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
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 4

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	Forearm	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
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	71	282	35	80	28	9	32	56	.284	.356	.454	.810	19	1	24	4	240
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
M. Garcia 3B	64	250	32	65	25	3	23	43	.260	.320	.372	.692	15	2	4	3	156
J. Caglianone RF	65	215	27	58	19	8	22	70	.270	.346	.442	.788	11	1	3	1	136
C. Jensen C	65	214	29	47	35	8	22	70	.220	.289	.393	.682	13	0	0	0	136
S. Perez C	65	253	25	52	26	9	12	52	.206	.252	.336	.588	6	0	0	0	127
I. Collins LF	62	191	23	41	17	3	31	59	.215	.336	.304	.640	8	0	3	3	107
M. Massey 2B	54	152	19	41	23	6	5	28	.270	.288	.467	.755	12	0	1	0	106
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
L. Thomas CF	56	131	14	30	16	3	26	36	.229	.360	.328	.688	4	0	3	3	86
N. Loftin 2B	36	95	14	21	18	1	14	14	.221	.330	.358	.688	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	4	9	0	4	3	0	1	2	.444	.500	.444	.944	0	0	0	0	7
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	71	2370	284	571	273	64	246	569	.241	.316	.379	.695	119	8	51	17	1507

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	13	13	3-4	0	0	70.0	4.11	68	36	32	8	17	64	.247	1.21	141
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	29	0	2-0	1	3	29.0	1.86	18	9	6	1	9	29	.171	0.93	87
A. Lange RP	30	0	0-4	4	4	32.2	4.13	28	17	15	2	19	35	.235	1.44	58
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	23	0	3-1	0	3	21.2	5.40	20	13	13	8	7	18	.235	1.25	48
J. Schreiber RP	31	0	0-3	1	2	28.2	2.83	23	10	9	5	11	21	.228	1.19	44
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	71	71	28-43	19	35	629.1	4.50	601	337	315	91	272	571	.252	1.39	1192

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	71	253	45	67	41	7	46	66	.265	.386	.423	.809	15	2	5	0	221
B. Lowe 2B	65	249	43	61	46	17	31	70	.245	.331	.522	.853	16	1	0	0	217
S. Horwitz 1B	65	213	29	61	31	9	33	33	.286	.386	.460	.846	8	1	1	0	180
R. O'Hearn RF	56	202	31	57	35	10	20	50	.282	.350	.460	.810	6	0	1	0	158
N. Gonzales 3B	65	243	36	72	31	2	16	46	.296	.346	.366	.712	11	0	3	2	156
K. Griffin SS	51	189	30	51	22	4	14	56	.270	.327	.402	.729	9	2	14	1	144
J. Mangum LF	51	135	19	40	10	1	10	27	.296	.351	.356	.707	5	0	13	2	99
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	20	52	9	12	6	2	14	16	.231	.394	.404	.798	3	0	2	0	46
J. Triolo SS	39	115	10	26	7	0	10	34	.226	.294	.261	.555	4	0	2	1	44
T. Callihan LF	10	20	6	7	6	2	6	6	.350	.500	.850	1.350	2	1	1	0	34
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
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	34	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	71	2447	357	618	340	84	277	658	.253	.335	.403	.738	103	7	67	11	1787

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	31	0	4-1	10	13	30.1	3.26	16	12	11	2	12	35	.151	0.92	160
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	30	0	4-2	1	3	39.2	4.31	31	22	19	4	21	45	.211	1.31	88
B. Chandler SP	14	13	2-7	0	0	68.0	4.76	53	42	36	8	41	68	.208	1.38	88
E. Sisk RP	25	0	1-0	0	2	29.0	1.86	22	6	6	1	11	36	.216	1.14	69
M. Montgomery RP	27	4	1-1	0	1	27.0	4.33	24	14	13	3	14	34	.231	1.41	49
D. Santana RP	30	0	2-3	2	4	28.0	4.82	27	17	15	3	16	22	.248	1.54	48
T. Callihan LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	34
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	71	71	36-35	15	29	638.2	4.23	567	341	300	64	264	644	.235	1.30	1327

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