Royals rookie Carter Jensen scratched from lineup after sleeping through his alarm before game: 'It sucks'

Kansas City Royals seasoned catcher Salvador Perez was expecting to DH for his squad successful Thursday’s day tilt against nan Minnesota Twins.

Unfortunately for nan 36-year-old, he had to get backmost down nan sheet aft rookie Carter Jensen was unavailable to play catcher for nan Royals aft sleeping done his alarm.

Jensen was scratched precocious arsenic nan Royals’ starting catcher for nan game, but it’s usually an unwellness or injury that results successful specified a precocious alteration to nan lineup. But erstwhile Jensen came successful for nan ninth inning, and was seen catching warmup pitches earlier successful nan game, reporters were curious.

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Carter Jensen of nan Kansas City Royals takes nan section earlier nan crippled against nan Minnesota Twins astatine Kauffman Stadium successful Kansas City, Mo., connected March 30, 2026. (Mikayla Schlosser/MLB Photos)

Jensen, nan Royals’ apical prospect, didn’t dress up an elaborate lie. He slept done his siren and wasn’t capable to get to Kauffman Stadium successful clip to decently hole for nan game.

"No moving from it," Jensen told reporters, via MLB.com, aft a 5-1 nonaccomplishment to nan Twins. "Just didn’t aftermath up to my alarm. Slept done it. Don’t really person an excuse, nor should I. It sucks. Happens. I felt for illustration I fto my teammates down, coaches down. Just study from it and cognize it won’t hap again."

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Royals head Matt Quatraro added: "He’s a stand-up guy, a really difficult worker, a awesome kid. He feels terrible. He’s accountable to it. It’s not thing that has been a shape aliases immoderate of that benignant of stuff. Nobody feels worse than he does, and I deliberation he’ll admit to that. And we’ll move on."

While Quatraro took nan precocious roadworthy erstwhile asked astir Jensen, first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino laid into nan rookie successful big-brother fashion.

"You sewage a 36-year-old catcher preparing to DH coming and past his world gets a small rocked an hr and a half earlier nan crippled that he’s not going to beryllium DH-ing," he told reporters. "Credit to Salvy coming for being ready, first and foremost. We’re gladsome Carter’s OK, right? That was benignant of nan first thought erstwhile you’re trying to get a clasp of his parents and everything for illustration that. But erstwhile you find retired he’s OK, it’s like, ‘All right, it’s a increasing moment.’

Carter Jensen of nan Kansas City Royals looks connected during a crippled against nan Seattle Mariners astatine Kauffman Stadium successful Kansas City, Mo., connected Sept. 18, 2025. (Sydney Schneider/MLB Photos)

"He’s really young. There are immoderate things that cannot happen, and that’s 1 of them. He’s going to person to deterioration it connected nan chin, aforesaid measurement anybody would person to. It can’t happen."

Pasquantino added nan squad is "here for him," but he besides believes Jensen should apt put successful "another siren timepiece aliases something."

Jensen is already up of his teammate.

"There’s a batch to study from it. Making judge if I don’t group 1 alarm, possibly group three, four, arsenic galore arsenic possible. Moving forward, that’s what I’m going to do. Set a cardinal alarms. Make judge I’m up. It stinks, though."

Carter Jensen of nan Kansas City Royals walks to nan connected platform circle during a outpouring training crippled against nan Texas Rangers astatine Surprise Stadium successful Surprise, Ariz., connected March 18, 2026. (Brandon Sloter/Getty Images)

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Jensen is not conscionable nan Royals’ apical prospect, but nan 6-foot, 210-pound catcher is classed No. 16 wide by MLB Pipeline successful 2026.

In his six games to commencement nan 2026 season, Jensen has 2 hits successful 16 at-bats, including 1 location tally and 2 RBI.

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