Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 17, 2026 Gametracker

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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	07-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 10
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Jeremy Pena	Calf	07-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 10
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 29
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1

	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	86	338	49	98	38	12	39	63	.290	.362	.462	.824	20	1	30	5	306
C. Jensen C	84	292	41	72	48	13	29	91	.247	.312	.438	.750	17	0	1	0	203
J. Caglianone RF	85	299	41	77	33	14	25	99	.258	.322	.455	.777	13	2	3	1	194
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
S. Perez C	84	331	31	70	35	11	13	72	.211	.254	.350	.604	13	0	0	0	166
I. Collins LF	81	251	34	60	26	4	37	68	.239	.348	.351	.699	16	0	5	4	163
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
M. Massey 2B	73	214	29	56	31	7	13	40	.262	.300	.430	.730	15	0	2	0	149
L. Thomas CF	77	211	25	49	29	6	34	55	.232	.341	.379	.720	13	0	4	3	147
N. Loftin 3B	55	162	25	40	29	4	20	25	.247	.342	.420	.762	14	1	1	0	136
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
T. Tolbert SS	32	48	17	19	5	2	4	10	.396	.434	.542	.976	1	0	10	3	64
S. Marte RF	42	108	12	29	9	1	8	33	.269	.331	.333	.664	4	0	1	1	52
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
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
J. Rojas 3B	11	25	2	4	4	1	0	5	.160	.160	.320	.480	1	0	0	0	11
L. Maile C	1	4	2	1	3	1	1	0	.250	.400	1.000	1.400	0	0	0	0	10
Total	92	3098	400	768	381	93	303	740	.248	.319	.398	.717	167	10	73	21	2082

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	18	18	5-6	0	0	114.2	3.45	102	46	44	13	31	91	.239	1.16	249
S. Lugo SP	18	18	3-6	0	0	100.2	4.56	112	58	51	14	32	80	.286	1.43	166
N. Cameron SP	17	17	5-6	0	0	88.2	4.77	99	52	47	10	30	82	.277	1.45	149
L. Erceg RP	36	0	3-3	12	18	34.2	5.19	37	22	20	3	21	25	.280	1.67	126
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 RP	38	0	2-2	1	3	37.1	2.41	24	13	10	2	12	32	.176	0.96	91
A. Lange RP	36	0	0-4	8	8	37.1	4.82	33	22	20	2	21	37	.239	1.45	88
L. Avila RP	17	8	4-3	0	0	51.2	5.05	51	29	29	5	31	47	.270	1.59	79
T. Tolbert SS	4	0	0-0	0	0	3.2	17.18	11	7	7	2	2	0	.550	3.55	64
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	32	0	3-1	0	3	29.2	5.46	28	18	18	8	12	21	.241	1.35	55
J. Schreiber RP	39	0	0-3	1	2	35.2	3.53	33	17	14	6	13	27	.252	1.29	51
S. Cruz RP	26	1	2-2	0	1	28.1	5.08	25	17	16	8	16	37	.234	1.45	50
B. Way RP	14	0	1-0	0	0	17.2	3.06	18	6	6	3	9	17	.269	1.53	35
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	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
J. Cuas RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	3.60	5	2	2	0	0	6	.250	1.00	11
R. Dobnak RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	4.50	6	2	2	1	1	2	.353	1.75	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
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	92	92	38-54	23	39	812.2	4.84	820	467	437	118	353	703	.263	1.44	1523

