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	Hip	05-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Kenley Jansen	Pelvis	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
Javier Baez	Ankle	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Burch Smith	Shoulder	06-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 6
Gleyber Torres	Oblique	06-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 5
Parker Meadows	Arm	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
Casey Mize	Groin	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
Tarik Skubal	Elbow	06-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 17
Kerry Carpenter	Shoulder	05-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Jackson Jobe	Elbow	08-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 15
Trey Sweeney	Shoulder	06-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 10
Ty Madden	Forearm	05-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 31
Brant Hurter	Back	07-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 23
Bailey Horn	Elbow	06-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 8

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Matt Strahm	Knee	05-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 31
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 9
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 18
James McArthur	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
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	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12

	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	55	206	35	60	21	3	33	31	.291	.394	.422	.816	12	3	8	0	178
R. Greene LF	57	204	30	62	25	4	30	67	.304	.398	.436	.834	15	0	1	1	143
D. Dingler C	51	182	22	42	32	10	20	44	.231	.320	.456	.776	11	0	0	0	139
S. Torkelson 1B	56	185	18	38	21	8	26	70	.205	.312	.400	.712	12	0	0	1	106
M. Vierling CF	47	143	13	30	21	4	14	28	.210	.275	.357	.632	9	0	2	1	88
G. Torres 2B	32	116	18	30	11	2	25	22	.259	.389	.328	.717	2	0	0	0	82
C. Keith 3B	52	154	21	45	7	0	10	35	.292	.337	.357	.694	8	1	1	0	78
W. Perez RF	41	126	16	22	10	4	11	20	.175	.241	.302	.543	4	0	3	1	70
K. Carpenter RF	37	102	11	22	17	6	11	40	.216	.299	.451	.750	2	2	0	0	67
J. Baez SS	24	78	10	20	6	2	2	16	.256	.280	.397	.677	5	0	1	1	43
Z. McKinstry 2B	35	103	2	17	9	1	11	21	.165	.241	.223	.464	3	0	1	2	34
H. Lee 2B	28	72	4	14	8	1	4	21	.194	.237	.306	.543	3	1	0	0	27
J. Jones DH	38	67	6	11	7	2	6	24	.164	.233	.284	.517	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
J. Rogers C	19	48	4	7	4	0	5	17	.146	.232	.229	.461	2	1	1	0	18
G. Workman 3B	15	37	3	6	5	2	0	16	.162	.162	.405	.567	3	0	0	0	15
Z. Short SS	13	22	1	3	0	0	5	6	.136	.321	.182	.503	1	0	0	0	8
J. Jung DH	3	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542	0	0	0	0	3
Total	57	1887	218	439	206	49	217	489	.233	.316	.370	.686	95	9	21	9	1144

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
T. Skubal SP	7	7	3-2	0	0	43.1	2.70	35	14	13	2	6	45	.222	0.95	123
C. Mize SP	9	9	2-3	0	0	47.2	2.27	34	12	12	2	12	49	.200	0.97	122
F. Valdez SP	11	11	2-3	0	0	61.0	4.28	58	33	29	6	23	50	.243	1.33	113
K. Montero SP	10	10	2-3	0	0	55.0	4.09	44	26	25	7	15	39	.217	1.07	107
D. Anderson RP	18	1	2-1	2	2	36.2	3.44	27	15	14	3	16	45	.203	1.17	97
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
K. Jansen RP	18	0	1-3	7	11	15.0	4.80	9	8	8	4	9	19	.170	1.20	69
K. Finnegan RP	25	0	1-0	1	4	25.2	1.75	21	5	5	2	19	15	.236	1.56	53
E. De Jesus RP	16	0	2-0	0	0	21.1	5.91	25	17	14	1	11	21	.284	1.69	38
J. Flaherty SP	12	12	0-7	0	0	52.2	5.81	55	42	34	8	30	64	.264	1.61	34
T. Madden P	3	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	2.38	7	3	3	1	2	12	.171	0.79	28
B. Hanifee RP	10	2	0-0	0	0	11.1	1.59	12	2	2	1	2	6	.279	1.24	21
B. Smith RP	13	1	0-2	0	0	17.0	3.18	18	8	6	2	7	20	.277	1.47	20
T. Melton SP	1	1	1-0	0	0	5.2	1.59	2	1	1	0	3	3	.111	0.88	19
J. Rogers C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.50	18
T. Holton RP	24	2	0-4	0	1	25.2	4.56	29	15	13	4	8	23	.287	1.44	17
W. Vest RP	17	0	1-4	0	3	16.0	7.88	17	16	14	2	7	17	.266	1.50	5
D. Sommers RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.1	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0.00	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	57	57	22-35	10	22	498.0	4.03	447	249	223	51	195	467	.238	1.29	936

