Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 16, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Cole Ragans	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Maikel Garcia	Hand	06-20-2026Probable for Jun 21
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 30
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
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	Knee	06-20-2026Probable for Jun 21
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	07-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 6
LaMonte Wade	Hamstring	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Nick Allen	Hamstring	06-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 20
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Braden Shewmake	Thigh	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	76	299	40	88	32	10	35	57	.294	.368	.465	.833	19	1	28	4	270
M. Garcia 3B	67	259	32	69	30	3	24	44	.266	.326	.378	.704	16	2	5	3	169
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
C. Jensen C	70	235	33	56	38	9	23	72	.238	.303	.421	.724	16	0	1	0	160
J. Caglianone RF	71	241	32	65	24	10	22	79	.270	.341	.452	.793	12	1	3	1	156
S. Perez C	71	279	27	58	27	10	12	56	.208	.250	.344	.594	8	0	0	0	139
I. Collins LF	68	212	27	48	23	3	32	61	.226	.339	.321	.660	11	0	4	4	128
M. Massey 2B	59	168	22	43	25	7	6	31	.256	.277	.452	.729	12	0	1	0	115
L. Thomas CF	62	155	19	36	20	5	29	38	.232	.356	.368	.724	6	0	3	3	111
N. Loftin 2B	41	113	15	27	20	1	17	18	.239	.346	.389	.735	12	1	0	0	90
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	34	83	8	23	6	1	5	25	.277	.330	.361	.691	4	0	0	1	37
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	22	21	7	4	1	0	3	9	.190	.280	.190	.470	0	0	5	2	18
J. Rave RF	3	6	3	3	1	1	3	1	.500	.667	1.500	2.167	1	1	0	0	15
K. Misner CF	7	16	0	6	3	0	1	6	.375	.412	.375	.787	0	0	1	1	8
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	77	2580	321	637	308	73	263	607	.247	.320	.392	.712	137	9	59	19	1703

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	15	15	4-5	0	0	94.0	3.64	82	40	38	10	28	72	.236	1.17	199
S. Lugo SP	15	15	3-4	0	0	85.1	3.69	87	39	35	7	28	66	.269	1.35	166
N. Cameron SP	14	14	4-4	0	0	75.0	4.20	76	40	35	8	19	70	.255	1.27	152
S. Kolek SP	8	8	4-1	0	0	50.1	2.68	42	18	15	5	10	34	.225	1.03	138
L. Erceg RP	29	0	3-3	12	18	27.1	5.60	32	19	17	2	19	23	.299	1.87	114
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
D. Lynch RP	32	0	2-1	1	3	32.0	2.53	20	12	9	2	11	30	.172	0.97	85
A. Lange RP	32	0	0-4	5	5	34.0	3.97	29	17	15	2	19	35	.234	1.41	67
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
J. Schreiber RP	33	0	0-3	1	2	30.2	2.64	24	10	9	5	11	22	.224	1.14	50
L. Avila RP	14	5	2-3	0	0	37.2	5.50	39	23	23	4	23	33	.277	1.65	43
M. Strahm RP	25	0	3-1	0	3	22.2	6.75	24	17	17	8	8	18	.264	1.41	42
C. Seabold RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	32
S. Cruz RP	19	0	1-2	0	1	20.1	5.75	18	14	13	7	12	27	.234	1.48	28
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	18
B. Way RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	7.1	4.91	8	4	4	1	5	10	.276	1.77	10
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
M. Spence SP	2	1	0-1	0	0	8.0	13.50	11	12	12	1	6	4	.324	2.13	-8
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
Total	77	77	32-45	20	36	681.1	4.48	651	363	339	93	292	598	.252	1.38	1332

