Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 23, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Justin Verlander	Hamstring	08-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 4
Javier Baez	Ankle	08-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 28
Burch Smith	Shoulder	07-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 27
Wenceel Perez	Orbital	08-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 16
Will Vest	Elbow	08-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 27
Parker Meadows	Arm	07-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 30
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
Casey Mize	Groin	07-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 24
Kerry Carpenter	Heel	07-20-2026Probable for Jul 21
Jackson Jobe	Elbow	08-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 6
Trey Sweeney	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brant Hurter	Back	07-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 23
Bailey Horn	Elbow	08-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Sep 1, 2027

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	08-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 20
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Connor Seabold	Lat	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
Kris Bubic	Elbow	08-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 10
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
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	Back	07-20-2026Probable for Jul 21
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	08-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 4

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Tigers DET-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
K. McGonigle SS	97	366	61	103	35	9	63	59	.281	.391	.426	.817	20	3	11	0	306
D. Dingler C	91	340	52	91	63	21	23	80	.268	.332	.524	.856	20	2	0	0	271
R. Greene LF	99	358	52	103	50	15	53	113	.288	.379	.475	.854	20	1	2	1	264
S. Torkelson 1B	99	339	40	70	49	18	41	127	.206	.300	.419	.719	18	0	0	1	210
C. Keith 3B	90	262	37	67	24	8	15	55	.256	.301	.401	.702	10	2	4	0	161
K. Carpenter RF	77	218	26	45	36	13	18	73	.206	.279	.427	.706	5	2	0	0	142
M. Vierling CF	85	249	23	51	30	5	19	46	.205	.257	.329	.586	12	2	4	2	137
G. Torres 2B	44	160	27	46	18	4	31	34	.288	.405	.400	.805	6	0	0	0	120
Z. McKinstry 2B	75	230	21	44	19	4	26	46	.191	.271	.291	.562	7	2	1	4	108
W. Perez RF	53	161	22	29	17	7	14	29	.180	.246	.348	.594	4	1	3	1	99
H. Lee 2B	58	160	12	41	17	4	7	44	.256	.287	.388	.675	7	1	1	2	74
J. Outman CF	28	73	10	11	10	3	5	34	.151	.205	.301	.506	0	1	2	0	61
J. Rogers C	34	87	11	15	9	3	12	30	.172	.275	.322	.597	2	1	1	0	48
J. Baez SS	24	78	10	20	6	2	2	16	.256	.280	.397	.677	5	0	1	1	43
P. Meadows CF	12	36	3	9	2	0	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.641	1	1	3	0	21
E. Valencia DH	6	12	3	5	3	2	0	4	.417	.462	.917	1.379	0	0	0	0	16
B. Malgeri RF	14	26	2	7	4	0	4	8	.269	.355	.346	.701	2	0	0	0	15
G. Workman 3B	16	38	3	6	5	2	0	16	.158	.158	.395	.553	3	0	0	0	15
J. Jung DH	3	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542	0	0	0	0	3
T. Cruz RF	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	-1
Total	100	3335	426	783	406	122	354	875	.235	.313	.400	.713	146	19	33	14	2113

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	21	15	6-5	1	1	100.2	3.22	77	38	36	9	22	70	.209	0.98	244
T. Skubal SP	14	14	6-5	0	0	82.2	2.83	66	29	26	10	11	98	.217	0.93	228
F. Valdez SP	19	19	5-6	0	0	107.2	4.10	106	54	49	11	36	87	.252	1.32	200
C. Mize SP	15	15	4-6	0	0	80.2	2.79	64	26	25	5	19	82	.216	1.03	193
T. Melton SP	9	9	5-1	0	0	55.0	1.80	33	12	11	7	15	50	.170	0.87	174
J. Flaherty SP	19	19	3-8	0	0	86.1	4.59	80	52	44	11	42	102	.240	1.41	119
D. Anderson RP	35	2	3-4	2	5	57.1	4.24	53	30	27	9	23	71	.241	1.33	115
K. Jansen RP	29	0	2-4	11	15	25.2	4.21	17	13	12	5	16	29	.185	1.29	109
K. Finnegan RP	42	0	2-0	1	7	44.0	2.45	40	12	12	5	25	34	.253	1.48	92
E. De Jesus RP	22	0	2-0	1	1	31.2	3.98	27	17	14	1	13	31	.227	1.26	77
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
T. Holton RP	42	2	1-4	1	2	44.1	3.05	49	20	15	5	10	37	.282	1.33	60
J. Rogers C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.50	48
W. Vest RP	27	0	3-5	2	7	26.2	6.08	28	22	18	2	10	27	.275	1.43	45
T. Madden RP	7	1	0-0	0	0	20.0	3.15	16	7	7	2	5	23	.211	1.05	42
J. Waguespack RP	11	0	0-0	0	0	14.1	1.26	8	2	2	2	4	10	.157	0.84	29
B. Hanifee RP	16	2	0-0	0	0	15.2	3.45	18	6	6	2	4	6	.290	1.40	21
B. Smith RP	13	1	0-2	0	0	17.0	3.18	18	8	6	2	7	20	.277	1.47	20
D. Sommers RP	18	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	4.76	12	6	6	1	7	16	.273	1.68	13
B. Brieske RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	6.75	9	7	7	3	4	8	.257	1.39	12
J. Verlander SP	1	1	0-1	0	0	3.2	12.27	6	5	5	1	2	1	.353	2.18	-6
R. Vanasco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	6.1	15.63	14	12	11	2	6	4	.412	3.16	-15
Total	100	100	47-53	19	39	882.2	3.59	775	393	352	98	298	839	.234	1.22	1892

