{"id":1967408,"date":"2025-08-18T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1967408"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:09:11","slug":"what-happened-to-salvador-perez-live-injury-updates-for-royals-vs-rangers-8-18-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-happened-to-salvador-perez-live-injury-updates-for-royals-vs-rangers-8-18-25\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Salvador Perez? Live injury updates for Royals vs. Rangers 8\/18\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading151976_d65c2c-6f\">Keagan Smith provides the latest injury updates for Royals catcher Salvador Perez after he was scratched ahead of Monday\u2019s game vs. the Rangers.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With a couple of hours remaining before first pitch of Monday\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" data-autolink-id=\"2757\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.draftkings.com\/teams\/baseball\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals--odds\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> vs. Texas <a target=\"_blank\" data-autolink-id=\"2733\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.draftkings.com\/teams\/baseball\/mlb\/texas-rangers--odds\">Rangers<\/a> matchup, a star has been scratched from the home team\u2019s lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Nine-time All-Star catcher Salvador Perez will miss today\u2019s contest due to illness.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Salvador Perez has been scratched from tonight&#8217;s lineup due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED LINEUP:<\/p>\n<p>DH Mike Yastrzemski<br \/>SS Bobby Witt Jr.<br \/>1B Vinnie Pasquantino<br \/>3B Maikel Garcia<br \/>LF Adam Frazier<br \/>2B Jonathan India<br \/>RF John Rave<br \/>C Luke Maile<br \/>CF Kyle Isbel<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Royals\/status\/1957546335311393111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Perez is having a bit of a down year, but he\u2019s still a mainstay of the Royals\u2019 lineup. He slashes .244\/.288\/.449 with 42 runs, 70 RBI and 22 homers.<\/p>\n<p>With Perez now out, veteran journeyman Luke Maile takes his place behind the plate against Texas on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>This series could prove vital in deciding the AL Wild Card spots once the MLB Postseason rolls around. The Royals are 63-61 with a 1.5-game lead over the 62-63 <a target=\"_blank\" data-autolink-id=\"2795\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.draftkings.com\/teams\/hockey\/nhl\/new-york-rangers--odds\">Rangers<\/a>, though both teams are at least four games shy of the coveted playoff berth.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to DK Network for live updates.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"daextamp-post-id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"280822\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source dknetwork.draftkings.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keagan Smith provides the latest injury updates for Royals catcher Salvador Perez after he was scratched ahead of Monday\u2019s game vs. the Rangers. With a couple of hours remaining before first pitch of Monday\u2019s Kansas City Royals vs. Texas Rangers matchup, a star has been scratched from the home team\u2019s lineup. Nine-time All-Star catcher Salvador [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1967409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/What-happened-to-Salvador-Perez-Live-injury-updates-for-Royals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}