Chicago Cubs vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 9, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Shelby Miller	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Jameson Taillon	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Tyler Austin	Knee	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1
Hunter Harvey	Triceps	06-25-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 26
Matthew Boyd	Shoulder	06-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 17
Justin Steele	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Cade Horton	Elbow	07-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 1, 2027
Porter Hodge	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Riley Martin	Elbow	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Seth Lugo	Concussion	06-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 21
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 8
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
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	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	06-13-2026Probable for Jun 14

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cubs CHC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
P. Crow-Armstrong CF	70	261	40	67	32	11	24	74	.257	.337	.444	.781	10	3	15	5	208
I. Happ LF	66	246	45	56	36	15	41	92	.228	.344	.480	.824	13	2	3	0	203
N. Hoerner 2B	69	274	26	67	34	4	30	20	.245	.324	.343	.667	15	0	12	2	200
M. Busch 1B	69	250	30	63	41	8	45	70	.252	.375	.412	.787	12	2	1	0	192
A. Bregman 3B	69	276	33	68	22	6	32	53	.246	.331	.355	.686	10	1	2	1	165
D. Swanson SS	66	217	37	39	28	7	32	61	.180	.285	.318	.603	7	1	6	0	148
S. Suzuki RF	56	206	31	52	27	10	23	61	.252	.335	.432	.767	7	0	0	0	142
C. Kelly C	52	166	21	46	19	3	17	32	.277	.355	.367	.722	6	0	0	0	105
M. Ballesteros DH	56	150	15	35	23	6	16	34	.233	.304	.387	.691	5	0	1	0	97
M. Conforto DH	44	93	12	22	13	4	15	33	.237	.339	.462	.801	9	0	1	0	68
M. Amaya C	39	92	15	20	10	3	14	24	.217	.351	.348	.699	3	0	0	0	64
M. Shaw RF	44	97	10	23	12	3	6	19	.237	.286	.392	.678	6	0	3	1	62
P. Ramirez 2B	11	23	2	5	1	0	3	1	.217	.308	.261	.569	1	0	0	0	11
S. Kingery 2B	8	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	1	0	5
K. Alcantara DH	12	9	1	1	0	0	1	4	.111	.200	.111	.311	0	0	0	1	0
D. Carlson LF	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	70	2373	322	565	298	80	299	582	.238	.331	.391	.722	104	9	45	10	1670

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Imanaga SP	14	14	4-6	0	0	81.0	4.44	65	41	40	17	21	81	.215	1.06	170
B. Brown RP	18	6	2-2	1	2	57.0	1.74	34	13	11	1	16	58	.170	0.88	154
C. Rea SP	14	11	5-4	1	1	69.1	5.19	74	41	40	11	25	54	.271	1.43	120
E. Cabrera SP	12	12	4-3	0	0	63.0	4.86	66	39	34	13	23	58	.274	1.41	119
C. Kelly C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	2	0	0	.400	2.00	105
J. Taillon SP	13	13	2-5	0	0	67.2	5.19	65	40	39	20	23	59	.248	1.30	104
J. Assad RP	10	4	4-1	0	0	38.1	3.99	30	17	17	4	9	24	.219	1.02	96
R. Rolison RP	20	0	5-1	0	1	24.0	2.25	18	8	6	3	12	24	.220	1.25	78
J. Webb RP	29	0	1-1	1	4	29.1	2.76	29	12	9	4	10	35	.252	1.33	66
H. Milner RP	32	0	1-0	1	2	30.1	3.86	28	13	13	3	7	15	.246	1.15	61
M. Boyd SP	5	5	2-1	0	0	24.0	6.00	25	17	16	2	6	31	.266	1.29	52
D. Palencia RP	18	0	1-1	3	3	15.2	2.87	17	5	5	2	5	16	.279	1.40	51
C. Thielbar RP	19	0	2-2	2	4	16.1	3.86	13	8	7	4	8	19	.213	1.29	48
T. Thornton RP	13	0	2-2	0	0	18.0	2.00	11	5	4	3	7	8	.180	1.00	40
E. Roberts RP	15	0	0-1	0	0	19.1	1.86	14	5	4	1	8	14	.209	1.14	32
C. Horton P	2	2	1-0	0	0	7.1	2.45	4	2	2	1	2	4	.167	0.82	26
R. Martin P	8	1	0-0	0	0	8.1	2.16	5	2	2	1	2	10	.179	0.84	21
P. Maton RP	25	0	0-1	0	0	22.0	6.55	27	16	16	3	11	25	.307	1.73	16
T. Blach RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.111	0.33	9
V. Velasquez SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.125	0.43	6
Y. Rios RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	0.00	6
H. Harvey RP	4	0	0-1	0	0	4.0	6.75	5	3	3	2	1	4	.294	1.50	0
L. Little RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	2	1	1	1	0	1	.400	2.00	0
T. Ferguson RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	6.75	3	1	1	1	0	3	.429	2.25	-2
G. Hollowell RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	2	2	2	1	4	1	.286	3.60	-2
J. Wicks SP	2	2	0-2	0	0	6.1	15.63	13	11	11	1	1	6	.406	2.21	-14
Total	70	70	36-34	10	18	621.1	4.26	563	314	294	103	209	560	.241	1.24	1362

