Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 18, 2026 Gametracker

Expert Picks

Stats

Expert Picks

Matchup

Stats

Tweets

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Cole Ragans	Elbow	08-01-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 2, 2027
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 20
Connor Seabold	Lat	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
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
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	07-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 10
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-10-2026Probable for Jul 11

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Chris Devenski	Illness	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Oneil Cruz	Hand	07-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 24
Evan Sisk	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Endy Rodriguez	Lower Body	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Spencer Horwitz	Hamstring	07-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 24
Konnor Griffin	Finger	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Wilber Dotel	Lat	07-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 10

	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	88	347	50	100	39	13	39	65	.288	.359	.464	.823	20	1	30	5	312
C. Jensen C	86	297	41	73	49	13	30	94	.246	.312	.438	.750	18	0	1	0	206
J. Caglianone RF	87	307	42	79	34	14	25	101	.257	.320	.456	.776	15	2	3	1	199
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
S. Perez C	86	339	31	71	36	11	13	72	.209	.251	.345	.596	13	0	0	0	168
I. Collins LF	83	257	34	61	26	4	38	69	.237	.347	.346	.693	16	0	5	4	164
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
L. Thomas CF	79	219	26	51	30	7	34	57	.233	.339	.393	.732	14	0	4	3	154
M. Massey 2B	74	217	29	57	31	7	13	40	.263	.300	.429	.729	15	0	2	0	150
N. Loftin 3B	57	169	26	43	29	4	21	26	.254	.348	.426	.774	15	1	1	0	142
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
T. Tolbert SS	34	54	17	20	5	2	4	11	.370	.407	.500	.907	1	0	10	3	64
S. Marte RF	44	112	12	30	9	1	8	34	.268	.328	.330	.658	4	0	1	2	52
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
J. Rave RF	9	18	3	4	1	1	3	7	.222	.333	.611	.944	2	1	0	0	14
K. Misner CF	18	41	2	9	4	0	2	17	.220	.256	.244	.500	1	0	3	1	14
J. Rojas 3B	13	26	3	4	4	1	1	6	.154	.185	.308	.493	1	0	0	0	13
L. Maile C	2	6	2	1	3	1	1	2	.167	.286	.667	.953	0	0	0	0	9
Total	94	3165	405	783	386	95	307	756	.247	.318	.398	.716	172	10	73	22	2114

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	19	19	5-7	0	0	119.1	3.77	108	52	50	14	34	96	.243	1.19	245
S. Lugo SP	18	18	3-6	0	0	100.2	4.56	112	58	51	14	32	80	.286	1.43	166
N. Cameron SP	17	17	5-6	0	0	88.2	4.77	99	52	47	10	30	82	.277	1.45	149
L. Erceg RP	37	0	3-3	12	18	36.0	5.00	38	22	20	3	21	25	.277	1.64	129
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
D. Lynch IV RP	38	0	2-2	1	3	37.1	2.41	24	13	10	2	12	32	.176	0.96	91
L. Avila SP	17	8	4-3	0	0	51.2	5.05	51	29	29	5	31	47	.270	1.59	79
A. Lange RP	37	0	0-5	8	8	38.0	5.92	36	27	25	2	22	37	.252	1.53	75
T. Tolbert SS	4	0	0-0	0	0	3.2	17.18	11	7	7	2	2	0	.550	3.55	64
M. Strahm RP	33	0	3-1	0	3	30.0	5.40	28	18	18	8	12	22	.239	1.33	57
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
S. Cruz RP	27	2	2-2	0	1	29.1	5.22	26	18	17	9	16	39	.234	1.43	52
J. Schreiber RP	39	0	0-3	1	2	35.2	3.53	33	17	14	6	13	27	.252	1.29	51
B. Way RP	15	0	1-0	0	0	18.2	3.38	20	7	7	4	9	17	.282	1.55	35
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
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
R. Dobnak RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	9.2	1.86	9	2	2	1	4	4	.243	1.34	16
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	94	94	38-56	23	39	828.2	4.89	839	480	450	121	362	716	.264	1.45	1525

