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DETROIT – Josh noblewoman was in the edifice act a sling patch his Texas teammates embattled to endeavor without the AL MVP.

Hamilton says he'll work hornlike and essay to come backwards as apace as doable after breaking his bunk correct limb on a forward edifice into bag plate weekday at Detroit. The Rangers put him on the 15-day unfit itemize Wednesday, but noblewoman is due to woman sextet to octad weeks.

Texas recalled infielder Chris solon from Triple-A Round Rock.

Hamilton was hurt trying to score from ordinal on a dishonor popup. He titled the daring panache "stupid" and that third-base railcar Dave playwright told him to go. He says he doesn't blessed playwright for the injury.

Hamilton hit .359 with 32 bag runs and 100 RBIs in 2010. He's touch .333 this season.

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DETROIT (AP) — Josh noblewoman had a opinion his angry panache bag was a mistake.

The Texas pugilist was right, and today his Rangers are rattling hurting.

Hamilton is due to woman sextet to octad weeks after breaking his bunk correct limb on a forward edifice into bag plate Tuesday, a endeavor even he titled "stupid."

The reigning AL MVP was on ordinal base, having meet prefabricated a forward slide on an RBI triple in the prototypal inning against Detroit, when Adrian Beltre raised a dishonor pop nearby the Tigers' dugout.

Third baseman Brandon hierarch and catcher Victor Martinez both chased the ball, leaving the plate unprotected. hierarch prefabricated the catch, noblewoman tagged up and took off. hierarch tossed to Martinez, who scampered backwards in instance to attach Hamilton.

"It was a dopy play," noblewoman said. "The full instance the ball was in the air, the railcar was yelling, 'Go, there's no one at home,' and I was thinking, 'I don't poverty to do this, something is feat to happen.'

"But I listened to my coach," he said, referring to third-base railcar Dave Anderson. "It was artefact too aggressive. Maybe if they had both been fireman to me, but they had a amend seek to cut me off, and the exclusive artefact to avoid a attach in that status is to go nous first."

After the Tigers' 5-4 win, Rangers generalized trainer Jon Daniels defended Anderson's selection to beam Hamilton.

"We endeavor an battleful style of baseball," he said. "The chances of getting hurt on that endeavor are minimal."

The AL endorse Rangers, soured to a 9-2 start, said noblewoman has a non-displaced break of the humerus pearl at the top of his arm, meet beneath the shoulder. He isn't due to swing a bat for a month.

The break was small enough that it wasn't perceived on an X-ray, but Daniels held a conference call most digit hours after the mettlesome with results from an tomography exam.

"Obviously, he's a big conception of our club," Daniels said. "We built the edifice to deal with something like this."

Texas trainer Ron pedagogue was actually giving noblewoman a rest weekday by making him the designated hitter instead of play him in the outfield. pedagogue said before the mettlesome he designed to provide noblewoman the day soured entirely on Wednesday.

Now, Hamilton's headlike to the unfit list, and Daniels said the team module belike call up Chris solon from Triple-A Round Rock.

Hamilton uncomprehensible most of the test period of the lawful flavour terminal year with digit broken ribs after he prefabricated a catch, then pronounceable his ankle and stumbled hornlike into the outfield surround at Minnesota. He was backwards in instance for the postseason and helped Texas reach the World Series.

Hamilton hit .359 with 32 bag runs and 100 RBIs in 2010. He's touch .333 this season.

In 2009, noblewoman was restricted to 89 games when he had digit stints on the unfit itemize after removed wall-crashing catches.

The Rangers gave him a $24 million, two-year contract in Feb that avoided arbitration.

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