Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 17, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Connor Seabold	Lat	08-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 30
James McArthur	Elbow	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Jonathan India	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Beck Way	Back	08-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 25
Luinder Avila	Elbow	01-31-2028Expected to be out until at least Feb 1, 2028
Jac Caglianone	Ankle	08-19-2026Probable for Aug 20

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	09-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 24
Michael Burrows	Elbow	08-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 25
Jeremy Pena	Hand	08-19-2026Probable for Aug 20
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brice Matthews	Knee	09-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 12

	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	109	426	68	121	47	15	50	84	.284	.360	.455	.815	26	1	33	6	379
J. Caglianone RF	119	426	58	119	60	22	29	118	.279	.332	.495	.827	22	2	6	2	314
C. Jensen C	119	416	56	92	56	16	49	137	.221	.303	.401	.704	25	1	1	1	262
S. Perez DH	118	452	42	97	55	16	19	97	.215	.261	.365	.626	18	1	0	0	244
M. Massey 2B	106	327	44	89	42	11	18	62	.272	.306	.440	.746	20	1	2	0	221
I. Collins LF	115	359	40	81	36	6	48	93	.226	.325	.348	.673	20	3	6	5	215
V. Pasquantino 1B	82	305	37	74	36	7	38	60	.243	.327	.367	.694	13	2	4	0	203
N. Loftin 3B	89	269	33	62	35	5	32	49	.230	.322	.368	.690	20	1	2	1	183
M. Garcia 3B	72	282	34	75	32	3	24	47	.266	.321	.379	.700	17	3	5	4	179
T. Tolbert SS	58	96	25	30	8	3	10	19	.313	.374	.458	.832	5	0	17	3	108
K. Isbel CF	70	205	21	47	17	4	12	51	.229	.279	.332	.611	7	1	5	0	105
J. Rave RF	26	58	10	12	5	2	5	14	.207	.270	.431	.701	5	1	2	0	42
J. Rojas 3B	30	76	6	17	9	1	3	13	.224	.253	.303	.556	3	0	1	0	36
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
L. Maile C	8	21	2	5	5	1	1	8	.238	.273	.429	.702	1	0	0	0	13
A. Velazquez SS	6	15	0	1	0	0	0	2	.067	.067	.067	.134	0	0	1	0	2
Total	128	4282	535	1047	511	128	397	1008	.245	.313	.395	.708	227	17	97	28	2540

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	25	25	6-8	0	0	155.2	3.58	138	66	62	21	41	120	.237	1.15	331
N. Cameron SP	24	23	7-8	0	0	138.1	4.16	126	69	64	14	43	126	.240	1.22	275
S. Lugo SP	26	26	5-7	0	0	145.1	4.71	155	84	76	16	46	111	.278	1.38	249
D. Lynch IV RP	49	3	4-4	1	3	54.0	2.83	39	21	17	4	16	41	.196	1.02	123
S. Cruz RP	45	2	2-3	5	6	47.1	4.37	39	24	23	12	18	51	.223	1.20	119
L. Erceg RP	47	0	4-4	12	18	43.1	6.23	53	35	30	5	29	31	.312	1.89	119
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
A. Lange RP	48	0	2-7	10	13	49.2	5.98	49	35	33	6	26	53	.258	1.51	111
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	108
L. Avila SP	21	12	5-4	0	0	70.0	5.53	71	43	43	7	42	61	.272	1.61	100
R. Dobnak SP	8	6	2-1	0	0	41.2	1.73	38	8	8	2	16	25	.242	1.30	87
N. Pearson RP	10	0	1-1	1	2	9.2	0.93	4	1	1	0	4	9	.125	0.83	76
J. Schreiber RP	50	0	0-3	1	4	45.0	3.60	40	21	18	7	21	33	.245	1.36	63
C. Kimbrel RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.167	0.86	57
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
J. Rojas 3B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	36
M. Black RP	15	0	0-0	0	0	28.2	3.77	27	12	12	5	19	19	.250	1.60	35
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
J. Cuas RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	11.0	1.64	12	2	2	0	4	13	.279	1.45	21
C. Duran RP	1	0	1-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.250	1.00	9
E. McGee RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	11.81	11	7	7	2	3	6	.423	2.63	2
A. Bummer RP	2	0	0-1	0	0	1.1	40.50	6	6	6	1	1	0	.600	5.25	-1
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
C. Thomas RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.00	-17
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	128	128	54-74	31	54	1124.1	4.79	1113	639	598	161	469	938	.259	1.41	2135

