Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 18, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Seth Lugo	Concussion	06-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 21
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 30
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
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	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Chris Devenski	Illness	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Oneil Cruz	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Joey Bart	Foot	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Konnor Griffin	Forearm	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Wilber Dotel	Lat	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Pirates PIT-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	72	286	36	82	28	9	32	56	.287	.358	.455	.813	19	1	26	4	247
M. Garcia 3B	65	254	32	68	28	3	23	43	.268	.326	.382	.708	16	2	5	3	165
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
J. Caglianone RF	66	219	28	59	20	8	22	73	.269	.344	.438	.782	11	1	3	1	137
C. Jensen C	66	218	30	48	35	8	22	71	.220	.289	.390	.679	13	0	0	0	137
S. Perez C	66	257	25	52	26	9	12	54	.202	.248	.331	.579	6	0	0	0	126
I. Collins LF	63	193	24	42	17	3	32	59	.218	.341	.306	.647	8	0	3	4	109
M. Massey 2B	55	156	19	41	23	6	5	30	.263	.280	.455	.735	12	0	1	0	105
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
L. Thomas CF	57	134	14	30	16	3	26	36	.224	.354	.321	.675	4	0	3	3	86
N. Loftin 2B	36	95	14	21	18	1	14	14	.221	.330	.358	.688	8	1	0	0	76
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	31	71	5	18	5	1	5	23	.254	.316	.338	.654	3	0	0	1	28
T. Tolbert RF	19	14	5	3	0	0	2	6	.214	.313	.214	.527	0	0	5	2	15
K. Misner CF	5	12	0	6	3	0	1	3	.500	.538	.500	1.038	0	0	1	0	10
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	72	2402	288	581	277	64	247	578	.242	.316	.378	.694	120	8	55	18	1528

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	14	14	4-5	0	0	88.0	3.58	75	37	35	10	27	69	.231	1.16	188
S. Lugo SP	14	14	2-4	0	0	79.1	3.86	82	37	34	7	25	66	.270	1.35	147
N. Cameron SP	13	13	3-4	0	0	70.0	4.11	68	36	32	8	17	64	.247	1.21	141
S. Kolek SP	8	8	4-1	0	0	50.1	2.68	42	18	15	5	10	34	.225	1.03	138
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
L. Erceg RP	28	0	3-3	12	18	26.1	5.81	32	19	17	2	19	22	.308	1.94	111
D. Lynch RP	30	0	2-0	1	3	30.0	1.80	18	9	6	1	9	29	.167	0.90	90
A. Lange RP	30	0	0-4	4	4	32.2	4.13	28	17	15	2	19	35	.235	1.44	58
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	23	0	3-1	0	3	21.2	5.40	20	13	13	8	7	18	.235	1.25	48
J. Schreiber RP	31	0	0-3	1	2	28.2	2.83	23	10	9	5	11	21	.228	1.19	44
S. Cruz RP	19	0	1-2	0	1	20.1	5.75	18	14	13	7	12	27	.234	1.48	28
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
L. Avila RP	13	4	1-3	0	0	32.0	6.19	36	22	22	4	22	28	.298	1.81	22
M. Black RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	13.2	2.63	15	4	4	2	8	15	.283	1.68	19
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	15
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
B. Way RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	10.80	6	4	4	1	1	6	.375	2.10	2
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
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	72	72	29-43	19	35	638.1	4.44	606	337	315	91	273	576	.251	1.38	1225