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	92	335	62	105	67	29	59	70	.313	.420	.621	1.041	16	0	1	0	368
C. Walker 1B	92	343	49	83	58	20	32	85	.242	.319	.472	.791	17	1	0	0	265
I. Paredes 3B	87	316	37	79	47	12	34	58	.250	.344	.415	.759	16	0	0	0	233
C. Smith RF	92	309	38	69	32	11	31	83	.223	.300	.379	.679	13	1	9	1	197
J. Altuve 2B	70	269	43	63	26	10	29	65	.234	.310	.401	.711	13	1	2	2	176
J. Pena SS	48	183	34	54	21	6	15	35	.295	.356	.443	.799	9	0	8	1	151
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
B. Matthews LF	78	201	23	40	21	7	15	70	.199	.253	.338	.591	5	1	3	4	94
C. Vazquez C	58	168	17	37	21	4	13	32	.220	.275	.327	.602	6	0	1	0	92
Y. Diaz C	40	153	15	37	21	5	5	26	.242	.267	.386	.653	7	0	0	1	87
J. Meyers CF	52	136	14	28	11	3	10	30	.206	.264	.316	.580	6	0	1	2	64
T. Trammell CF	42	107	14	26	11	3	9	40	.243	.308	.393	.701	5	1	1	0	59
J. Loperfido LF	39	102	13	22	12	1	14	31	.216	.314	.333	.647	7	1	1	1	59
N. Allen SS	44	83	14	20	9	1	6	21	.241	.293	.313	.606	3	0	2	0	49
B. Shewmake SS	30	78	10	20	9	3	2	13	.256	.272	.423	.695	4	0	0	0	47
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
Z. Dezenzo LF	24	51	7	10	3	1	6	21	.196	.281	.333	.614	4	0	1	0	24
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
R. Delgado 3B	16	30	3	8	4	1	2	5	.267	.313	.400	.713	1	0	0	0	18
L. Wade LF	7	21	3	4	4	1	2	7	.190	.261	.429	.690	2	0	0	0	14
S. Whitcomb 3B	17	23	2	3	5	2	1	11	.130	.167	.391	.558	0	0	0	0	11
C. Salazar C	9	18	0	1	1	0	3	3	.056	.227	.056	.283	0	0	0	0	4
C. Price C	7	12	1	2	0	0	1	6	.167	.231	.250	.481	1	0	0	0	2
Total	94	3156	430	762	411	126	312	768	.241	.316	.411	.727	144	7	33	12	2166

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
P. Lambert SP	14	14	7-5	0	0	80.0	3.26	60	29	29	10	32	74	.205	1.15	190
S. Arrighetti SP	14	14	7-4	0	0	78.0	3.81	58	35	33	10	38	79	.208	1.23	180
J. Hader RP	16	0	3-0	10	10	15.1	0.59	3	1	1	1	8	25	.061	0.72	137
B. King RP	38	0	2-1	6	9	40.0	2.03	33	11	9	1	14	31	.226	1.18	126
A. Blubaugh RP	35	0	4-2	0	0	58.0	3.57	43	24	23	6	29	56	.209	1.24	124
S. Okert RP	44	1	2-1	0	0	44.2	2.42	27	12	12	5	12	44	.174	0.87	112
K. Teng RP	23	10	4-6	0	0	64.0	4.36	59	35	31	10	28	63	.241	1.36	102
M. Burrows SP	18	17	4-9	0	0	94.2	5.99	112	69	63	21	35	75	.292	1.55	102
E. De Los Santos RP	39	0	0-2	5	7	41.2	4.54	39	23	21	5	10	39	.242	1.18	99
T. Imai SP	13	13	5-4	0	0	52.0	6.06	45	35	35	9	33	63	.232	1.50	97
B. Abreu RP	33	0	2-3	5	5	30.0	5.70	25	21	19	7	25	38	.234	1.67	71
H. Brown SP	6	6	1-0	0	0	29.1	3.38	23	13	11	4	17	35	.213	1.36	65
J. Meyers CF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	64
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
N. Pearson RP	15	0	1-0	1	1	19.0	3.79	16	10	8	1	11	15	.235	1.42	42
A. Santa RP	9	0	0-1	0	0	13.1	1.35	7	6	2	1	5	9	.159	0.90	25
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
L. VanWey RP	5	0	1-0	0	0	6.0	1.50	5	2	1	0	0	5	.250	0.83	21
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
M. Ullola RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	7	.143	0.50	13
J. France RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Gordon RP	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-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	4	3	0-1	0	0	11.1	11.12	15	14	14	3	10	8	.333	2.21	-8
Total	94	94	46-48	28	33	832.1	4.74	754	472	438	129	404	814	.241	1.39	1658

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