineup for Sunday afternoon’s residence recreation in opposition to the Miami Marlins due to lingering results of a right-thumb damage suffered final month.

Seager injured the thumb on July 21 diving into second base within the eighth inning in opposition to his former group, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and was pulled from that recreation. He was positioned on the 10-day injured checklist on July 22 and returned final Wednesday. In the 4 video games since his return, Seager has three residence runs.

He additionally might miss the street journey opener at Oakland on Monday night time.

“He’s battling that thing,” supervisor Bruce Bochy stated. “It’s going to flare up a little bit bit at instances. Could he play? Yeah, he might play. But we’re going to attempt to preserve this factor below management.

“It’s a pretty big injury, really. It’s amazing what he’s doing with his thumb. I just don’t want it to get to the point where we end up losing him for a while.”

Seager is hitting .348 in 70 video games with 18 homers and 64 RBIs.