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	94	369	51	103	39	13	41	73	.279	.350	.450	.800	22	1	30	5	316
J. Caglianone RF	94	335	46	87	37	16	25	104	.260	.318	.466	.784	17	2	3	1	221
C. Jensen C	93	326	43	79	51	13	33	105	.242	.310	.429	.739	22	0	1	0	218
S. Perez C	93	362	34	77	41	13	15	80	.213	.258	.359	.617	14	0	0	0	181
L. Thomas CF	86	246	29	60	34	9	36	64	.244	.343	.419	.762	16	0	5	3	178
I. Collins LF	90	282	35	69	32	5	38	77	.245	.345	.365	.710	17	1	5	5	177
V. Pasquantino 1B	73	271	32	60	32	6	35	54	.221	.311	.339	.650	10	2	4	0	171
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
M. Massey 2B	81	240	33	64	33	7	15	42	.267	.306	.425	.731	17	0	2	0	163
N. Loftin 3B	63	190	27	46	30	4	21	29	.242	.329	.395	.724	15	1	1	0	142
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
T. Tolbert SS	37	58	17	20	5	2	4	11	.345	.381	.466	.847	1	0	11	3	66
S. Marte RF	44	112	12	30	9	1	8	34	.268	.328	.330	.658	4	0	1	2	52
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
J. Rojas 3B	18	43	5	10	5	1	1	9	.233	.250	.349	.599	2	0	0	0	19
J. Rave RF	9	18	3	4	1	1	3	7	.222	.333	.611	.944	2	1	0	0	14
K. Misner CF	18	41	2	9	4	0	2	17	.220	.256	.244	.500	1	0	3	1	14
L. Maile C	3	10	2	2	3	1	1	3	.200	.273	.500	.773	0	0	0	0	9
Total	101	3405	430	843	410	102	321	813	.248	.316	.399	.715	187	11	76	23	2232

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	20	20	5-7	0	0	125.1	3.66	111	53	51	15	36	101	.239	1.17	245
S. Lugo SP	20	20	3-6	0	0	110.2	4.39	120	62	54	15	36	89	.280	1.41	186
N. Cameron SP	19	19	5-8	0	0	100.2	5.27	113	64	59	14	34	92	.279	1.46	150
L. Erceg RP	40	0	4-3	12	18	38.1	5.40	42	27	23	5	23	27	.286	1.70	133
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
D. Lynch IV RP	41	0	3-2	1	3	41.1	2.18	27	13	10	2	12	34	.180	0.94	105
L. Avila SP	18	9	4-3	0	0	56.2	5.08	58	32	32	6	34	50	.276	1.62	83
A. Lange RP	39	0	1-5	8	10	40.0	6.30	39	30	28	4	22	39	.257	1.53	76
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	66
S. Cruz RP	32	2	2-2	0	1	34.0	4.50	27	18	17	9	16	41	.218	1.26	62
J. Schreiber RP	41	0	0-3	1	2	37.1	3.38	34	17	14	6	14	28	.250	1.29	55
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
B. Way RP	18	0	1-0	0	0	22.1	3.22	24	11	8	4	10	21	.276	1.52	42
M. Strahm RP	36	0	3-3	0	3	32.1	7.24	35	26	26	10	13	26	.267	1.48	40
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
E. Morgan RP	16	0	0-1	1	1	19.1	5.12	24	11	11	5	9	16	.300	1.71	22
R. Dobnak RP	3	1	0-0	0	0	14.0	1.93	13	3	3	2	8	7	.241	1.50	21
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
J. Cuas RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	6.1	2.84	8	2	2	0	2	9	.296	1.58	11
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
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	101	101	41-60	23	41	889.2	4.97	905	528	491	138	386	764	.265	1.45	1584

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