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	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	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1

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
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	06-21-2026Probable for Jun 22
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	74	276	47	78	26	6	48	42	.283	.393	.428	.821	16	3	9	0	238
D. Dingler C	70	260	40	70	55	18	22	60	.269	.338	.546	.884	14	2	0	0	235
R. Greene LF	77	279	38	81	33	8	40	90	.290	.381	.434	.815	16	0	1	1	190
S. Torkelson 1B	76	255	28	53	30	12	34	96	.208	.308	.408	.716	15	0	0	1	151
C. Keith 3B	69	204	28	53	16	4	11	43	.260	.306	.377	.683	8	2	4	0	121
G. Torres 2B	43	157	26	44	18	4	29	33	.280	.395	.395	.790	6	0	0	0	120
M. Vierling CF	65	190	17	38	26	5	17	35	.200	.261	.342	.603	10	1	2	2	109
K. Carpenter RF	54	151	17	34	29	10	14	55	.225	.302	.477	.779	4	2	0	0	108
W. Perez RF	53	161	22	29	17	7	14	29	.180	.246	.348	.594	4	1	3	1	99
Z. McKinstry 2B	52	147	9	26	11	2	20	32	.177	.272	.259	.531	4	1	1	3	61
H. Lee 2B	39	104	7	24	10	2	4	29	.231	.259	.356	.615	5	1	1	1	44
J. Baez SS	24	78	10	20	6	2	2	16	.256	.280	.397	.677	5	0	1	1	43
J. Outman CF	7	13	2	3	2	1	1	7	.231	.286	.462	.748	0	0	1	0	35
J. Rogers C	25	65	6	10	6	1	6	24	.154	.230	.262	.492	2	1	1	0	26
J. Jones DH	52	89	7	13	7	2	9	31	.146	.224	.236	.460	2	0	0	2	26
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
T. Cruz RF	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	-1
Total	77	2550	314	598	301	86	282	664	.235	.315	.393	.708	117	15	27	12	1644

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	15	14	3-5	0	0	80.2	3.68	64	35	33	9	17	53	.213	1.00	166
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	9	9	3-3	0	0	53.2	3.02	47	20	18	5	8	57	.235	1.02	135
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	27	2	3-3	2	4	47.2	3.78	42	22	20	6	19	61	.232	1.28	111
T. Melton SP	5	5	4-0	0	0	31.2	2.56	21	9	9	6	9	19	.186	0.95	100
K. Jansen RP	21	0	1-3	9	13	18.0	4.00	10	8	8	4	10	22	.159	1.11	92
K. Finnegan RP	34	0	2-0	1	5	35.2	2.02	31	8	8	2	24	22	.246	1.54	76
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. Holton RP	33	2	1-4	0	1	35.0	3.60	40	16	14	4	8	31	.292	1.37	43
T. Madden RP	7	1	0-0	0	0	20.0	3.15	16	7	7	2	5	23	.211	1.05	42
W. Vest RP	25	0	3-4	1	5	24.1	5.92	24	19	16	2	10	23	.264	1.40	40
J. Rogers C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.50	26
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	9	0	0-0	0	0	6.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	3	10	.100	0.79	18
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	77	77	33-44	14	30	673.2	3.83	608	319	287	75	245	615	.239	1.27	1338

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	72	244	35	67	27	12	24	80	.275	.349	.480	.829	12	1	3	1	172
C. Jensen C	71	238	36	58	39	10	25	73	.244	.312	.437	.749	16	0	1	0	170
M. Garcia 3B	68	264	32	69	30	3	24	45	.261	.321	.371	.692	16	2	5	3	168
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
S. Perez C	72	283	28	59	28	10	12	57	.208	.252	.343	.595	8	0	0	0	142
I. Collins LF	69	217	28	49	23	3	32	62	.226	.336	.318	.654	11	0	4	4	130
M. Massey 2B	60	173	22	46	27	7	6	31	.266	.286	.457	.743	12	0	2	0	122
L. Thomas CF	63	160	19	37	21	5	29	39	.231	.352	.363	.715	6	0	3	3	112
N. Loftin 2B	42	117	16	28	22	2	17	19	.239	.343	.410	.753	12	1	0	0	96
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 SS	22	21	7	4	1	0	3	9	.190	.280	.190	.470	0	0	5	2	18
J. Rave RF	4	7	3	3	1	1	3	2	.429	.600	1.286	1.886	1	1	0	0	15
K. Misner CF	8	20	1	7	3	0	1	7	.350	.381	.350	.731	0	0	1	1	9
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	78	2619	331	649	318	77	267	616	.248	.321	.395	.716	137	9	60	19	1748

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
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	32	0	0-4	5	5	34.0	3.97	29	17	15	2	19	35	.234	1.41	67
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	33	0	0-3	1	2	30.2	2.64	24	10	9	5	11	22	.224	1.14	50
L. Avila RP	14	5	2-3	0	0	37.2	5.50	39	23	23	4	23	33	.277	1.65	43
M. Strahm RP	26	0	3-1	0	3	23.2	6.46	25	17	17	8	9	18	.263	1.44	43
C. Seabold RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	2	.125	0.86	36
S. Cruz RP	20	0	1-2	0	1	22.0	6.55	22	17	16	8	13	30	.256	1.59	27
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 SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	18
B. Way RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	3.86	9	4	4	1	5	11	.250	1.50	15
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	78	78	32-46	20	36	690.1	4.58	667	375	351	97	295	605	.254	1.39	1324

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