{"id":714379,"date":"2026-06-19T22:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714379\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:27:09","slug":"bobby-witt-jr-has-a-grade-1-mcl-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714379\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Witt Jr. has a Grade 1 MCL sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Royals fans held their breath Thursday night after shortstop Bobby Witt Jr<\/a>. went down with an injury. Today, the team announced the injury may not be as bad as suspected. Witt has a Grade 1 MCL sprain, according to MLB.com reporter Anne Rogers<\/a>. According to the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>, a Grade 1 MCL injury can heal on its own within 1-3 weeks. After Witt received his MRI, manager Matt Quatraro called the diagnosis a “best case scenario”, although a stint on the Injured List is a possibility.<\/p>\n

Witt exited Thursday night’s game against the Cardinals in the fourth inning with right knee discomfort after sliding on the grass to field a ground ball.<\/p>\n

Witt leads all position players in baseball in fWAR at 4.5, and is hitting .294\/.368\/.465 with 10 home runs and 28 steals this year. His injury further decimates a roster hit hard by injury lately. First baseman Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> is already on the Injured List, and third baseman Maikel Garcia<\/a> has missed time recently with a hand injury and is out of the lineup tonight. Additionally, the pitching staff is missing starters Kris Bubic<\/a> and Cole Ragans<\/a>, and relievers Nick Mears<\/a> and Carlos Est\u00e9vez<\/a>. Tyler Tolbert<\/a> gets the start at shortstop<\/a> tonight against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royals fans held their breath Thursday night after shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. went down with an injury. Today,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[142453,12949,96567,23556,108409,13670,12945,25918,307947,307948,363,59655,99,307949,290672,74261],"class_list":["post-714379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anne-rogers","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-cole-ragans","tag-injured-list","tag-kris-bubic","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-matt-quatraro","tag-mcl-injury","tag-mcl-sprain","tag-mlb","tag-nick-mears","tag-sports","tag-tricia-whitaker","tag-tyler-tolbert","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714379","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=714379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}