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

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S. LugoR	7-8 W-L	164.0 IP	4.99 ERA	2.38 SO/BB	1.45 WHIP
E. PeckoR	1-0 W-L	23.0 IP	4.30 ERA	1.25 SO/BB	1.26 WHIP

7-8, 164.0 IP, 4.99 ERA

1-0, 23.0 IP, 4.30 ERA

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Maikel Garcia	Hamstring	09-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 15
Connor Seabold	Lat	09-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 18
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	03-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Apr 1
Beck Way	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Luinder Avila	Elbow	01-31-2028Expected to be out until at least Feb 1, 2028

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Steven Okert	Hamstring	09-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 16
Michael Burrows	Elbow	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brice Matthews	Knee	09-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 15

	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	131	511	84	143	54	18	63	101	.280	.360	.448	.808	30	1	40	8	454
C. Jensen C	139	487	73	113	72	24	62	157	.232	.319	.452	.771	31	2	2	1	354
J. Caglianone RF	133	477	66	134	70	23	30	134	.281	.331	.491	.822	27	2	6	2	349
S. Perez DH	140	541	48	124	72	19	23	111	.229	.274	.381	.655	23	1	1	0	308
V. Pasquantino 1B	103	381	44	91	48	11	49	69	.239	.326	.383	.709	18	2	5	0	265
M. Massey 2B	120	378	46	106	45	11	21	67	.280	.314	.437	.751	24	1	3	0	249
I. Collins LF	135	416	45	92	40	6	60	107	.221	.326	.337	.663	24	3	7	5	246
N. Loftin 3B	110	347	41	80	42	7	39	70	.231	.316	.375	.691	25	2	3	1	228
M. Garcia 3B	73	283	34	76	32	3	24	47	.269	.324	.385	.709	18	3	5	4	181
K. Isbel CF	89	267	30	60	24	6	15	65	.225	.272	.333	.605	9	1	6	0	140
T. Tolbert SS	74	121	31	36	8	3	12	27	.298	.363	.413	.776	5	0	21	4	126
J. Rave RF	42	108	21	24	11	5	14	27	.222	.311	.435	.746	6	1	7	1	92
J. Rojas 3B	40	97	10	23	13	2	4	16	.237	.275	.340	.615	4	0	1	0	55
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
L. Maile C	16	37	2	6	5	1	4	12	.162	.244	.270	.514	1	0	0	0	15
M. Lugo LF	9	14	0	2	0	0	1	6	.143	.200	.143	.343	0	0	0	0	0
Total	150	5029	634	1236	604	155	480	1172	.246	.316	.399	.715	270	19	120	32	3096

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	29	29	9-8	0	0	182.2	3.25	154	70	66	24	48	147	.227	1.11	430
N. Cameron SP	29	28	9-8	0	0	166.1	3.84	146	76	71	17	52	149	.233	1.19	355
S. Lugo SP	30	30	7-8	0	0	164.0	4.99	185	99	91	19	53	126	.290	1.45	270
S. Cruz RP	53	2	2-3	7	8	55.2	4.04	49	27	25	12	20	59	.237	1.24	147
D. Lynch IV RP	53	7	5-5	1	3	71.2	3.52	57	32	28	6	22	49	.213	1.10	146
R. Dobnak SP	13	11	3-4	0	0	69.1	2.73	65	21	21	6	23	47	.249	1.27	130
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	126
L. Erceg RP	47	0	4-4	12	18	43.1	6.23	53	35	30	5	29	31	.312	1.89	119
N. Pearson RP	20	0	1-1	3	4	21.0	0.43	11	1	1	0	7	20	.153	0.86	117
A. Lange RP	55	0	2-7	10	13	56.2	6.04	59	40	38	9	30	56	.269	1.57	115
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	21	12	5-4	0	0	70.0	5.53	71	43	43	7	42	61	.272	1.61	100
C. Kimbrel RP	11	0	1-2	1	1	11.0	3.27	10	6	4	0	4	8	.256	1.27	57
J. Rojas 3B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	55
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
M. Black RP	17	0	0-0	0	0	31.1	4.31	30	16	15	6	20	19	.252	1.60	36
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	19	0	0-1	0	1	18.0	2.50	23	6	5	0	11	19	.315	1.89	19
A. Gose RP	8	0	1-1	0	0	7.2	0.00	6	2	0	0	1	1	.231	0.91	18
L. Maile C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	15
N. Hoffman RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	5.06	4	3	3	0	1	4	.222	0.94	13
C. Thomas RP	10	0	1-0	0	0	10.1	2.61	9	3	3	0	1	7	.237	0.97	8
E. McGee RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	8.68	16	9	9	3	4	8	.381	2.14	7
C. Duran RP	2	0	1-0	0	0	1.1	13.50	2	2	2	0	3	1	.333	3.75	4
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	150	150	66-84	36	60	1321.1	4.63	1303	728	680	181	535	1088	.259	1.39	2519

