{"id":31880,"date":"2025-09-06T05:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/witt-jr-leaves-royals-game-with-lower-back-spasms\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:01:02","slug":"witt-jr-leaves-royals-game-with-lower-back-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/witt-jr-leaves-royals-game-with-lower-back-spasms\/","title":{"rendered":"Witt Jr. Leaves Royals Game with Lower Back Spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bobby Witt Jr. Leaves Game with Lower Back Spasms<\/h2>\n\nKansas City, Mo. &#8211; Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. was forced to leave Friday&#8217;s game against the Minnesota Twins due to lower back spasms.\n\nWitt Jr. left the game in the seventh inning, in the Royals&#8217; 2-1 victory. The player made two defensive plays in the top of the sixth inning, but subsequently felt discomfort.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cIt happened in that at-bat before we took him out,\u201d Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. \u201cHe talked to the trainer, Kyle Turner. While he was sitting, it got worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<cite>Matt Quatraro, Royals Manager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWith the Royals leading 2-1, Witt Jr. was replaced by Nick Loftin, who covered third base while Maikel Garcia moved to the shortstop position.\n\nManager Quatraro did not offer a prognosis on Witt Jr.&#8217;s recovery time.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cAt this point, we just think it\u2019s lower back spasms,\u201d Quatraro added. \u201cHe locked up pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<cite>Matt Quatraro, Royals Manager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBefore leaving the game, Witt Jr. went 0-3 with a strikeout.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Witt Jr. Leaves Game with Lower Back Spasms Kansas City, Mo. &#8211; Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. was forced to leave Friday&#8217;s game against the Minnesota Twins due to lower back spasms. Witt Jr. left the game in the seventh inning, in the Royals&#8217; 2-1 victory. The player made two defensive plays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8372,3811,321,316],"class_list":{"0":"post-31880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-back-spasms","9":"tag-bobby-witt-jr","10":"tag-royals","11":"tag-twins"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}