Atlanta Braves vs. Chicago Cubs Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 16, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Martin Perez	Forearm	07-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 20
Joe Jimenez	Knee	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Ronald Acuna Jr.	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Joey Wentz	Knee	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Sean Murphy	Finger	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Spencer Strider	Elbow	08-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 25
Ha-seong Kim	Finger	07-10-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 11
Robert Suarez	Elbow	07-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 20
Spencer Schwellenbach	Elbow	08-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 25
A.J. Smith-Shawver	Elbow	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Shelby Miller	Elbow	09-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 15
Jameson Taillon	Hamstring	07-10-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 11
Tyler Austin	Knee	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Hunter Harvey	Triceps	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Justin Steele	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Hoby Milner	Abdomen	07-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 27
Phil Maton	Knee	07-10-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 11
Edward Cabrera	Hamstring	07-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 27
Ethan Roberts	Forearm	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Daniel Palencia	Elbow	07-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 21
Cade Horton	Elbow	07-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 1, 2027
Ben Brown	Neck	08-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 21
Porter Hodge	Elbow	04-30-2027Expected to be out until at least May 1
Matt Shaw	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Riley Martin	Elbow	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Braves ATL-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cubs CHC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
M. Olson 1B	88	343	59	93	54	22	37	89	.271	.341	.531	.872	23	0	2	0	292
O. Albies 2B	88	339	57	92	49	14	26	45	.271	.322	.445	.767	17	0	1	3	263
M. Harris CF	82	301	42	91	51	16	15	64	.302	.335	.505	.840	13	0	5	1	238
M. Dubon LF	84	312	41	85	48	9	25	47	.272	.330	.426	.756	17	2	2	2	227
D. Baldwin C	65	255	48	64	43	15	27	68	.251	.336	.451	.787	6	0	1	1	206
A. Riley 3B	88	318	36	67	41	9	29	103	.211	.289	.340	.629	12	1	4	1	176
R. Acuna Jr. RF	53	195	31	49	22	7	35	52	.251	.373	.421	.794	10	1	15	7	171
D. Smith DH	73	196	28	53	35	6	13	30	.270	.312	.403	.715	6	1	0	0	141
M. Yastrzemski LF	80	213	29	48	22	5	25	58	.225	.317	.347	.664	9	1	1	0	127
J. Mateo SS	57	121	27	30	11	4	7	39	.248	.289	.388	.677	5	0	9	1	89
E. White RF	53	110	15	25	18	4	7	26	.227	.277	.400	.677	5	1	4	0	80
J. Bart C	7	19	2	3	4	1	0	2	.158	.273	.368	.641	1	0	0	0	44
H. Kim SS	27	73	4	5	3	0	9	22	.068	.171	.068	.239	0	0	1	0	12
J. Azocar RF	9	15	1	5	0	0	1	3	.333	.375	.467	.842	2	0	1	0	9
K. Farmer 3B	10	14	2	4	3	0	0	4	.286	.267	.357	.624	1	0	0	0	8
L. Williams 2B	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	1.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	1
J. Jarvis SS	4	11	0	2	0	0	0	3	.182	.182	.182	.364	0	0	0	0	0
S. Murphy C	4	14	1	1	0	0	0	6	.071	.071	.071	.142	0	0	0	0	-1
S. Leon C	21	44	0	4	0	0	0	18	.091	.091	.091	.182	0	0	0	0	-5
Total	88	2983	431	739	419	114	263	699	.248	.313	.412	.725	133	7	46	16	2078

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
C. Sale SP	16	16	9-6	0	0	95.0	2.27	82	29	24	8	24	112	.230	1.12	265
B. Elder SP	17	17	5-6	0	0	98.2	4.01	91	48	44	12	30	83	.241	1.23	205
R. Iglesias RP	28	0	0-2	17	17	29.1	1.53	25	7	5	1	6	32	.231	1.06	177
G. Holmes SP	17	16	5-4	0	0	82.1	3.83	73	37	35	15	38	71	.233	1.35	164
M. Perez SP	18	14	6-6	0	0	81.1	3.54	65	33	32	10	32	62	.221	1.19	162
D. Lee RP	41	0	4-0	0	1	39.1	1.60	21	8	7	1	5	49	.153	0.66	137
R. Suarez RP	31	0	4-0	4	5	32.0	0.56	21	2	2	1	6	26	.184	0.84	136
R. Lopez RP	20	7	4-1	0	0	51.2	3.31	45	23	19	6	22	46	.232	1.30	117
D. Fuentes RP	27	1	4-0	1	1	33.2	2.41	25	9	9	1	11	38	.207	1.07	108
J. Mateo SS	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	89
S. Strider SP	8	8	4-2	0	0	39.0	5.31	33	24	23	9	20	46	.232	1.36	87
T. Kinley RP	35	0	4-3	0	3	31.1	3.73	27	14	13	6	11	32	.229	1.21	71
J. Ritchie SP	9	7	1-2	1	1	43.2	4.53	36	25	22	7	26	41	.224	1.42	70
D. Dodd RP	19	0	0-0	1	1	24.0	2.25	12	6	6	3	8	27	.146	0.83	66
J. Karinchak RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	8.2	2.08	4	2	2	1	4	7	.143	0.92	19
H. Waldrep SP	2	1	0-0	0	0	7.1	3.68	7	3	3	1	5	7	.250	1.64	9
A. Molina RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	5.40	6	4	3	1	1	2	.300	1.40	6
V. Mederos RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	0.50	5
D. Young RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	2	.167	1.20	4
I. Hamilton RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	7.71	6	4	4	0	3	4	.300	1.93	3
R. Munoz RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	13.50	5	3	3	1	1	3	.455	3.00	-1
J. Payamps RP	12	0	0-2	0	1	7.2	8.22	9	9	7	2	4	9	.281	1.70	-2
Total	88	88	52-36	26	34	780.2	3.53	664	335	306	96	289	747	.228	1.22	1897

