{"id":417752,"date":"2026-06-19T04:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=417752"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:36:21","slug":"royals-bobby-witt-jr-exits-game-with-right-knee-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/royals-bobby-witt-jr-exits-game-with-right-knee-discomfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Bobby Witt Jr. exits game with right knee discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; Kansas City shortstop\u00a0Bobby Witt Jr.\u00a0left the\u00a0Royals&#8217;\u00a014-6 win\u00a0over the\u00a0St. Louis Cardinals\u00a0on Thursday night because of right knee discomfort after making a sliding play in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the bases loaded in the fourth inning, Witt went to his knees to prevent\u00a0Jordan Walker&#8217;s RBI single from getting to the outfield. Witt was checked out by Royals staffers before remaining in the game for the rest of that half inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he was scheduled to lead off the bottom of the fourth, and the Royals instead had\u00a0Tyler Tolbert\u00a0pinch hit for him. The Royals announced later that Witt&#8217;s departure was due to knee discomfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before his departure, Witt had gone 2-for-2 with a solo homer in the first inning and an RBI single in the second. Witt also scored his second run of the night in the second inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two-time All-Star is batting .294 with a .368 on-base percentage, 10 homers, 32 RBIs and an MLB-leading 28 steals in 76 games this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; Kansas City shortstop\u00a0Bobby Witt Jr.\u00a0left the\u00a0Royals&#8217;\u00a014-6 win\u00a0over the\u00a0St. Louis Cardinals\u00a0on Thursday night because of right knee discomfort after making a sliding play in the field. With the bases loaded in the fourth inning, Witt went to his knees to prevent\u00a0Jordan Walker&#8217;s RBI single from getting to the outfield. Witt was checked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417753,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417752\/revisions\/417753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}