Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 18, 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
Mitch Keller	Arm	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Ryan O'Hearn	Quadriceps	09-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 18
Endy Rodriguez	Hip	08-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 28
Konnor Griffin	Finger	09-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 4

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Pirates PIT-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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
B. Reynolds LF	129	475	85	124	66	15	75	135	.261	.370	.427	.797	30	2	9	0	387
B. Lowe 2B	120	475	76	120	80	27	47	153	.253	.318	.480	.798	25	1	2	0	360
N. Gonzales 3B	120	451	66	140	53	6	33	82	.310	.368	.404	.772	22	1	5	2	310
R. O'Hearn 1B	96	359	54	97	69	17	31	86	.270	.334	.454	.788	15	0	1	0	281
J. Mangum CF	106	346	50	103	28	4	21	70	.298	.352	.387	.739	15	2	21	7	242
O. Cruz CF	66	256	46	68	47	15	31	101	.266	.352	.480	.832	10	0	22	4	239
S. Horwitz 1B	87	293	37	75	38	10	44	49	.256	.362	.406	.768	12	1	1	0	222
K. Griffin SS	59	225	35	62	25	5	16	65	.276	.332	.404	.736	10	2	20	1	177
E. Valdez RF	59	196	34	48	41	14	35	87	.245	.357	.531	.888	12	1	0	1	170
J. Triolo SS	92	260	28	62	24	2	24	59	.238	.313	.308	.621	12	0	9	1	147
H. Davis C	82	223	28	38	32	8	23	55	.170	.267	.300	.567	5	0	2	1	132
E. Rodriguez C	45	135	20	36	20	7	23	41	.267	.373	.467	.840	6	0	6	1	116
J. Gonzalez SS	28	73	8	15	11	4	1	9	.205	.224	.411	.635	3	0	2	1	108
T. Callihan RF	40	95	13	20	15	3	9	38	.211	.283	.389	.672	4	2	1	0	58
R. Flores C	19	48	10	15	12	6	8	15	.313	.411	.729	1.140	2	0	0	0	57
N. Yorke 3B	30	86	7	19	12	1	7	20	.221	.292	.302	.594	4	0	1	0	46
B. Cook CF	69	48	11	9	2	0	1	19	.188	.204	.250	.454	1	1	5	1	25
R. Simon RF	9	31	4	9	2	0	2	4	.290	.333	.323	.656	1	0	1	0	18
J. Garcia CF	20	48	2	8	2	0	1	16	.167	.200	.188	.388	1	0	0	0	7
J. Brannigan 3B	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	129	4444	646	1136	616	155	461	1208	.256	.333	.411	.744	198	13	108	20	3102

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	25	25	13-5	0	0	149.1	3.68	128	67	61	21	33	159	.231	1.08	400
P. Skenes SP	26	26	9-11	0	0	139.0	3.95	118	69	61	14	41	171	.229	1.14	311
G. Soto RP	54	0	5-3	14	19	54.1	3.48	39	24	21	5	22	66	.197	1.12	228
B. Chandler SP	24	23	6-8	0	0	121.1	4.23	102	66	57	10	64	108	.225	1.37	204
M. Keller SP	22	22	6-8	0	0	115.2	5.29	117	73	68	15	42	89	.259	1.37	185
C. Mlodzinski RP	28	12	6-6	2	3	102.2	4.03	113	53	46	9	36	81	.276	1.45	180
M. Montgomery RP	52	5	5-3	5	7	50.1	3.40	36	20	19	5	21	82	.191	1.13	171
Y. Ramirez RP	50	1	6-3	1	3	68.1	3.03	48	27	23	4	41	79	.196	1.30	156
L. Bachar RP	4	1	0-0	0	0	10.0	3.60	7	4	4	3	3	11	.194	1.00	146
L. Weaver RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	9.00	5	3	3	0	1	3	.357	2.00	128
J. Jones SP	14	14	2-5	0	0	64.0	4.78	56	35	34	11	21	72	.230	1.20	113
C. Doval RP	9	0	0-0	0	0	9.0	2.00	5	2	2	1	8	9	.167	1.44	99
E. Sisk RP	36	0	1-0	0	2	40.2	2.66	33	12	12	2	18	47	.229	1.25	81
K. Yates RP	8	0	1-0	0	0	7.2	2.35	6	2	2	1	1	8	.207	0.91	73
T. Callihan RF	4	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	3	0	0	0	3	1	.250	2.00	58
R. Flores C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	.400	2.00	57
B. Eisert RP	7	0	0-1	0	0	7.0	7.71	10	6	6	0	4	8	.345	2.00	55
I. Mattson RP	37	0	0-0	0	2	36.2	4.91	40	20	20	3	18	34	.274	1.58	48
W. Dotel RP	15	0	1-4	0	1	28.2	4.71	27	17	15	2	13	31	.250	1.40	33
K. Curtis RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	0.00	2	0	0	0	2	4	.133	0.80	13
A. Kelly RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	7.1	6.14	8	5	5	2	4	4	.286	1.64	7
N. Murdock RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	3	0	0	0	3	4	.300	2.00	5
H. Barco RP	7	0	0-1	0	1	17.2	7.64	21	17	15	4	13	14	.296	1.92	4
C. Devenski RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	5	2	2	1	0	3	.417	2.14	1
Total	129	129	63-66	25	44	1150.2	4.29	1051	615	549	133	471	1196	.240	1.32	2756

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