Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 16, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Foot	05-11-2026Expected to be out until at least May 12
Stephen Kolek	Oblique	05-04-2026Expected to be out until at least May 5
James McArthur	Elbow	05-23-2026Expected to be out until at least May 24
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
Bailey Falter	Elbow	05-04-2026Expected to be out until at least May 5
Noah Cameron	Back	05-09-2026Expected to be out until at least May 10

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Josh Hader	Biceps	05-23-2026Expected to be out until at least May 24
Taylor Trammell	Groin	05-04-2026Expected to be out until at least May 5
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	05-13-2026Expected to be out until at least May 14
Nick Allen	Back	05-04-2026Expected to be out until at least May 5
Jake Meyers	Oblique	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
Nate Pearson	Elbow	05-10-2026Expected to be out until at least May 11
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 8
Jeremy Pena	Hamstring	05-10-2026Expected to be out until at least May 11
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 5
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Joey Loperfido	Quadriceps	05-07-2026Expected to be out until at least May 8
Tatsuya Imai	Arm	05-13-2026Expected to be out until at least May 14

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	35	139	14	39	16	3	17	29	.281	.354	.424	.778	9	1	11	2	103
M. Garcia 3B	33	130	18	34	13	3	13	24	.262	.324	.415	.739	9	1	4	2	92
V. Pasquantino 1B	33	121	15	24	17	4	16	30	.198	.289	.364	.653	4	2	1	0	73
C. Jensen C	33	104	14	24	17	6	13	35	.231	.319	.423	.742	2	0	0	0	70
S. Perez C	34	135	14	28	14	5	4	29	.207	.245	.356	.601	5	0	0	0	65
K. Isbel CF	28	83	12	24	8	3	5	22	.289	.352	.446	.798	4	0	5	0	64
J. Caglianone 1B	31	101	14	26	8	4	11	35	.257	.342	.446	.788	5	1	0	1	55
I. Collins LF	30	91	12	21	11	2	15	32	.231	.349	.330	.679	3	0	1	3	52
L. Thomas RF	28	64	7	15	6	1	14	14	.234	.380	.297	.677	1	0	3	1	44
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
N. Loftin 1B	12	35	7	9	9	0	6	3	.257	.366	.343	.709	3	0	0	0	29
M. Massey 2B	23	62	6	12	7	1	3	18	.194	.224	.323	.547	5	0	1	0	29
E. Diaz C	4	11	2	4	3	1	1	1	.364	.417	.818	1.235	2	0	0	0	14
S. Marte RF	13	33	2	10	2	0	0	10	.303	.314	.394	.708	3	0	0	1	12
T. Tolbert SS	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	1	1	2
Total	35	1162	146	279	139	35	126	296	.240	.319	.387	.706	56	5	27	11	738

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Bubic SP	7	7	3-1	0	0	40.2	3.32	27	15	15	3	19	42	.189	1.13	109
S. Lugo SP	7	7	1-1	0	0	43.2	2.68	40	14	13	1	13	37	.250	1.21	100
L. Erceg RP	15	0	2-1	9	11	14.1	3.77	10	7	6	0	10	13	.208	1.40	95
M. Wacha SP	7	7	3-2	0	0	44.1	3.05	32	15	15	5	15	36	.204	1.06	88
D. Lynch SP	13	0	1-0	1	2	13.2	1.98	5	6	3	1	3	18	.106	0.59	52
C. Ragans RP	7	7	1-4	0	0	32.1	5.29	26	20	19	10	21	41	.224	1.45	47
N. Cameron P	6	6	2-2	0	0	31.2	5.40	40	22	19	5	11	28	.301	1.61	46
N. Mears RP	13	0	2-1	0	2	11.2	2.31	6	3	3	0	7	9	.158	1.11	32
M. Strahm RP	14	0	1-0	0	1	13.2	3.29	10	5	5	2	6	14	.196	1.17	30
E. Morgan RP	7	0	0-1	1	1	10.1	2.61	8	3	3	2	6	9	.205	1.35	20
J. Schreiber RP	14	0	0-2	1	1	12.1	4.38	11	6	6	2	8	5	.256	1.54	10
M. Black P	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	0.00	7	0	0	0	2	5	.350	1.93	7
A. Lange RP	13	0	0-2	0	0	14.2	6.14	14	11	10	2	10	19	.250	1.64	6
T. Tolbert SS	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	1.50	2
L. Avila SP	4	1	0-1	0	0	9.0	7.00	16	7	7	1	4	9	.400	2.22	0
S. Cruz RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	14.40	7	8	8	4	4	7	.318	2.20	0
M. Spence SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Falter SP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	13.50	8	5	5	1	2	4	.444	3.00	-3
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
Total	35	35	16-19	12	19	310.1	4.32	276	159	149	41	148	299	.239	1.37	624

