Kansas City Royals vs. Cleveland Guardians Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 28, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Seth Lugo	Head	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 23
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
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
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Gabriel Arias	Hamstring	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Erik Sabrowski	Elbow	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Guardians CLE-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	68	269	33	75	27	9	31	56	.279	.353	.450	.803	17	1	24	4	229
V. Pasquantino 1B	65	244	27	54	30	6	31	49	.221	.307	.352	.659	10	2	3	0	156
M. Garcia 3B	62	241	30	63	24	3	23	40	.261	.323	.378	.701	15	2	4	3	153
J. Caglianone RF	62	204	25	56	19	8	20	66	.275	.348	.456	.804	11	1	3	1	132
C. Jensen C	62	201	27	43	31	8	21	69	.214	.285	.383	.668	10	0	0	0	122
S. Perez C	63	244	22	48	26	9	12	51	.197	.245	.332	.577	6	0	0	0	120
I. Collins LF	59	184	23	40	17	3	30	58	.217	.336	.310	.646	8	0	3	3	105
M. Massey 2B	51	141	16	37	20	6	5	27	.262	.282	.461	.743	10	0	1	0	94
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
L. Thomas CF	53	124	12	29	15	2	24	32	.234	.362	.315	.677	4	0	3	3	79
N. Loftin 2B	34	91	14	21	18	1	14	14	.231	.342	.374	.716	8	1	0	0	76
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	30	70	5	18	5	1	5	23	.257	.321	.343	.664	3	0	0	1	28
T. Tolbert RF	19	14	5	3	0	0	2	6	.214	.313	.214	.527	0	0	5	2	15
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	68	2266	267	541	258	63	237	550	.239	.315	.379	.694	112	8	51	17	1434

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	13	13	4-4	0	0	81.0	3.44	66	33	31	9	26	67	.223	1.14	185
S. Lugo SP	14	14	2-4	0	0	79.1	3.86	82	37	34	7	25	66	.270	1.35	147
N. Cameron SP	12	12	3-4	0	0	65.2	3.84	61	32	28	6	17	63	.239	1.19	138
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	7	7	3-1	0	0	43.0	3.14	37	18	15	5	9	30	.228	1.07	110
L. Erceg RP	27	0	3-3	12	18	24.1	6.29	31	19	17	2	18	22	.320	2.01	107
D. Lynch RP	28	0	2-0	1	3	28.0	1.93	18	9	6	1	9	29	.176	0.96	84
A. Lange RP	29	0	0-3	4	4	31.0	4.06	27	16	14	2	18	34	.239	1.45	61
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	21	0	3-1	0	2	20.1	4.43	18	10	10	6	7	18	.228	1.23	50
J. Schreiber RP	30	0	0-3	1	2	27.0	2.67	21	9	8	4	11	18	.223	1.19	41
L. Avila RP	12	3	1-2	0	0	31.1	4.02	31	14	14	2	19	28	.272	1.60	41
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	9	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	2.38	12	3	3	1	5	12	.273	1.50	19
S. Cruz RP	17	0	1-2	0	1	17.2	6.62	18	14	13	7	12	25	.261	1.70	19
E. Morgan RP	13	0	0-1	1	1	16.1	5.51	23	10	10	4	8	15	.324	1.90	15
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	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 RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Way RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	27.00	4	4	4	1	1	2	.500	3.75	-4
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	68	68	28-40	19	34	602.1	4.38	569	315	293	82	263	556	.250	1.38	1184

