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	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	07-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 25

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	93	350	58	99	34	8	60	56	.283	.392	.420	.812	18	3	11	0	296
D. Dingler C	87	325	48	85	60	19	23	77	.262	.323	.508	.831	19	2	0	0	265
R. Greene LF	95	344	48	99	45	13	51	108	.288	.380	.462	.842	19	1	2	1	254
S. Torkelson 1B	95	322	38	67	43	16	41	122	.208	.305	.413	.718	18	0	0	1	198
C. Keith 3B	86	253	35	62	22	8	15	53	.245	.294	.391	.685	9	2	4	0	155
K. Carpenter RF	73	203	26	45	36	13	18	72	.222	.297	.458	.755	5	2	0	0	142
M. Vierling CF	81	238	23	49	30	5	19	43	.206	.261	.336	.597	12	2	3	2	134
G. Torres 2B	43	157	26	44	18	4	29	33	.280	.395	.395	.790	6	0	0	0	120
Z. McKinstry 2B	71	218	21	43	19	4	25	42	.197	.278	.298	.576	6	2	1	3	108
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	24	61	8	9	10	3	5	29	.148	.212	.328	.540	0	1	1	0	56
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	4	10	3	5	3	2	0	3	.500	.545	1.100	1.645	0	0	0	0	16
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	96	3193	407	750	387	115	345	838	.235	.314	.398	.712	138	19	31	13	2054

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	20	15	5-5	1	1	97.1	3.33	76	38	36	9	22	65	.212	1.01	226
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	13	13	5-5	0	0	75.2	3.09	61	29	26	10	11	89	.218	0.95	197
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	17	0	0-0	0	0	10.0	5.40	11	6	6	1	6	15	.275	1.70	13
B. Brieske RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	6.75	9	7	7	3	4	8	.257	1.39	12
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	96	96	44-52	18	37	846.2	3.65	743	383	343	95	282	795	.233	1.21	1821

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	91	360	51	103	39	13	39	69	.286	.355	.461	.816	22	1	30	5	316
J. Caglianone RF	90	319	44	83	35	15	25	102	.260	.321	.461	.782	15	2	3	1	209
C. Jensen C	89	309	41	73	49	13	31	101	.236	.303	.421	.724	18	0	1	0	203
I. Collins LF	86	267	35	64	28	5	38	72	.240	.345	.363	.708	16	1	5	4	174
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
S. Perez C	89	349	31	73	37	11	13	76	.209	.249	.344	.593	14	0	0	0	170
V. Pasquantino 1B	70	261	28	58	32	6	33	53	.222	.308	.345	.653	10	2	3	0	163
L. Thomas CF	82	231	26	54	31	7	34	60	.234	.335	.390	.725	15	0	4	3	158
M. Massey 2B	77	227	30	59	31	7	14	41	.260	.299	.423	.722	16	0	2	0	154
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	15	34	4	6	5	1	1	8	.176	.200	.324	.524	2	0	0	0	17
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	97	3265	411	803	392	97	310	783	.246	.315	.396	.711	178	11	73	22	2150

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	19	19	3-6	0	0	104.2	4.56	116	60	53	15	34	86	.284	1.43	172
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	38	0	3-3	12	18	37.0	5.11	39	23	21	4	21	27	.277	1.62	130
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	29	2	2-2	0	1	31.1	4.88	26	18	17	9	16	40	.224	1.34	58
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	40	0	0-3	1	2	36.1	3.47	34	17	14	6	14	28	.256	1.32	52
M. Strahm RP	35	0	3-3	0	3	31.1	7.18	34	25	25	9	13	25	.268	1.50	38
B. Way RP	16	0	1-0	0	0	19.2	3.20	22	7	7	4	9	17	.289	1.58	36
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	97	97	38-59	23	39	852.2	4.95	866	499	469	129	371	743	.264	1.45	1538

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