{"id":123301,"date":"2025-09-06T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123301\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:46:07","slug":"royals-bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-with-low-back-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123301\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Bobby Witt Jr. leaves game with low back spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Bobby Witt Jr. left Friday night&#8217;s game against the Minnesota Twins in the seventh inning due to low back spasms.<\/p>\n<p>The shortstop made two defensive plays, on ground balls, in the top half of the sixth inning, then exited before the Royals took the field in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>With the Royals leading 2-1, Witt was replaced in the lineup by Nick Loftin, playing third base while Maikel Garcia shifted to shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>Witt was hitless in three at-bats with one strikeout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Bobby Witt Jr. left Friday night&#8217;s game against the Minnesota Twins in the seventh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-123301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}