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	70	277	34	77	28	9	32	56	.278	.353	.444	.797	17	1	24	4	234
V. Pasquantino 1B	67	251	28	56	31	6	32	50	.223	.309	.351	.660	10	2	3	0	161
M. Garcia 3B	63	246	32	65	25	3	23	41	.264	.325	.378	.703	15	2	4	3	157
J. Caglianone RF	64	213	26	58	19	8	20	70	.272	.343	.446	.789	11	1	3	1	133
C. Jensen C	64	209	28	45	32	8	22	70	.215	.287	.383	.670	11	0	0	0	128
S. Perez C	64	249	24	51	26	9	12	51	.205	.252	.337	.589	6	0	0	0	125
I. Collins LF	61	189	23	41	17	3	31	59	.217	.339	.307	.646	8	0	3	3	107
M. Massey 2B	53	149	18	39	22	6	5	28	.262	.280	.456	.736	11	0	1	0	101
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
L. Thomas CF	55	128	12	29	15	2	25	35	.227	.357	.305	.662	4	0	3	3	78
N. Loftin 2B	35	94	14	21	18	1	14	14	.223	.333	.362	.695	8	1	0	0	76
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	31	71	5	18	5	1	5	23	.254	.316	.338	.654	3	0	0	1	28
T. Tolbert RF	19	14	5	3	0	0	2	6	.214	.313	.214	.527	0	0	5	2	15
K. Misner CF	3	5	0	3	3	0	1	1	.600	.667	.600	1.267	0	0	0	0	6
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	70	2334	277	560	267	63	243	563	.240	.315	.377	.692	114	8	51	17	1474

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	14	14	4-5	0	0	88.0	3.58	75	37	35	10	27	69	.231	1.16	188
S. Lugo SP	14	14	2-4	0	0	79.1	3.86	82	37	34	7	25	66	.270	1.35	147
N. Cameron SP	12	12	3-4	0	0	65.2	3.84	61	32	28	6	17	63	.239	1.19	138
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
L. Erceg RP	28	0	3-3	12	18	26.1	5.81	32	19	17	2	19	22	.308	1.94	111
S. Kolek SP	7	7	3-1	0	0	43.0	3.14	37	18	15	5	9	30	.228	1.07	110
D. Lynch RP	28	0	2-0	1	3	28.0	1.93	18	9	6	1	9	29	.176	0.96	84
A. Lange RP	29	0	0-3	4	4	31.0	4.06	27	16	14	2	18	34	.239	1.45	61
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
M. Strahm RP	22	0	3-1	0	2	21.1	4.64	19	11	11	7	7	18	.229	1.22	51
J. Schreiber RP	30	0	0-3	1	2	27.0	2.67	21	9	8	4	11	18	.223	1.19	41
S. Cruz RP	18	0	1-2	0	1	19.2	5.95	18	14	13	7	12	26	.240	1.53	26
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
L. Avila RP	13	4	1-3	0	0	32.0	6.19	36	22	22	4	22	28	.298	1.81	22
M. Black RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	13.2	2.63	15	4	4	2	8	15	.283	1.68	19
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	15
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
B. Way RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	10.80	6	4	4	1	1	6	.375	2.10	2
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
Total	70	70	28-42	19	34	620.1	4.45	590	329	307	87	271	566	.251	1.39	1189

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