{"id":84570,"date":"2024-08-30T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=84570"},"modified":"2024-08-30T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:18:52","slug":"vinnie-pasquantino-broken-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/30\/vinnie-pasquantino-broken-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Royals Hitter to Miss Significant Time with Broken Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals suffered two blows on Thursday. Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/erceglu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucas Erceg<\/a> (hand) was unable to field a groundball and he rushed a throw to first base, causing first baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pasquvi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> to move into the path of the baserunner. The aftermath of that incident left the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Royals\/status\/1829527115450225112\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royals to announce<\/a> that Pasquantino is out with a broken right thumb. He is scheduled for further testing on Friday but won&#8217;t return for six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lucas Erceg and Vinnie Pasquantino both exit this game with apparent injuries in the bottom of the eighth inning. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Royals<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a7jl7eWd31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/a7jl7eWd31<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bally Sports Kansas City (@BallySportsKC) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BallySportsKC\/status\/1829345335149461533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/prattni01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Pratto<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/loftini01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Loftin<\/a> are options to be called up from Triple-A Omaha to fill in at first base. Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/perezsa02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salvador Perez<\/a> might get more action in the position while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fermifr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freddy Fermin<\/a> is the catcher.<\/p>\n<h2>Vinnie Pasquantino to Miss Six to Eight Weeks with Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Erceg, 29, has been a key part of the Royals bullpen <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/30\/report-royals-acquire-erceg\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">since coming over<\/a> from the Oakland Athletics. He has a 2.63 ERA in 13 2\/3 innings with 16 strikeouts for the Royals. Pasquantino, 26, has been Kansas City&#8217;s cleanup hitter between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wittbo02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> and Perez. He&#8217;s hitting a robust .262\/.315\/.446 with 30 doubles, 16 home runs and 97 RBI. Pasquantino&#8217;s 97 RBI are the fourth most in baseball behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/judgeaa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Judge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=ramirjo01,ramirjo02&amp;search=Jos\u00e9+Ram\u00edrez&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ozunama01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcell Ozuna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding long-term injuries has helped the Royals enter the postseason picture. However, losing both Erceg and Pasquantino is one of the hits the club has taken of late. Veteran relievers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harvehu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunter Harvey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=smithwi05,smithwi04,smith-091wil,smith-090wil,smith-088wil&amp;search=Will+Smith&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Smith<\/a> remain sidelined with back injuries. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/29\/michael-lorenzen-rangers-royals-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Newly acquired<\/a> right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lorenmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Lorenzen<\/a> went on the 15-day injured list with a left hamstring strain. The Royals will have to rely on their depth through this challenging time.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals are 16-11 since the trade deadline, and after trailing 10 games behind the Cleveland Guardians, they enter the weekend only 1 1\/2 games back in the American League Central. Playing good baseball down the stretch will be important, and a bad week could have major ramifications regarding postseason aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals suffered two blows on Thursday. Right-hander Lucas Erceg (hand) was unable to field a groundball and he rushed a throw to first base, causing first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino to move into the path of the baserunner. The aftermath of that incident left the Royals to announce that Pasquantino is out with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":84571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1071,35],"tags":[2583,2826,4339,126,527,28452,305],"class_list":["post-84570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royals","category-mlb","category-news","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-lucas-erceg","tag-michael-lorenzen","tag-salvador-perez","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-will-smith"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}