{"id":63889,"date":"2023-10-31T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T00:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=63889"},"modified":"2023-10-31T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T00:12:10","slug":"garcia-scherzer-out-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/10\/31\/garcia-scherzer-out-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Lose Two Stars for Rest of World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers will lose two key players for the remainder of the World Series. While they won Game 3 by a 3-1 score to take a 2-1 series lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks, they paid a heavy price. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garciad02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adolis Garcia<\/a>, who has carried Texas at the plate this October, and veteran pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scherma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Scherzer<\/a> both suffered injuries, resulting in their removal from the World Series roster. Their roster replacements are utility player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duranez01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ezequiel Duran<\/a> and lefty reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/burkebr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Burke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garciad02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adolis Garc\u00eda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scherma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Scherzer<\/a> have been removed from the Rangers <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldSeries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WorldSeries<\/a> roster.<\/p>\n<p>They have been replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duranez01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ezequiel Duran<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/burkebr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Burke<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWbxh9ErzR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/UWbxh9ErzR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1719492483229372739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Garcia, Scherzer Out for World Series<\/h2>\n<p>Garcia exited Game 3 with tightness in his left side, later proven to be a strained oblique muscle. He was the Rangers&#8217; offensive MVP this postseason. He won ALCS MVP honors, as his clutch homers helped beat the Houston Astros. His success carried over to the Fall Classic, hitting an 11th-inning walk-off homer to win Game 1 over Arizona. The loss of Garcia leaves a big hole in the Texas lineup. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jankotr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Jankowski<\/a> will replace him in right field in Game 4.<\/p>\n<p>[metabet_core_game_tile query=&#8221;553581&#8243; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer left his Game 3 start after only three innings after his back locked up. He gave up no runs on two hits and two walks with one strikeout. After Tuesday&#8217;s bullpen game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/eovalna01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan Eovaldi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=montgjo01,montgo001jor&amp;search=Jordan+Montgomery&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Montgomery<\/a> are each expected to make another start if necessary. But Scherzer&#8217;s injury would leave Texas&#8217; pitching situation for a potential Game 7 uncertain. They could plan for another bullpen game, or perhaps have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grayjo02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jon Gray<\/a> start and get as much mileage from him as possible.<\/p>\n<p>As for their replacements, Duran is on the roster for the first time this postseason. In 122 regular season games, he hit .276 with 14 homers, 46 RBI, eight steals, and a .768 OPS. Burke has not pitched since Game 2 of the ALDS against the Baltimore Orioles. In that game, he gave up two earned runs in only 1\/3 of an inning. In the regular season, he had a 5-3 record with a 4.37 ERA, a 1.223 WHIP, and 52 strikeouts in 59 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>While Duran and Burke aren&#8217;t expected to fill the talent void left by Garcia and Scherzer, having a 2-1 lead in the series should help Texas. However, the rest of the lineup will have to hit in the clutch in Garcia&#8217;s place, and manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/bochybr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Bochy<\/a> must sort out the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers will lose two key players for the remainder of the World Series. While they won Game 3 by a 3-1 score to take a 2-1 series lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks, they paid a heavy price. Adolis Garcia, who has carried Texas at the plate this October, and veteran pitcher Max Scherzer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3931,"featured_media":63892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1071,35],"tags":[4831,5813,226,5051,1644,1166,79,2119,1028],"class_list":["post-63889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-adolis-garcia","tag-brock-burke","tag-bruce-bochy","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jon-gray","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-max-scherzer","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-travis-jankowski"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}