Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 22, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Justin Verlander	Hamstring	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Burch Smith	Shoulder	08-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 8
Jack Flaherty	Forearm	08-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 21
Wenceel Perez	Orbital	08-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 16
Will Vest	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Parker Meadows	Arm	08-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 20
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
Matt Vierling	Groin	08-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 9
Kerry Carpenter	Foot	08-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 6
Jackson Jobe	Elbow	08-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 8
Trey Sweeney	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brant Hurter	Back	08-10-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 11
Bailey Horn	Elbow	08-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Sep 1, 2027

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	08-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 20
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Maikel Garcia	Hand	08-13-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 14
Connor Seabold	Lat	08-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 30
James McArthur	Elbow	08-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 22
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	08-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 10
Beck Way	Back	08-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 9
Vinnie Pasquantino	Wrist	08-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 8
Luinder Avila	Elbow	01-31-2028Expected to be out until at least Feb 1, 2028

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Tigers DET-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
K. McGonigle SS	109	415	71	118	42	11	71	68	.284	.391	.427	.818	20	3	11	1	351
D. Dingler C	104	394	60	107	73	24	26	96	.272	.335	.520	.855	22	2	0	0	329
R. Greene LF	111	403	61	112	54	16	59	124	.278	.369	.462	.831	24	1	3	1	305
S. Torkelson 1B	112	386	50	85	58	20	46	137	.220	.308	.425	.733	19	0	0	1	253
C. Keith 3B	103	297	41	81	29	8	19	60	.273	.321	.424	.745	13	4	5	0	198
G. Torres 2B	56	206	36	55	29	7	39	49	.267	.386	.408	.794	8	0	0	0	165
K. Carpenter RF	81	231	27	48	36	13	18	75	.208	.276	.416	.692	5	2	0	0	144
M. Vierling CF	92	266	24	55	31	5	19	49	.207	.255	.335	.590	13	3	4	2	144
Z. McKinstry 2B	88	269	28	59	23	4	29	49	.219	.293	.331	.624	12	3	1	5	141
H. Lee 2B	70	191	17	51	27	6	9	50	.267	.297	.424	.721	10	1	1	2	109
W. Perez RF	53	161	22	29	17	7	14	29	.180	.246	.348	.594	4	1	3	1	99
J. Outman CF	38	91	13	16	14	5	5	41	.176	.227	.363	.590	0	1	2	1	74
J. Baez SS	29	100	16	28	11	2	3	20	.280	.305	.400	.705	6	0	1	1	62
E. Valencia C	11	31	9	14	11	4	0	8	.452	.469	.935	1.404	3	0	0	0	46
B. Malgeri RF	21	41	6	11	7	1	8	10	.268	.380	.390	.770	2	0	0	0	32
P. Meadows CF	12	36	3	9	2	0	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.641	1	1	3	0	21
M. Clark CF	4	16	4	6	3	1	4	6	.375	.500	.688	1.188	2	0	0	0	19
J. Jung DH	3	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542	0	0	0	0	3
T. Cruz RF	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	-1
Total	113	3807	513	925	490	141	403	979	.243	.319	.412	.731	173	23	35	17	2494

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	24	18	8-6	1	1	116.1	3.17	91	45	41	11	25	81	.212	1.00	284
T. Melton SP	12	12	7-1	0	0	74.0	1.58	44	14	13	8	23	64	.170	0.91	237
F. Valdez SP	22	22	6-7	0	0	120.1	4.41	124	65	59	12	43	98	.261	1.39	212
K. Jansen RP	33	0	2-4	13	17	29.2	3.94	19	14	13	5	18	34	.179	1.25	141
Z. McKinstry 2B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	0	3	0	.400	5.00	141
D. Anderson RP	40	2	4-4	2	7	63.2	4.24	59	33	30	9	24	78	.241	1.30	135
J. Flaherty SP	19	19	3-8	0	0	86.1	4.59	80	52	44	11	42	102	.240	1.41	124
K. Finnegan RP	47	0	2-0	2	9	46.1	3.50	47	18	18	7	27	36	.275	1.60	92
E. De Jesus RP	24	0	2-0	1	1	34.2	3.63	29	17	14	1	13	35	.223	1.21	86
T. Holton RP	47	3	1-4	1	2	50.0	3.06	55	22	17	6	12	38	.281	1.34	75
T. Madden RP	11	1	1-0	0	0	30.0	2.40	19	8	8	2	12	33	.174	1.03	73
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
W. Vest RP	27	0	3-5	2	7	26.2	6.08	28	22	18	2	10	27	.275	1.43	45
J. Waguespack RP	17	0	0-1	0	0	21.2	1.66	10	5	4	3	8	15	.139	0.83	44
B. Hanifee RP	21	2	0-0	0	0	20.1	3.98	21	9	9	4	6	8	.269	1.33	28
B. Smith RP	13	1	0-2	0	0	17.0	3.18	18	8	6	2	7	20	.277	1.47	20
D. Sommers RP	23	0	0-2	0	1	16.2	4.32	17	9	8	2	8	24	.266	1.50	18
B. Brieske RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	6.75	9	7	7	3	4	8	.257	1.39	12
J. Verlander SP	1	1	0-1	0	0	3.2	12.27	6	5	5	1	2	1	.353	2.18	-6
Y. Diaz RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	3	.250	2.00	-10
R. Vanasco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	6.1	15.63	14	12	11	2	6	4	.412	3.16	-15
Total	113	113	55-58	22	46	1001.2	3.56	869	442	396	109	345	945	.231	1.21	1808

