Chicago Cubs vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 9, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Shelby Miller	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Jameson Taillon	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Tyler Austin	Knee	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Hunter Harvey	Triceps	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Matthew Boyd	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Justin Steele	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Edward Cabrera	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Daniel Palencia	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Cade Horton	Elbow	07-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 1, 2027
Ben Brown	Neck	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Porter Hodge	Elbow	04-30-2027Expected to be out until at least May 1
Riley Martin	Elbow	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	08-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 4
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 4
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 6
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
Bobby Witt	Knee	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cubs CHC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
P. Crow-Armstrong CF	78	293	48	84	43	17	30	84	.287	.366	.529	.895	12	4	18	5	273
I. Happ LF	74	281	53	64	37	16	43	103	.228	.335	.463	.798	14	2	4	0	222
N. Hoerner 2B	76	306	29	72	35	4	32	26	.235	.312	.330	.642	17	0	12	2	210
M. Busch 1B	77	279	31	68	42	8	53	75	.244	.374	.391	.765	13	2	2	0	208
D. Swanson SS	74	243	44	46	35	9	37	66	.189	.295	.346	.641	9	1	9	0	186
A. Bregman 3B	77	305	36	75	25	6	38	56	.246	.338	.344	.682	10	1	2	1	185
S. Suzuki RF	63	230	36	62	31	10	31	68	.270	.362	.443	.805	10	0	0	0	169
C. Kelly C	57	179	28	51	28	4	21	34	.285	.369	.397	.766	8	0	0	0	134
M. Ballesteros DH	59	156	16	36	23	6	17	36	.231	.303	.385	.688	6	0	1	0	100
M. Shaw RF	51	122	17	31	19	4	8	25	.254	.313	.434	.747	6	2	3	1	92
M. Amaya C	43	102	16	23	10	3	15	25	.225	.358	.363	.721	5	0	0	0	71
M. Conforto RF	48	99	12	22	13	4	16	36	.222	.328	.434	.762	9	0	1	0	68
P. Ramirez 2B	17	37	3	10	4	1	3	3	.270	.325	.405	.730	2	0	0	0	23
J. Dean CF	1	2	1	1	3	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.500	2.000	0	1	0	0	7
S. Kingery 2B	8	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	1	0	5
K. Alcantara DH	12	9	1	1	0	0	1	4	.111	.200	.111	.311	0	0	0	1	0
D. Carlson LF	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	78	2656	375	647	348	92	345	645	.244	.338	.403	.741	121	13	53	10	1953

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Brown RP	20	8	4-2	1	2	68.0	1.85	45	16	14	2	19	65	.186	0.94	190
S. Imanaga SP	15	15	4-6	0	0	86.2	4.26	70	42	41	17	22	84	.217	1.06	182
C. Kelly C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	2	0	0	.400	2.00	134
E. Cabrera SP	14	14	5-4	0	0	72.1	5.10	72	46	41	14	29	65	.262	1.40	133
C. Rea SP	16	12	5-5	1	1	79.1	4.99	83	45	44	12	28	59	.267	1.40	130
J. Assad RP	11	5	5-1	0	0	44.0	3.89	35	19	19	6	9	25	.220	1.00	113
J. Taillon SP	13	13	2-5	0	0	67.2	5.19	65	40	39	20	23	59	.248	1.30	104
R. Rolison RP	24	1	5-1	0	1	28.2	1.88	19	8	6	3	12	29	.198	1.08	93
H. Milner RP	36	0	1-0	1	2	34.2	3.38	30	13	13	3	8	17	.238	1.10	72
J. Webb RP	33	0	1-2	2	6	32.1	3.90	34	17	14	6	10	39	.264	1.36	69
D. Palencia RP	19	0	2-1	3	3	16.2	2.70	17	5	5	2	6	19	.266	1.38	61
C. Thielbar RP	23	0	2-2	2	5	20.0	4.95	15	12	11	5	11	23	.203	1.30	52
M. Boyd SP	5	5	2-1	0	0	24.0	6.00	25	17	16	2	6	31	.266	1.29	52
T. Thornton RP	15	0	2-2	0	0	20.0	3.15	13	8	7	4	9	9	.191	1.10	38
E. Roberts RP	20	0	0-1	0	0	23.2	3.04	18	9	8	2	11	17	.214	1.23	34
C. Horton P	2	2	1-0	0	0	7.1	2.45	4	2	2	1	2	4	.167	0.82	26
R. Martin P	8	1	0-0	0	0	8.1	2.16	5	2	2	1	2	10	.179	0.84	21
P. Maton RP	29	0	0-1	0	1	25.1	6.04	30	17	17	4	15	29	.297	1.78	19
T. Blach RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.111	0.33	9
V. Velasquez SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.125	0.43	6
Y. Rios RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	0.00	6
G. Hollowell RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.2	4.91	3	2	2	1	5	2	.231	2.18	2
H. Harvey RP	4	0	0-1	0	0	4.0	6.75	5	3	3	2	1	4	.294	1.50	0
L. Little RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	2	1	1	1	0	1	.400	2.00	0
T. Ferguson RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	6.75	3	1	1	1	0	3	.429	2.25	-2
J. Wicks SP	2	2	0-2	0	0	6.1	15.63	13	11	11	1	1	6	.406	2.21	-14
Total	78	78	41-37	11	22	692.1	4.30	621	351	331	115	238	612	.239	1.24	1530

