{"id":650515,"date":"2026-05-18T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/650515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:06:08","slug":"corey-seager-sidelined-again-by-back-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/650515\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Seager sidelined again by back spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Texas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers<\/a>\u00a0All-Star shortstop Corey Seager was out of the lineup\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-rangers-corey-seager-b481542cf5bf289a236e57e028a18bcd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for a second straight game<\/a>\u00a0Sunday against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Houston Astros<\/a>\u00a0because of back spasms.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Skip Schumaker said Seager had an MRI on Sunday morning to make sure it&#8217;s only back spasms that are causing the problem. He said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/astros-rangers-score-9f6afae29dc89291db282e18f60acc59\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after the Rangers&#8217; 8-0 win<\/a>\u00a0that the results of the MRI weren&#8217;t yet available, but that Seager wouldn&#8217;t go with the team to Denver and would travel to Arlington to undergo further testing.<\/p>\n<p>Schumaker said before the game that Seager had improved Sunday but still wasn&#8217;t feeling good enough to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was in here before I got here,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cI got here early and he was here before me trying to get in the lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Seager is in a career-worst 0-for-27 slump. He didn&#8217;t play Friday night in a 2-0 loss to the Astros, but Schumaker said it was a scheduled off day and Saturday morning was the first time he had experienced any back issues.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0Rangers\u00a0All-Star shortstop Corey Seager was out of the lineup\u00a0for a second straight game\u00a0Sunday against\u00a0the Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2724,1062,2442,363,3,91204,99,1022],"class_list":["post-650515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-dallas","tag-fort-worth","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}