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	125	454	83	144	88	36	86	95	.317	.430	.610	1.040	25	0	1	0	495
I. Paredes 3B	120	439	48	114	67	16	49	69	.260	.354	.421	.775	21	1	0	0	331
C. Walker 1B	123	452	61	104	71	23	42	120	.230	.308	.440	.748	24	1	0	0	322
C. Smith RF	124	405	54	90	47	17	35	111	.222	.290	.400	.690	15	3	10	2	266
J. Pena SS	79	311	59	88	40	14	21	69	.283	.338	.469	.807	14	1	8	1	252
J. Altuve 2B	101	390	56	96	37	13	35	87	.246	.310	.397	.707	16	2	4	2	247
D. Varsho CF	12	44	3	6	3	1	6	11	.136	.240	.205	.445	0	0	1	0	220
Y. Diaz C	66	234	25	59	28	8	9	38	.252	.280	.393	.673	9	0	0	1	135
C. Vazquez C	74	210	21	46	25	7	17	44	.219	.276	.352	.628	7	0	1	0	117
T. Trammell LF	69	181	26	39	20	7	19	66	.215	.304	.387	.691	6	2	3	3	109
B. Matthews LF	82	208	23	41	22	7	15	71	.197	.250	.332	.582	5	1	4	4	97
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
N. Allen 2B	70	115	20	29	13	2	7	27	.252	.294	.339	.633	4	0	2	0	70
J. Meyers CF	54	141	15	30	11	3	10	31	.213	.268	.326	.594	7	0	1	2	67
L. Wade Jr. LF	34	84	11	19	15	2	16	21	.226	.350	.345	.695	4	0	0	0	60
J. Loperfido LF	39	102	13	22	12	1	14	31	.216	.314	.333	.647	7	1	1	1	59
B. Shewmake 3B	30	78	10	20	9	3	2	13	.256	.272	.423	.695	4	0	0	0	54
N. Velazquez LF	3	4	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	50
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
Z. Dezenzo LF	35	75	11	16	3	1	7	31	.213	.280	.307	.587	4	0	1	0	30
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
R. Delgado 2B	17	33	3	9	4	1	2	5	.273	.314	.394	.708	1	0	0	0	19
L. Spence CF	14	37	4	6	3	0	3	15	.162	.244	.189	.433	1	0	0	1	9
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	127	4272	580	1035	553	170	423	1033	.242	.317	.411	.728	184	13	40	17	3167

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
P. Lambert SP	21	21	8-6	0	0	118.2	3.11	91	42	41	12	46	117	.208	1.15	277
J. Hader RP	32	0	4-1	18	18	31.0	0.87	13	3	3	1	11	41	.123	0.77	235
S. Okert RP	62	1	6-1	0	1	62.2	2.01	40	15	14	6	13	64	.183	0.85	186
A. Blubaugh RP	48	0	4-2	1	1	78.0	3.35	60	31	29	10	33	79	.214	1.19	174
H. Brown SP	13	13	3-3	0	0	68.2	3.67	49	30	28	9	40	72	.199	1.30	142
E. De Los Santos RP	55	0	2-3	5	7	58.2	4.14	55	31	27	7	13	53	.246	1.16	141
B. Abreu RP	49	0	4-3	7	8	46.0	4.30	32	24	22	7	33	59	.198	1.41	138
T. Imai SP	17	15	6-4	0	0	64.2	5.29	53	38	38	9	42	80	.222	1.47	134
B. King RP	50	1	2-3	6	10	51.2	4.01	52	25	23	7	19	43	.259	1.37	118
K. Teng RP	25	10	5-6	0	0	68.1	4.35	62	37	33	10	30	67	.238	1.35	113
M. Burrows SP	18	17	4-9	0	0	94.2	5.99	112	69	63	21	35	75	.292	1.55	102
J. Meyers CF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	67
H. Wesneski SP	4	4	2-1	0	0	22.2	5.16	23	13	13	2	7	18	.271	1.32	48
A. Santa RP	10	0	0-1	0	0	15.1	1.17	8	6	2	1	6	9	.160	0.91	29
B. Sousa RP	18	0	1-1	0	0	15.1	3.52	15	8	6	2	8	17	.254	1.50	27
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
C. Javier SP	11	7	1-4	0	0	36.1	6.44	44	26	26	7	17	30	.299	1.68	25
L. VanWey RP	5	0	1-0	0	0	6.0	1.50	5	2	1	0	0	5	.250	0.83	21
R. Blanco SP	5	4	0-1	0	0	23.1	7.71	22	20	20	7	12	20	.253	1.46	20
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
M. Ullola RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	4.50	4	3	3	2	1	9	.182	0.83	14
E. Pecko SP	1	1	0-0	0	0	3.2	4.91	3	2	2	0	3	4	.214	1.64	4
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
Total	127	127	64-63	39	47	1127.1	4.55	1006	611	570	168	523	1109	.238	1.36	2057

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