{"id":2466349,"date":"2026-06-19T01:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2466349"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:57:52","slug":"royals-bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-with-knee-discomfort-after-making-sliding-play-in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-with-knee-discomfort-after-making-sliding-play-in-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals’ Bobby Witt Jr. leaves game with knee discomfort after making sliding play in the field"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. left the Royals<\/a>‘ game with the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> on Thursday night with right knee discomfort after making a sliding play in the field.<\/p>\n

With the bases loaded in the fourth inning, Witt went to his knees to prevent Jordan Walker<\/a>‘s RBI single from getting to the outfield. Witt was checked out by Royals staffers before remaining in the game for the rest of that half inning.<\/p>\n

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But he was scheduled to lead off the bottom of the fourth, and the Royals instead had Tyler Tolbert<\/a> pinch-hit for him. The Royals announced later that Witt’s departure was due to knee discomfort.<\/p>\n

Before his departure, Witt had gone 2 for 2 with a solo homer in the first inning and an RBI single in the second. Witt also scored his second run of the night in the second inning.<\/p>\n

The two-time All-Star is batting .294 with a .368 on-base percentage, 10 homers, 32 RBIs and an MLB-leading 28 steals in 76 games this season.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/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 sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. left the Royals‘ game with the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night with right knee discomfort after making a sliding play in the field. With the bases loaded in the fourth inning, Witt went to his knees to prevent Jordan Walker‘s RBI single from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2466350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[319690,364335,310650,485188,309365,27155,357714,22091,326961],"class_list":["post-2466349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt","tag-jordan-walker","tag-kansas-city","tag-knee-discomfort","tag-mo","tag-royals","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-the-royals","tag-tyler-tolbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Royals-Bobby-Witt-Jr-leaves-game-with-knee-discomfort-after.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466349","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=2466349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466351,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466349\/revisions\/2466351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2466350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}