Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 16, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Connor Seabold	Lat	08-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 30
James McArthur	Elbow	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 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	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Beck Way	Back	08-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 22
Luinder Avila	Elbow	01-31-2028Expected to be out until at least Feb 1, 2028

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	09-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 24
Michael Burrows	Elbow	08-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 19
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brice Matthews	Knee	08-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 19

	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	108	422	67	121	47	15	49	84	.287	.361	.460	.821	26	1	33	6	377
J. Caglianone RF	118	425	58	118	60	22	29	118	.278	.329	.494	.823	22	2	6	2	312
C. Jensen C	118	413	56	91	56	16	48	136	.220	.301	.402	.703	25	1	1	1	261
S. Perez DH	117	449	41	96	54	16	18	97	.214	.259	.363	.622	17	1	0	0	239
M. Massey 2B	106	327	44	89	42	11	18	62	.272	.306	.440	.746	20	1	2	0	221
I. Collins LF	114	358	40	81	35	6	48	93	.226	.326	.349	.675	20	3	6	5	214
V. Pasquantino 1B	81	301	34	71	34	6	37	60	.236	.320	.352	.672	13	2	4	0	191
N. Loftin 3B	88	267	33	62	35	5	31	49	.232	.321	.371	.692	20	1	2	1	182
M. Garcia 3B	71	277	33	73	31	3	24	47	.264	.320	.372	.692	17	2	5	4	173
T. Tolbert SS	57	93	24	29	8	3	9	19	.312	.369	.462	.831	5	0	17	3	105
K. Isbel CF	69	201	20	46	16	4	12	50	.229	.280	.333	.613	7	1	5	0	103
J. Rojas 3B	30	76	6	17	9	1	3	13	.224	.253	.303	.556	3	0	1	0	36
J. Rave RF	25	55	9	11	2	2	5	14	.200	.267	.418	.685	4	1	2	0	36
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
L. Maile C	8	21	2	5	5	1	1	8	.238	.273	.429	.702	1	0	0	0	13
A. Velazquez SS	6	15	0	1	0	0	0	2	.067	.067	.067	.134	0	0	1	0	2
Total	127	4249	526	1036	502	127	391	1006	.244	.312	.394	.706	225	16	97	28	2499

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	25	25	6-8	0	0	155.2	3.58	138	66	62	21	41	120	.237	1.15	331
N. Cameron SP	24	23	7-8	0	0	138.1	4.16	126	69	64	14	43	126	.240	1.22	275
S. Lugo SP	25	25	5-7	0	0	139.1	4.59	146	79	71	16	46	108	.274	1.38	244
D. Lynch IV RP	49	3	4-4	1	3	54.0	2.83	39	21	17	4	16	41	.196	1.02	123
S. Cruz RP	44	2	2-3	5	6	46.1	4.08	37	22	21	11	18	51	.218	1.19	120
L. Erceg RP	47	0	4-4	12	18	43.1	6.23	53	35	30	5	29	31	.312	1.89	119
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
A. Lange RP	47	0	2-7	10	13	48.2	6.10	49	35	33	6	26	51	.262	1.54	107
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	105
L. Avila SP	21	12	5-4	0	0	70.0	5.53	71	43	43	7	42	61	.272	1.61	100
R. Dobnak SP	8	6	2-1	0	0	41.2	1.73	38	8	8	2	16	25	.242	1.30	87
N. Pearson RP	10	0	1-1	1	2	9.2	0.93	4	1	1	0	4	9	.125	0.83	76
J. Schreiber RP	50	0	0-3	1	4	45.0	3.60	40	21	18	7	21	33	.245	1.36	63
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
C. Kimbrel RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.167	0.86	47
J. Rojas 3B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	36
M. Black RP	15	0	0-0	0	0	28.2	3.77	27	12	12	5	19	19	.250	1.60	35
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
J. Cuas RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	11.0	1.64	12	2	2	0	4	13	.279	1.45	21
C. Duran RP	1	0	1-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.250	1.00	9
E. McGee RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	11.81	11	7	7	2	3	6	.423	2.63	2
A. Bummer RP	2	0	0-1	0	0	1.1	40.50	6	6	6	1	1	0	.600	5.25	-1
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
C. Thomas RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.00	-17
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	127	127	53-74	31	54	1115.1	4.77	1102	632	591	160	469	932	.259	1.41	2114