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	72	256	46	69	42	8	48	66	.270	.392	.441	.833	16	2	5	0	231
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
B. Lowe 2B	66	254	43	61	46	17	31	73	.240	.325	.512	.837	16	1	0	0	215
S. Horwitz 1B	66	217	29	61	31	9	34	37	.281	.382	.452	.834	8	1	1	0	179
N. Gonzales 3B	66	246	37	74	31	2	16	46	.301	.352	.370	.722	11	0	4	2	162
R. O'Hearn RF	57	207	31	57	35	10	20	52	.275	.342	.449	.791	6	0	1	0	157
K. Griffin SS	51	189	30	51	22	4	14	56	.270	.327	.402	.729	9	2	14	1	144
J. Mangum LF	52	139	19	42	11	1	10	27	.302	.355	.360	.715	5	0	13	2	102
M. Ozuna DH	51	187	15	36	23	5	19	60	.193	.274	.299	.573	5	0	0	0	85
H. Davis C	46	126	13	17	17	5	14	31	.135	.236	.278	.514	3	0	1	1	67
E. Rodriguez C	21	53	9	12	6	2	14	16	.226	.388	.396	.784	3	0	2	0	46
J. Triolo SS	40	119	10	27	7	0	10	35	.227	.292	.261	.553	4	0	2	1	44
T. Callihan LF	11	23	6	8	6	2	6	7	.348	.500	.783	1.283	2	1	1	0	35
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
J. Bart C	21	58	9	15	6	2	2	21	.259	.290	.379	.669	1	0	0	0	29
R. Flores C	2	3	2	2	2	1	2	0	.667	.800	2.000	2.800	1	0	0	0	12
E. Valdez RF	7	19	2	2	5	2	2	10	.105	.190	.421	.611	0	0	0	0	12
B. Cook RF	34	21	5	4	0	0	0	8	.190	.190	.190	.380	0	0	3	1	10
J. Garcia CF	13	35	2	7	2	0	1	10	.200	.243	.229	.472	1	0	0	0	9
D. Wendzel 1B	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	72	2482	359	626	342	85	280	670	.252	.335	.402	.737	104	7	68	12	1801

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
P. Skenes SP	15	15	6-6	0	0	82.0	2.85	60	32	26	8	16	99	.199	0.93	222
B. Ashcraft SP	14	14	5-3	0	0	84.2	3.30	74	34	31	8	19	90	.236	1.10	213
G. Soto RP	31	0	4-1	10	13	30.1	3.26	16	12	11	2	12	35	.151	0.92	160
M. Keller SP	14	14	5-4	0	0	77.0	5.14	74	44	44	6	27	58	.252	1.31	145
C. Mlodzinski SP	13	9	4-3	1	1	62.2	4.02	65	29	28	5	23	52	.269	1.40	119
Y. Ramirez RP	30	0	4-2	1	3	39.2	4.31	31	22	19	4	21	45	.211	1.31	88
B. Chandler SP	14	13	2-7	0	0	68.0	4.76	53	42	36	8	41	68	.208	1.38	88
E. Sisk RP	26	0	1-0	0	2	30.0	1.80	23	6	6	1	11	36	.219	1.13	71
M. Montgomery RP	27	4	1-1	0	1	27.0	4.33	24	14	13	3	14	34	.231	1.41	49
D. Santana RP	30	0	2-3	2	4	28.0	4.82	27	17	15	3	16	22	.248	1.54	48
T. Callihan LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	35
I. Mattson RP	22	0	0-0	0	2	21.0	3.86	19	9	9	0	12	16	.241	1.48	30
J. Jones SP	3	3	1-0	0	0	13.1	4.73	14	7	7	2	5	14	.264	1.43	28
W. Dotel RP	9	0	1-2	0	0	18.1	5.89	16	12	12	2	9	19	.232	1.36	24
B. Bidois RP	13	0	0-0	0	0	14.0	5.14	15	13	8	4	11	17	.273	1.86	15
C. Sanders RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	9.00	6	6	6	0	5	8	.261	1.83	4
A. Kelly RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	2	2	2	1	1	1	.250	1.29	2
C. Devenski RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	5	2	2	1	0	3	.417	2.14	1
J. Urquidy RP	5	0	0-1	1	1	6.1	8.53	15	10	6	1	2	6	.441	2.68	1
H. Barco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	11.2	7.71	14	12	10	3	9	8	.292	1.97	-1
Total	72	72	36-36	15	29	647.2	4.22	576	345	304	66	267	656	.235	1.30	1342

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