Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 15, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Matt Strahm	Knee	05-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 31
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 9
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 18
James McArthur	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
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

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Jose Altuve	Oblique	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	06-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 7
Josh Hader	Biceps	06-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 2
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	06-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 8
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	05-28-2026Expected to be out until at least May 29
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	07-02-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 3
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Joey Loperfido	Quadriceps	06-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 2

	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	56	221	27	64	25	9	23	44	.290	.354	.484	.838	14	1	16	3	189
M. Garcia 3B	54	217	27	57	20	3	19	34	.263	.319	.382	.701	15	1	4	3	137
V. Pasquantino 1B	53	196	21	39	23	5	24	42	.199	.284	.327	.611	6	2	2	0	116
S. Perez C	54	206	21	44	25	9	10	45	.214	.260	.369	.629	5	0	0	0	113
C. Jensen C	52	162	20	36	23	6	20	54	.222	.306	.383	.689	8	0	0	0	99
I. Collins LF	49	151	18	32	16	3	23	48	.212	.328	.311	.639	6	0	3	3	87
J. Caglianone RF	51	166	18	39	11	5	14	55	.235	.302	.392	.694	9	1	1	1	83
K. Isbel CF	46	136	15	34	11	3	8	36	.250	.304	.375	.679	6	1	5	0	80
M. Massey 2B	41	106	11	24	13	3	4	22	.226	.248	.396	.644	9	0	1	0	61
L. Thomas CF	42	93	8	20	9	1	21	25	.215	.359	.280	.639	3	0	3	3	55
N. Loftin 2B	24	59	9	13	13	0	8	9	.220	.333	.339	.672	7	0	0	0	48
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	23	53	3	15	2	0	4	16	.283	.339	.340	.679	3	0	0	1	19
E. Diaz C	10	22	3	5	5	2	1	5	.227	.261	.591	.852	2	0	0	0	19
T. Tolbert SS	11	6	2	1	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.334	0	0	3	1	7
Total	56	1842	211	431	204	51	187	449	.234	.308	.375	.683	94	6	38	15	1147

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	11	11	4-2	0	0	70.1	2.69	50	22	21	8	22	60	.200	1.02	190
S. Lugo SP	11	11	2-4	0	0	65.0	3.74	67	28	27	3	23	54	.271	1.38	120
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	22	0	3-2	11	15	21.1	5.06	23	14	12	0	13	18	.288	1.69	113
S. Kolek SP	4	4	3-0	0	0	26.0	2.77	17	8	8	3	5	14	.185	0.85	84
N. Cameron SP	10	10	2-4	0	0	52.2	4.61	57	30	27	5	17	48	.271	1.41	84
D. Lynch RP	22	0	1-0	1	2	22.2	1.59	13	7	4	1	7	27	.159	0.88	69
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
J. Schreiber RP	23	0	0-2	1	1	21.1	2.95	19	7	7	3	10	12	.250	1.36	30
M. Strahm RP	17	0	1-1	0	1	16.1	3.86	14	7	7	3	7	17	.222	1.29	30
A. Lange RP	22	0	0-2	0	0	24.1	4.81	21	14	13	2	13	23	.241	1.40	25
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	10	1	0-2	0	0	21.1	5.06	27	12	12	1	12	20	.325	1.83	13
E. Morgan RP	10	0	0-1	1	1	13.1	6.08	18	9	9	4	7	9	.316	1.88	12
M. Black RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	2.70	8	2	2	1	3	7	.296	1.65	10
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	7
S. Cruz RP	12	0	0-2	0	1	12.0	8.25	13	12	11	6	9	18	.265	1.83	2
E. Cerantola RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	9.00	2	3	3	1	4	5	.200	2.00	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
Total	56	56	22-34	14	24	497.0	4.44	466	258	245	64	226	452	.249	1.39	966

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	56	202	36	63	39	20	36	41	.312	.422	.663	1.085	11	0	1	0	230
C. Walker 1B	57	208	33	53	40	15	21	45	.255	.330	.519	.849	10	0	0	0	182
I. Paredes 3B	51	184	19	44	20	5	18	33	.239	.330	.364	.694	8	0	0	0	114
C. Smith RF	56	182	24	38	18	5	21	58	.209	.301	.330	.631	7	0	7	1	111
J. Altuve 2B	42	163	27	40	12	4	19	35	.245	.326	.380	.706	10	0	1	2	103
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Vazquez C	35	105	10	27	17	4	9	19	.257	.316	.410	.726	4	0	0	0	69
B. Matthews CF	47	138	14	29	14	4	11	47	.210	.267	.341	.608	4	1	2	3	63
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
J. Pena SS	19	78	11	19	5	1	4	13	.244	.302	.333	.635	4	0	2	0	46
B. Shewmake SS	25	66	7	18	8	3	1	11	.273	.279	.455	.734	3	0	0	0	40
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
N. Allen SS	28	43	10	13	4	1	3	9	.302	.362	.395	.757	1	0	1	0	32
J. Meyers CF	20	61	7	12	5	2	5	15	.197	.265	.328	.593	2	0	1	2	30
T. Trammell CF	12	35	5	13	4	0	4	11	.371	.436	.486	.922	2	1	1	0	26
Z. Cole LF	18	51	3	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	20
Z. Dezenzo LF	17	41	5	9	2	1	4	16	.220	.289	.390	.679	4	0	0	0	19
S. Whitcomb 3B	14	17	1	2	4	1	1	9	.118	.167	.294	.461	0	0	0	0	6
C. Salazar C	7	16	0	1	1	0	2	3	.063	.211	.063	.274	0	0	0	0	3
Total	57	1916	253	472	242	74	191	456	.246	.322	.412	.734	89	3	20	10	1308

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	7	7	6-1	0	0	41.0	1.32	24	8	6	1	25	40	.169	1.20	128
K. Teng RP	17	4	3-3	0	0	37.0	2.19	24	9	9	3	15	36	.188	1.05	88
M. Burrows SP	11	11	3-6	0	0	63.1	5.40	71	38	38	13	21	54	.283	1.45	84
P. Lambert SP	7	7	3-4	0	0	40.1	3.79	29	17	17	2	18	40	.200	1.17	83
B. King RP	21	0	0-1	6	8	23.2	3.04	22	10	8	1	10	19	.242	1.35	74
E. De Los Santos RP	21	0	0-1	4	4	22.2	3.57	19	10	9	1	4	21	.216	1.01	69
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
A. Blubaugh RP	22	0	2-2	0	0	33.2	4.81	26	18	18	5	21	24	.217	1.40	51
S. Okert RP	26	1	0-0	0	0	23.1	3.86	17	10	10	3	8	21	.205	1.07	45
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
B. Abreu RP	19	0	2-2	3	3	17.0	6.88	15	14	13	4	20	21	.242	2.06	35
T. Imai SP	6	6	2-2	0	0	23.1	6.17	17	16	16	4	18	23	.207	1.50	34
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
N. Pearson RP	2	0	0-0	1	1	2.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	0.50	12
L. VanWey RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	3	.143	0.50	6
A. Santa RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0.00	6
J. Murray RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	7.15	16	9	9	0	7	5	.356	2.03	4
J. France RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	3
R. Weiss RP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	1
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Gordon RP	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	57	57	25-32	15	17	499.1	5.12	462	294	284	73	273	469	.246	1.47	841

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