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	56	221	27	64	25	9	23	44	.290	.354	.484	.838	14	1	16	3	189
M. Garcia 3B	54	217	27	57	20	3	19	34	.263	.319	.382	.701	15	1	4	3	137
V. Pasquantino 1B	53	196	21	39	23	5	24	42	.199	.284	.327	.611	6	2	2	0	116
S. Perez C	54	206	21	44	25	9	10	45	.214	.260	.369	.629	5	0	0	0	113
C. Jensen C	52	162	20	36	23	6	20	54	.222	.306	.383	.689	8	0	0	0	99
I. Collins LF	49	151	18	32	16	3	23	48	.212	.328	.311	.639	6	0	3	3	87
J. Caglianone RF	51	166	18	39	11	5	14	55	.235	.302	.392	.694	9	1	1	1	83
K. Isbel CF	46	136	15	34	11	3	8	36	.250	.304	.375	.679	6	1	5	0	80
M. Massey 2B	41	106	11	24	13	3	4	22	.226	.248	.396	.644	9	0	1	0	61
L. Thomas CF	42	93	8	20	9	1	21	25	.215	.359	.280	.639	3	0	3	3	55
N. Loftin 2B	24	59	9	13	13	0	8	9	.220	.333	.339	.672	7	0	0	0	48
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	23	53	3	15	2	0	4	16	.283	.339	.340	.679	3	0	0	1	19
E. Diaz C	10	22	3	5	5	2	1	5	.227	.261	.591	.852	2	0	0	0	19
T. Tolbert SS	11	6	2	1	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.334	0	0	3	1	7
Total	56	1842	211	431	204	51	187	449	.234	.308	.375	.683	94	6	38	15	1147

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	11	11	4-2	0	0	70.1	2.69	50	22	21	8	22	60	.200	1.02	190
S. Lugo SP	11	11	2-4	0	0	65.0	3.74	67	28	27	3	23	54	.271	1.38	120
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	22	0	3-2	11	15	21.1	5.06	23	14	12	0	13	18	.288	1.69	113
S. Kolek SP	4	4	3-0	0	0	26.0	2.77	17	8	8	3	5	14	.185	0.85	84
N. Cameron SP	10	10	2-4	0	0	52.2	4.61	57	30	27	5	17	48	.271	1.41	84
D. Lynch RP	22	0	1-0	1	2	22.2	1.59	13	7	4	1	7	27	.159	0.88	69
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	23	0	0-2	1	1	21.1	2.95	19	7	7	3	10	12	.250	1.36	30
M. Strahm RP	17	0	1-1	0	1	16.1	3.86	14	7	7	3	7	17	.222	1.29	30
A. Lange RP	22	0	0-2	0	0	24.1	4.81	21	14	13	2	13	23	.241	1.40	25
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
L. Avila RP	10	1	0-2	0	0	21.1	5.06	27	12	12	1	12	20	.325	1.83	13
E. Morgan RP	10	0	0-1	1	1	13.1	6.08	18	9	9	4	7	9	.316	1.88	12
M. Black RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	2.70	8	2	2	1	3	7	.296	1.65	10
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	7
S. Cruz RP	12	0	0-2	0	1	12.0	8.25	13	12	11	6	9	18	.265	1.83	2
E. Cerantola RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	9.00	2	3	3	1	4	5	.200	2.00	2
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
Total	56	56	22-34	14	24	497.0	4.44	466	258	245	64	226	452	.249	1.39	966

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