{"id":2356545,"date":"2026-04-03T05:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2356545"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:47:26","slug":"royals-rookie-carter-jensen-removed-from-starting-lineup-after-oversleeping-feels-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-rookie-carter-jensen-removed-from-starting-lineup-after-oversleeping-feels-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals rookie Carter Jensen removed from starting lineup after oversleeping: \u2018Feels terrible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kansas City Royals catcher Carter Jensen (22) drives in a run with a sacrifice fly against the Atlanta Braves during the eighth inning at Truist Park.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

You snooze, you lose.<\/p>\n

Royals rookie Carter Jensen was scratched from their lineup shortly before their 5-1 loss to the Twins on Thursday after oversleeping and not arriving at Kauffman Stadium with enough time to get prepped for the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarter had an oversight,\u201d manager Matt Quatraro told reporters following the game, according to MLB.com<\/a>. \u201cOverslept. Wasn\u2019t here on time, and we made the decision to scratch him from the lineup. \u2026 He\u2019s a stand-up guy, a really hard worker, a great kid. He feels terrible. He\u2019s accountable to it.<\/p>\n

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Royals catcher Carter Jensen drives in a run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning against the Braves at Truist Park. Dale Zanine-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not something that has been a pattern or any of that kind of stuff. Nobody feels worse than he does, and I think he\u2019ll admit to that. And we\u2019ll move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jensen, who was slated to catch, was replaced by Royals veteran Salvador Perez behind the plate, who was initially set to be the designated hitter. The 22-year-old later came in to catch in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n

To his credit, Jensen owned up to the mistake, telling reporters that he woke up in \u201cfull panic\u201d and tried to get to the field as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo running from it,\u201d Jensen said. \u201cJust didn\u2019t wake up to my alarm. Slept through it. Don\u2019t really have an excuse, nor should I. It sucks. Happens. I felt like I let my teammates down, coaches down. Just learn from it and know it won\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Royals designated hitter Carter Jensen (left) looks on with teammate right fielder Jac Caglianone (right) before a game against the Twins at Kauffman Stadium. Peter Aiken-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

With Jensen arriving late, the Royals had to lean on Perez to prep with starting pitcher Cole Ragans.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got a 36-year-old catcher preparing to DH today, and then his world gets a little rocked an hour and a half before the game that he\u2019s not going to be DHing,\u201d first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino said. \u201cCredit to Salvy today for being ready, first and foremost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jensen admitted that there was \u201ca lot\u201d to learn from his blunder, saying that he will be setting \u201ca million alarms\u201d to get up early for day games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot to learn from it. Making sure if I don\u2019t set one alarm, maybe set three, four, as many as possible,\u201d Jensen said. \u201cMoving forward, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do. Set a million alarms. Make sure I\u2019m up. It stinks, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jensen is Kansas City\u2019s top prospect, according to MLB.com, and briefly saw the big-league diamond last year, when he put up an impressive slash line of .300\/.391\/.550, with six doubles and three home runs in 20 games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Royals catcher Carter Jensen (22) drives in a run with a sacrifice fly against the Atlanta Braves during the eighth inning at Truist Park. You snooze, you lose. Royals rookie Carter Jensen was scratched from their lineup shortly before their 5-1 loss to the Twins on Thursday after oversleeping and not arriving at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2356547,"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":[344503,360072,311239,279830,310650,43627,311235,431259,77699,102808],"class_list":["post-2356545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-carter-jensen","tag-cole-ragans","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kauffman-stadium","tag-royals-catcher","tag-salvador-perez","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Royals-rookie-Carter-Jensen-removed-from-starting-lineup-after-oversleeping.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356545","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=2356545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356549,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356545\/revisions\/2356549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}