Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 18, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Seth Lugo	Concussion	06-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 21
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 8
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
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Chris Devenski	Illness	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Oneil Cruz	Hand	07-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 10
Joey Bart	Foot	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Konnor Griffin	Elbow	06-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 23
Wilber Dotel	Lat	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28

	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	70	277	34	77	28	9	32	56	.278	.353	.444	.797	17	1	24	4	234
V. Pasquantino 1B	67	251	28	56	31	6	32	50	.223	.309	.351	.660	10	2	3	0	161
M. Garcia 3B	63	246	32	65	25	3	23	41	.264	.325	.378	.703	15	2	4	3	157
J. Caglianone RF	64	213	26	58	19	8	20	70	.272	.343	.446	.789	11	1	3	1	133
C. Jensen C	64	209	28	45	32	8	22	70	.215	.287	.383	.670	11	0	0	0	128
S. Perez C	64	249	24	51	26	9	12	51	.205	.252	.337	.589	6	0	0	0	125
I. Collins LF	61	189	23	41	17	3	31	59	.217	.339	.307	.646	8	0	3	3	107
M. Massey 2B	53	149	18	39	22	6	5	28	.262	.280	.456	.736	11	0	1	0	101
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
L. Thomas CF	55	128	12	29	15	2	25	35	.227	.357	.305	.662	4	0	3	3	78
N. Loftin 2B	35	94	14	21	18	1	14	14	.223	.333	.362	.695	8	1	0	0	76
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	31	71	5	18	5	1	5	23	.254	.316	.338	.654	3	0	0	1	28
T. Tolbert RF	19	14	5	3	0	0	2	6	.214	.313	.214	.527	0	0	5	2	15
K. Misner CF	3	5	0	3	3	0	1	1	.600	.667	.600	1.267	0	0	0	0	6
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	70	2334	277	560	267	63	243	563	.240	.315	.377	.692	114	8	51	17	1474

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	14	14	4-5	0	0	88.0	3.58	75	37	35	10	27	69	.231	1.16	188
S. Lugo SP	14	14	2-4	0	0	79.1	3.86	82	37	34	7	25	66	.270	1.35	147
N. Cameron SP	12	12	3-4	0	0	65.2	3.84	61	32	28	6	17	63	.239	1.19	138
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	28	0	3-3	12	18	26.1	5.81	32	19	17	2	19	22	.308	1.94	111
S. Kolek SP	7	7	3-1	0	0	43.0	3.14	37	18	15	5	9	30	.228	1.07	110
D. Lynch RP	28	0	2-0	1	3	28.0	1.93	18	9	6	1	9	29	.176	0.96	84
A. Lange RP	29	0	0-3	4	4	31.0	4.06	27	16	14	2	18	34	.239	1.45	61
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
M. Strahm RP	22	0	3-1	0	2	21.1	4.64	19	11	11	7	7	18	.229	1.22	51
J. Schreiber RP	30	0	0-3	1	2	27.0	2.67	21	9	8	4	11	18	.223	1.19	41
S. Cruz RP	18	0	1-2	0	1	19.2	5.95	18	14	13	7	12	26	.240	1.53	26
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	13	4	1-3	0	0	32.0	6.19	36	22	22	4	22	28	.298	1.81	22
M. Black RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	13.2	2.63	15	4	4	2	8	15	.283	1.68	19
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	15
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
B. Way RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	10.80	6	4	4	1	1	6	.375	2.10	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
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
Total	70	70	28-42	19	34	620.1	4.45	590	329	307	87	271	566	.251	1.39	1189

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
B. Reynolds LF	70	249	45	66	40	7	46	65	.265	.387	.422	.809	14	2	5	0	218
B. Lowe 2B	64	245	43	61	46	17	30	69	.249	.333	.531	.864	16	1	0	0	216
S. Horwitz 1B	64	210	27	60	30	9	33	32	.286	.382	.462	.844	8	1	1	0	175
N. Gonzales 3B	64	239	36	72	31	2	16	45	.301	.351	.372	.723	11	0	3	2	156
R. O'Hearn RF	55	198	31	55	34	10	20	49	.278	.347	.460	.807	6	0	1	0	155
K. Griffin SS	51	189	30	51	22	4	14	56	.270	.327	.402	.729	9	2	14	1	144
J. Mangum LF	50	131	19	38	10	1	10	26	.290	.347	.351	.698	5	0	12	2	96
M. Ozuna DH	51	187	15	36	23	5	19	60	.193	.274	.299	.573	5	0	0	0	85
H. Davis C	45	123	13	17	17	5	14	30	.138	.241	.285	.526	3	0	1	0	69
E. Rodriguez C	19	50	9	12	6	2	12	15	.240	.387	.420	.807	3	0	2	0	44
J. Triolo SS	38	112	10	26	7	0	9	31	.232	.295	.268	.563	4	0	2	1	44
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
T. Callihan LF	9	16	5	5	6	2	6	5	.313	.500	.938	1.438	2	1	1	0	31
J. Bart C	21	58	9	15	6	2	2	21	.259	.290	.379	.669	1	0	0	0	29
R. Flores C	2	3	2	2	2	1	2	0	.667	.800	2.000	2.800	1	0	0	0	12
E. Valdez RF	7	19	2	2	5	2	2	10	.105	.190	.421	.611	0	0	0	0	12
B. Cook RF	33	21	5	4	0	0	0	8	.190	.190	.190	.380	0	0	3	1	10
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	70	2415	354	610	337	84	273	647	.253	.334	.405	.739	102	7	66	11	1767

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	14	14	5-3	0	0	84.2	3.30	74	34	31	8	19	90	.236	1.10	213
P. Skenes SP	14	14	6-5	0	0	76.0	2.84	56	30	24	6	15	89	.200	0.93	208
G. Soto RP	30	0	4-1	9	12	29.1	3.38	15	12	11	2	12	34	.147	0.92	151
M. Keller SP	14	14	5-4	0	0	77.0	5.14	74	44	44	6	27	58	.252	1.31	145
C. Mlodzinski SP	13	9	4-3	1	1	62.2	4.02	65	29	28	5	23	52	.269	1.40	119
Y. Ramirez RP	29	0	3-2	1	3	38.2	4.42	30	22	19	4	20	42	.210	1.29	79
B. Chandler SP	13	12	2-7	0	0	62.1	4.91	50	40	34	8	40	62	.213	1.44	75
E. Sisk RP	25	0	1-0	0	2	29.0	1.86	22	6	6	1	11	36	.216	1.14	69
D. Santana RP	30	0	2-3	2	4	28.0	4.82	27	17	15	3	16	22	.248	1.54	48
M. Montgomery RP	26	4	1-1	0	0	25.2	4.56	22	14	13	3	14	34	.224	1.40	47
T. Callihan LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	31
J. Jones SP	3	3	1-0	0	0	13.1	4.73	14	7	7	2	5	14	.264	1.43	28
I. Mattson RP	21	0	0-0	0	2	19.2	4.12	19	9	9	0	10	15	.253	1.47	27
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	12	0	0-0	0	0	13.1	4.05	11	11	6	4	11	16	.224	1.65	20
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 SP	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	70	70	35-35	14	27	629.2	4.26	560	339	298	64	262	634	.235	1.31	1291

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