{"id":2510309,"date":"2026-07-21T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2510309"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:10:09","slug":"what-happened-to-bobby-witt-jr-live-injury-updates-for-royals-vs-giants-on-7-20-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-happened-to-bobby-witt-jr-live-injury-updates-for-royals-vs-giants-on-7-20-26\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Bobby Witt Jr.? Live injury updates for Royals vs. Giants on 7\/20\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. exited Monday night\u2019s game against the San Francisco Giants early, potentially due to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heading into the top of the fifth inning, Witt Jr. was replaced in the field by Nick Loftin. The move is particularly notable coming off a late scratch yesterday due to back tightness, though it\u2019s not yet clear whether his departure from tonight\u2019s contest is related.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witt Jr. went 0-for-1 with a walk and a strikeout on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 26-year-old star is having a quality campaign, slashing .280\/.350\/.451 for an .801 OPS. He has 103 hits, 51 runs, 39 RBI and 13 home runs to this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Royals are 40-60, last in the AL Central prior to the conclusion of tonight\u2019s game against San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay tuned to DK Network for the latest injury updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"daextamp-post-id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"422254\"\/><\/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 dknetwork.draftkings.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. exited Monday night\u2019s game against the San Francisco Giants early, potentially due to injury. Heading into the top of the fifth inning, Witt Jr. was replaced in the field by Nick Loftin. The move is particularly notable coming off a late scratch yesterday due to back tightness, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2483801,"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-2510309","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\/07\/Kansas-City-Royals-vs-Tampa-Bay-Rays-prediction-pick-for.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510309","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=2510309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510310,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510309\/revisions\/2510310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}