CLEVELAND (AP) — Corey Seager's back is barking again.
The Texas Rangers shortstop was removed from Tuesday's game before his at-bat in the first inning when his back flared up during warmups.
Seager, who recently returned from a concussion sustained in a home-plate collision with Kansas City catcher Carter Jensen on June 11, went through his normal pregame routine before dealing with back discomfort just before the first pitch.
The 32-year-old also missed significant time earlier this season with back spasms that developed into inflammation.
“Hopefully it’s just a flare up and we didn’t go out and push it and do anything stupid during the game," Seager said following the Rangers' 4-2 win over the Guardians. "Hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow and we’ll go from there.”
Seager was in the starting lineup for Tuesday's 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 Nicky Lopez shifting from second to shortstop.
Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said he was informed of Seager's back issue just as the game was about to begin.
“He was getting ready to go hit and the trainer gabbed me and said he’s got some back tightness,” Schumaker siad. “I wasn’t going to risk anything, just coming off a back injury a couple of weeks ago. There is always a level of concern when your star player had a back injury, and he’s coming out with discomfort. We’ll see what it looks like tonight and tomorrow. Not ideal.”
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 Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.
Seager said he was having a “normal day” and completed all his pregame stretching without issue when his back acted up.
“It's been a tough month, that's for sure,” he said.
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Texas Rangers' Corey Seager hits a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto, Saturday, June 27, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A roof collapse at a tutoring center under construction in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday killed at least 14 schoolchildren, police and rescue officials said.
Eight other children were injured and being treated at a hospital, senior police official Faisal Kamran said, adding that the owner of the tutoring center and another person have been arrested.
Kamran said rescuers were searching through the rubble after receiving reports that more children could be trapped beneath the debris. He said the tutoring center was housed in an aging building and that the roof of an unfinished second floor apparently collapsed because of poor construction quality.
Building collapses are common in Pakistan, where construction standards are often poorly enforced. Many structures are built with substandard materials, and safety regulations are frequently ignored to reduce costs.
Witnesses said ambulances and rescue workers rushed to the scene after the roof collapsed. Residents also joined the search, using shovels and their bare hands to remove rubble in an effort to reach children trapped beneath the debris.
Hours later, as the bodies of the children were being handed over to their families, scenes of anguish unfolded outside hospitals and in the neighborhood on the outskirts of Lahore where the private tutoring center was located in a house. Parents wept over the loss of their children, while mothers and other female relatives cried and beat their chests in grief.
Most of the victims lived nearby, and funeral prayers were expected later Tuesday.
Grief was mixed with anger as residents demanded stern punishment for the owner of the tutoring center, blaming him for operating classes in what they described as an aging and unsafe building. Dozens of mourners were seen gathering outside the victims’ homes to offer condolences.
“We don’t know whose home to visit first to offer condolences for the loss of their children,” resident Zafar Iqbal said as he moved from one bereaved family’s home to another nearby street.
Lahore is the capital of Pakistan's most populous Punjab province, where many parents send their children to private tutoring centers in the afternoon and evening.
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed grief over the collapse of the roof of an evening school building in Lahore. In separate statements, they offered condolences to the families of the victims, prayed for the speedy recovery of those injured, and said effective safety measures were needed to prevent similar tragedies.
Associated Press writer K.M. Chaudhry in Lahore contributed to this story.
Slippers of the children left behind at the site of an under-construction tutoring center which collapsed, on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M Chaudary)
Women mourn over the death of their children killed after the roof of a tutoring center under-construction collapsed, on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M Chaudary)
A man comforts a woman mourning over the death of her child, killed after the roof of a tutoring center under-construction collapsed, on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M Chaudary)
Women mourn next to the bodies of their children killed after the roof of a tutoring center under-construction collapsed, on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M Chaudary)
Women mourn next to the bodies of their children killed after the roof of a tutoring center under-construction collapsed, on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M Chaudary)
