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	Foot	05-11-2026Expected to be out until at least May 12
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	05-05-2026Expected to be out until at least May 6
Noah Cameron	Back	05-09-2026Expected to be out until at least May 10

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Josh Hader	Biceps	05-23-2026Expected to be out until at least May 24
Taylor Trammell	Groin	05-17-2026Expected to be out until at least May 18
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	05-14-2026Expected to be out until at least May 15
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	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
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	05-17-2026Expected to be out until at least May 18
Tatsuya Imai	Arm	05-17-2026Expected to be out until at least May 18

	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	36	143	15	41	16	3	17	30	.287	.358	.434	.792	10	1	11	2	115
M. Garcia 3B	34	133	19	34	13	3	14	25	.256	.322	.406	.728	9	1	4	2	93
V. Pasquantino 1B	34	125	15	24	17	4	16	30	.192	.281	.352	.633	4	2	1	0	80
S. Perez C	35	139	14	29	16	5	4	31	.209	.245	.353	.598	5	0	0	0	70
C. Jensen C	34	108	14	24	17	6	13	39	.222	.309	.407	.716	2	0	0	0	69
K. Isbel CF	29	85	12	24	8	3	6	22	.282	.351	.435	.786	4	0	5	0	65
I. Collins LF	31	94	14	24	12	3	15	32	.255	.366	.394	.760	4	0	2	3	65
J. Caglianone 1B	32	105	14	26	8	4	11	37	.248	.331	.429	.760	5	1	0	1	60
L. Thomas RF	28	64	7	15	6	1	14	14	.234	.380	.297	.677	1	0	3	1	45
M. Massey 2B	24	65	7	14	9	2	3	18	.215	.243	.385	.628	5	0	1	0	37
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	32
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	36	1193	151	287	144	37	128	306	.241	.319	.391	.710	58	5	28	11	793

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	7	7	3-2	0	0	44.1	3.05	32	15	15	5	15	36	.204	1.06	114
K. Bubic SP	7	7	3-1	0	0	40.2	3.32	27	15	15	3	19	42	.189	1.13	109
L. Erceg RP	16	0	2-1	10	12	15.1	3.52	10	7	6	0	11	14	.196	1.37	105
S. Lugo SP	7	7	1-1	0	0	43.2	2.68	41	14	13	1	13	37	.256	1.24	99
D. Lynch SP	14	0	1-0	1	2	14.2	1.84	5	6	3	1	4	18	.100	0.61	54
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	14	0	2-1	0	2	12.2	2.13	6	3	3	0	7	10	.146	1.03	36
M. Strahm RP	14	0	1-0	0	1	13.2	3.29	10	5	5	2	6	14	.196	1.17	33
S. Kolek RP	1	1	1-0	0	0	6.0	4.50	4	3	3	1	0	3	.182	0.67	22
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
A. Lange RP	13	0	0-2	0	0	14.2	6.14	14	11	10	2	10	19	.250	1.64	8
M. Black P	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	0.00	7	0	0	0	2	5	.350	1.93	7
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	36	36	17-19	13	20	319.1	4.28	281	162	152	42	150	304	.237	1.35	692

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	37	139	26	45	27	12	22	20	.324	.428	.647	1.075	9	0	1	0	161
C. Walker 1B	37	133	23	41	27	9	15	28	.308	.384	.579	.963	9	0	0	0	130
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Smith 3B	36	125	17	28	17	4	14	40	.224	.308	.368	.676	6	0	4	0	84
I. Paredes 3B	32	115	16	30	15	3	13	22	.261	.361	.391	.752	6	0	0	0	83
J. Altuve 2B	34	133	22	32	9	3	17	30	.241	.327	.376	.703	9	0	1	2	83
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
C. Vazquez C	19	60	6	18	11	2	5	11	.300	.354	.467	.821	4	0	0	0	44
B. Matthews SS	28	71	7	15	12	3	8	29	.211	.288	.394	.682	4	0	2	0	44
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
B. Shewmake SS	7	13	4	4	2	2	0	3	.308	.308	.769	1.077	0	0	0	0	14
N. Allen SS	15	23	5	6	0	0	2	5	.261	.320	.304	.624	1	0	0	0	11
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	2	7	1	1	1	1	0	4	.143	.143	.571	.714	0	0	0	0	4
Total	37	1267	183	334	173	46	139	293	.264	.342	.433	.775	73	2	15	6	914

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
P. Lambert RP	4	4	2-2	0	0	22.1	2.42	15	6	6	0	11	23	.188	1.16	54
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	49
B. King P	13	0	0-1	3	4	15.2	3.45	16	8	6	0	5	15	.262	1.34	40
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
S. Okert RP	18	1	0-0	0	0	15.2	4.60	15	8	8	2	7	11	.259	1.40	22
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
B. Abreu RP	13	0	1-2	1	1	12.1	9.49	13	14	13	4	16	20	.277	2.35	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
R. Weiss SP	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 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	37	37	15-22	8	9	323.1	5.65	327	210	203	50	196	332	.264	1.62	459

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