{"id":714630,"date":"2026-06-20T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:37:14","slug":"bobby-witt-jr-avoids-il-stint-for-now-with-mild-mcl-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714630\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Witt Jr. avoids IL stint for now with mild MCL sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. was out of the lineup for Friday\u2019s game against the St. Louis Cardinals with a grade-1 MCL sprain.<\/p>\n<p>He left Thursday\u2019s game at the end of the fourth inning after earlier fielding a ground ball.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro said Friday the Royals were \u201cfortunate\u201d that it was just a mild sprain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just could have been a lot worse,\u201d Quatraro said.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was to give Witt Friday off. The teams are scheduled for a rare Saturday off day because a World Cup match between Ecuador and Cura\u00e7ao will be played at neighboring Kansas City Stadium (GEHA Field at Arrowhead) on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Quatraro was hopeful that Witt could return for Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll re-evaluate the timeline come Sunday,\u201d he said, \u201cSo we\u2019ll see. It\u2019s not a surgical thing. I know they can put a brace on it. It\u2019s going to be (getting) the swelling out of there and understand how he feels. Those conversations are going to have to be honest between all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. was out of the lineup for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,12949,308045,308046,4412,6946,2321,15961,25918,6747,363,2008,9602,99,1231],"class_list":["post-714630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-curacao-national-soccer-team","tag-ecuador-national-soccer-team","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-ks-state-wire","tag-matt-quatraro","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714630","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=714630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}