Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 17, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	09-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 5
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Maikel Garcia	Hamstring	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Connor Seabold	Lat	08-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 30
James McArthur	Elbow	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
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	03-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Apr 1
Michael Massey	Concussion	09-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 2
Beck Way	Back	08-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 28
Luinder Avila	Elbow	01-31-2028Expected to be out until at least Feb 1, 2028

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	09-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 24
Michael Burrows	Elbow	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Jeremy Pena	Hand	08-27-2026Probable for Aug 28
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brice Matthews	Knee	09-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 12

	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	116	453	75	131	49	16	55	90	.289	.366	.459	.825	27	1	36	7	409
J. Caglianone RF	123	444	62	125	66	23	29	125	.282	.332	.500	.832	24	2	6	2	331
C. Jensen C	125	434	60	97	59	18	55	142	.224	.310	.410	.720	25	1	2	1	286
S. Perez DH	125	481	46	106	59	17	20	104	.220	.265	.370	.635	19	1	1	0	265
M. Massey 2B	110	340	46	94	44	11	19	62	.276	.310	.444	.754	22	1	2	0	233
V. Pasquantino 1B	89	331	41	81	41	9	43	61	.245	.332	.384	.716	15	2	5	0	233
I. Collins LF	121	380	41	87	38	6	51	100	.229	.327	.347	.674	21	3	6	5	225
N. Loftin 3B	95	291	36	69	40	6	36	54	.237	.329	.385	.714	21	2	2	1	206
M. Garcia 3B	73	283	34	76	32	3	24	47	.269	.324	.385	.709	18	3	5	4	181
K. Isbel CF	76	226	26	54	24	6	13	55	.239	.287	.367	.654	9	1	6	0	133
T. Tolbert SS	64	110	28	33	8	3	11	23	.300	.366	.427	.793	5	0	20	3	120
J. Rave RF	31	78	14	17	8	3	7	17	.218	.282	.423	.705	5	1	4	0	61
J. Rojas 3B	31	80	8	18	9	1	4	14	.225	.262	.300	.562	3	0	1	0	40
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
L. Maile C	11	29	2	5	5	1	1	11	.172	.200	.310	.510	1	0	0	0	11
M. Lugo LF	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	0	0	0	0	1
Total	135	4525	578	1120	550	139	427	1061	.248	.316	.401	.717	240	18	109	29	2769

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	26	26	7-8	0	0	162.2	3.49	141	67	63	22	42	126	.233	1.13	359
N. Cameron SP	26	25	9-8	0	0	149.1	3.98	134	71	66	15	48	131	.237	1.22	312
S. Lugo SP	27	27	6-7	0	0	150.1	4.61	161	85	77	16	47	116	.279	1.38	266
D. Lynch IV RP	50	4	4-4	1	3	58.1	2.93	43	23	19	4	17	43	.200	1.03	130
S. Cruz RP	48	2	2-3	5	6	50.2	4.44	44	26	25	12	19	54	.233	1.24	123
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	120
L. Erceg RP	47	0	4-4	12	18	43.1	6.23	53	35	30	5	29	31	.312	1.89	119
A. Lange RP	50	0	2-7	10	13	51.2	5.75	50	35	33	6	27	53	.255	1.49	115
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
R. Dobnak SP	10	8	2-2	0	0	51.2	1.92	50	11	11	3	21	34	.254	1.37	100
L. Avila SP	21	12	5-4	0	0	70.0	5.53	71	43	43	7	42	61	.272	1.61	100
N. Pearson RP	14	0	1-1	2	3	13.2	0.66	7	1	1	0	6	12	.149	0.95	91
J. Schreiber RP	54	0	1-3	1	4	48.1	3.72	41	23	20	7	22	36	.236	1.30	78
C. Kimbrel RP	5	0	1-0	1	1	5.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	2	3	.071	0.56	70
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
J. Rojas 3B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	40
M. Black RP	17	0	0-0	0	0	31.1	4.31	30	16	15	6	20	19	.252	1.60	36
B. Way RP	19	1	1-1	0	0	23.1	3.86	27	13	10	4	10	21	.293	1.59	34
C. Seabold RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	9.00	7	6	5	0	4	5	.318	2.20	31
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
J. Cuas RP	13	0	0-0	0	0	14.0	1.93	15	3	3	0	8	14	.278	1.64	23
E. Morgan RP	16	0	0-1	1	1	19.1	5.12	24	11	11	5	9	16	.300	1.71	22
C. Duran RP	2	0	1-0	0	0	1.1	13.50	2	2	2	0	3	1	.333	3.75	4
A. Gose RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	3
E. McGee RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	11.81	11	7	7	2	3	6	.423	2.63	2
A. Bummer RP	2	0	0-1	0	0	1.1	40.50	6	6	6	1	1	0	.600	5.25	-1
C. Thomas RP	4	0	1-0	0	0	4.0	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	3	.154	0.50	-3
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	135	135	60-75	33	56	1186.1	4.68	1164	659	617	165	496	979	.257	1.40	2319

