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

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 17
Maikel Garcia	Hamstring	06-05-2026Probable for Jun 6
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 18
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	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Chris Devenski	Illness	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Joey Bart	Foot	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Konnor Griffin	Elbow	06-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 10

	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	64	252	33	71	26	9	30	51	.282	.358	.464	.822	17	1	22	3	222
M. Garcia 3B	58	225	28	60	22	3	21	35	.267	.327	.382	.709	15	1	4	3	144
V. Pasquantino 1B	61	227	23	48	29	6	30	47	.211	.302	.344	.646	8	2	2	0	141
S. Perez C	61	235	22	48	26	9	12	49	.204	.254	.345	.599	6	0	0	0	121
C. Jensen C	59	190	24	40	28	7	21	65	.211	.288	.368	.656	9	0	0	0	111
J. Caglianone RF	59	195	21	49	15	6	19	64	.251	.327	.405	.732	10	1	2	1	108
I. Collins LF	55	171	22	37	16	3	27	56	.216	.333	.310	.643	7	0	3	3	97
M. Massey 2B	48	132	16	36	20	6	5	27	.273	.293	.477	.770	9	0	1	0	92
K. Isbel CF	54	159	16	39	11	3	9	39	.245	.297	.358	.655	7	1	5	0	86
L. Thomas CF	50	113	11	25	14	2	23	29	.221	.353	.310	.663	4	0	3	3	72
N. Loftin 2B	32	84	14	18	16	1	12	12	.214	.324	.333	.657	7	0	0	0	67
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	28	62	4	16	2	0	4	20	.258	.319	.306	.625	3	0	0	1	20
E. Diaz C	10	22	3	5	5	2	1	5	.227	.261	.591	.852	2	0	0	0	19
T. Tolbert RF	15	9	4	2	0	0	2	3	.222	.364	.222	.586	0	0	3	1	11
J. Rojas 2B	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	0	0	0	0	3
Total	64	2125	249	503	240	59	224	515	.237	.313	.375	.688	105	6	45	15	1348

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	13	13	4-4	0	0	81.0	3.44	66	33	31	9	26	67	.223	1.14	185
S. Lugo SP	13	13	2-4	0	0	76.0	3.91	79	36	33	7	24	64	.271	1.36	141
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
N. Cameron SP	11	11	2-4	0	0	59.2	4.22	58	31	28	6	17	56	.250	1.26	110
S. Kolek SP	6	6	3-1	0	0	38.0	3.32	29	16	14	5	8	27	.207	0.97	103
L. Erceg RP	24	0	3-3	11	17	22.1	6.45	29	18	16	2	15	20	.326	1.97	100
D. Lynch RP	25	0	2-0	1	2	25.1	1.78	17	8	5	1	8	29	.181	0.99	79
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
A. Lange RP	26	0	0-2	2	2	28.0	4.18	24	14	13	2	15	28	.238	1.39	48
M. Strahm RP	19	0	2-1	0	1	18.1	3.93	15	8	8	4	7	17	.214	1.20	41
J. Schreiber RP	27	0	0-3	1	2	24.1	2.96	21	9	8	4	11	16	.244	1.32	32
L. Avila RP	11	2	1-2	0	0	26.1	4.44	29	13	13	2	16	25	.290	1.71	30
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	7	0	0-0	0	0	8.2	2.08	10	2	2	1	3	9	.286	1.50	15
E. Morgan RP	13	0	0-1	1	1	16.1	5.51	23	10	10	4	8	15	.324	1.90	15
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	11
S. Cruz RP	15	0	0-2	0	1	15.1	7.63	16	14	13	7	11	22	.262	1.76	7
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	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.250	1.00	3
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	64	64	25-39	16	29	565.1	4.46	537	299	280	79	247	524	.251	1.39	1076

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
O. Cruz CF	62	249	45	66	44	14	27	97	.265	.344	.474	.818	10	0	20	4	224
B. Reynolds LF	64	225	41	60	39	6	45	59	.267	.395	.418	.813	12	2	5	0	203
B. Lowe 2B	58	225	40	57	40	15	28	63	.253	.340	.524	.864	14	1	0	0	196
S. Horwitz 1B	59	188	25	53	26	7	32	28	.282	.385	.447	.832	8	1	1	0	157
R. O'Hearn RF	49	174	30	51	33	9	20	39	.293	.369	.483	.852	6	0	1	0	151
N. Gonzales 3B	58	215	33	67	30	2	15	40	.312	.363	.386	.749	10	0	3	2	148
K. Griffin SS	51	189	30	51	22	4	14	56	.270	.327	.402	.729	9	2	14	1	144
M. Ozuna DH	48	178	15	35	22	5	19	56	.197	.281	.309	.590	5	0	0	0	85
J. Mangum LF	44	112	17	32	9	1	9	24	.286	.347	.339	.686	3	0	10	1	82
H. Davis C	43	120	13	17	17	5	12	28	.142	.235	.292	.527	3	0	1	0	68
E. Rodriguez C	14	36	7	9	5	1	12	9	.250	.438	.389	.827	2	0	2	0	37
J. Triolo SS	32	93	7	21	6	0	7	27	.226	.287	.258	.545	3	0	2	1	34
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
E. Valdez RF	5	16	2	2	5	2	2	9	.125	.222	.500	.722	0	0	0	0	12
B. Cook RF	32	21	5	4	0	0	0	8	.190	.190	.190	.380	0	0	3	1	10
J. Garcia CF	12	35	2	7	2	0	1	10	.200	.243	.229	.472	1	0	0	0	9
T. Callihan LF	3	3	1	1	1	0	2	0	.333	.600	.667	1.267	1	0	0	0	6
Total	64	2213	328	563	313	74	254	591	.254	.337	.401	.738	91	6	62	10	1628

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	12	12	5-2	0	0	74.2	2.77	60	26	23	7	17	81	.221	1.03	208
P. Skenes SP	13	13	6-5	0	0	70.0	3.09	51	28	24	6	13	82	.198	0.91	191
M. Keller SP	13	13	5-3	0	0	73.0	4.81	67	39	39	5	23	55	.243	1.23	154
G. Soto RP	29	0	4-1	8	11	28.1	2.86	13	10	9	1	12	34	.134	0.88	145
C. Mlodzinski SP	12	9	4-3	1	1	59.0	3.66	62	25	24	4	20	49	.272	1.39	116
Y. Ramirez RP	27	0	3-2	1	3	34.2	4.93	30	22	19	4	18	39	.229	1.38	67
B. Chandler SP	12	12	2-6	0	0	57.0	5.05	49	37	32	8	38	55	.226	1.53	65
E. Sisk RP	22	0	0-0	0	1	26.1	1.37	19	4	4	1	10	33	.211	1.10	59
W. Dotel RP	7	0	1-0	0	0	16.2	1.08	7	2	2	1	5	17	.125	0.72	51
M. Montgomery RP	24	3	1-1	0	0	23.2	4.94	21	14	13	3	11	32	.231	1.35	44
D. Santana RP	28	0	2-3	2	4	25.2	5.26	26	17	15	3	14	21	.257	1.56	43
I. Mattson RP	21	0	0-0	0	2	19.2	4.12	19	9	9	0	10	15	.253	1.47	27
B. Bidois RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	3.97	8	6	5	4	7	13	.200	1.32	20
J. Jones SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	9.1	4.82	11	5	5	2	4	10	.289	1.61	20
C. Sanders RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	9.00	6	6	6	0	5	8	.261	1.83	4
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	64	64	34-30	13	25	577.2	4.05	505	294	260	58	230	586	.232	1.27	1215

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