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	95	374	53	106	41	13	41	74	.283	.353	.455	.808	23	1	30	5	324
J. Caglianone RF	105	375	49	95	43	18	27	112	.253	.310	.456	.766	18	2	4	1	245
C. Jensen C	106	373	49	86	54	15	41	124	.231	.305	.421	.726	24	1	1	0	242
S. Perez DH	106	412	40	89	47	16	17	93	.216	.262	.379	.641	17	1	0	0	224
I. Collins LF	102	321	40	77	34	6	44	85	.240	.340	.371	.711	18	3	6	5	207
M. Massey 2B	93	282	36	74	38	8	16	51	.262	.297	.418	.715	20	0	2	0	186
V. Pasquantino 1B	79	293	34	68	33	6	37	60	.232	.318	.345	.663	11	2	4	0	185
N. Loftin 3B	76	229	31	57	35	5	26	37	.249	.333	.402	.735	18	1	1	0	172
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
T. Tolbert SS	49	80	22	26	6	3	6	15	.325	.368	.475	.843	3	0	15	3	91
K. Isbel CF	57	168	17	42	12	3	10	41	.250	.302	.357	.659	7	1	5	0	91
S. Marte RF	54	137	14	35	12	1	8	37	.255	.311	.314	.625	5	0	2	2	64
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
J. Rojas 3B	25	61	6	14	6	1	3	9	.230	.266	.328	.594	3	0	1	0	32
J. Rave RF	14	34	6	10	2	2	3	8	.294	.351	.647	.998	4	1	1	0	31
L. Maile C	5	15	2	4	5	1	1	5	.267	.313	.533	.846	1	0	0	0	13
Total	114	3833	475	942	452	115	354	911	.246	.313	.398	.711	209	15	88	23	2311

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	22	22	5-8	0	0	138.1	3.51	122	58	54	16	38	111	.236	1.16	291
S. Lugo SP	23	23	4-7	0	0	128.2	4.41	134	71	63	15	45	99	.274	1.39	219
N. Cameron SP	21	20	5-8	0	0	115.2	4.59	116	64	59	14	39	107	.258	1.34	197
L. Erceg RP	43	0	4-3	12	18	41.0	6.37	48	33	29	5	25	29	.302	1.78	127
D. Lynch IV RP	46	0	4-2	1	3	46.0	1.96	31	13	10	2	12	35	.185	0.93	125
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
L. Avila SP	21	12	5-4	0	0	70.0	5.53	71	43	43	7	42	61	.272	1.61	100
A. Lange RP	43	0	1-6	10	13	44.2	6.25	44	33	31	5	25	47	.257	1.54	99
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	91
S. Cruz RP	39	2	2-3	2	3	41.0	4.39	34	21	20	11	17	47	.224	1.24	87
R. Dobnak SP	6	4	2-0	0	0	31.0	1.16	24	4	4	2	13	15	.212	1.19	76
N. Pearson RP	4	0	1-0	0	0	4.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	1	.083	0.50	62
J. Schreiber RP	46	0	0-3	1	3	41.2	3.67	39	20	17	7	18	31	.257	1.37	57
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
B. Way RP	19	1	1-1	0	0	23.1	3.86	27	13	10	4	10	21	.293	1.59	34
C. Seabold RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	9.00	7	6	5	0	4	5	.318	2.20	31
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
E. Morgan RP	16	0	0-1	1	1	19.1	5.12	24	11	11	5	9	16	.300	1.71	22
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
J. Cuas RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	6.1	2.84	8	2	2	0	2	9	.296	1.58	11
A. Bummer RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	27.00	4	3	3	1	0	0	.571	4.00	8
E. McGee RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	3.86	5	1	1	0	0	2	.455	2.14	6
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	114	114	47-67	27	48	1001.0	4.85	1001	578	539	147	427	845	.261	1.43	1809

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