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	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
James McArthur	Elbow	05-23-2026Expected to be out until at least May 24
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
Bailey Falter	Elbow	05-13-2026Expected to be out until at least May 14

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Josh Hader	Biceps	05-23-2026Expected to be out until at least May 24
Taylor Trammell	Groin	05-17-2026Expected to be out until at least May 18
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	05-14-2026Expected to be out until at least May 15
Jake Meyers	Oblique	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
Nate Pearson	Elbow	05-17-2026Expected to be out until at least May 18
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Jeremy Pena	Hamstring	05-15-2026Expected to be out until at least May 16
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 5
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Joey Loperfido	Quadriceps	05-17-2026Expected to be out until at least May 18

	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	43	170	22	52	22	7	21	33	.306	.378	.506	.884	11	1	12	2	156
M. Garcia 3B	41	159	22	44	17	3	19	28	.277	.350	.421	.771	12	1	4	3	116
V. Pasquantino 1B	41	153	16	32	21	5	18	34	.209	.290	.359	.649	4	2	1	0	96
C. Jensen C	40	124	18	29	18	6	17	45	.234	.326	.411	.737	4	0	0	0	82
S. Perez C	41	161	15	31	18	6	6	38	.193	.233	.335	.568	5	0	0	0	77
I. Collins LF	37	115	16	27	13	3	17	38	.235	.346	.357	.703	5	0	2	3	72
K. Isbel CF	35	101	13	27	10	3	6	25	.267	.327	.396	.723	4	0	5	0	69
J. Caglianone 1B	39	127	17	30	8	4	11	42	.236	.307	.402	.709	7	1	0	1	67
M. Massey 2B	29	76	10	17	12	3	3	18	.224	.247	.434	.681	7	0	1	0	51
N. Loftin 1B	18	45	9	12	13	0	8	5	.267	.375	.400	.775	6	0	0	0	46
L. Thomas RF	34	75	8	15	7	1	17	19	.200	.351	.253	.604	1	0	3	2	46
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	16	39	2	12	2	0	2	12	.308	.349	.385	.734	3	0	0	1	15
E. Diaz C	8	19	2	4	3	1	1	4	.211	.250	.474	.724	2	0	0	0	13
T. Tolbert SS	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	1	1	2
Total	43	1417	179	341	172	44	154	355	.241	.319	.392	.711	72	5	29	13	942

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	8	8	4-2	0	0	51.1	2.63	34	15	15	5	17	42	.188	0.99	143
K. Bubic SP	8	8	3-1	0	0	46.1	3.50	31	18	18	3	23	47	.190	1.17	117
L. Erceg RP	17	0	3-1	10	12	16.1	3.31	11	7	6	0	12	14	.200	1.41	113
S. Lugo SP	9	9	1-3	0	0	52.2	3.76	56	23	22	1	19	46	.281	1.42	91
D. Lynch SP	17	0	1-0	1	2	17.1	2.08	8	7	4	1	5	23	.131	0.75	58
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
N. Cameron P	7	7	2-2	0	0	35.2	5.55	44	25	22	5	14	32	.293	1.63	50
N. Mears RP	17	0	2-2	0	2	14.2	3.07	11	5	5	1	7	11	.216	1.23	30
M. Strahm RP	16	0	1-1	0	1	15.2	4.02	13	7	7	3	6	16	.217	1.21	30
S. Kolek RP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	6.75	9	8	8	3	3	9	.214	1.13	26
E. Morgan RP	7	0	0-1	1	1	10.1	2.61	8	3	3	2	6	9	.205	1.35	20
J. Schreiber RP	18	0	0-2	1	1	17.0	3.71	16	7	7	3	10	7	.262	1.53	17
A. Lange RP	17	0	0-2	0	0	19.2	5.49	15	13	12	2	13	21	.214	1.42	17
S. Cruz RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	8.0	9.00	8	8	8	4	6	13	.242	1.75	8
M. Black P	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	0.00	7	0	0	0	2	5	.350	1.93	7
T. Tolbert SS	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	1.50	2
L. Avila SP	7	1	0-2	0	0	13.1	6.08	19	9	9	1	7	14	.345	1.95	2
E. Cerantola P	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	9.00	2	3	3	1	4	5	.200	2.00	2
M. Spence SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Falter SP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	13.50	8	5	5	1	2	4	.444	3.00	-3
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
Total	43	43	19-24	13	20	380.1	4.38	336	195	185	48	186	366	.237	1.37	768

