{"id":2510329,"date":"2026-07-21T01:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2510329"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:32:13","slug":"royals-star-bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-vs-giants-for-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-star-bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-vs-giants-for-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. leaves game vs. Giants for injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. exited Monday\u2019s game<\/a> against the San Francisco Giants in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n

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Witt, 26, made the start after missing Sunday\u2019s action with back tightness. He had two plate appearances before departing from the game.<\/p>\n

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The Royals inserted Nick Loftin at shortstop and in Witt\u2019s spot in the order.<\/p>\n

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This season, Witt has dealt with a few nagging injuries. In June, Witt missed six games<\/a> with a Grade 1 MCL sprain in his right knee. And he was hampered with his lower back earlier this season.<\/p>\n

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The Royals are currently without a long list of players. The injury list includes starters Cole Ragans (UCL surgery), Kris Bubic (left-shoulder soreness), Kyle Isbel (left plantar fasciitis), Maikel Garcia (left hand muscle strain) and Stephen Kolek (right flexor strain).<\/p>\n

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Witt entered Monday\u2019s game hitting .280 with 13 homers, 39 RBIs, 30 stolen bases and an .801 OPS. He was named to his third All-Star team alongside teammate Michael Wacha earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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This report will be updated<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Jaylon Thompson covers the Royals for The Kansas City Star. He previously covered the 2021 World Series and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jaylon is a proud alumnus of the University of Georgia.<\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\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.kansascity.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. exited Monday\u2019s game against the San Francisco Giants in the fifth inning. Witt, 26, made the start after missing Sunday\u2019s action with back tightness. He had two plate appearances before departing from the game. The Royals inserted Nick Loftin at shortstop and in Witt\u2019s spot in the order. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2448358,"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-2510329","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\/Beck-Way-records-two-strikeouts-in-Royals-debut.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510329","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=2510329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510330,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510329\/revisions\/2510330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}