Kansas City Royals vs. Cleveland Guardians Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 28, 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	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 9
James McArthur	Elbow	05-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 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

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Gabriel Arias	Hamstring	06-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 16

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Guardians CLE-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	50	197	23	59	23	7	23	38	.299	.369	.482	.851	13	1	15	3	172
M. Garcia 3B	48	192	26	49	18	3	19	30	.255	.319	.380	.699	13	1	4	3	126
V. Pasquantino 1B	47	175	18	34	22	5	21	41	.194	.279	.326	.605	4	2	1	0	100
S. Perez C	48	185	18	39	21	8	9	42	.211	.259	.368	.627	5	0	0	0	99
C. Jensen C	46	141	19	33	19	6	19	49	.234	.325	.404	.729	6	0	0	0	90
J. Caglianone RF	45	146	18	37	10	5	12	48	.253	.319	.432	.751	9	1	0	1	80
I. Collins LF	43	135	16	29	15	3	20	43	.215	.329	.319	.648	5	0	3	3	79
K. Isbel CF	41	123	14	33	10	3	7	32	.268	.323	.407	.730	6	1	5	0	78
M. Massey 2B	35	92	10	20	12	3	3	20	.217	.237	.402	.639	8	0	1	0	54
L. Thomas CF	39	86	8	18	9	1	19	23	.209	.352	.267	.619	2	0	3	3	51
N. Loftin 2B	22	54	9	12	13	0	8	8	.222	.343	.333	.676	6	0	0	0	47
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	21	51	3	15	2	0	4	16	.294	.351	.353	.704	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	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	1	1	2
Total	50	1652	194	392	187	48	173	409	.237	.314	.382	.696	83	6	33	15	1050

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	10	10	4-2	0	0	63.1	2.70	45	20	19	7	20	55	.200	1.03	172
L. Erceg RP	20	0	3-1	11	14	19.1	3.26	15	9	7	0	13	17	.224	1.45	124
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
S. Lugo SP	10	10	1-4	0	0	58.2	3.68	61	25	24	2	21	51	.275	1.40	100
D. Lynch RP	20	0	1-0	1	2	21.0	1.71	12	7	4	1	7	26	.158	0.90	65
N. Cameron SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	41.2	5.40	49	28	25	5	14	36	.287	1.51	60
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
S. Kolek SP	3	3	2-0	0	0	17.0	4.24	13	8	8	3	4	12	.203	1.00	51
N. Mears RP	19	0	2-2	0	2	17.2	3.06	15	6	6	1	8	14	.242	1.30	35
M. Strahm RP	17	0	1-1	0	1	16.1	3.86	14	7	7	3	7	17	.222	1.29	30
J. Schreiber RP	21	0	0-2	1	1	19.1	3.26	18	7	7	3	10	11	.257	1.45	24
A. Lange RP	20	0	0-2	0	0	23.0	5.09	20	14	13	2	13	23	.244	1.43	22
L. Avila RP	9	1	0-2	0	0	18.1	4.42	20	9	9	1	10	19	.294	1.64	15
E. Morgan RP	8	0	0-1	1	1	11.1	5.56	15	7	7	3	6	9	.313	1.85	12
M. Black RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	0.00	7	0	0	0	2	5	.350	1.93	7
T. Tolbert SS	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	1.50	2
E. Cerantola RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	9.00	2	3	3	1	4	5	.200	2.00	2
S. Cruz RP	11	0	0-2	0	1	10.1	8.71	11	11	10	5	8	14	.262	1.84	-1
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Falter RP	4	1	0-1	0	0	7.1	9.82	15	8	8	1	6	6	.429	2.86	-9
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
Total	50	50	20-30	14	23	443.0	4.29	404	224	211	54	209	419	.244	1.38	862

