Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 16, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	08-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 4
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 4
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 6
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
Bobby Witt	Knee	06-24-2026Probable for Jun 25
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	07-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 6
LaMonte Wade	Hamstring	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Nick Allen	Hamstring	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 27
Braden Shewmake	Thigh	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
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

	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	76	299	40	88	32	10	35	57	.294	.368	.465	.833	19	1	28	4	270
J. Caglianone RF	75	257	39	70	30	14	24	84	.272	.344	.490	.834	12	1	3	1	186
C. Jensen C	74	250	38	61	40	10	27	75	.244	.314	.428	.742	16	0	1	0	177
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
S. Perez C	75	295	29	60	30	10	12	61	.203	.246	.336	.582	9	0	0	0	145
I. Collins LF	71	224	28	51	23	3	33	64	.228	.337	.317	.654	11	0	4	4	132
M. Massey 2B	63	184	24	49	27	7	7	32	.266	.289	.457	.746	14	0	2	0	130
N. Loftin 2B	45	129	21	33	24	3	17	20	.256	.353	.434	.787	12	1	1	0	114
L. Thomas CF	66	170	19	38	22	5	29	42	.224	.340	.353	.693	7	0	3	3	114
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	35	87	8	23	7	1	5	25	.264	.313	.345	.658	4	0	0	1	38
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	24	26	9	7	1	0	4	9	.269	.355	.269	.624	0	0	5	2	24
J. Rave RF	7	13	3	4	1	1	3	5	.308	.438	.846	1.284	2	1	0	0	15
J. Rojas 3B	4	7	2	3	4	1	0	0	.429	.429	1.000	1.429	1	0	0	0	13
K. Misner CF	10	28	1	8	4	0	1	12	.286	.310	.321	.631	1	0	2	1	12
Total	81	2725	348	675	331	81	272	641	.248	.320	.397	.717	145	9	62	19	1823

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	16	16	5-5	0	0	101.0	3.48	88	41	39	10	29	77	.236	1.16	224
S. Lugo SP	15	15	3-4	0	0	85.1	3.69	87	39	35	7	28	66	.269	1.35	166
N. Cameron SP	15	15	4-5	0	0	80.0	4.50	84	45	40	8	22	75	.263	1.33	147
L. Erceg RP	31	0	3-3	12	18	29.2	5.16	34	19	17	2	19	25	.296	1.79	119
S. Kolek SP	9	9	4-2	0	0	52.0	4.15	51	27	24	8	11	34	.255	1.19	118
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
D. Lynch RP	33	0	2-1	1	3	33.0	2.45	20	12	9	2	11	30	.168	0.94	88
A. Lange RP	33	0	0-4	6	6	35.0	3.86	29	17	15	2	19	36	.228	1.37	78
L. Avila RP	15	6	3-3	0	0	42.2	5.06	42	24	24	4	27	39	.268	1.62	59
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	34	0	0-3	1	2	31.2	2.56	24	10	9	5	12	24	.220	1.14	53
M. Strahm RP	27	0	3-1	0	3	24.2	6.20	25	17	17	8	10	19	.255	1.42	45
C. Seabold RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	2	.125	0.86	32
S. Cruz RP	21	0	1-2	0	1	23.0	6.26	23	17	16	8	13	30	.256	1.57	29
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	24
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
B. Way RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	3.97	11	5	5	2	6	11	.250	1.50	17
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
M. Spence SP	2	1	0-1	0	0	8.0	13.50	11	12	12	1	6	4	.324	2.13	-8
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	81	81	34-47	21	37	716.1	4.55	692	386	362	98	307	628	.254	1.39	1387

