{"id":1969488,"date":"2025-08-19T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1969488"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:47:32","slug":"witt-honors-late-agent-as-royals-beat-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/witt-honors-late-agent-as-royals-beat-white-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Witt Honors Late Agent as Royals Beat White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>By Jayson Henderson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the opening night of Players\u2019 Weekend, Bobby Witt Jr. set aside his usual blue gear for purple cleats and a bat to honor his late agent, Scott Pucino, who passed away in April from pancreatic cancer. His cleats read \u201cScott P,\u201d while his bat carried Pucino\u2019s full name.<\/p>\n<p>Witt went 2-for-4 in the Royals\u2019 3-1 win over the White Sox at Kauffman Stadium, helping Kansas City move back to .500 at 61-61 and climb in the American League Wild Card race. Salvador Perez homered in the fourth inning, and rookie starter Noah Cameron allowed just one run in 5 1\/3 innings. Witt also turned a key double play in the sixth to end a Chicago threat.<\/p>\n<p>The victory lifted the Royals ahead of Texas in the standings, keeping them within striking distance of a Wild Card spot with 40 games left.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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 kclyradio.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jayson Henderson On the opening night of Players\u2019 Weekend, Bobby Witt Jr. set aside his usual blue gear for purple cleats and a bat to honor his late agent, Scott Pucino, who passed away in April from pancreatic cancer. His cleats read \u201cScott P,\u201d while his bat carried Pucino\u2019s full name. Witt went 2-for-4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1961204,"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-1969488","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\/Royals-Prospect-Shields-Extends-Scoreless-Streak-at-Single-A.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969488","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=1969488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}