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

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R. DobnakR	3-3 W-L	63.2 IP	2.54 ERA	1.87 SO/BB	1.32 WHIP
B. ChandlerR	7-9 W-L	142.0 IP	4.25 ERA	1.82 SO/BB	1.34 WHIP

3-3, 63.2 IP, 2.54 ERA

7-9, 142.0 IP, 4.25 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
Jac Caglianone	Elbow	09-12-2026Probable for Sep 13

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Kirby Yates	Shoulder	09-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 15
Mitch Keller	Arm	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Isaac Mattson	Hip	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Braxton Ashcraft	Arm	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Endy Rodriguez	Hip	04-30-2027Expected to be out until at least May 1
Esmerlyn Valdez	Hamstring	09-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 23

	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	129	503	84	141	54	18	62	97	.280	.360	.451	.811	30	1	39	8	451
J. Caglianone RF	131	474	66	134	70	23	30	131	.283	.331	.494	.825	27	2	6	2	349
C. Jensen C	137	481	72	111	70	23	62	154	.231	.319	.447	.766	31	2	2	1	348
S. Perez DH	138	534	48	123	72	19	22	110	.230	.274	.384	.658	23	1	1	0	307
V. Pasquantino 1B	101	376	44	90	48	11	49	68	.239	.328	.383	.711	17	2	5	0	264
M. Massey 2B	118	371	46	104	45	11	21	65	.280	.315	.439	.754	24	1	3	0	248
I. Collins LF	133	413	45	92	40	6	58	107	.223	.325	.339	.664	24	3	7	5	244
N. Loftin 3B	108	340	41	80	42	7	39	66	.235	.321	.382	.703	25	2	3	1	230
M. Garcia 3B	73	283	34	76	32	3	24	47	.269	.324	.385	.709	18	3	5	4	181
K. Isbel CF	88	265	30	60	24	6	15	65	.226	.274	.336	.610	9	1	6	0	140
T. Tolbert SS	73	117	31	35	8	3	12	26	.299	.366	.419	.785	5	0	21	4	126
J. Rave RF	40	105	20	24	11	5	13	26	.229	.314	.448	.762	6	1	7	1	91
J. Rojas 3B	38	96	10	23	13	2	4	16	.240	.277	.344	.621	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	15	35	2	5	5	1	3	12	.143	.211	.257	.468	1	0	0	0	13
M. Lugo LF	7	8	0	2	0	0	1	3	.250	.333	.250	.583	0	0	0	0	1
Total	148	4965	632	1226	602	154	474	1149	.247	.317	.402	.719	269	19	119	32	3082

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	28	27	9-8	0	0	160.1	3.93	142	75	70	16	51	145	.234	1.20	339
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
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	126
R. Dobnak SP	12	10	3-3	0	0	63.2	2.54	61	18	18	6	23	43	.253	1.32	124
N. Pearson RP	19	0	1-1	3	4	20.0	0.45	10	1	1	0	7	19	.147	0.85	119
L. Erceg RP	47	0	4-4	12	18	43.1	6.23	53	35	30	5	29	31	.312	1.89	119
A. Lange RP	54	0	2-7	10	13	55.2	5.98	56	39	37	9	29	56	.262	1.53	117
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	64
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	7	0	1-1	0	0	7.1	0.00	5	2	0	0	1	0	.208	0.82	18
L. Maile C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	13
N. Hoffman RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	5.06	4	3	3	0	1	4	.222	0.94	13
E. McGee RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	8.1	8.64	14	8	8	3	4	8	.378	2.16	7
C. Thomas RP	9	0	1-0	0	0	9.1	2.89	9	3	3	0	1	7	.257	1.07	6
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	148	148	66-82	36	60	1305.1	4.63	1285	719	671	180	531	1075	.258	1.39	2504

