{"id":1519660,"date":"2026-07-01T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519660"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:34:38","slug":"rangers-place-corey-seager-on-the-injured-list-because-of-lower-back-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519660","title":{"rendered":"Rangers place Corey Seager on the injured list because of lower back inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Corey Seager is back on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers shortstop was placed on the 10-day injured list before Wednesday\u2019s game against the Cleveland Guardians because of lower back inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Seager was in the lineup for Tuesday\u2019s game but was removed before his first at-bat when his back flared up during warmups.<\/p>\n<p>He returned from the IL on June 25 after missing 12 games because of a concussion he sustained in a home plate collision with Kansas City catcher Carter Jensen on June 11.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Seager also missed 19 games from mid-May through early June because of back problems.<\/p>\n<p>Seager is batting .182 with 10 homers and 25 RBIs in 50 games. The five-time All-Star went 1 for 10 but walked five times in 15 at-bats since returning from his concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Texas called up infielder Josh Smith recalled from Triple-A Round Rock to fill Seager\u2019s roster spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Corey Seager is back on the injured list. The Texas Rangers shortstop was placed on the 10-day injured list before Wednesday\u2019s game against the Cleveland Guardians because of lower back inflammation. Seager was in the lineup for Tuesday\u2019s game but was removed before his first at-bat when his back flared up during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rangers place Corey Seager on the injured list because of lower back inflammation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-03 12:34:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519661,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519660\/revisions\/1519661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}