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 the Minnesota Twins.

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

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

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

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

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

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Royals manager Matt Quatraro added: "He’s a stand-up guy, a truly hard worker, a large kid. He feels terrible. He’s accountable to it. It’s not thing that has been a signifier oregon immoderate of that benignant of stuff. Nobody feels worse than helium does, and I deliberation he’ll admit to that. And we’ll determination on."

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

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

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

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

Pasquantino added the squad is "here for him," but helium besides believes Jensen should apt put successful "another alarm timepiece oregon something."

Jensen is already up of his teammate.

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

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

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

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

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