Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 21, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Justin Verlander	Hamstring	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Burch Smith	Shoulder	08-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 8
Jack Flaherty	Forearm	08-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 21
Wenceel Perez	Orbital	08-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 16
Will Vest	Elbow	08-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 27
Parker Meadows	Arm	07-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 30
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
Matt Vierling	Groin	07-30-2026Probable for Jul 31
Kerry Carpenter	Foot	08-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 6
Jackson Jobe	Elbow	08-10-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 11
Trey Sweeney	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brant Hurter	Back	08-10-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 11
Bailey Horn	Elbow	08-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Sep 1, 2027

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	08-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 20
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Maikel Garcia	Hand	08-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 7
Connor Seabold	Lat	08-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 4
Kris Bubic	Elbow	08-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 10
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 31
James McArthur	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Jonathan India	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Bobby Witt	Back	07-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 31
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	08-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 10
Beck Way	Back	08-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 9
Vinnie Pasquantino	Wrist	08-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 8

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Tigers DET-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
K. McGonigle SS	105	400	66	114	37	9	65	65	.285	.388	.418	.806	20	3	11	1	326
D. Dingler C	100	373	55	100	68	22	26	91	.268	.333	.515	.848	22	2	0	0	307
R. Greene LF	108	390	58	108	52	15	57	120	.277	.368	.456	.824	23	1	2	1	290
S. Torkelson 1B	108	367	46	77	54	20	45	133	.210	.302	.422	.724	18	0	0	1	237
C. Keith 3B	99	288	41	76	26	8	18	59	.264	.312	.417	.729	12	4	4	0	186
K. Carpenter RF	81	231	27	48	36	13	18	75	.208	.276	.416	.692	5	2	0	0	144
M. Vierling CF	92	266	24	55	31	5	19	49	.207	.255	.335	.590	13	3	4	2	144
G. Torres 2B	52	189	29	51	23	5	34	45	.270	.383	.392	.775	8	0	0	0	139
Z. McKinstry 2B	84	256	24	53	23	4	28	47	.207	.283	.316	.599	10	3	1	4	130
H. Lee 2B	67	184	17	50	26	6	9	49	.272	.303	.435	.738	10	1	1	2	107
W. Perez RF	53	161	22	29	17	7	14	29	.180	.246	.348	.594	4	1	3	1	99
J. Outman CF	35	90	12	15	13	4	5	41	.167	.219	.322	.541	0	1	2	1	68
J. Baez SS	26	87	13	25	8	2	2	17	.287	.308	.425	.733	6	0	1	1	53
E. Valencia DH	8	23	8	9	7	4	0	6	.391	.417	.913	1.330	0	0	0	0	34
B. Malgeri RF	19	35	3	10	5	0	6	9	.286	.381	.343	.724	2	0	0	0	21
P. Meadows CF	12	36	3	9	2	0	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.641	1	1	3	0	21
G. Workman 3B	16	38	3	6	5	2	0	16	.158	.158	.395	.553	3	0	0	0	15
J. Jung DH	3	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542	0	0	0	0	3
T. Cruz RF	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	-1
Total	109	3649	473	870	451	131	380	943	.238	.314	.403	.717	163	23	33	16	2323

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
T. Skubal SP	16	16	7-5	0	0	96.2	2.79	74	33	30	10	14	116	.210	0.91	277
K. Montero SP	23	17	7-6	1	1	110.1	3.34	89	45	41	11	23	79	.217	1.02	260
C. Mize SP	16	16	4-6	0	0	86.2	2.70	67	27	26	5	19	85	.213	0.99	211
T. Melton SP	11	11	6-1	0	0	67.0	1.75	41	14	13	8	21	60	.174	0.93	209
F. Valdez SP	21	21	5-7	0	0	113.1	4.53	115	63	57	12	41	92	.257	1.38	191
K. Jansen RP	32	0	2-4	12	16	28.2	3.77	17	13	12	5	18	32	.168	1.22	133
D. Anderson RP	39	2	4-4	2	7	62.1	4.33	58	33	30	9	24	76	.242	1.32	131
Z. McKinstry 2B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	0	3	0	.400	5.00	130
J. Flaherty SP	19	19	3-8	0	0	86.1	4.59	80	52	44	11	42	102	.240	1.41	124
K. Finnegan RP	46	0	2-0	2	9	46.0	2.93	44	15	15	6	26	36	.263	1.52	98
E. De Jesus RP	22	0	2-0	1	1	31.2	3.98	27	17	14	1	13	31	.227	1.26	77
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
T. Holton RP	45	2	1-4	1	2	47.1	3.04	52	21	16	6	11	37	.280	1.33	72
T. Madden RP	10	1	0-0	0	0	27.0	2.67	17	8	8	2	10	31	.173	1.00	60
W. Vest RP	27	0	3-5	2	7	26.2	6.08	28	22	18	2	10	27	.275	1.43	45
J. Waguespack RP	15	0	0-1	0	0	20.0	1.80	9	5	4	3	7	13	.136	0.80	40
B. Hanifee RP	21	2	0-0	0	0	20.1	3.98	21	9	9	4	6	8	.269	1.33	28
B. Smith RP	13	1	0-2	0	0	17.0	3.18	18	8	6	2	7	20	.277	1.47	20
B. Brieske RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	6.75	9	7	7	3	4	8	.257	1.39	12
D. Sommers RP	22	0	0-2	0	1	14.2	4.91	17	9	8	2	8	21	.293	1.70	10
J. Verlander SP	1	1	0-1	0	0	3.2	12.27	6	5	5	1	2	1	.353	2.18	-6
R. Vanasco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	6.1	15.63	14	12	11	2	6	4	.412	3.16	-15
Total	109	109	51-58	21	45	965.2	3.63	840	435	389	108	333	914	.232	1.21	2179

