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	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Cole Ragans	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Maikel Garcia	Hand	06-16-2026Probable for Jun 17
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

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	06-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 17
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	74	293	38	85	29	9	34	57	.290	.364	.454	.818	19	1	27	4	256
M. Garcia 3B	67	259	32	69	30	3	24	44	.266	.326	.378	.704	16	2	5	3	169
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
J. Caglianone RF	68	227	29	61	20	8	22	76	.269	.344	.436	.780	12	1	3	1	141
C. Jensen C	67	222	30	49	36	8	22	72	.221	.288	.387	.675	13	0	0	0	139
S. Perez C	68	265	25	53	26	9	12	56	.200	.245	.325	.570	6	0	0	0	126
I. Collins LF	65	200	24	43	19	3	32	61	.215	.335	.300	.635	8	0	3	4	111
M. Massey 2B	56	157	19	41	23	6	5	30	.261	.279	.452	.731	12	0	1	0	105
L. Thomas CF	59	142	16	32	17	4	28	37	.225	.356	.338	.694	4	0	3	3	95
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
N. Loftin 2B	38	102	14	25	18	1	15	16	.245	.350	.392	.742	10	1	0	0	82
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	33	78	6	20	5	1	5	24	.256	.314	.333	.647	3	0	0	1	31
T. Tolbert RF	20	17	6	4	0	0	2	7	.235	.316	.235	.551	0	0	5	2	16
K. Misner CF	6	16	0	6	3	0	1	6	.375	.412	.375	.787	0	0	1	0	9
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
J. Rave LF	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	1.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	1
Total	74	2471	295	599	284	65	254	596	.242	.317	.378	.695	123	8	56	18	1568

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	15	15	4-5	0	0	94.0	3.64	82	40	38	10	28	72	.236	1.17	199
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	31	0	2-1	1	3	31.0	2.61	20	12	9	2	11	30	.177	1.00	82
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
C. Seabold RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	32
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
M. Black RP	11	0	0-0	0	0	15.2	2.87	16	5	5	3	9	15	.267	1.60	22
L. Avila RP	13	4	1-3	0	0	32.0	6.19	36	22	22	4	22	28	.298	1.81	22
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	16
B. Way RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	6.75	6	4	4	1	3	8	.286	1.69	7
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 SP	2	1	0-1	0	0	8.0	13.50	11	12	12	1	6	4	.324	2.13	-8
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	74	74	29-45	19	35	654.1	4.51	624	350	328	93	281	583	.252	1.38	1262

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	74	264	49	74	45	10	49	67	.280	.400	.470	.870	16	2	5	0	248
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
B. Lowe 2B	68	264	44	63	47	18	31	78	.239	.321	.511	.832	16	1	0	0	220
S. Horwitz 1B	68	224	30	62	31	9	37	37	.277	.383	.446	.829	9	1	1	0	185
N. Gonzales 3B	68	254	38	74	32	2	16	48	.291	.342	.358	.700	11	0	4	2	163
R. O'Hearn RF	59	216	32	61	35	10	20	54	.282	.346	.454	.800	7	0	1	0	162
K. Griffin SS	51	189	30	51	22	4	14	56	.270	.327	.402	.729	9	2	14	1	144
J. Mangum LF	54	147	19	44	12	1	10	27	.299	.350	.354	.704	5	0	13	2	105
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	23	60	10	16	8	3	15	17	.267	.413	.467	.880	3	0	2	0	56
J. Triolo SS	41	122	10	27	7	0	11	36	.221	.291	.254	.545	4	0	3	1	47
T. Callihan LF	13	31	6	10	6	2	6	9	.323	.447	.645	1.092	2	1	1	0	36
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	8	23	2	2	5	2	2	11	.087	.160	.348	.508	0	0	0	0	11
B. Cook RF	36	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	74	2554	367	646	350	89	286	685	.253	.335	.404	.739	106	7	69	12	1851

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	32	0	4-1	11	14	31.1	3.16	18	12	11	2	12	37	.162	0.96	169
M. Keller SP	15	15	5-4	0	0	82.1	5.25	79	49	48	7	31	65	.252	1.34	151
C. Mlodzinski SP	14	9	4-3	1	1	65.2	3.97	72	35	29	6	24	54	.278	1.46	120
Y. Ramirez RP	31	0	4-2	1	3	40.1	4.24	31	22	19	4	22	45	.208	1.31	89
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	27	0	1-0	0	2	31.0	1.74	24	6	6	1	11	38	.220	1.13	74
M. Montgomery RP	28	4	2-1	0	1	28.0	4.18	24	14	13	3	15	36	.224	1.39	59
D. Santana RP	31	0	2-3	2	4	29.0	4.66	27	17	15	3	16	24	.241	1.48	52
T. Callihan LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	36
I. Mattson RP	22	0	0-0	0	2	21.0	3.86	19	9	9	0	12	16	.241	1.48	30
W. Dotel RP	9	0	1-2	0	0	18.1	5.89	16	12	12	2	9	19	.232	1.36	24
J. Jones SP	4	4	1-1	0	0	17.1	6.23	22	12	12	4	6	18	.306	1.62	23
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	74	74	37-37	16	30	664.2	4.25	599	361	314	70	275	677	.237	1.31	1372

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