Rangers All-Star SS Corey Seager leaves game vs. Dodgers after hurting hand

ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager left Friday evening’s sport in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers when he damage his proper hand on a headfirst slide on a double within the eighth inning in opposition to his former staff.

Seager was initially known as out on proper fielder Mookie Betts’ throw from the right-center subject hole. The Rangers challenged the play, however Seager was already headed again to the dugout along with his proper arm hanging low, and the All-Star clearly in discomfort.

The out name was overturned on replay, and Josh Smith got here in to run for Seager, who hit his fifteenth homer within the sixth.

Seager, within the second season of his $325 million, 10-year cope with Texas, was the MVP of each the 2020 World Series and NL Championship Series that the Dodgers received at Globe Life Field in the course of the neutral-site playoffs in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the final time that they had performed there earlier than Friday evening’s collection opener.