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
P. SkenesR	10-11 W-L	155.0 IP	3.83 ERA	4.02 SO/BB	1.15 WHIP

3-3, 63.2 IP, 2.54 ERA

10-11, 155.0 IP, 3.83 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	09-10-2026Probable for Sep 11

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
Ryan O'Hearn	Quadriceps	09-10-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 11
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

	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	128	500	84	141	54	18	60	96	.282	.360	.454	.814	30	1	39	8	450
J. Caglianone RF	131	474	66	134	70	23	30	131	.283	.331	.494	.825	27	2	6	2	349
C. Jensen C	136	476	70	109	69	23	62	153	.229	.318	.443	.761	29	2	2	1	341
S. Perez DH	137	530	48	121	71	19	22	110	.228	.273	.383	.656	23	1	1	0	304
V. Pasquantino 1B	100	371	44	89	47	11	49	66	.240	.329	.385	.714	17	2	5	0	263
M. Massey 2B	117	367	46	102	45	11	21	65	.278	.313	.439	.752	24	1	3	0	246
I. Collins LF	132	411	44	91	40	6	57	106	.221	.323	.336	.659	23	3	6	5	239
N. Loftin 3B	107	336	41	79	42	7	39	65	.235	.322	.381	.703	24	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	87	261	30	59	24	6	15	64	.226	.274	.337	.611	9	1	6	0	140
T. Tolbert SS	72	116	31	35	8	3	12	25	.302	.369	.422	.791	5	0	21	3	127
J. Rave RF	39	103	20	24	11	5	11	26	.233	.307	.456	.763	6	1	6	1	87
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	147	4931	629	1216	599	154	469	1141	.247	.316	.402	.718	265	19	117	31	3058

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	29	29	6-8	0	0	159.0	5.04	178	97	89	18	51	119	.289	1.44	255
D. Lynch IV RP	53	7	5-5	1	3	71.2	3.52	57	32	28	6	22	49	.213	1.10	146
S. Cruz RP	52	2	2-3	6	7	54.2	4.12	49	27	25	12	20	58	.240	1.26	137
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	127
R. Dobnak SP	12	10	3-3	0	0	63.2	2.54	61	18	18	6	23	43	.253	1.32	124
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
N. Pearson RP	18	0	1-1	2	3	19.0	0.47	9	1	1	0	6	18	.138	0.79	116
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	10	0	1-2	1	1	10.0	3.60	8	6	4	0	4	7	.229	1.20	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	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	6.23	4	3	3	0	1	3	.267	1.15	9
E. McGee RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	8.1	8.64	14	8	8	3	4	8	.378	2.16	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. Thomas RP	9	0	1-0	0	0	9.1	2.89	9	3	3	0	1	7	.257	1.07	3
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	147	147	65-82	35	59	1296.1	4.64	1277	717	669	179	529	1065	.258	1.39	2470

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	146	541	98	144	69	16	82	147	.266	.371	.429	.800	36	2	9	0	435
B. Lowe 2B	136	532	86	138	83	29	56	173	.259	.328	.479	.807	28	1	2	0	399
N. Gonzales 3B	135	508	67	155	59	6	39	90	.305	.368	.392	.760	24	1	7	3	342
O. Cruz CF	83	319	55	86	60	17	41	125	.270	.358	.473	.831	12	1	27	6	295
R. O'Hearn 1B	96	359	54	97	69	17	31	86	.270	.334	.454	.788	15	0	1	0	281
J. Mangum CF	120	391	55	112	30	4	23	84	.286	.343	.373	.716	18	2	22	8	260
S. Horwitz 1B	103	355	41	87	44	10	49	65	.245	.345	.369	.714	12	1	1	0	241
E. Valdez RF	71	238	40	56	47	17	42	106	.235	.349	.517	.866	14	1	0	1	199
K. Griffin SS	64	244	37	65	27	5	18	71	.266	.325	.389	.714	11	2	22	1	188
J. Triolo SS	109	300	31	74	29	3	27	66	.247	.318	.317	.635	12	0	11	1	175
H. Davis C	89	237	30	40	35	9	24	58	.169	.266	.304	.570	5	0	3	1	145
J. Gonzalez SS	42	109	9	22	13	4	2	19	.202	.228	.358	.586	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	34	103	13	25	19	8	11	31	.243	.316	.515	.831	4	0	0	0	80
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	77	50	12	9	2	0	1	20	.180	.212	.240	.452	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	146	5021	707	1273	674	167	519	1370	.254	.331	.403	.734	221	14	123	24	3436

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	62	5	6-3	11	13	60.2	2.82	40	20	19	5	23	94	.181	1.04	250
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
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
J. Jones SP	17	17	3-6	0	0	78.2	4.46	69	40	39	12	28	92	.230	1.23	147
L. Weaver RP	10	0	0-0	0	2	9.1	5.79	10	6	6	0	4	11	.270	1.50	135
C. Doval RP	16	0	0-1	0	0	15.2	2.87	11	6	5	1	12	18	.212	1.47	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	80
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	17	0	1-4	0	1	32.2	4.41	29	18	16	2	14	34	.238	1.32	43
K. Curtis RP	3	0	1-0	0	0	11.0	1.64	3	2	2	0	6	7	.091	0.82	32
A. Kelly RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	8.1	5.40	8	5	5	2	4	5	.250	1.44	10
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	146	146	73-73	32	53	1304.1	4.15	1167	673	602	141	530	1346	.237	1.30	3170

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