Texas Loses Clark to Heel Injury

First baseman Will Clark, who had started only one of the Texas Rangers’ last nine games because of torn tissue under his right heel, was put on the disabled list Monday for the second time this season.

Clark is hitless in his last 12 at-bats and has only 12 homers and 51 runs batted in.

Texas outfielder Warren Newson was also put on the disabled list. Newson, hitting .281 with 10 homers and 23 RBIs in 81 games, ruptured his right biceps tendon diving for a fly ball in Sunday’s game against Chicago and was put on the 60-day disabled list.

“Part of life, part of baseball,” Texas Manager Johnny Oates said. “There’s two things I can’t do anything about: injuries and the weather.”

Oates isn’t sure how long Clark will be out.

“I don’t know if that will be 15 days or the rest of the season,” he said.

Added Clark: “That’s what the frustrating part about this injury is. You don’t know when you will come back. It’s a demoralizing thing when you don’t play. But if I can’t get back in the lineup, there’s nothing I can do about it.”

To take Clark and Newson’s spots on the roster, the Rangers recalled right-hander Eric Moody and outfielder Mike Simms from triple-A Oklahoma City.

Moody was 0-1 with a 1.93 earned-run average in three games with Texas earlier this month, one of them a start, and is 5-6 with a 3.46 ERA in 10 starts with Oklahoma City.

Simms is batting .385 with three homers and eight RBIs in 10 games with Oklahoma City. He had spent the majority of the season with Texas, batting .241 with five homers and 19 RBI. He was demoted Aug. 8.