{"id":2001271,"date":"2025-09-06T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2001271"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:37:17","slug":"bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-with-low-back-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-with-low-back-spasms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Witt Jr. leaves game with low back spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Bobby Witt Jr. left Friday night\u2019s game against the Minnesota Twins in the seventh inning due to low back spasms.<\/p>\n<p>The shortstop made two defensive plays, on ground balls, in the top half of the sixth inning, then exited before the Royals took the field in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(It happened) sometime in that inning before we took him out,\u201d Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. \u201cHe talked to (Royals head athletic trainer Kyle Turner). As he sat there, it got worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the Royals leading 2-1, Witt was replaced in the lineup by Nick Loftin, playing third base while Maikel Garcia shifted to shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>Quatraro offered no prognosis on Witt\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now we just think it\u2019s back spasms, low back spasms,\u201d Quatraro said. \u201cIt locked up pretty good on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witt was hitless in three at-bats with one strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/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 apnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Bobby Witt Jr. left Friday night\u2019s game against the Minnesota Twins in the seventh inning due to low back spasms. The shortstop made two defensive plays, on ground balls, in the top half of the sixth inning, then exited before the Royals took the field in the seventh. \u201c(It happened) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2001272,"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":[342093,21849,91466,22304,347236,363840,313842,311274,327041,29913,25866,313281,347237,347149,21848],"class_list":["post-2001271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-kansas","tag-ks-state-wire","tag-kyle-turner","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-matt-quatraro","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-nick-loftin","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bobby-Witt-Jr-leaves-game-with-low-back-spasms.com2Fcc2F4b2F16e58c04eece7ecafd32108156512F3533c5f079f64c98a199.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001271","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=2001271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}