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Salty Shaken: Rangers Catcher Has Inner Ear Issue

Posted on April 8th, 2009 10:13pm by Evan Grant
Filed under Injury report, Texas Rangers

That’s why he left the game in kind of a wobbly state in the top of the eighth inning. He is being evaluated. He looked woozy and unsteady walking off the field with trainer Jamie Reed holding him by the belt loop.

UPDATE: Doctors said Saltalamacchia’s symptoms were consistent with an inner-ear infection. After laying down for a while and being given some medication, he was cleared to leave the ballpark. He was not scheduled to play anyway on Thursday; that was going to be Taylor Teagarden’s day anyway. Whether he’ll be ready to go for Friday’s game in Detroit is uncertain, but the Rangers were optimistic. With catchers though, any injury that is going to force them to miss even a couple of days make a club consider the DL because you can’t get caught without a backup catcher. Don’t think that’s an issue at this point. He was just a little ill, the kind of thing that is usually gone in 24-48 hours.

3 Comments to “Salty Shaken: Rangers Catcher Has Inner Ear Issue”

ToddInChicago @ April 8th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

Thanks for the update Evan. Working late and have the game on tivo but I heard that Salty went out but didn’t have the details. Hopefully he’s okay. We don’t need to see Max up this early in the season.
AustinInColumbus @ April 9th, 2009 at 6:46 am

Thanks for the update. Hard to get reliable Rangers info up here.
Ant Gale @ April 9th, 2009 at 8:39 am

Oh dear mother of all that is holy, please be OK Salty. I think it had something to do with all those letters on his back. All kidding aside,thanks for the update.