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	146	523	95	162	96	38	101	114	.310	.427	.589	1.016	30	1	1	0	555
I. Paredes 3B	143	519	62	135	85	21	64	82	.260	.359	.435	.794	26	1	0	0	415
C. Walker 1B	145	530	66	119	80	25	47	134	.225	.299	.417	.716	25	1	0	0	357
C. Smith RF	146	473	62	102	54	20	39	133	.216	.281	.402	.683	16	6	10	2	302
J. Altuve 2B	123	474	66	116	44	15	40	104	.245	.306	.397	.703	23	2	5	3	296
J. Pena SS	100	396	70	106	47	17	24	101	.268	.321	.447	.768	18	1	9	2	291
D. Varsho CF	36	133	11	24	13	4	10	32	.180	.238	.316	.554	4	1	3	0	269
Y. Diaz C	86	297	33	82	37	11	12	51	.276	.307	.431	.738	13	0	0	2	184
T. Trammell CF	91	235	27	48	21	7	25	81	.204	.292	.353	.645	10	2	4	3	124
C. Vazquez C	84	236	22	49	25	7	18	52	.208	.263	.326	.589	7	0	1	0	118
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	86	136	24	38	14	3	10	30	.279	.327	.382	.709	5	0	2	0	90
J. Barrosa LF	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	88
L. Wade Jr. LF	48	112	15	23	18	3	18	33	.205	.315	.330	.645	5	0	0	0	71
J. Meyers CF	57	141	15	30	11	3	10	31	.213	.268	.326	.594	7	0	1	2	67
N. Velazquez LF	12	22	2	3	6	2	1	10	.136	.167	.409	.576	0	0	0	0	62
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
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	19	37	4	9	4	1	3	7	.243	.300	.351	.651	1	0	0	0	20
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	150	5039	669	1209	638	197	491	1233	.240	.314	.408	.722	222	18	45	20	3681

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
J. Hader RP	42	0	4-1	25	25	41.1	0.87	16	4	4	1	11	54	.114	0.65	318
P. Lambert SP	26	26	8-9	0	0	145.2	3.71	122	62	60	14	56	141	.225	1.22	298
H. Brown SP	17	17	5-3	0	0	92.0	3.52	74	39	36	11	46	100	.221	1.30	207
A. Blubaugh RP	58	0	5-2	1	2	90.0	3.30	72	35	33	12	38	90	.221	1.22	201
S. Okert RP	68	1	6-2	0	1	67.2	2.13	45	17	16	7	14	68	.190	0.87	190
B. Abreu RP	61	0	6-4	8	9	58.1	3.86	40	27	25	8	40	76	.196	1.37	181
E. De Los Santos RP	64	0	3-3	5	7	68.0	4.50	65	38	34	9	18	62	.248	1.22	158
T. Imai SP	20	15	6-4	0	0	72.2	5.20	58	42	42	9	50	91	.216	1.49	146
H. Wesneski SP	9	9	5-2	0	0	48.2	3.70	39	24	20	4	16	38	.219	1.13	125
K. Teng RP	30	10	5-7	0	0	73.2	4.76	69	43	39	10	33	73	.245	1.38	109
M. Burrows SP	18	17	4-9	0	0	94.2	5.99	112	69	63	21	35	75	.292	1.55	102
B. King RP	55	1	2-5	6	11	55.2	5.01	62	35	31	8	20	44	.278	1.47	101
C. Javier SP	15	10	2-5	0	0	55.2	5.50	58	34	34	9	23	55	.267	1.46	72
L. Wade Jr. LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	3	2	2	1	0	0	.500	3.00	71
J. Meyers CF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	67
E. Pecko SP	5	4	1-0	0	0	23.0	4.30	17	12	11	5	12	15	.207	1.26	41
R. Blanco SP	7	5	0-1	0	0	31.2	7.11	30	25	25	9	15	26	.252	1.42	32
A. Santa RP	10	0	0-1	0	0	15.1	1.17	8	6	2	1	6	9	.160	0.91	29
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
B. Sousa RP	29	1	1-3	0	1	25.0	5.40	27	17	15	3	16	26	.278	1.72	22
L. VanWey RP	5	0	1-0	0	0	6.0	1.50	5	2	1	0	0	5	.250	0.83	21
M. Ullola RP	6	1	0-0	0	0	8.0	3.38	5	3	3	2	1	10	.172	0.75	20
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
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	150	150	75-75	47	58	1329.2	4.55	1190	722	672	192	604	1305	.239	1.35	2553

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