Texas Rangers outfielder Evan Carter was placed on the 10-day injured list after suffering a fractured wrist when he was hit by a pitch Thursday, the team announced Friday.
He is likely to miss the remainder of the season, manager Bruce Bochy told 105.3 in Dallas-Fort Worth earlier Friday.
Carter was hit by two pitches during the game against the host Kansas City Royals, but the latter was a 94-mph sinker to the right wrist by reliever Daniel Lynch IV in the seventh inning. Carter briefly stayed in the game but was replaced in the outfield during the eighth.
“Carter could be out for the year. They did find a fracture there,” Bochy said in his interview Friday.
Fractures often take 2-3 months of recovery time.
In a corresponding move, the Rangers recalled infielder/outfielder Michael Helman from Triple-A Round Rock.
Bochy also revealed that infielder Marcus Semien is going for an MRI after he fouled a ball off his foot in the same game. Semien wore a boot as a precaution after his injury.
Both Carter and Semien were members of the Rangers’ 2023 World Series-winning team, though Carter played just 23 regular-season games as a rookie. An ironman, Semien played in all 162 games that year and 159 last season; he has played all 162 games three times in his career.
An All-Star in 2021, 2023 and 2024, Semien is batting .230 this year with 15 home runs and 62 RBIs through 127 games. Carter was hitting .247 with five homers and 25 RBIs in his 63 games this season.
Helman will start his third stint with the big-league club this season, having appeared in eight games over two stretches in June and July. He hit a three-run homer, his first major league long ball, and drove in a run with a bunt against the Athletics on July 21.
The 29-year-old, who was picked up off waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates in May, batted .245 with eight home runs and 32 RBI in 53 games with Round Rock this season.
The Rangers have lost 11 of 14 games to drop below .500 and are 5 1/2 games out of the final American League wild-card spot entering this weekend’s series against the visiting Cleveland Guardians.
–Field Level Media
