Chicago Cubs vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 8, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Shelby Miller	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Jameson Taillon	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Tyler Austin	Knee	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1
Hunter Harvey	Triceps	06-25-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 26
Matthew Boyd	Shoulder	06-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 23
Justin Steele	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Cade Horton	Elbow	07-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 1, 2027
Porter Hodge	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Riley Martin	Elbow	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22

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	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cubs CHC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
P. Crow-Armstrong CF	72	270	42	72	33	12	24	77	.267	.343	.463	.806	11	3	16	5	220
I. Happ LF	68	255	46	57	37	16	41	96	.224	.337	.478	.815	13	2	4	0	209
M. Busch 1B	71	257	31	65	42	8	47	71	.253	.377	.412	.789	13	2	2	0	200
N. Hoerner 2B	70	279	26	67	34	4	30	21	.240	.319	.337	.656	15	0	12	2	199
A. Bregman 3B	71	284	33	71	22	6	32	53	.250	.334	.356	.690	10	1	2	1	169
D. Swanson SS	68	224	39	40	28	7	33	64	.179	.284	.313	.597	7	1	6	0	151
S. Suzuki RF	57	208	31	53	28	10	24	62	.255	.339	.433	.772	7	0	0	0	145
C. Kelly C	53	169	21	46	19	3	17	32	.272	.349	.361	.710	6	0	0	0	105
M. Ballesteros DH	57	153	15	36	23	6	16	36	.235	.304	.392	.696	6	0	1	0	98
M. Conforto DH	45	97	12	22	13	4	15	36	.227	.327	.443	.770	9	0	1	0	67
M. Amaya C	40	96	15	21	10	3	14	25	.219	.353	.354	.707	4	0	0	0	66
M. Shaw RF	45	98	10	24	12	3	6	19	.245	.299	.398	.697	6	0	3	1	64
P. Ramirez 2B	13	32	3	7	2	1	3	3	.219	.286	.375	.661	2	0	0	0	18
S. Kingery 2B	8	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	1	0	5
K. Alcantara DH	12	9	1	1	0	0	1	4	.111	.200	.111	.311	0	0	0	1	0
D. Carlson LF	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	72	2444	329	583	303	83	303	603	.239	.330	.392	.722	109	9	48	10	1716

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Imanaga SP	14	14	4-6	0	0	81.0	4.44	65	41	40	17	21	81	.215	1.06	170
B. Brown RP	19	7	3-2	1	2	62.0	1.74	41	14	12	1	19	61	.186	0.97	166
E. Cabrera SP	12	12	4-3	0	0	63.0	4.86	66	39	34	13	23	58	.274	1.41	119
C. Rea SP	15	11	5-5	1	1	74.0	5.35	80	45	44	12	28	56	.274	1.46	116
C. Kelly C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	2	0	0	.400	2.00	105
J. Taillon SP	13	13	2-5	0	0	67.2	5.19	65	40	39	20	23	59	.248	1.30	104
J. Assad RP	10	4	4-1	0	0	38.1	3.99	30	17	17	4	9	24	.219	1.02	96
R. Rolison RP	21	1	5-1	0	1	25.1	2.13	18	8	6	3	12	24	.209	1.18	82
J. Webb RP	30	0	1-1	1	4	29.2	2.73	29	12	9	4	10	35	.250	1.31	67
H. Milner RP	33	0	1-0	1	2	31.1	3.73	29	13	13	3	7	15	.250	1.15	63
C. Thielbar RP	20	0	2-2	2	4	18.0	3.50	13	8	7	4	8	20	.197	1.17	54
M. Boyd SP	5	5	2-1	0	0	24.0	6.00	25	17	16	2	6	31	.266	1.29	52
D. Palencia RP	18	0	1-1	3	3	15.2	2.87	17	5	5	2	5	16	.279	1.40	51
T. Thornton RP	13	0	2-2	0	0	18.0	2.00	11	5	4	3	7	8	.180	1.00	40
E. Roberts RP	17	0	0-1	0	0	21.0	2.14	16	6	5	1	10	16	.216	1.24	32
C. Horton P	2	2	1-0	0	0	7.1	2.45	4	2	2	1	2	4	.167	0.82	26
R. Martin P	8	1	0-0	0	0	8.1	2.16	5	2	2	1	2	10	.179	0.84	21
P. Maton RP	26	0	0-1	0	0	23.1	6.17	27	16	16	3	12	26	.293	1.67	20
T. Blach RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.111	0.33	9
V. Velasquez SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.125	0.43	6
Y. Rios RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	0.00	6
H. Harvey RP	4	0	0-1	0	0	4.0	6.75	5	3	3	2	1	4	.294	1.50	0
L. Little RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	2	1	1	1	0	1	.400	2.00	0
T. Ferguson RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	6.75	3	1	1	1	0	3	.429	2.25	-2
G. Hollowell RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	2	2	2	1	4	1	.286	3.60	-2
J. Wicks SP	2	2	0-2	0	0	6.1	15.63	13	11	11	1	1	6	.406	2.21	-14
Total	72	72	37-35	10	18	638.1	4.23	579	320	300	104	218	569	.241	1.25	1387

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

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