{"id":97332,"date":"2025-03-12T22:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=97332"},"modified":"2025-03-12T22:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:47:33","slug":"royals-superstar-bobby-witt-jr-hit-by-pitch-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/12\/royals-superstar-bobby-witt-jr-hit-by-pitch-contusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Witt Jr. Has Elbow Contusion After Being Hit by Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/05\/royals-witt-jr-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> was hit on the left forearm by a pitch today but will avoid a long absence, according to <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1899974289861837289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan<\/a>. The Royals later announced that Witt has a forearm contusion, and X-rays showed no fracture. The timetable for <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/bobby-witt-jr-exits-after-being-hit-by-a-pitch?msockid=196d73f2550764972df461955479659f\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Witt<\/a>&#8216;s return is currently unknown, but it looks like the worst-case scenario was avoided, which is great news for the Royals. For obvious reasons, Kansas City&#8217;s season would&#8217;ve changed completely if this had been a serious injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bobby Witt Jr. has a left forearm contusion. X-rays are negative for a fracture. He will be reevaluated in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Royals\/status\/1899974573149610017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>No Broken Bones After Bobby Witt Jr. Hit by Pitch<\/h2>\n<h3>All Royals Fans Should Take a Deep Breath<\/h3>\n<p>All Royals fans should be breathing a sigh of relief right now. Not just because Witt Jr. avoided serious injury, but also because it happened in spring training. Opening Day is coming up fast, but there&#8217;s still time. The Royals will have every opportunity to make sure Witt fully recovers from this injury. It won&#8217;t hurt the Royals because these games don&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>The big question is, will <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/06\/bobby-witt-jr-rise\/\" target=\"_self\">Witt<\/a> be ready for Opening Day? While that is a valid question, the Royals will be in no hurry to get him back on the field. They&#8217;ll want to make sure that he&#8217;s back to full strength. It wouldn&#8217;t be worth rushing him back early in the season and risking him getting injured again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Manager Matt Quatraro said Bobby Witt Jr. \u201csaid initially that he just lost feeling in his fingers, but he said it was coming back. They\u2019re going to get an X-ray just to make sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video courtesy of Royals videographer Mick Larson. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NDVki3KjGu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/NDVki3KjGu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anne__rogers\/status\/1899959421054443809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Witt Cannot Be Matched<\/h3>\n<p>With Witt&#8217;s skill set, he is a player who simply cannot be matched with what he brings to the field. He&#8217;s the franchise player in Kansas City, and the Royals will be nothing in 2025 if he&#8217;s not healthy. If recovering from the injury means Opening Day is out of the picture, the Royals will have no issue with Witt missing it.<\/p>\n<p>There should be more information on his injury in the next day or two, but as of now, things are looking up. It&#8217;s always a grueling time as a baseball fan waiting on an injury update on a key player, but the prognosis of a contusion looks like Witt Jr. and the Royals dodged a bullet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals superstar Bobby Witt Jr. was hit on the left forearm by a pitch today but will avoid a long absence, according to ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan. The Royals later announced that Witt has a forearm contusion, and X-rays showed no fracture. The timetable for Witt&#8216;s return is currently unknown, but it looks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5319,"featured_media":97359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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],"class_list":["post-97332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royals","category-mlb","category-news","tag-bobby-witt-jr"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97332","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\/5319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97363,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97332\/revisions\/97363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}