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
J. Ramirez 3B	52	191	30	45	24	8	37	33	.236	.361	.419	.780	11	0	20	2	193
B. Rocchio SS	50	162	24	47	27	4	19	20	.290	.376	.420	.796	7	1	9	3	147
C. DeLauter RF	47	172	19	46	30	7	24	22	.267	.354	.459	.813	10	1	2	0	145
A. Martinez LF	48	160	24	41	26	9	6	34	.256	.298	.488	.786	8	1	8	2	135
S. Kwan CF	48	173	23	35	11	1	32	24	.202	.330	.260	.590	7	0	2	1	104
D. Schneemann CF	42	134	18	33	19	4	16	43	.246	.327	.403	.730	9	0	3	2	89
R. Hoskins 1B	40	108	19	20	18	4	27	37	.185	.343	.361	.704	7	0	0	0	85
K. Manzardo 1B	44	135	17	30	16	4	14	49	.222	.303	.356	.659	4	1	0	0	72
T. Bazzana 2B	21	73	10	21	9	2	13	14	.288	.409	.384	.793	1	0	7	1	68
D. Fry RF	31	67	11	15	8	3	13	23	.224	.350	.388	.738	2	0	0	0	46
A. Hedges C	24	62	11	15	4	1	7	15	.242	.314	.355	.669	4	0	1	1	37
P. Bailey C	5	15	0	1	2	0	1	3	.067	.125	.133	.258	1	0	0	0	34
B. Naylor C	28	84	4	12	7	2	6	21	.143	.200	.238	.438	2	0	0	0	26
J. Brito 2B	15	51	7	9	3	0	4	17	.176	.250	.255	.505	4	0	0	0	19
G. Valera LF	13	37	1	8	6	0	1	8	.216	.237	.297	.534	3	0	0	0	15
G. Arias SS	10	30	2	6	4	2	2	12	.200	.250	.433	.683	1	0	0	0	15
C. Kayfus LF	9	22	4	4	2	1	2	8	.182	.280	.364	.644	1	0	0	0	13
P. Halpin CF	12	20	3	2	1	0	1	5	.100	.143	.100	.243	0	0	2	0	8
Total	52	1699	228	391	218	53	225	388	.230	.324	.377	.701	82	4	54	12	1251

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
C. Smith RP	23	0	2-0	16	18	23.2	2.66	22	9	7	1	5	35	.244	1.14	180
P. Messick SP	10	10	5-1	0	0	58.2	2.45	43	17	16	6	17	64	.208	1.02	173
G. Williams SP	10	10	6-3	0	0	61.1	3.67	51	26	25	9	22	73	.225	1.19	160
J. Cantillo SP	11	11	4-1	0	0	56.0	3.05	47	23	19	6	27	51	.233	1.32	128
T. Bibee SP	11	11	0-6	0	0	60.0	3.75	54	25	25	7	21	52	.239	1.25	90
S. Cecconi SP	10	10	3-4	0	0	52.1	5.16	59	32	30	9	19	42	.286	1.49	74
E. Sabrowski RP	25	0	2-1	0	0	21.0	1.71	7	4	4	1	13	39	.101	0.95	67
C. Holderman RP	13	0	2-0	0	0	18.0	1.50	9	4	3	1	4	21	.141	0.72	62
M. Festa RP	22	0	1-0	1	1	21.1	4.64	20	12	11	4	5	22	.238	1.17	50
C. Brogdon RP	15	0	2-2	1	2	15.1	5.28	14	12	9	5	3	14	.230	1.11	38
A. Hedges C	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.1	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	37
S. Armstrong RP	13	0	1-0	0	0	11.1	3.97	8	5	5	2	8	15	.195	1.41	26
H. Gaddis RP	15	0	1-1	1	2	12.0	5.25	15	7	7	2	6	10	.306	1.75	22
P. Pallette RP	15	0	1-2	0	0	19.2	5.49	17	13	12	2	13	21	.227	1.53	21
T. Herrin RP	21	0	0-1	0	0	16.1	1.65	14	4	3	1	11	12	.241	1.53	20
C. Heuer RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.2	3.38	3	1	1	0	1	3	.300	1.50	4
F. Aleman RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.2	3.38	3	1	1	1	1	1	.333	1.50	3
Total	52	52	30-22	19	23	461.1	3.67	402	205	188	59	179	484	.234	1.26	1155

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