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	36	135	26	45	27	12	22	19	.333	.438	.667	1.105	9	0	1	0	158
C. Walker 1B	36	130	22	40	26	8	15	27	.308	.385	.562	.947	9	0	0	0	125
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	97
C. Smith 3B	35	122	17	28	17	4	14	40	.230	.314	.377	.691	6	0	4	0	84
J. Altuve 2B	33	129	22	32	9	3	17	27	.248	.336	.388	.724	9	0	1	2	83
I. Paredes 3B	31	113	16	30	15	3	13	21	.265	.362	.398	.760	6	0	0	0	80
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	25	14	2	3	16	.248	.264	.356	.620	5	0	0	1	51
C. Vazquez C	18	57	6	18	11	2	5	10	.316	.371	.491	.862	4	0	0	0	45
B. Matthews SS	27	71	7	15	12	3	8	29	.211	.288	.394	.682	4	0	2	0	44
D. Harris 1B	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
J. Meyers CF	12	37	5	9	4	1	4	8	.243	.326	.378	.704	2	0	1	2	24
T. Trammell LF	10	29	4	10	4	0	4	9	.345	.424	.448	.872	1	1	1	0	22
J. Pena SS	10	43	5	11	0	0	3	6	.256	.304	.349	.653	4	0	1	0	22
N. Allen SS	14	20	5	5	0	0	2	5	.250	.318	.300	.618	1	0	0	0	10
B. Shewmake SS	6	10	3	2	1	1	0	3	.200	.200	.500	.700	0	0	0	0	7
S. Whitcomb SS	10	13	1	1	3	1	1	8	.077	.143	.308	.451	0	0	0	0	5
D. Johnson CF	8	14	1	2	0	0	2	3	.143	.294	.143	.437	0	0	0	0	4
Z. Cole OF	1	4	1	1	1	1	0	2	.250	.250	1.000	1.250	0	0	0	0	0
Total	36	1239	181	331	171	44	139	284	.267	.346	.436	.782	73	2	15	6	929

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti P	4	4	4-0	0	0	23.0	1.96	16	5	5	1	14	25	.195	1.30	76
L. McCullers SP	6	6	2-2	0	0	31.1	6.32	27	24	22	4	17	33	.237	1.40	52
K. Teng SP	14	1	1-2	0	0	23.0	2.35	15	6	6	3	7	22	.183	0.96	43
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
E. De Los Santos RP	13	0	0-1	3	3	14.0	5.14	15	8	8	1	4	12	.263	1.36	37
A. Blubaugh P	14	0	2-2	0	0	22.0	5.32	18	13	13	4	13	20	.228	1.41	35
M. Burrows SP	7	7	1-4	0	0	37.2	5.97	49	25	25	8	13	36	.318	1.65	32
B. King P	12	0	0-1	2	3	13.2	3.29	13	7	5	0	5	13	.250	1.32	30
P. Lambert RP	3	3	1-2	0	0	15.1	3.52	12	6	6	0	7	19	.211	1.24	28
S. Okert RP	18	1	0-0	0	0	15.2	4.60	15	8	8	2	7	11	.259	1.40	25
C. Bolton RP	5	3	0-1	1	1	11.2	4.63	12	6	6	1	9	14	.273	1.80	16
T. Imai SP	3	3	1-0	0	0	8.2	7.27	7	7	7	0	11	13	.219	2.08	13
R. Weiss SP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	8
J. Murray SP	4	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	6.00	7	4	4	0	5	5	.318	2.00	4
J. France SP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
B. Abreu RP	13	0	1-2	1	1	12.1	9.49	13	14	13	4	16	20	.277	2.35	4
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	-2
C. Gordon P	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
J. Alexander SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	22.50	2	5	5	1	3	1	.250	2.50	-3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	36	36	14-22	7	8	314.1	5.78	321	209	202	50	192	326	.266	1.63	420

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