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	124	450	82	143	88	36	86	94	.318	.431	.613	1.044	25	0	1	0	494
I. Paredes 3B	119	436	47	113	67	16	48	69	.259	.352	.422	.774	21	1	0	0	328
C. Walker 1B	122	449	61	104	71	23	42	119	.232	.309	.443	.752	24	1	0	0	322
C. Smith RF	123	403	54	90	46	17	35	109	.223	.292	.402	.694	15	3	10	2	266
J. Pena SS	78	310	59	88	40	14	21	68	.284	.339	.471	.810	14	1	8	1	253
J. Altuve 2B	100	386	56	95	36	13	35	86	.246	.311	.396	.707	15	2	4	2	245
D. Varsho CF	12	44	3	6	3	1	6	11	.136	.240	.205	.445	0	0	1	0	220
Y. Diaz C	66	234	25	59	28	8	9	38	.252	.280	.393	.673	9	0	0	1	135
C. Vazquez C	73	208	20	45	24	6	16	43	.216	.271	.337	.608	7	0	1	0	110
T. Trammell LF	68	178	26	39	20	7	19	65	.219	.308	.393	.701	6	2	3	3	109
B. Matthews LF	82	208	23	41	22	7	15	71	.197	.250	.332	.582	5	1	4	4	97
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
N. Allen 2B	69	112	20	29	13	2	7	24	.259	.301	.348	.649	4	0	2	0	72
J. Meyers CF	54	141	15	30	11	3	10	31	.213	.268	.326	.594	7	0	1	2	67
L. Wade Jr. LF	33	81	11	18	15	2	16	20	.222	.351	.346	.697	4	0	0	0	60
J. Loperfido LF	39	102	13	22	12	1	14	31	.216	.314	.333	.647	7	1	1	1	59
B. Shewmake 3B	30	78	10	20	9	3	2	13	.256	.272	.423	.695	4	0	0	0	54
N. Velazquez LF	3	4	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	50
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
Z. Dezenzo LF	35	75	11	16	3	1	7	31	.213	.280	.307	.587	4	0	1	0	30
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
R. Delgado 2B	17	33	3	9	4	1	2	5	.273	.314	.394	.708	1	0	0	0	19
L. Spence CF	14	37	4	6	3	0	3	15	.162	.244	.189	.433	1	0	0	1	9
C. Salazar C	9	18	0	1	1	0	3	3	.056	.227	.056	.283	0	0	0	0	4
C. Price C	7	12	1	2	0	0	1	6	.167	.231	.250	.481	1	0	0	0	2
Total	126	4244	577	1030	550	169	421	1021	.243	.318	.411	.729	183	13	40	17	3157

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
P. Lambert SP	21	21	8-6	0	0	118.2	3.11	91	42	41	12	46	117	.208	1.15	277
J. Hader RP	31	0	4-1	17	17	30.0	0.90	13	3	3	1	10	41	.126	0.77	226
S. Okert RP	61	1	6-1	0	1	61.2	2.04	40	15	14	6	12	62	.186	0.84	183
A. Blubaugh RP	47	0	4-2	1	1	77.0	3.39	59	31	29	10	33	77	.212	1.19	171
H. Brown SP	13	13	3-3	0	0	68.2	3.67	49	30	28	9	40	72	.199	1.30	142
E. De Los Santos RP	55	0	2-3	5	7	58.2	4.14	55	31	27	7	13	53	.246	1.16	141
B. Abreu RP	48	0	4-3	7	8	45.0	4.40	32	24	22	7	33	57	.201	1.44	134
T. Imai SP	17	15	6-4	0	0	64.2	5.29	53	38	38	9	42	80	.222	1.47	134
B. King RP	50	1	2-3	6	10	51.2	4.01	52	25	23	7	19	43	.259	1.37	118
K. Teng RP	25	10	5-6	0	0	68.1	4.35	62	37	33	10	30	67	.238	1.35	113
M. Burrows SP	18	17	4-9	0	0	94.2	5.99	112	69	63	21	35	75	.292	1.55	102
J. Meyers CF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	67
H. Wesneski SP	4	4	2-1	0	0	22.2	5.16	23	13	13	2	7	18	.271	1.32	48
A. Santa RP	10	0	0-1	0	0	15.1	1.17	8	6	2	1	6	9	.160	0.91	29
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
C. Javier SP	11	7	1-4	0	0	36.1	6.44	44	26	26	7	17	30	.299	1.68	25
L. VanWey RP	5	0	1-0	0	0	6.0	1.50	5	2	1	0	0	5	.250	0.83	21
R. Blanco SP	5	4	0-1	0	0	23.1	7.71	22	20	20	7	12	20	.253	1.46	20
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
B. Sousa RP	17	0	0-1	0	0	14.0	3.86	14	8	6	2	8	16	.259	1.57	17
M. Ullola RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	4.50	4	3	3	2	1	9	.182	0.83	14
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
Total	126	126	63-63	38	46	1118.1	4.57	1001	609	568	168	518	1098	.239	1.36	2024

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