{"id":772390,"date":"2026-07-01T02:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772390\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T02:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:29:15","slug":"texas-rangers-ss-corey-seager-lifted-from-game-in-first-inning-with-back-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772390\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers SS Corey Seager lifted from game in first inning with \u2018back discomfort\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/texas-rangers\/237\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/texas-rangers\/237\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/corey-seager\/657913\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/corey-seager\/657913\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Seager<\/a> was removed from Tuesday\u2019s game before his at-bat in the first inning with back discomfort, the team said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Seager recently returned from a concussion sustained in a home-plate collision with Kansas City catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/carter-jensen\/1316948\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/carter-jensen\/1316948\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Jensen<\/a> on June 11. The 32-year-old also missed significant time this season with back spasms that developed into inflammation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Seager was in the starting lineup for Tuesday\u2019s game batting third. But the Rangers pinch-hit for him in the first with Cam Cauley taking his spot and popping out. Cauley stayed in the game at second base with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/nicky-lopez\/918022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/nicky-lopez\/918022\" target=\"_blank\">Nicky Lopez<\/a> shifting from second to shortstop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Along with the injuries, Seager has been mired in a season-long offensive slump. He came in batting just .182 with 10 homers and 25 RBI in 50 games. A .284 career hitter, Seager is in his fifth season with Texas after spending seven with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Seager had been just 1 for 10, but walked five times in 15 at-bats since the five-time All-Star returned from the concussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tom Withers, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager was removed from Tuesday\u2019s game before his at-bat in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-772390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}