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	07-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 8
Javier Baez	Ankle	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Burch Smith	Shoulder	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Jack Flaherty	Ankle	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Gleyber Torres	Oblique	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Wenceel Perez	Face	06-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 27
Parker Meadows	Arm	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
Jackson Jobe	Elbow	08-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 15
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	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Cole Ragans	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Maikel Garcia	Hand	06-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 21
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 30
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	06-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 21
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
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
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	71	266	47	75	26	6	45	41	.282	.390	.429	.819	15	3	9	0	231
D. Dingler C	67	247	36	63	51	16	22	59	.255	.329	.522	.851	14	2	0	0	214
R. Greene LF	74	268	36	79	33	8	38	88	.295	.384	.444	.828	16	0	1	1	185
S. Torkelson 1B	73	245	27	50	29	12	32	95	.204	.304	.408	.712	14	0	0	1	143
G. Torres 2B	43	157	26	44	18	4	29	33	.280	.395	.395	.790	6	0	0	0	120
C. Keith 3B	67	197	27	52	16	4	11	43	.264	.311	.386	.697	8	2	3	0	117
K. Carpenter RF	51	142	16	33	27	10	14	53	.232	.313	.493	.806	3	2	0	0	104
M. Vierling CF	62	180	16	36	23	4	16	32	.200	.260	.333	.593	10	1	2	2	101
W. Perez RF	53	161	22	29	17	7	14	29	.180	.246	.348	.594	4	1	3	1	99
Z. McKinstry 2B	49	143	8	24	10	2	18	31	.168	.258	.245	.503	3	1	1	3	54
J. Baez SS	24	78	10	20	6	2	2	16	.256	.280	.397	.677	5	0	1	1	43
H. Lee 2B	36	95	7	22	10	2	4	27	.232	.263	.358	.621	4	1	1	1	42
J. Outman CF	4	9	1	1	1	1	1	6	.111	.200	.444	.644	0	0	0	0	29
J. Rogers C	24	61	6	9	5	1	6	22	.148	.229	.262	.491	2	1	1	0	25
J. Jones DH	49	85	6	11	7	2	9	29	.129	.213	.224	.437	2	0	0	2	24
P. Meadows CF	12	36	3	9	2	0	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.641	1	1	3	0	21
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
Total	74	2450	301	570	288	83	272	643	.233	.313	.392	.705	112	15	25	12	1570

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	14	13	3-5	0	0	73.2	3.67	58	32	30	8	17	50	.212	1.02	150
F. Valdez SP	15	15	3-5	0	0	83.2	4.09	81	43	38	9	32	67	.249	1.35	145
T. Skubal SP	8	8	3-3	0	0	48.0	2.81	40	17	15	3	7	49	.227	0.98	125
C. Mize SP	10	10	2-4	0	0	52.1	2.58	40	15	15	3	13	52	.211	1.01	123
D. Anderson RP	26	2	2-3	2	4	46.1	3.88	41	22	20	6	19	58	.233	1.29	100
T. Melton SP	4	4	3-0	0	0	25.2	2.81	20	8	8	5	6	14	.213	1.01	76
K. Jansen RP	19	0	1-3	7	11	16.0	4.50	9	8	8	4	9	21	.161	1.13	73
K. Finnegan RP	33	0	2-0	1	5	34.2	2.08	31	8	8	2	24	21	.252	1.59	72
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
E. De Jesus RP	19	0	2-0	1	1	27.1	4.61	25	17	14	1	12	26	.238	1.35	65
J. Flaherty SP	15	15	1-8	0	0	65.2	5.35	69	47	39	8	34	78	.264	1.57	59
T. Madden RP	7	1	0-0	0	0	20.0	3.15	16	7	7	2	5	23	.211	1.05	42
T. Holton RP	32	2	1-4	0	1	33.0	3.82	38	16	14	4	8	29	.295	1.39	38
W. Vest RP	23	0	2-4	1	5	22.1	6.45	24	18	16	2	9	23	.276	1.48	28
J. Rogers C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.50	25
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	8	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	3	7	.118	0.94	13
J. Waguespack RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	4.15	3	2	2	2	1	3	.188	0.92	8
B. Brieske RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	12.46	6	6	6	2	4	4	.353	2.31	-1
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	74	74	30-44	12	28	645.2	3.90	590	311	280	71	239	589	.242	1.28	1231

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
M. Garcia 3B	67	259	32	69	30	3	24	44	.266	.326	.378	.704	16	2	5	3	169
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
C. Jensen C	69	231	33	55	38	9	23	72	.238	.304	.424	.728	16	0	1	0	159
J. Caglianone RF	70	237	30	63	22	9	22	78	.266	.338	.439	.777	12	1	3	1	148
S. Perez C	70	275	27	57	27	10	12	56	.207	.250	.342	.592	7	0	0	0	137
I. Collins LF	67	208	27	46	21	3	32	61	.221	.336	.308	.644	9	0	4	4	122
M. Massey 2B	58	164	21	42	24	7	6	30	.256	.277	.457	.734	12	0	1	0	113
L. Thomas CF	61	151	18	35	20	5	29	38	.232	.359	.364	.723	5	0	3	3	108
N. Loftin 2B	40	110	14	27	20	1	16	17	.245	.348	.400	.748	12	1	0	0	88
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	34	83	8	23	6	1	5	25	.277	.330	.361	.691	4	0	0	1	37
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert RF	21	19	7	4	0	0	3	9	.211	.318	.211	.529	0	0	5	2	17
J. Rave RF	2	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	.500	.600	1.750	2.350	0	1	0	0	10
K. Misner CF	7	16	0	6	3	0	1	6	.375	.412	.375	.787	0	0	1	1	8
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	76	2549	315	628	302	72	260	604	.246	.320	.390	.710	132	9	59	19	1673

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	15	15	4-5	0	0	94.0	3.64	82	40	38	10	28	72	.236	1.17	199
N. Cameron SP	14	14	4-4	0	0	75.0	4.20	76	40	35	8	19	70	.255	1.27	152
S. Lugo SP	14	14	2-4	0	0	79.1	3.86	82	37	34	7	25	66	.270	1.35	147
S. Kolek SP	8	8	4-1	0	0	50.1	2.68	42	18	15	5	10	34	.225	1.03	138
L. Erceg RP	29	0	3-3	12	18	27.1	5.60	32	19	17	2	19	23	.299	1.87	114
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	31	0	2-1	1	3	31.0	2.61	20	12	9	2	11	30	.177	1.00	82
A. Lange RP	31	0	0-4	4	4	33.2	4.01	28	17	15	2	19	35	.230	1.40	60
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	32	0	0-3	1	2	29.2	2.73	24	10	9	5	11	21	.231	1.18	46
M. Strahm RP	24	0	3-1	0	3	22.0	5.73	22	14	14	8	7	18	.253	1.32	46
L. Avila RP	14	5	2-3	0	0	37.2	5.50	39	23	23	4	23	33	.277	1.65	43
C. Seabold RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	32
S. Cruz RP	19	0	1-2	0	1	20.1	5.75	18	14	13	7	12	27	.234	1.48	28
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	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	17
B. Way RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	7.1	4.91	8	4	4	1	5	10	.276	1.77	10
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	76	76	31-45	19	35	672.1	4.48	643	358	335	93	288	597	.252	1.38	1302

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