Atlanta Braves vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 18, 2026 Gametracker

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C. SaleL	14-9 W-L	150.0 IP	2.10 ERA	6.34 SO/BB	1.01 WHIP
P. LambertR	8-8 W-L	139.2 IP	3.67 ERA	2.45 SO/BB	1.23 WHIP

14-9, 150.0 IP, 2.10 ERA

8-8, 139.2 IP, 3.67 ERA

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Joe Jimenez	Knee	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Joey Wentz	Knee	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lane Thomas	Side	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Spencer Strider	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Bryce Elder	Knee	10-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Oct 2
Robert Suarez	Elbow	09-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 18
Spencer Schwellenbach	Elbow	03-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Apr 1

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	09-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 24
Steven Okert	Hamstring	09-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 16
Michael Burrows	Elbow	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brice Matthews	Knee	09-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 12

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Braves ATL-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
M. Olson 1B	146	564	94	140	81	37	61	161	.248	.323	.504	.827	33	0	4	0	450
M. Harris II CF	140	529	67	152	80	24	21	111	.287	.315	.488	.803	32	1	10	3	389
O. Albies 2B	146	558	77	138	68	21	43	90	.247	.303	.407	.710	26	0	3	4	379
D. Baldwin C	123	485	77	134	71	23	51	117	.276	.353	.452	.805	16	0	3	1	371
M. Dubon LF	138	516	60	137	66	11	31	66	.266	.309	.386	.695	25	2	7	3	336
R. Acuna Jr. RF	93	352	53	89	45	16	48	93	.253	.348	.440	.788	16	1	20	8	291
A. Riley 3B	144	513	57	114	66	16	42	181	.222	.293	.365	.658	21	2	9	2	288
L. Thomas LF	21	41	6	7	3	1	5	15	.171	.261	.317	.578	3	0	2	0	216
M. Yastrzemski LF	124	320	45	71	34	9	36	88	.222	.307	.366	.673	17	1	1	0	194
D. Smith DH	102	260	39	67	44	8	22	45	.258	.315	.381	.696	6	1	0	0	183
J. Jarvis SS	38	111	10	23	11	1	8	23	.207	.267	.297	.564	5	1	0	1	50
S. Murphy C	22	74	8	15	8	3	6	27	.203	.263	.365	.628	3	0	0	0	35
H. Kim SS	40	100	6	11	6	0	10	30	.110	.198	.120	.318	1	0	2	0	24
B. Hicklen RF	12	22	7	8	3	0	6	10	.364	.500	.545	1.045	4	0	0	0	23
J. Azocar RF	11	17	2	6	0	0	1	4	.353	.389	.471	.860	2	0	1	0	11
K. Farmer 3B	12	15	2	4	3	0	0	4	.267	.250	.333	.583	1	0	0	0	8
L. Williams 2B	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	1.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	1
S. Leon C	21	44	0	4	0	0	0	18	.091	.091	.091	.182	0	0	0	0	-5
Total	146	4922	668	1210	641	183	419	1185	.246	.309	.409	.718	232	10	76	23	3244

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
C. Sale SP	25	25	14-9	0	0	150.0	2.10	122	40	35	9	29	184	.219	1.01	450
R. Iglesias RP	52	0	1-2	31	34	53.0	2.72	45	19	16	5	16	55	.228	1.15	322
B. Elder SP	26	26	8-8	0	0	149.0	4.11	140	74	68	24	49	121	.244	1.27	308
G. Holmes SP	28	27	9-5	0	0	137.2	3.46	120	55	53	19	57	110	.233	1.29	300
M. Perez SP	27	23	8-9	0	0	124.2	3.25	104	49	45	13	54	94	.227	1.27	238
T. Mahle SP	6	6	2-1	0	0	36.1	1.24	28	7	5	3	6	35	.211	0.94	236
D. Fuentes RP	52	1	5-2	3	9	65.1	2.34	51	17	17	5	19	84	.214	1.07	195
D. Lee RP	66	0	6-0	0	2	62.0	2.61	40	20	18	3	15	75	.182	0.89	192
B. Suter RP	9	0	1-0	0	0	21.0	1.71	21	6	4	1	8	17	.263	1.38	150
R. Suarez RP	31	0	4-0	4	5	32.0	0.56	21	2	2	1	6	26	.184	0.84	136
D. Dodd RP	44	0	4-1	1	1	45.1	2.38	28	12	12	6	14	47	.175	0.93	133
R. Lopez RP	25	12	4-4	0	0	76.1	4.13	74	39	35	11	32	71	.253	1.39	133
J. Ritchie SP	14	8	1-2	1	1	58.0	4.50	47	32	29	9	36	53	.221	1.43	90
S. Strider SP	8	8	4-2	0	0	39.0	5.31	33	24	23	9	20	46	.232	1.36	87
V. Mederos RP	24	0	4-1	1	1	29.2	3.03	23	10	10	1	11	28	.209	1.15	86
R. Kerr RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	1.59	5	2	2	1	1	6	.135	0.53	27
J. Karinchak RP	9	0	0-0	0	0	9.2	1.86	4	2	2	1	5	8	.129	0.93	22
C. Carrasco RP	8	0	0-0	0	2	16.2	5.94	21	11	11	3	3	7	.318	1.44	16
O. Murphy RP	3	1	0-1	0	0	6.2	4.05	6	5	3	1	2	6	.231	1.20	6
A. Smith-Shawver SP	5	5	0-2	0	0	21.0	7.71	25	18	18	4	13	18	.284	1.81	5
I. Hamilton RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	7.71	6	4	4	0	3	4	.300	1.93	3
B. Burkhalter RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	0	1	1	.333	2.00	0
R. