{"id":296519,"date":"2026-05-16T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296519\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:51:07","slug":"slumping-rangers-shortstop-corey-seager-sits-out-because-of-back-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296519\/","title":{"rendered":"Slumping Rangers shortstop Corey Seager sits out because of back spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Texas Rangers All-Star shortstop Corey Seager was not in the starting lineup Saturday against the Houston Astros after waking up with back spasms.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said he\u2019s hopeful Seager \u2014 in a career-worst 0 for 27 slump \u2014 will be able to play Sunday in the series finale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted to see if he could loosen up when he got here,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cJust didn\u2019t loosen up, so just wanted to play it smart and not push him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seager did not play Friday night in a 2-0 loss to the Astros, but Schumaker maintained that was a scheduled off day and Saturday morning was the first time he had experienced any back issues.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Seager is batting .179 with seven homers and 19 RBIs in 42 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Texas Rangers All-Star shortstop Corey Seager was not in the starting lineup Saturday against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40381,202,196,942,82,84,83,1032,108000],"class_list":["post-296519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-corey-seager","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-skip-schumaker","tag-texas-rangers-corey-seager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}