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	76	299	40	88	32	10	35	57	.294	.368	.465	.833	19	1	28	4	270
J. Caglianone RF	74	253	38	70	30	14	24	82	.277	.349	.498	.847	12	1	3	1	186
C. Jensen C	73	246	37	60	40	10	26	74	.244	.313	.431	.744	16	0	1	0	175
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
S. Perez C	74	291	29	60	30	10	12	60	.206	.249	.340	.589	9	0	0	0	146
I. Collins LF	70	220	28	50	23	3	33	62	.227	.338	.318	.656	11	0	4	4	132
M. Massey 2B	62	180	24	47	27	7	7	32	.261	.284	.450	.734	13	0	2	0	127
L. Thomas CF	65	169	19	38	22	5	29	41	.225	.342	.355	.697	7	0	3	3	114
N. Loftin 2B	44	125	21	33	24	3	17	20	.264	.358	.448	.806	12	1	1	0	113
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	35	87	8	23	7	1	5	25	.264	.313	.345	.658	4	0	0	1	38
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	23	24	9	6	1	0	3	9	.250	.321	.250	.571	0	0	5	2	22
J. Rave RF	6	10	3	3	1	1	3	3	.300	.462	.900	1.362	1	1	0	0	14
K. Misner CF	9	24	1	8	4	0	1	9	.333	.360	.375	.735	1	0	1	1	11
J. Rojas 3B	3	6	1	2	3	0	0	0	.333	.333	.500	.833	1	0	0	0	7
Total	80	2690	345	668	330	80	270	629	.248	.320	.397	.717	143	9	61	19	1808

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	16	16	5-5	0	0	101.0	3.48	88	41	39	10	29	77	.236	1.16	224
S. Lugo SP	15	15	3-4	0	0	85.1	3.69	87	39	35	7	28	66	.269	1.35	166
N. Cameron SP	14	14	4-4	0	0	75.0	4.20	76	40	35	8	19	70	.255	1.27	152
S. Kolek SP	9	9	4-2	0	0	52.0	4.15	51	27	24	8	11	34	.255	1.19	118
L. Erceg RP	30	0	3-3	12	18	28.2	5.34	33	19	17	2	19	24	.295	1.81	117
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
D. Lynch RP	32	0	2-1	1	3	32.0	2.53	20	12	9	2	11	30	.172	0.97	85
A. Lange RP	33	0	0-4	6	6	35.0	3.86	29	17	15	2	19	36	.228	1.37	78
L. Avila RP	15	6	3-3	0	0	42.2	5.06	42	24	24	4	27	39	.268	1.62	59
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
J. Schreiber RP	34	0	0-3	1	2	31.2	2.56	24	10	9	5	12	24	.220	1.14	53
M. Strahm RP	27	0	3-1	0	3	24.2	6.20	25	17	17	8	10	19	.255	1.42	45
C. Seabold RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	2	.125	0.86	32
S. Cruz RP	21	0	1-2	0	1	23.0	6.26	23	17	16	8	13	30	.256	1.57	29
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	22
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
B. Way RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	10.1	4.35	10	5	5	2	5	11	.250	1.45	16
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 SP	2	1	0-1	0	0	8.0	13.50	11	12	12	1	6	4	.324	2.13	-8
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	80	80	34-46	21	37	708.1	4.54	682	381	357	98	303	622	.254	1.39	1384

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