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	132	476	88	152	91	36	91	102	.319	.434	.609	1.043	28	1	1	0	520
I. Paredes 3B	127	463	51	121	73	17	55	71	.261	.357	.425	.782	23	1	0	0	357
C. Walker 1B	129	476	64	111	75	24	43	124	.233	.308	.441	.749	25	1	0	0	339
J. Pena SS	84	333	65	94	44	16	21	80	.282	.336	.477	.813	15	1	8	1	271
C. Smith RF	131	426	56	91	48	17	36	118	.214	.281	.387	.668	15	4	10	2	270
J. Altuve 2B	108	416	59	102	41	14	37	93	.245	.309	.397	.706	17	2	4	3	262
D. Varsho CF	20	74	6	15	7	3	6	18	.203	.263	.365	.628	3	0	1	0	243
Y. Diaz C	72	253	28	66	32	10	10	42	.261	.289	.419	.708	10	0	0	2	154
C. Vazquez C	77	220	21	47	25	7	17	48	.214	.269	.341	.610	7	0	1	0	116
T. Trammell CF	76	196	26	41	20	7	20	69	.209	.295	.367	.662	6	2	3	3	110
B. Matthews LF	82	208	23	41	22	7	15	71	.197	.250	.332	.582	5	1	4	4	97
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
N. Allen SS	74	121	21	32	13	2	8	27	.264	.308	.347	.655	4	0	2	0	75
J. Meyers CF	54	141	15	30	11	3	10	31	.213	.268	.326	.594	7	0	1	2	67
L. Wade Jr. LF	39	97	13	20	15	2	18	27	.206	.330	.320	.650	5	0	0	0	63
J. Loperfido LF	39	102	13	22	12	1	14	31	.216	.314	.333	.647	7	1	1	1	59
B. Shewmake 3B	30	78	10	20	9	3	2	13	.256	.272	.423	.695	4	0	0	0	54
N. Velazquez LF	5	7	0	0	1	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	49
Z. Dezenzo LF	35	75	11	16	3	1	7	31	.213	.280	.307	.587	4	0	1	0	30
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
R. Delgado 2B	19	37	4	9	4	1	3	7	.243	.300	.351	.651	1	0	0	0	20
L. Spence CF	14	37	4	6	3	0	3	15	.162	.244	.189	.433	1	0	0	1	9
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	134	4511	613	1093	583	179	445	1099	.242	.317	.412	.729	197	15	40	19	3288

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
P. Lambert SP	23	23	8-7	0	0	128.0	3.66	106	54	52	13	51	125	.222	1.23	273
J. Hader RP	35	0	4-1	19	19	34.1	0.79	13	3	3	1	11	46	.112	0.70	255
A. Blubaugh RP	51	0	4-2	1	1	82.1	3.17	62	31	29	10	34	84	.210	1.17	187
S. Okert RP	66	1	6-2	0	1	66.1	2.17	44	17	16	7	14	66	.190	0.87	186
H. Brown SP	14	14	3-3	0	0	74.1	3.51	56	31	29	10	43	76	.210	1.33	150
B. Abreu RP	52	0	5-3	7	8	49.2	4.17	36	25	23	7	36	63	.206	1.45	150
E. De Los Santos RP	58	0	2-3	5	7	61.2	4.67	59	36	32	8	14	57	.248	1.18	141
T. Imai SP	18	15	6-4	0	0	67.2	5.32	55	40	40	9	44	83	.220	1.46	138
K. Teng RP	27	10	5-6	0	0	70.1	4.22	63	37	33	10	30	71	.236	1.32	119
B. King RP	51	1	2-3	6	10	53.0	4.75	57	30	28	8	19	44	.271	1.43	112
M. Burrows SP	18	17	4-9	0	0	94.2	5.99	112	69	63	21	35	75	.292	1.55	102
H. Wesneski SP	6	6	4-1	0	0	32.2	3.86	27	14	14	2	12	28	.229	1.19	87
J. Meyers CF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	67
L. Wade Jr. LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	3	2	2	1	0	0	.500	3.00	63
C. Javier SP	12	8	1-4	0	0	40.1	6.47	48	29	29	8	19	38	.294	1.66	32
A. Santa RP	10	0	0-1	0	0	15.1	1.17	8	6	2	1	6	9	.160	0.91	29
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
R. Blanco SP	5	4	0-1	0	0	23.1	7.71	22	20	20	7	12	20	.253	1.46	20
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
M. Ullola RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	4.50	4	3	3	2	1	9	.182	0.83	14
B. Sousa RP	22	0	1-3	0	1	18.2	6.27	24	15	13	2	10	21	.312	1.82	11
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
E. Pecko SP	2	2	0-0	0	0	8.0	7.88	8	7	7	2	7	5	.258	1.88	3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
Total	134	134	67-67	40	49	1189.1	4.65	1075	657	615	177	552	1172	.241	1.37	2202

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