Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 16, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Salvador Perez	Thumb	06-08-2026Probable for Jun 9
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 23
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 18
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	Knee	06-08-2026Probable for Jun 9
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
Jac Caglianone	Shoulder	06-08-2026Probable for Jun 9

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
LaMonte Wade	Hamstring	06-08-2026Probable for Jun 9
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Nick Allen	Hamstring	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Braden Shewmake	Thigh	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1

	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	66	261	33	73	27	9	30	55	.280	.354	.456	.810	17	1	23	3	225
M. Garcia 3B	60	233	29	62	23	3	22	37	.266	.327	.378	.705	15	1	4	3	148
V. Pasquantino 1B	63	236	25	52	29	6	30	48	.220	.306	.352	.658	9	2	2	0	148
S. Perez C	61	235	22	48	26	9	12	49	.204	.254	.345	.599	6	0	0	0	121
C. Jensen C	61	197	26	42	31	8	21	68	.213	.286	.381	.667	9	0	0	0	120
J. Caglianone RF	60	196	21	49	15	6	19	65	.250	.326	.403	.729	10	1	2	1	107
I. Collins LF	57	176	22	38	16	3	30	56	.216	.340	.307	.647	7	0	3	3	101
M. Massey 2B	50	137	16	36	20	6	5	27	.263	.283	.460	.743	9	0	1	0	92
K. Isbel CF	55	162	16	39	11	3	9	41	.241	.291	.352	.643	7	1	5	0	85
L. Thomas CF	52	120	12	27	14	2	24	31	.225	.354	.308	.662	4	0	3	3	75
N. Loftin 2B	33	87	14	20	17	1	13	13	.230	.340	.356	.696	8	0	0	0	71
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	29	66	5	17	5	1	4	22	.258	.315	.348	.663	3	0	0	1	27
T. Tolbert RF	17	13	5	3	0	0	2	6	.231	.333	.231	.564	0	0	4	1	14
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	66	2194	258	520	249	61	230	536	.237	.313	.375	.688	107	6	47	15	1372

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	13	13	4-4	0	0	81.0	3.44	66	33	31	9	26	67	.223	1.14	185
S. Lugo SP	13	13	2-4	0	0	76.0	3.91	79	36	33	7	24	64	.271	1.36	141
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	26	0	3-3	12	18	24.0	6.00	31	18	16	2	16	21	.323	1.96	109
S. Kolek SP	6	6	3-1	0	0	38.0	3.32	29	16	14	5	8	27	.207	0.97	103
D. Lynch RP	26	0	2-0	1	2	26.1	1.71	17	8	5	1	8	29	.175	0.95	82
A. Lange RP	27	0	0-2	3	3	29.0	4.03	25	14	13	2	15	31	.238	1.38	57
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	20	0	3-1	0	1	19.1	4.19	16	9	9	5	7	17	.216	1.19	49
L. Avila RP	12	3	1-2	0	0	31.1	4.02	31	14	14	2	19	28	.272	1.60	41
J. Schreiber RP	28	0	0-3	1	2	25.1	2.84	21	9	8	4	11	16	.236	1.26	35
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
M. Black RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	9.2	1.86	10	2	2	1	3	10	.263	1.34	19
E. Morgan RP	13	0	0-1	1	1	16.1	5.51	23	10	10	4	8	15	.324	1.90	15
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	14
S. Cruz RP	15	0	0-2	0	1	15.1	7.63	16	14	13	7	11	22	.262	1.76	7
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Way RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	27.00	4	4	4	1	1	2	.500	3.75	-4
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	66	66	27-39	18	31	583.1	4.41	549	306	286	81	252	539	.249	1.37	1147

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	67	241	46	75	48	22	45	52	.311	.427	.639	1.066	13	0	1	0	273
C. Walker 1B	67	250	39	63	48	16	23	59	.252	.324	.500	.824	12	1	0	0	204
I. Paredes 3B	62	224	27	54	33	9	24	42	.241	.331	.415	.746	12	0	0	0	160
C. Smith RF	67	220	26	49	25	6	25	69	.223	.311	.359	.670	10	1	8	1	135
J. Altuve 2B	46	175	30	42	13	5	20	41	.240	.320	.383	.703	10	0	1	2	110
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
J. Pena SS	30	118	23	34	12	3	10	19	.288	.356	.424	.780	7	0	5	1	91
C. Vazquez C	44	131	14	32	19	4	11	24	.244	.303	.382	.685	6	0	0	0	82
B. Matthews CF	55	153	16	31	14	4	11	54	.203	.255	.320	.575	4	1	2	4	62
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
J. Meyers CF	31	93	10	20	8	2	8	21	.215	.282	.323	.605	4	0	1	2	45
B. Shewmake SS	28	74	8	18	8	3	2	13	.243	.260	.405	.665	3	0	0	0	41
N. Allen SS	37	64	12	16	5	1	3	14	.250	.290	.328	.618	2	0	1	0	38
T. Trammell CF	22	66	8	19	6	0	5	24	.288	.347	.379	.726	4	1	1	0	35
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
J. Loperfido LF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
Z. Dezenzo LF	21	47	5	9	2	1	4	19	.191	.255	.340	.595	4	0	0	0	17
L. Wade LF	4	12	2	4	4	1	1	3	.333	.385	.750	1.135	2	0	0	0	10
S. Whitcomb 3B	15	17	1	2	4	1	1	9	.118	.167	.294	.461	0	0	0	0	6
C. Salazar C	9	18	0	1	1	0	3	3	.056	.227	.056	.283	0	0	0	0	4
C. Price C	3	8	0	1	0	0	1	4	.125	.222	.250	.472	1	0	0	0	0
Total	68	2288	312	561	299	86	229	561	.245	.320	.412	.732	113	5	24	12	1548

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	10	10	7-1	0	0	57.0	2.21	37	16	14	3	31	53	.185	1.19	152
P. Lambert SP	9	9	5-4	0	0	50.2	3.55	39	20	20	3	25	47	.212	1.26	111
K. Teng RP	19	6	3-4	0	0	47.0	3.06	34	17	16	6	21	44	.204	1.17	94
E. De Los Santos RP	26	0	0-1	4	4	28.0	3.21	22	11	10	2	5	28	.208	0.96	83
B. King RP	25	0	0-1	6	9	28.1	2.54	26	10	8	1	11	21	.241	1.31	82
A. Blubaugh RP	26	0	3-2	0	0	40.2	4.43	30	20	20	5	22	35	.207	1.28	77
M. Burrows SP	13	13	3-8	0	0	73.1	5.77	87	49	47	17	28	60	.295	1.57	75
S. Okert RP	31	1	0-0	0	0	30.0	3.00	18	10	10	3	10	26	.175	0.93	63
T. Imai SP	8	8	3-3	0	0	34.1	5.24	25	20	20	5	23	36	.205	1.40	61
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
B. Abreu RP	25	0	2-2	4	4	22.1	6.85	18	18	17	5	24	31	.225	1.88	43
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
N. Pearson RP	6	0	0-0	1	1	6.2	4.05	5	3	3	1	4	7	.208	1.35	18
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
A. Santa RP	5	0	0-1	0	0	8.0	1.13	1	2	1	0	4	8	.042	0.63	17
J. Hader RP	3	0	1-0	1	1	3.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	7	.000	0.33	14
L. VanWey RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	5	.100	0.33	10
J. Murray RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	7.15	16	9	9	0	7	5	.356	2.03	4
J. France RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
R. Weiss RP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	1
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Gordon RP	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	68	68	31-37	17	20	600.1	4.89	540	340	326	87	321	574	.241	1.43	1027

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