{"id":690543,"date":"2026-06-07T22:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690543\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:41:29","slug":"royals-shortstop-bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-early-with-right-knee-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690543\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. leaves game early with right knee soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/kansas-city\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kansas City&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City<\/a> shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. left the Royals&#8217; game with the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/minnesota\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Twins;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Minnesota Twins&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> on Sunday with what the team described as right knee soreness.<\/p>\n<p>Witt left the game in the seventh inning. The two-time All-Star had gone 0 for 4 with three strikeouts before his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Witt is batting .280 with a .354 on-base percentage, .456 slugging percentage, nine homers, 27 RBIs and 23 steals in 66 games this season. He entered Sunday tied for the major-league lead in steals.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. left the Royals&#8217; game with the Minnesota Twins on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[107642,6946,187930,2326,363,99,23553],"class_list":["post-690543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-bobby-witt","tag-kansas-city","tag-knee-soreness","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-the-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}