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	76	278	52	90	55	24	47	57	.324	.428	.637	1.065	15	0	1	0	309
C. Walker 1B	76	285	43	69	52	18	26	67	.242	.313	.488	.801	14	1	0	0	230
I. Paredes 3B	70	248	30	59	36	10	30	49	.238	.344	.415	.759	14	0	0	0	185
C. Smith RF	76	254	30	57	26	7	27	77	.224	.307	.362	.669	12	1	8	1	155
J. Altuve 2B	54	205	33	48	20	8	22	52	.234	.310	.405	.715	11	0	1	2	133
J. Pena SS	39	152	28	44	18	6	12	25	.289	.351	.461	.812	8	0	5	1	127
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Vazquez C	51	149	16	33	19	4	13	27	.221	.284	.342	.626	6	0	0	0	85
B. Matthews CF	64	172	18	36	18	6	12	59	.209	.259	.355	.614	5	1	2	4	79
J. Meyers CF	40	116	13	25	11	3	9	24	.216	.276	.336	.612	5	0	1	2	61
Y. Diaz C	28	108	8	26	14	2	4	18	.241	.263	.352	.615	6	0	0	1	54
J. Loperfido LF	28	75	11	18	7	0	12	22	.240	.348	.333	.681	7	0	1	1	46
B. Shewmake SS	28	74	8	18	8	3	2	13	.243	.260	.405	.665	3	0	0	0	41
T. Trammell CF	28	75	9	21	7	0	6	30	.280	.341	.373	.714	5	1	1	0	38
N. Allen SS	37	64	12	16	5	1	3	14	.250	.290	.328	.618	2	0	1	0	37
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
Z. Dezenzo LF	21	47	5	9	2	1	4	19	.191	.255	.340	.595	4	0	0	0	17
L. Wade LF	4	12	2	4	4	1	1	3	.333	.385	.750	1.135	2	0	0	0	14
S. Whitcomb 3B	17	23	2	3	5	2	1	11	.130	.167	.391	.558	0	0	0	0	11
R. Delgado 3B	4	7	1	3	2	0	0	1	.429	.429	.429	.858	0	0	0	0	5
C. Salazar C	9	18	0	1	1	0	3	3	.056	.227	.056	.283	0	0	0	0	4
C. Price C	7	12	1	2	0	0	1	6	.167	.231	.250	.481	1	0	0	0	2
Total	77	2592	353	633	338	102	258	633	.244	.319	.416	.735	129	5	24	12	1785

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	11	11	7-2	0	0	63.0	2.57	45	20	18	3	32	60	.200	1.22	168
P. Lambert SP	11	11	6-4	0	0	64.0	3.23	46	23	23	6	25	58	.199	1.11	159
B. King RP	29	0	2-1	6	9	31.1	2.59	28	11	9	1	13	24	.237	1.31	103
A. Blubaugh RP	29	0	3-2	0	0	46.2	3.86	33	21	20	5	27	41	.200	1.29	90
E. De Los Santos RP	31	0	0-1	4	5	32.0	4.22	27	16	15	2	8	31	.223	1.09	84
M. Burrows SP	15	14	3-8	0	0	79.1	5.79	95	54	51	18	30	66	.296	1.58	82
K. Teng RP	21	8	3-6	0	0	54.1	4.31	47	29	26	9	26	58	.232	1.34	81
S. Okert RP	35	1	0-0	0	0	35.1	2.55	21	10	10	3	10	31	.174	0.88	78
T. Imai SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	41.0	6.15	35	28	28	6	24	48	.230	1.44	78
J. Hader RP	7	0	1-0	4	4	7.0	1.29	2	1	1	1	1	11	.087	0.43	57
B. Abreu RP	28	0	2-3	5	5	24.1	6.66	22	20	18	6	24	33	.247	1.89	56
H. Brown SP	3	3	1-0	0	0	16.1	1.10	8	2	2	0	9	24	.145	1.04	52
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
N. Pearson RP	8	0	1-0	1	1	9.2	2.79	7	3	3	1	4	10	.200	1.14	34
A. Santa RP	8	0	0-1	0	0	12.2	0.71	5	5	1	0	5	8	.125	0.79	26
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
L. VanWey RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	5	.100	0.33	10
J. France RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Gordon RP	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	77	77	36-41	21	25	679.1	4.85	617	388	366	98	344	660	.242	1.41	1242

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