For now, Rangers right-hander Tanner Scheppers hopes it was mostly just a scare. The pain he felt near his lower abdominal area was sharp enough for him to leave a game in the ninth inning Friday. An MRI showed no significant injury. He played catch Sunday morning to test his progress.
“It’s something I’ve never really experienced, something we didn’t want to push through in a spring training game,” said Scheppers, who thought at first it might be a sports hernia. “That’s what we initially thought but it’s possible it’s just a nerve that needs to calm down.