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	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	06-09-2026Probable for Jun 10
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	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
LaMonte Wade	Hamstring	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Nick Allen	Hamstring	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Braden Shewmake	Thigh	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
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

	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	67	264	33	73	27	9	31	55	.277	.352	.451	.803	17	1	23	4	225
M. Garcia 3B	61	237	30	63	24	3	22	39	.266	.326	.384	.710	15	2	4	3	152
V. Pasquantino 1B	64	240	26	53	30	6	30	48	.221	.305	.354	.659	10	2	2	0	152
J. Caglianone RF	61	199	23	52	18	8	20	65	.261	.338	.442	.780	10	1	3	1	124
C. Jensen C	62	201	27	43	31	8	21	69	.214	.285	.383	.668	10	0	0	0	122
S. Perez C	62	239	22	48	26	9	12	49	.201	.250	.339	.589	6	0	0	0	121
I. Collins LF	58	179	22	38	16	3	30	56	.212	.335	.302	.637	7	0	3	3	101
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	52	120	12	27	14	2	24	31	.225	.354	.308	.662	4	0	3	3	75
N. Loftin 2B	33	87	14	20	17	1	13	13	.230	.340	.356	.696	8	0	0	0	71
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	29	66	5	17	5	1	4	22	.258	.315	.348	.663	3	0	0	1	27
T. Tolbert RF	18	13	5	3	0	0	2	6	.231	.333	.231	.564	0	0	5	1	16
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	67	2225	263	528	254	63	233	539	.237	.313	.378	.691	110	7	49	16	1405

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	13	13	2-4	0	0	76.0	3.91	79	36	33	7	24	64	.271	1.36	141
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	26	0	3-3	12	18	24.0	6.00	31	18	16	2	16	21	.323	1.96	109
D. Lynch RP	27	0	2-0	1	2	27.1	1.98	18	9	6	1	8	29	.178	0.95	83
A. Lange RP	28	0	0-2	4	4	30.0	3.90	25	14	13	2	16	33	.231	1.37	67
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	20	0	3-1	0	1	19.1	4.19	16	9	9	5	7	17	.216	1.19	49
L. Avila RP	12	3	1-2	0	0	31.1	4.02	31	14	14	2	19	28	.272	1.60	41
J. Schreiber RP	29	0	0-3	1	2	26.0	2.77	21	9	8	4	11	17	.231	1.23	37
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	8	0	0-0	0	0	9.2	1.86	10	2	2	1	3	10	.263	1.34	19
S. Cruz RP	16	0	1-2	0	1	16.2	7.02	16	14	13	7	11	24	.246	1.62	19
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	16
E. Morgan RP	13	0	0-1	1	1	16.1	5.51	23	10	10	4	8	15	.324	1.90	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	67	67	28-39	19	32	592.1	4.38	558	309	288	81	254	547	.249	1.37	1181

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	68	243	46	77	48	22	46	52	.317	.432	.642	1.074	13	0	1	0	277
C. Walker 1B	68	253	39	63	48	16	23	60	.249	.320	.494	.814	12	1	0	0	209
I. Paredes 3B	63	225	27	54	33	9	26	43	.240	.337	.413	.750	12	0	0	0	165
C. Smith RF	68	223	26	49	25	6	26	70	.220	.310	.354	.664	10	1	8	1	140
J. Altuve 2B	47	177	30	42	13	5	21	43	.237	.320	.379	.699	10	0	1	2	110
J. Pena SS	31	121	23	34	12	3	10	20	.281	.348	.413	.761	7	0	5	1	97
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Vazquez C	45	135	14	32	19	4	11	24	.237	.295	.370	.665	6	0	0	0	82
B. Matthews CF	56	154	16	32	15	4	11	54	.208	.259	.325	.584	4	1	2	4	65
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
J. Meyers CF	32	97	10	21	9	2	8	21	.216	.280	.320	.600	4	0	1	2	48
B. Shewmake SS	28	74	8	18	8	3	2	13	.243	.260	.405	.665	3	0	0	0	41
N. Allen SS	37	64	12	16	5	1	3	14	.250	.290	.328	.618	2	0	1	0	37
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
T. Trammell CF	23	68	8	19	6	0	5	26	.279	.338	.368	.706	4	1	1	0	34
J. Loperfido LF	21	61	7	16	7	0	7	21	.262	.343	.344	.687	5	0	1	1	33
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
Z. Dezenzo LF	21	47	5	9	2	1	4	19	.191	.255	.340	.595	4	0	0	0	17
L. Wade LF	4	12	2	4	4	1	1	3	.333	.385	.750	1.135	2	0	0	0	14
S. Whitcomb 3B	16	19	1	2	4	1	1	10	.105	.150	.263	.413	0	0	0	0	6
C. Salazar C	9	18	0	1	1	0	3	3	.056	.227	.056	.283	0	0	0	0	4
C. Price C	4	10	1	2	0	0	1	5	.200	.273	.300	.573	1	0	0	0	2
Total	69	2320	313	566	301	86	235	573	.244	.320	.408	.728	113	5	24	12	1583

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	10	10	7-1	0	0	57.0	2.21	37	16	14	3	31	53	.185	1.19	164
P. Lambert SP	9	9	5-4	0	0	50.2	3.55	39	20	20	3	25	47	.212	1.26	111
K. Teng RP	20	7	3-5	0	0	51.0	3.71	41	24	21	6	24	49	.219	1.27	86
B. King RP	25	0	0-1	6	9	28.1	2.54	26	10	8	1	11	21	.241	1.31	84
E. De Los Santos RP	26	0	0-1	4	4	28.0	3.21	22	11	10	2	5	28	.208	0.96	84
A. Blubaugh RP	27	0	3-2	0	0	42.2	4.22	31	20	20	5	24	37	.204	1.29	81
M. Burrows SP	13	13	3-8	0	0	73.1	5.77	87	49	47	17	28	60	.295	1.57	75
S. Okert RP	31	1	0-0	0	0	30.0	3.00	18	10	10	3	10	26	.175	0.93	63
T. Imai SP	8	8	3-3	0	0	34.1	5.24	25	20	20	5	23	36	.205	1.40	61
B. Abreu RP	25	0	2-2	4	4	22.1	6.85	18	18	17	5	24	31	.225	1.88	52
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
J. Hader RP	3	0	1-0	1	1	3.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	7	.000	0.33	25
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
A. Santa RP	6	0	0-1	0	0	10.0	0.90	3	5	1	0	5	8	.094	0.80	20
N. Pearson RP	6	0	0-0	1	1	6.2	4.05	5	3	3	1	4	7	.208	1.35	18
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
L. VanWey RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	5	.100	0.33	10
J. Murray RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	7.15	16	9	9	0	7	5	.356	2.03	4
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
R. Weiss RP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	1
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	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	69	69	31-38	17	20	608.1	4.90	550	350	331	87	327	581	.241	1.44	1061

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