Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 18, 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
Stephen Kolek	Personal	07-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 2
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	06-25-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 26
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
Chris Devenski	Illness	07-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 5
Oneil Cruz	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Jared Jones	Elbow	06-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 27
Spencer Horwitz	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Konnor Griffin	Forearm	06-25-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 26
Wilber Dotel	Lat	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29

	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	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
B. Reynolds LF	80	286	53	83	52	11	51	72	.290	.404	.486	.890	19	2	5	0	274
B. Lowe 2B	74	289	49	71	49	18	33	82	.246	.324	.505	.829	19	1	0	0	238
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
S. Horwitz 1B	74	246	36	69	33	10	40	40	.280	.386	.455	.841	11	1	1	0	208
R. O'Hearn RF	65	242	35	69	44	11	20	58	.285	.342	.467	.809	11	0	1	0	187
N. Gonzales 3B	74	279	42	83	35	3	16	54	.297	.346	.376	.722	11	1	4	2	182
K. Griffin SS	51	189	30	51	22	4	14	56	.270	.327	.402	.729	9	2	14	1	144
J. Mangum LF	60	168	22	50	14	1	10	31	.298	.343	.357	.700	7	0	14	4	116
M. Ozuna DH	54	199	16	40	25	6	20	65	.201	.281	.317	.598	5	0	0	0	93
H. Davis C	50	132	14	18	17	5	14	32	.136	.238	.280	.518	4	0	1	1	71
E. Rodriguez C	28	76	12	20	11	3	17	23	.263	.398	.447	.845	5	0	2	0	66
J. Triolo SS	47	142	13	32	9	0	13	39	.225	.299	.268	.567	6	0	5	1	64
T. Callihan LF	19	44	8	12	9	2	7	14	.273	.377	.545	.922	2	2	1	0	44
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
E. Valdez RF	11	30	4	5	6	2	2	14	.167	.219	.433	.652	2	0	0	0	18
R. Flores C	2	3	2	2	2	1	2	0	.667	.800	2.000	2.800	1	0	0	0	12
B. Cook RF	42	25	6	4	0	0	0	11	.160	.160	.160	.320	0	0	4	1	11
J. Garcia CF	13	35	2	7	2	0	1	10	.200	.243	.229	.472	1	0	0	0	9
D. Wendzel 1B	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	80	2773	404	712	386	94	299	737	.257	.336	.411	.747	127	9	73	14	1999

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	16	16	7-3	0	0	96.2	3.07	83	37	33	8	22	107	.232	1.09	263
P. Skenes SP	16	16	6-7	0	0	88.0	2.86	64	34	28	9	18	107	.199	0.93	232
G. Soto RP	33	0	4-1	11	14	32.1	3.34	20	14	12	2	13	38	.174	1.02	169
M. Keller SP	16	16	5-5	0	0	88.1	4.89	85	52	48	9	32	69	.251	1.32	162
C. Mlodzinski SP	16	9	4-3	2	2	70.2	3.57	74	35	28	6	25	59	.267	1.40	142
Y. Ramirez RP	33	0	5-2	1	3	43.2	3.92	31	22	19	4	23	48	.196	1.24	106
B. Chandler SP	15	14	2-7	0	0	74.0	4.62	59	44	38	9	43	69	.213	1.38	97
E. Sisk RP	29	0	1-0	0	2	34.0	1.85	27	7	7	2	11	42	.223	1.12	81
M. Montgomery RP	30	4	2-2	0	2	29.2	4.55	28	16	15	3	15	40	.241	1.45	55
D. Santana RP	34	0	2-3	2	4	32.0	5.06	30	20	18	4	17	27	.242	1.47	55
T. Callihan LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	44
I. Mattson RP	24	0	0-0	0	2	23.0	3.91	20	10	10	1	12	19	.233	1.39	35
J. Jones SP	5	5	1-1	0	0	20.1	5.75	23	13	13	4	8	21	.280	1.52	29
W. Dotel RP	9	0	1-2	0	0	18.1	5.89	16	12	12	2	9	19	.232	1.36	24
B. Bidois RP	13	0	0-0	0	0	14.0	5.14	15	13	8	4	11	17	.273	1.86	15
C. Sanders RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	9.00	6	6	6	0	5	8	.261	1.83	4
A. Kelly RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	2	2	2	1	1	1	.250	1.29	2
C. Devenski RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	5	2	2	1	0	3	.417	2.14	1
J. Urquidy RP	5	0	0-1	1	1	6.1	8.53	15	10	6	1	2	6	.441	2.68	1
H. Barco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	11.2	7.71	14	12	10	3	9	8	.292	1.97	-1
Total	80	80	40-40	17	32	716.2	4.12	640	381	328	77	289	733	.235	1.30	1516

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