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	94	369	51	103	39	13	41	73	.279	.350	.450	.800	22	1	30	5	316
C. Jensen C	101	355	45	84	53	14	36	118	.237	.305	.423	.728	24	0	1	0	228
J. Caglianone RF	100	354	46	89	38	16	27	109	.251	.311	.446	.757	17	2	3	1	223
S. Perez DH	101	393	39	84	45	15	17	89	.214	.263	.372	.635	15	1	0	0	213
I. Collins LF	98	307	38	73	34	6	42	83	.238	.339	.362	.701	18	1	6	5	196
L. Thomas CF	94	279	31	64	37	10	38	77	.229	.324	.394	.718	16	0	7	3	190
V. Pasquantino 1B	79	293	34	68	33	6	37	60	.232	.318	.345	.663	11	2	4	0	185
M. Massey 2B	89	267	36	72	36	8	16	50	.270	.307	.431	.738	19	0	2	0	182
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
N. Loftin 3B	71	214	30	55	35	5	24	34	.257	.340	.416	.756	17	1	1	0	168
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
T. Tolbert SS	45	68	21	22	6	3	6	12	.324	.373	.485	.858	2	0	13	3	83
S. Marte RF	51	129	13	33	9	1	8	36	.256	.315	.310	.625	4	0	2	2	58
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
J. Rojas 3B	22	53	6	14	6	1	2	9	.264	.291	.377	.668	3	0	1	0	31
J. Rave RF	9	18	3	4	1	1	3	7	.222	.333	.611	.944	2	1	0	0	14
L. Maile C	4	12	2	3	4	1	1	3	.250	.308	.583	.891	1	0	0	0	12
A. Velazquez SS	5	13	0	1	0	0	0	2	.077	.077	.077	.154	0	0	1	0	2
Total	109	3667	456	901	434	110	343	883	.246	.314	.397	.711	199	12	84	23	2392

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	21	21	5-7	0	0	132.1	3.60	117	55	53	16	38	104	.238	1.17	278
S. Lugo SP	22	22	4-6	0	0	123.2	4.22	129	66	58	15	40	96	.274	1.37	223
N. Cameron SP	20	19	5-8	0	0	107.2	4.93	115	64	59	14	37	100	.270	1.41	170
L. Erceg RP	41	0	4-3	12	18	39.1	5.26	43	27	23	5	23	27	.287	1.68	135
D. Lynch IV RP	45	0	4-2	1	3	45.0	2.00	30	13	10	2	12	34	.183	0.93	123
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
L. Avila SP	20	11	5-3	0	0	67.1	4.81	67	37	36	6	39	59	.269	1.57	110
A. Lange RP	42	0	1-6	10	13	42.2	6.33	42	32	30	4	24	44	.258	1.55	96
S. Cruz RP	37	2	2-3	2	3	39.0	4.38	32	20	19	10	17	46	.222	1.26	84
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	83
R. Dobnak SP	5	3	1-0	0	0	26.0	1.04	21	3	3	2	10	14	.219	1.19	61
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
N. Pearson RP	1	0	1-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	1.00	54
J. Schreiber RP	45	0	0-3	1	3	40.2	3.76	39	20	17	7	17	29	.262	1.38	54
M. Strahm RP	39	0	3-3	0	3	34.2	6.75	36	27	26	10	14	29	.257	1.44	46
B. Way RP	19	1	1-1	0	0	23.1	3.86	27	13	10	4	10	21	.293	1.59	34
C. Seabold RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	9.00	7	6	5	0	4	5	.318	2.20	31
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
E. Morgan RP	16	0	0-1	1	1	19.1	5.12	24	11	11	5	9	16	.300	1.71	22
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
J. Cuas RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	6.1	2.84	8	2	2	0	2	9	.296	1.58	11
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	109	109	46-63	27	47	959.1	4.78	960	549	510	141	410	812	.262	1.43	1871

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