{"id":717934,"date":"2026-06-21T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717934\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:06:08","slug":"royals-to-reevaluate-bobby-witt-jr-ahead-of-mondays-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717934\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals to reevaluate Bobby Witt Jr. ahead of Monday&#8217;s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Kansas City Royals shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/2026\/06\/19\/bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-pain\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/2026\/06\/19\/bobby-witt-jr-leaves-game-pain\/\">Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> did not play in Sunday\u2019s game against the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team said he suffered a grade-1 MCL sprain Thursday night, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bobby-witt-mcl-sprain-e5d879168e39e2d98f89c17d3bdb4ef1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bobby-witt-mcl-sprain-e5d879168e39e2d98f89c17d3bdb4ef1\">Associated Press<\/a>. He left at the end of the fourth inning after fielding a ground ball earlier in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro said Witt would be out of the lineup Friday. The Royals did not play Saturday because of the World Cup match between Ecuador and Cura\u00e7ao that was played across the parking lot at Kansas City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Quatraro previously said he was hopeful that Witt could return for Sunday\u2019s game. That did not happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anne__rogers\/status\/2068726444142858579\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anne__rogers\/status\/2068726444142858579\">Anne Rogers<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/MLB.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/MLB.com\" target=\"_blank\">MLB.com<\/a> reported that Quatraro said Witt was feeling and moving better on Sunday. The report also said Witt will get treatment before he is reevaluated ahead of Monday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Royals head to Tampa Bay for a four-game series.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. did not play in Sunday\u2019s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[12949,309247,17580,2321,52575,363,99,1231],"class_list":["post-717934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-i-70-series","tag-injury-report","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-knee-injury","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717934","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=717934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}