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	44	162	27	50	29	13	27	31	.309	.418	.611	1.029	10	0	1	0	172
C. Walker 1B	44	160	25	44	29	10	16	34	.275	.346	.525	.871	10	0	0	0	139
J. Altuve 2B	40	155	26	39	11	3	19	33	.252	.335	.374	.709	10	0	1	2	98
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
I. Paredes 3B	39	142	16	37	17	3	14	26	.261	.348	.373	.721	7	0	0	0	92
C. Smith 3B	43	144	18	30	17	4	18	48	.208	.301	.333	.634	6	0	6	1	90
B. Matthews SS	35	98	12	20	13	4	8	36	.204	.262	.388	.650	4	1	2	0	57
C. Vazquez C	25	76	7	20	12	3	6	15	.263	.317	.434	.751	4	0	0	0	50
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
D. Harris 1B	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
B. Shewmake SS	13	33	6	12	4	3	0	6	.364	.364	.636	1.000	0	0	0	0	28
J. Meyers CF	12	37	5	9	4	1	4	8	.243	.326	.378	.704	2	0	1	2	24
T. Trammell LF	10	29	4	10	4	0	4	9	.345	.424	.448	.872	1	1	1	0	22
J. Pena SS	10	43	5	11	0	0	3	6	.256	.304	.349	.653	4	0	1	0	22
Z. Cole OF	8	23	2	7	6	2	0	9	.304	.333	.609	.942	1	0	0	0	18
N. Allen SS	18	32	6	7	0	0	2	6	.219	.265	.250	.515	1	0	0	0	13
Z. Dezenzo SS	7	16	2	3	2	1	1	5	.188	.235	.500	.735	2	0	0	0	10
S. Whitcomb SS	13	16	1	2	4	1	1	9	.125	.176	.313	.489	0	0	0	0	6
D. Johnson CF	8	14	1	2	0	0	2	3	.143	.294	.143	.437	0	0	0	0	4
C. Salazar C	2	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.334	0	0	0	0	1
Total	44	1498	203	385	193	53	154	351	.257	.332	.421	.753	80	3	17	7	1060

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti P	5	5	4-1	0	0	28.2	1.88	21	8	6	1	17	30	.206	1.33	82
P. Lambert RP	5	5	2-3	0	0	29.1	2.76	21	9	9	1	12	29	.198	1.13	66
M. Burrows SP	8	8	2-4	0	0	44.2	5.04	52	25	25	8	14	42	.292	1.48	62
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
E. De Los Santos RP	16	0	0-1	3	3	17.1	4.15	15	8	8	1	4	16	.224	1.10	49
K. Teng SP	15	2	1-3	0	0	26.0	3.12	20	9	9	3	8	23	.211	1.08	43
B. King P	15	0	0-1	3	5	17.2	3.57	18	9	7	0	8	15	.261	1.47	40
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
A. Blubaugh P	17	0	2-2	0	0	26.0	5.19	22	15	15	4	17	22	.234	1.50	38
S. Okert RP	21	1	0-0	0	0	19.0	3.79	15	8	8	2	7	14	.221	1.16	34
B. Abreu RP	15	0	2-2	1	1	13.2	8.56	13	14	13	4	17	21	.255	2.20	18
C. Bolton RP	6	3	0-1	1	1	13.2	5.27	14	8	8	2	12	18	.269	1.90	17
J. Murray SP	6	0	0-0	0	0	10.0	5.40	12	6	6	0	5	5	.308	1.70	9
L. VanWey RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	3	.143	0.50	6
T. Imai SP	4	4	1-1	0	0	12.2	9.24	12	13	13	2	14	16	.250	2.05	6
J. France SP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
R. Weiss SP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	1
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	1
C. Gordon P	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
J. Alexander SP	2	0	0-0	0	0	6.1	14.21	11	10	10	2	5	6	.379	2.53	-4
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	44	44	17-27	8	10	385.1	5.54	386	246	237	59	223	385	.262	1.58	543

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