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
P. Crow-Armstrong CF	90	336	57	98	49	19	41	99	.292	.383	.527	.910	14	4	23	6	324
D. Swanson SS	86	290	56	60	57	16	37	78	.207	.295	.421	.716	10	2	10	0	254
I. Happ LF	86	320	59	70	41	17	47	119	.219	.327	.441	.768	16	2	4	0	241
N. Hoerner 2B	88	352	36	85	38	4	35	31	.241	.315	.338	.653	22	0	12	2	239
M. Busch 1B	89	325	37	76	47	11	60	91	.234	.367	.391	.758	14	2	2	0	239
A. Bregman 3B	88	345	42	83	32	7	47	63	.241	.340	.345	.685	13	1	2	1	218
S. Suzuki RF	74	277	43	73	42	13	34	84	.264	.347	.448	.795	12	0	0	0	204
C. Kelly C	65	202	31	57	30	4	26	37	.282	.372	.391	.763	10	0	0	1	149
M. Conforto RF	58	128	19	32	21	7	19	42	.250	.345	.492	.837	10	0	1	0	103
M. Shaw RF	56	130	20	32	20	4	12	27	.246	.322	.415	.737	6	2	4	1	102
M. Ballesteros DH	59	156	16	36	23	6	17	36	.231	.303	.385	.688	6	0	1	0	100
M. Amaya C	49	121	21	27	13	3	17	34	.223	.352	.347	.699	6	0	0	0	83
P. Ramirez 2B	25	56	8	14	7	1	3	9	.250	.283	.393	.676	3	1	2	0	39
J. Dean RF	8	5	3	2	3	0	1	2	.400	.500	.800	1.300	0	1	0	0	10
S. Kingery 2B	8	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	1	0	5
K. Alcantara DH	16	15	3	3	1	0	1	6	.200	.250	.200	.450	0	0	0	1	4
D. Carlson LF	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	90	3071	455	749	424	112	397	762	.244	.338	.409	.747	142	15	62	12	2314

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Imanaga SP	18	18	5-7	0	0	103.0	4.28	87	50	49	21	26	100	.227	1.10	215
B. Brown RP	20	8	4-2	1	2	68.0	1.85	45	16	14	2	19	65	.186	0.94	190
C. Rea SP	18	14	6-5	1	1	89.1	4.74	94	48	47	13	34	68	.269	1.43	150
C. Kelly C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	2	0	0	.400	2.00	149
J. Assad SP	14	7	6-1	0	0	56.1	4.15	47	26	26	10	15	33	.229	1.10	136
E. Cabrera SP	14	14	5-4	0	0	72.1	5.10	72	46	41	14	29	65	.262	1.40	133
R. Rolison RP	29	2	5-1	1	2	33.1	2.43	25	11	9	4	14	33	.219	1.17	105
J. Webb RP	38	0	3-2	3	7	38.1	3.29	36	17	14	6	15	46	.242	1.33	105
J. Taillon SP	13	13	2-5	0	0	67.2	5.19	65	40	39	20	23	59	.248	1.30	104
D. Peterson SP	2	2	1-1	0	0	9.1	11.57	14	12	12	2	3	5	.359	1.82	76
M. Boyd SP	7	7	3-1	0	0	33.2	5.08	37	20	19	4	10	37	.276	1.40	71
H. Milner RP	38	0	1-0	1	2	35.2	3.53	34	14	14	4	9	18	.256	1.21	70
T. Thornton RP	21	0	3-2	1	1	26.1	2.73	17	9	8	4	10	12	.191	1.03	67
C. Thielbar RP	28	0	2-2	2	5	24.2	4.01	17	12	11	5	13	30	.189	1.22	66
D. Palencia RP	19	0	2-1	3	3	16.2	2.70	17	5	5	2	6	19	.266	1.38	61
C. Horton P	2	2	1-0	0	0	7.1	2.45	4	2	2	1	2	4	.167	0.82	26
E. Roberts RP	23	0	0-2	0	1	25.2	4.21	22	14	12	3	14	17	.237	1.40	24
D. Pomeranz RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	22
R. Martin P	8	1	0-0	0	0	8.1	2.16	5	2	2	1	2	10	.179	0.84	21
P. Maton RP	30	0	0-1	0	2	26.2	6.08	32	18	18	5	15	31	.299	1.76	20
T. Ferguson RP	7	0	0-0	0	1	7.0	2.57	6	2	2	2	0	10	.222	0.86	13
T. Blach RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.111	0.33	9
G. Hollowell RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	4.05	5	3	3	2	6	5	.208	1.65	7
Y. Rios RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	0.00	6
J. Wicks SP	4	2	0-2	2	2	10.1	10.45	18	12	12	1	2	8	.383	1.94	6
J. Murray RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	18.00	6	6	6	2	2	6	.400	2.67	5
H. Harvey RP	4	0	0-1	0	0	4.0	6.75	5	3	3	2	1	4	.294	1.50	0
L. Little RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	2	1	1	1	0	1	.400	2.00	0
Total	90	90	50-40	16	30	801.1	4.36	738	409	388	137	279	705	.244	1.27	1857

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