Royals' Isaac Collins exits match vs Tigers with right knee contusion originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.On Tuesday night, the Kansas City Royals took to the field against the Detroit Tigers, looking to get a win in the series opener against their division rivals. Things were going smoothly for Kansas City until the bottom of the first inning, when Isaac Collins stumbled into the seating section after a foul ball.What’s the latest on Collins’ injury?On top of coming away from the play without securing the out, Collins was slow to get up from where he was in the seating, and would be removed from Tuesday night’s action shortly after.

IT would be some time before Kansas City would have a prognosis on what Collins was removed for, and the verdict would be a contusion in his right knee.Isaac Collins exited tonight's game with a right knee contusion.— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) April 14, 2026While there isn’t more information regarding the 28-year-old’s status at this time in the bigger picture, it will come in the midst of what has been a shaky start to the season, one that is seeing him slash .214/.327/.310 across his 15 appearances. Despite it not sounding all too impressive, Collins has proven to be a middle-of-the-pack batter for Kansas City this season, which isn’t the worst way to get his time with the Royals started, after he was traded in the offseason from the Milwaukee Brewers.The Royals would replace the 28-year-old with Tyler Tolbert, who has yet to record a hit this season in any of his four games.More MLB news:Braves predicted to trade Bryce Elder for Lars NootbaarJacob DeGrom is only 149 strikeouts from 2,000 for his careerThree ways Pirates' Paul Skenes could lose NL Cy Young AwardGiancarlo Stanton has an absurd 2-for-4 streak going on for YankeesMets didn’t want to trade Brett Baty while White Sox didn’t want Mark Vientos in Luis Robert Jr. tradeHow Blue Jays' Kazuma Okamoto is connected to Rockies' Tomoyuki SuganoRed Sox never close on Astros’ Isaac Paredes tradeShohei Ohtani deemed more valuable than Aaron Judge in recent ESPN discussion piece