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	148	548	99	145	70	17	83	148	.265	.370	.431	.801	36	2	9	0	442
B. Lowe 2B	137	536	86	138	83	29	56	174	.257	.326	.476	.802	28	1	2	0	399
N. Gonzales 3B	137	515	67	157	59	6	40	91	.305	.368	.392	.760	25	1	7	3	345
O. Cruz CF	85	325	56	90	63	18	42	125	.277	.365	.486	.851	12	1	27	7	306
R. O'Hearn 1B	97	361	54	97	69	17	31	86	.269	.333	.452	.785	15	0	1	0	281
J. Mangum CF	122	398	55	113	30	4	23	84	.284	.340	.369	.709	18	2	23	8	263
S. Horwitz 1B	104	358	41	88	44	10	49	65	.246	.344	.369	.713	12	1	1	0	242
E. Valdez RF	72	241	40	56	47	17	42	108	.232	.345	.510	.855	14	1	0	1	198
K. Griffin SS	66	252	38	67	27	5	18	73	.266	.322	.393	.715	11	3	22	1	192
J. Triolo SS	111	306	32	75	29	3	28	66	.245	.318	.314	.632	12	0	13	1	182
H. Davis C	90	239	30	40	35	9	24	58	.167	.264	.301	.565	5	0	3	1	145
J. Gonzalez SS	44	111	9	23	13	4	2	19	.207	.233	.360	.593	5	0	2	1	117
E. Rodriguez C	45	135	20	36	20	7	23	41	.267	.373	.467	.840	6	0	6	1	116
R. Flores C	36	111	13	27	19	8	11	34	.243	.311	.495	.806	4	0	0	0	81
T. Callihan RF	40	95	13	20	15	3	9	38	.211	.283	.389	.672	4	2	1	0	58
N. Yorke 3B	40	104	7	22	12	1	9	26	.212	.284	.279	.563	4	0	1	0	48
B. Cook CF	78	51	12	9	2	0	1	20	.176	.208	.235	.443	1	1	6	1	29
R. Simon RF	10	32	5	9	2	0	2	4	.281	.324	.313	.637	1	0	2	0	21
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	148	5086	711	1287	678	169	523	1380	.253	.330	.402	.732	222	15	126	25	3472

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	28	28	14-6	0	0	165.1	3.65	145	73	67	22	35	173	.235	1.09	435
P. Skenes SP	29	29	10-11	0	0	155.0	3.83	133	74	66	15	45	181	.231	1.15	349
M. Montgomery RP	63	5	6-3	12	14	61.2	2.77	41	20	19	5	23	95	.182	1.04	259
G. Soto RP	62	0	6-4	14	19	61.1	3.08	42	25	21	5	24	71	.189	1.08	247
B. Chandler SP	28	27	7-9	0	0	142.0	4.25	119	77	67	13	71	129	.225	1.34	246
C. Mlodzinski RP	33	12	7-6	2	3	114.0	3.87	119	57	49	9	37	89	.263	1.37	214
M. Keller SP	22	22	6-8	0	0	115.2	5.29	117	73	68	15	42	89	.259	1.37	185
J. Jones SP	18	18	4-6	0	0	85.2	4.10	70	40	39	12	30	100	.217	1.17	179
Y. Ramirez RP	60	1	6-4	2	4	78.0	3.12	55	32	27	4	43	91	.196	1.26	178
L. Bachar SP	10	5	0-1	0	0	20.2	2.61	11	6	6	4	12	22	.157	1.11	162
L. Weaver RP	12	0	0-0	0	2	11.1	5.56	13	7	7	1	4	14	.289	1.50	139
C. Doval RP	17	0	0-1	0	0	16.0	3.38	13	7	6	1	14	19	.236	1.69	102
K. Yates RP	13	0	2-0	0	0	12.1	2.19	11	3	3	1	5	11	.239	1.30	85
R. Flores C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	.400	2.00	81
E. Sisk RP	39	0	1-0	0	2	42.2	3.16	33	15	15	2	23	48	.220	1.31	79
B. Eisert RP	10	0	1-1	0	0	11.0	4.91	12	6	6	0	4	14	.286	1.45	75
T. Callihan RF	4	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	3	0	0	0	3	1	.250	2.00	58
I. Mattson RP	38	0	0-0	0	2	38.2	5.35	44	23	23	3	18	36	.282	1.60	48
W. Dotel RP	18	1	1-5	0	1	34.2	4.93	33	21	19	2	14	35	.252	1.36	37
K. Curtis RP	4	0	1-0	0	0	14.0	5.14	9	8	8	1	8	7	.191	1.21	26
A. Kelly RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	6.35	14	8	8	2	4	6	.311	1.59	11
N. Murdock RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	0.00	3	0	0	0	3	4	.273	1.80	6
H. Barco RP	7	0	0-1	0	1	17.2	7.64	21	17	15	4	13	14	.296	1.92	4
Total	148	148	74-74	33	54	1321.1	4.18	1185	685	614	142	534	1359	.237	1.30	3205

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