{"id":2468706,"date":"2026-06-20T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2468706"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:49:48","slug":"bobby-witt-jr-out-of-royals-lineup-with-grade-1-mcl-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bobby-witt-jr-out-of-royals-lineup-with-grade-1-mcl-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Witt Jr. out of Royals lineup with Grade 1 MCL sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Jun 19, 2026, 06:22 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\">Royals<\/a> shortstop <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"953a1c30-3f92-3387-bc26-c4ad94124e87\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42403\/bobby-witt-jr\">Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> was out of the lineup for Friday&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401815819\" target=\"_blank\">6-5 win<\/a> over the <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"c781e7c6-2c5b-beaf-55b8-999c76f76661\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-cardinals\">Cardinals<\/a> with a Grade 1 MCL sprain.<\/p>\n<p>He <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49113350\/royals-bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-knee-discomfort-making-sliding-play-field\" target=\"_blank\">left Thursday&#8217;s game<\/a> at the end of the fourth inning after earlier fielding a ground ball.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro said Friday the Royals were &#8220;fortunate&#8221; that it was just a mild sprain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just could have been a lot worse,&#8221; Quatraro said.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was to give Witt Friday off. The teams are scheduled for a rare Saturday off day because a World Cup match between Ecuador and Cura\u00e7ao will be played at neighboring Kansas City Stadium (GEHA Field at Arrowhead) on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49113350\/royals-bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-knee-discomfort-making-sliding-play-field\" class=\"img-link\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49082852\/mlb-2026-power-rankings-week-12-braves-dodgers-brewers-yankees-rays\" class=\"img-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2026\/0617\/mlb_power_rankings_week12_1296x1296.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Quatraro was hopeful that Witt could return for Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll reevaluate the timeline come Sunday,&#8221; he said, &#8220;So we&#8217;ll see. It&#8217;s not a surgical thing. I know they can put a brace on it. It&#8217;s going to be [getting] the swelling out of there and understand how he feels. Those conversations are going to have to be honest between all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/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 www.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 19, 2026, 06:22 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. was out of the lineup for Friday&#8217;s 6-5 win over the Cardinals with a Grade 1 MCL sprain. He left Thursday&#8217;s game at the end of the fourth inning after earlier fielding a ground ball. Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2468707,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2468706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bobby-Witt-Jr-out-of-Royals-lineup-with-Grade-1.jpgw130h130scalecroplocationcenter.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468706","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=2468706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468708,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468706\/revisions\/2468708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2468707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}