Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 21, 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	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Burch Smith	Shoulder	07-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 21
Gleyber Torres	Oblique	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Wenceel Perez	Orbital	08-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 16
Will Vest	Elbow	08-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 4
Parker Meadows	Arm	07-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 20
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
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	07-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 12

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Cole Ragans	Elbow	08-01-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 2, 2027
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 20
Connor Seabold	Lat	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
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
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

	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	92	347	58	99	34	8	59	56	.285	.394	.424	.818	18	3	11	0	295
D. Dingler C	86	321	48	85	60	19	23	75	.265	.327	.514	.841	19	2	0	0	266
R. Greene LF	94	340	48	98	45	13	51	106	.288	.381	.465	.846	19	1	2	1	254
S. Torkelson 1B	94	319	38	67	43	16	41	120	.210	.308	.417	.725	18	0	0	1	199
C. Keith 3B	85	250	35	62	22	8	14	52	.248	.295	.396	.691	9	2	4	0	155
K. Carpenter RF	72	201	26	45	36	13	18	70	.224	.300	.463	.763	5	2	0	0	143
M. Vierling CF	80	235	23	49	30	5	19	41	.209	.264	.340	.604	12	2	3	2	135
G. Torres 2B	43	157	26	44	18	4	29	33	.280	.395	.395	.790	6	0	0	0	120
Z. McKinstry 2B	70	215	21	42	19	4	25	42	.195	.277	.298	.575	6	2	1	3	107
W. Perez RF	53	161	22	29	17	7	14	29	.180	.246	.348	.594	4	1	3	1	99
H. Lee 2B	55	149	11	38	15	4	7	41	.255	.288	.389	.677	6	1	1	2	70
J. Outman CF	23	58	8	9	10	3	5	27	.155	.222	.345	.567	0	1	1	0	57
J. Rogers C	32	85	11	15	9	3	11	30	.176	.273	.329	.602	2	1	1	0	47
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	3	9	3	5	3	2	0	2	.556	.600	1.222	1.822	0	0	0	0	17
G. Workman 3B	16	38	3	6	5	2	0	16	.158	.158	.395	.553	3	0	0	0	15
B. Malgeri RF	11	23	2	6	4	0	4	7	.261	.357	.304	.661	1	0	0	0	13
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	95	3164	407	748	387	115	343	824	.236	.315	.401	.716	138	19	31	13	2058

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	19	15	5-5	1	1	94.1	3.15	72	35	33	9	21	60	.208	0.99	223
F. Valdez SP	19	19	5-6	0	0	107.2	4.10	106	54	49	11	36	87	.252	1.32	200
T. Skubal SP	12	12	5-4	0	0	70.2	3.06	57	27	24	10	10	84	.218	0.95	193
C. Mize SP	14	14	4-6	0	0	77.1	2.79	59	25	24	5	18	77	.209	1.00	187
T. Melton SP	8	8	5-1	0	0	49.1	1.82	29	11	10	7	11	41	.166	0.81	161
D. Anderson RP	34	2	3-3	2	5	56.0	4.18	52	29	26	9	20	70	.242	1.29	121
J. Flaherty SP	18	18	3-8	0	0	82.1	4.48	76	49	41	9	40	98	.239	1.41	119
K. Jansen RP	27	0	1-4	11	15	23.2	4.56	16	13	12	5	13	25	.188	1.23	106
K. Finnegan RP	40	0	2-0	1	6	42.1	2.13	38	10	10	4	25	32	.252	1.49	91
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	40	2	1-4	0	1	42.0	3.21	46	19	15	5	10	35	.280	1.33	57
J. Rogers C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.50	47
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	9	0	0-0	0	0	12.1	1.46	6	2	2	2	2	8	.140	0.65	30
B. Smith RP	13	1	0-2	0	0	17.0	3.18	18	8	6	2	7	20	.277	1.47	20
B. Hanifee RP	14	2	0-0	0	0	13.2	3.29	15	5	5	2	4	6	.283	1.39	19
D. Sommers RP	16	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	5.79	10	6	6	1	5	14	.270	1.61	13
B. Brieske RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	9.0	7.00	9	7	7	3	4	7	.265	1.44	10
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	95	95	44-51	18	37	837.2	3.63	734	378	338	95	279	783	.233	1.21	1812

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	90	355	50	101	39	13	39	69	.285	.354	.459	.813	21	1	30	5	312
J. Caglianone RF	89	315	44	82	35	15	25	101	.260	.322	.463	.785	15	2	3	1	208
C. Jensen C	88	304	41	73	49	13	31	97	.240	.308	.428	.736	18	0	1	0	205
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
I. Collins LF	85	263	35	63	27	5	38	71	.240	.346	.357	.703	16	0	5	4	170
S. Perez C	88	345	31	72	37	11	13	74	.209	.249	.342	.591	13	0	0	0	169
V. Pasquantino 1B	69	257	28	57	32	6	33	51	.222	.308	.346	.654	10	2	3	0	163
M. Massey 2B	76	223	30	59	31	7	14	41	.265	.304	.430	.734	16	0	2	0	154
L. Thomas CF	81	227	26	51	30	7	34	60	.225	.328	.379	.707	14	0	4	3	153
N. Loftin 3B	59	175	26	43	29	4	21	26	.246	.338	.411	.749	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	34	54	17	20	5	2	4	11	.370	.407	.500	.907	1	0	10	3	64
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	14	30	3	6	5	1	1	7	.200	.226	.367	.593	2	0	0	0	16
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	2	6	2	1	3	1	1	2	.167	.286	.667	.953	0	0	0	0	9
Total	96	3227	409	794	390	97	310	772	.246	.316	.397	.713	175	10	73	22	2136

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	19	19	5-7	0	0	119.1	3.77	108	52	50	14	34	96	.243	1.19	245
S. Lugo SP	18	18	3-6	0	0	100.2	4.56	112	58	51	14	32	80	.286	1.43	166
N. Cameron SP	18	18	5-7	0	0	95.2	4.89	104	57	52	13	32	91	.272	1.42	157
L. Erceg RP	37	0	3-3	12	18	36.0	5.00	38	22	20	3	21	25	.277	1.64	129
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	39	0	2-2	1	3	38.1	2.35	24	13	10	2	12	33	.173	0.94	94
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	37	0	0-5	8	8	38.0	5.92	36	27	25	2	22	37	.252	1.53	75
T. Tolbert SS	4	0	0-0	0	0	3.2	17.18	11	7	7	2	2	0	.550	3.55	64
S. Cruz RP	28	2	2-2	0	1	30.1	5.04	26	18	17	9	16	40	.228	1.38	56
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	34	0	3-2	0	3	31.0	5.81	30	20	20	9	12	24	.246	1.35	52
J. Schreiber RP	39	0	0-3	1	2	35.2	3.53	33	17	14	6	13	27	.252	1.29	51
B. Way RP	15	0	1-0	0	0	18.2	3.38	20	7	7	4	9	17	.282	1.55	35
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
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	15	0	0-1	1	1	18.1	5.40	24	11	11	5	8	16	.308	1.75	20
R. Dobnak RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	9.2	1.86	9	2	2	1	4	4	.243	1.34	16
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	96	96	38-58	23	39	844.2	4.91	854	491	461	127	367	733	.263	1.45	1541

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