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	81	292	57	94	56	25	55	59	.322	.435	.634	1.069	16	0	1	0	330
C. Walker 1B	80	300	43	70	52	18	28	74	.233	.306	.467	.773	14	1	0	0	230
I. Paredes 3B	75	270	31	67	40	10	31	53	.248	.347	.415	.762	15	0	0	0	198
C. Smith RF	80	268	31	59	28	8	28	79	.220	.300	.362	.662	12	1	9	1	165
J. Altuve 2B	59	226	36	54	21	8	24	56	.239	.313	.398	.711	12	0	1	2	144
J. Pena SS	44	165	30	47	19	6	15	29	.285	.353	.448	.801	9	0	7	1	139
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Vazquez C	53	152	16	33	19	4	13	27	.217	.279	.336	.615	6	0	0	0	85
B. Matthews LF	69	184	19	37	18	6	13	66	.201	.253	.337	.590	5	1	2	4	79
Y. Diaz C	32	122	9	30	16	3	5	20	.246	.271	.369	.640	6	0	0	1	64
J. Loperfido LF	33	87	13	21	11	1	13	23	.241	.343	.379	.722	7	1	1	1	60
J. Meyers CF	45	122	13	25	11	3	9	28	.205	.263	.320	.583	5	0	1	2	59
T. Trammell CF	31	80	10	22	8	1	6	32	.275	.333	.400	.733	5	1	1	0	43
B. Shewmake SS	28	74	8	18	8	3	2	13	.243	.260	.405	.665	3	0	0	0	41
N. Allen SS	37	64	12	16	5	1	3	14	.250	.290	.328	.618	2	0	1	0	37
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
Z. Dezenzo LF	21	47	5	9	2	1	4	19	.191	.255	.340	.595	4	0	0	0	17
L. Wade LF	4	12	2	4	4	1	1	3	.333	.385	.750	1.135	2	0	0	0	14
S. Whitcomb 3B	17	23	2	3	5	2	1	11	.130	.167	.391	.558	0	0	0	0	11
R. Delgado 3B	9	21	1	6	2	0	0	3	.286	.286	.286	.572	0	0	0	0	7
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	82	2757	370	669	354	107	278	674	.243	.318	.412	.730	133	6	27	12	1881

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	12	12	7-3	0	0	69.0	3.13	51	26	24	6	32	68	.206	1.20	172
P. Lambert SP	12	12	6-4	0	0	68.2	3.28	52	25	25	7	28	64	.207	1.17	165
B. King RP	32	0	2-1	6	9	34.0	2.38	29	11	9	1	14	26	.232	1.26	110
K. Teng RP	22	9	4-6	0	0	60.1	4.03	51	30	27	9	27	62	.227	1.29	105
M. Burrows SP	16	15	3-8	0	0	85.1	5.48	97	55	52	19	31	69	.284	1.50	100
A. Blubaugh RP	31	0	3-2	0	0	49.2	3.81	35	22	21	5	29	45	.201	1.29	96
S. Okert RP	38	1	1-0	0	0	38.1	2.35	24	10	10	3	11	36	.180	0.91	93
J. Hader RP	10	0	1-0	6	6	10.0	0.90	2	1	1	1	2	16	.063	0.40	82
E. De Los Santos RP	33	0	0-2	4	6	34.2	4.67	32	19	18	3	8	33	.239	1.15	80
T. Imai SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	41.0	6.15	35	28	28	6	24	48	.230	1.44	78
B. Abreu RP	29	0	2-3	5	5	25.1	6.39	22	20	18	6	24	33	.239	1.82	59
H. Brown SP	4	4	1-0	0	0	19.1	1.40	12	3	3	1	11	28	.176	1.19	54
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
N. Pearson RP	10	0	1-0	1	1	11.2	3.86	12	7	5	1	5	12	.261	1.46	33
A. Santa RP	8	0	0-1	0	0	12.2	0.71	5	5	1	0	5	8	.125	0.79	26
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
L. VanWey RP	5	0	1-0	0	0	6.0	1.50	5	2	1	0	0	5	.250	0.83	21
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
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	4
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	82	82	39-43	23	28	725.1	4.76	659	409	384	105	357	705	.242	1.40	1358

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