{"id":250551,"date":"2026-06-29T05:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/wyatt-langford-returns-to-il-in-unfortunate-blow-to-rangers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:05:02","slug":"wyatt-langford-returns-to-il-in-unfortunate-blow-to-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/wyatt-langford-returns-to-il-in-unfortunate-blow-to-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Langford returns to IL in unfortunate blow to Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/texas_rangers\/28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Rangers<\/a> outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/wyatt_langford\/908114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wyatt Langford<\/a> can&#8217;t seem to catch a break this season as he is returning to the IL with a hamstring strain (10-day).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old spent all of May recovering from a Grade 1 flexor strain (right forearm) that he sustained on April 22. Langford was experiencing tightness in his left hamstring and was a late scratch on June 27 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/toronto_blue_jays\/29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since returning from the IL, he has hit seven home runs and boasted a 1.005 OPS in June. With Langford&#8217;s injury, the Rangers have reinstated outfielder Evan Carter, who was rehabbing an oblique strain, from the IL.<\/p>\n<p>Langford will be able to return in early July, but with his injury history, the Rangers will likely have him come back after the All-Star break. Langford tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/McFarland_Shawn\/status\/2071268943218590135\" target=\"_blank\">stretch a double<\/a> earlier in the series, which is how the injury occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/wyatt_langford_returns_to_il_in_unfortunate_blow_to_rangers\/s1_13132_44004729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rangers outfielder Wyatt Langford can&#8217;t seem to catch a break this season as he is returning to the IL with a hamstring strain (10-day).\u00a0 The 24-year-old spent all of May recovering from a Grade 1 flexor strain (right forearm) that he sustained on April 22. Langford was experiencing tightness in his left hamstring and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}