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	94	342	65	96	57	14	61	91	.281	.395	.477	.872	21	2	7	0	319
B. Lowe 2B	87	345	56	84	64	21	37	102	.243	.315	.490	.805	20	1	1	0	279
R. O'Hearn RF	79	298	47	86	61	16	25	71	.289	.346	.490	.836	12	0	1	0	247
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
N. Gonzales 3B	88	326	50	101	41	4	27	64	.310	.372	.393	.765	13	1	4	2	226
S. Horwitz 1B	74	246	36	69	33	10	40	40	.280	.386	.455	.841	11	1	1	0	208
K. Griffin SS	59	225	35	62	25	5	16	65	.276	.332	.404	.736	10	2	20	1	177
J. Mangum LF	73	222	32	69	18	2	13	42	.311	.361	.383	.744	10	0	18	5	163
M. Ozuna DH	59	216	17	44	26	7	24	74	.204	.289	.324	.613	5	0	0	0	102
H. Davis C	59	157	20	24	24	7	16	37	.153	.251	.318	.569	5	0	2	1	99
J. Triolo SS	60	181	20	42	14	1	16	47	.232	.305	.304	.609	10	0	6	1	95
E. Rodriguez C	35	100	15	26	16	5	21	29	.260	.388	.470	.858	6	0	2	0	88
E. Valdez RF	25	82	16	24	18	7	9	33	.293	.359	.634	.993	5	1	0	1	77
T. Callihan RF	30	73	12	19	15	3	9	27	.260	.345	.479	.824	3	2	1	0	60
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
B. Cook CF	52	31	7	5	0	0	0	12	.161	.161	.194	.355	1	0	4	1	14
R. Flores C	3	7	2	3	2	1	2	1	.429	.556	1.000	1.556	1	0	0	0	12
J. Garcia CF	13	35	2	7	2	0	1	10	.200	.243	.229	.472	1	0	0	0	9
J. Brannigan 3B	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	94	3275	492	857	472	120	356	882	.262	.340	.423	.763	148	10	88	16	2437

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	18	18	9-3	0	0	108.1	3.24	94	43	39	12	25	122	.234	1.10	300
P. Skenes SP	19	19	7-8	0	0	103.0	3.58	84	48	41	11	23	123	.219	1.04	251
G. Soto RP	39	0	5-2	11	15	39.0	4.15	25	20	18	5	16	44	.180	1.05	180
M. Keller SP	19	19	6-7	0	0	103.1	5.14	102	64	59	13	35	77	.256	1.33	179
C. Mlodzinski RP	19	9	5-3	2	2	77.2	3.24	79	35	28	6	26	62	.261	1.35	166
Y. Ramirez RP	39	0	5-2	1	3	50.2	3.38	37	22	19	4	31	58	.202	1.34	117
B. Chandler SP	18	17	3-8	0	0	89.2	4.82	77	54	48	10	52	79	.227	1.44	113
E. Sisk RP	32	0	1-0	0	2	36.1	2.23	30	9	9	2	13	43	.231	1.18	79
J. Jones SP	8	8	1-1	0	0	35.0	4.37	29	18	17	5	11	39	.220	1.14	72
M. Montgomery RP	37	4	2-3	0	2	36.0	4.25	31	18	17	4	16	53	.226	1.31	69
T. Callihan RF	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	2	0	0	0	3	0	.250	2.50	60
D. Santana RP	41	0	2-4	2	4	39.1	5.95	38	28	26	7	21	36	.248	1.50	57
I. Mattson RP	30	0	0-0	0	2	29.0	4.66	28	15	15	3	13	25	.252	1.41	42
W. Dotel RP	9	0	1-2	0	0	18.1	5.89	16	12	12	2	9	19	.232	1.36	24
B. Bidois RP	15	0	0-0	0	0	15.2	6.32	19	16	11	5	12	20	.297	1.98	14
C. Sanders RP	9	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	8.68	9	9	9	1	10	13	.250	2.04	5
H. Stratton RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	5	2	2	0	0	2	.417	2.14	3
A. Kelly RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	2	2	2	1	1	1	.250	1.29	2
C. Devenski RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	5	2	2	1	0	3	.417	2.14	1
J. Urquidy RP	5	0	0-1	1	1	6.1	8.53	15	10	6	1	2	6	.441	2.68	1
H. Barco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	11.2	7.71	14	12	10	3	9	8	.292	1.97	-1
Total	94	94	47-47	17	33	839.2	4.32	763	459	403	100	340	858	.239	1.31	1734

Around the Web Promoted by Taboola