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
J. Ramirez 3B	70	261	41	63	33	10	41	43	.241	.343	.421	.764	17	0	24	2	250
B. Rocchio SS	67	217	28	60	31	5	22	30	.276	.357	.396	.753	9	1	11	4	177
C. DeLauter RF	64	236	24	60	34	7	27	36	.254	.328	.398	.726	11	1	2	1	164
A. Martinez LF	64	221	27	53	33	11	7	52	.240	.278	.443	.721	10	1	9	2	160
S. Kwan CF	62	221	30	47	12	1	35	26	.213	.323	.262	.585	8	0	3	1	129
T. Bazzana 2B	39	144	15	37	17	4	19	33	.257	.349	.417	.766	9	1	10	2	114
R. Hoskins 1B	54	149	23	28	24	6	34	54	.188	.339	.376	.715	10	0	0	0	112
K. Manzardo 1B	60	183	23	43	21	7	22	68	.235	.325	.399	.724	7	1	0	0	108
D. Schneemann CF	55	176	20	40	20	4	18	56	.227	.299	.347	.646	9	0	4	2	97
A. Hedges C	34	91	12	24	9	1	10	18	.264	.333	.363	.696	6	0	1	1	56
D. Fry RF	42	89	13	22	8	3	16	33	.247	.362	.393	.755	4	0	0	0	55
P. Bailey C	17	48	4	8	4	1	2	13	.167	.196	.333	.529	3	1	0	0	44
B. Naylor C	28	84	4	12	7	2	6	21	.143	.200	.238	.438	2	0	0	0	26
J. Brito 2B	15	51	7	9	3	0	4	17	.176	.250	.255	.505	4	0	0	0	19
G. Valera LF	13	37	1	8	6	0	1	8	.216	.237	.297	.534	3	0	0	0	15
G. Arias SS	10	30	2	6	4	2	2	12	.200	.250	.433	.683	1	0	0	0	15
C. Kayfus LF	9	22	4	4	2	1	2	8	.182	.280	.364	.644	1	0	0	0	13
P. Halpin CF	18	30	3	5	1	0	1	8	.167	.194	.200	.394	1	0	2	0	11
S. Fairchild CF	7	10	2	1	1	0	5	8	.100	.400	.100	.500	0	0	0	0	5
Total	70	2300	283	530	270	65	274	544	.230	.316	.370	.686	115	6	66	15	1570

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
G. Williams SP	14	14	9-3	0	0	86.2	3.32	67	34	32	13	28	99	.213	1.10	246
C. Smith RP	29	0	2-0	21	23	30.1	2.67	27	11	9	1	5	46	.241	1.05	234
P. Messick SP	14	14	6-3	0	0	80.2	2.68	63	26	24	8	25	82	.216	1.09	209
T. Bibee SP	14	14	1-7	0	0	77.0	4.09	71	35	35	13	24	63	.246	1.23	124
J. Cantillo SP	14	14	4-3	0	0	67.0	4.57	65	38	34	11	36	63	.259	1.51	115
S. Cecconi SP	14	14	3-5	0	0	72.2	4.83	82	41	39	10	23	61	.288	1.44	106
C. Holderman RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.0	1.80	12	6	5	1	8	28	.140	0.80	87
E. Sabrowski RP	25	0	2-1	0	0	21.0	1.71	7	4	4	1	13	39	.101	0.95	67
M. Festa RP	30	0	1-1	1	1	29.1	4.30	26	15	14	5	9	32	.230	1.19	61
A. Hedges C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	13.50	4	2	2	0	0	0	.500	3.00	56
S. Armstrong RP	21	0	1-1	0	0	19.0	3.32	13	8	7	2	10	20	.194	1.21	38
C. Brogdon RP	15	0	2-2	1	2	15.1	5.28	14	12	9	5	3	14	.230	1.11	38
H. Gaddis RP	20	0	1-1	1	3	16.2	4.32	21	8	8	2	6	14	.300	1.62	31
T. Herrin RP	30	0	0-2	0	1	24.0	3.00	18	9	8	2	15	21	.220	1.38	28
W. Dion RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	10.1	4.35	14	9	5	2	3	12	.318	1.65	14
L. Allen RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	0.00	5	2	0	0	1	7	.278	1.50	9
F. Aleman RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.2	3.38	3	1	1	1	1	1	.333	1.50	3
C. Heuer RP	7	0	0-1	0	0	8.0	5.63	10	5	5	0	5	6	.294	1.88	1
Total	70	70	37-33	24	30	620.1	3.82	555	289	263	81	234	639	.239	1.27	1467

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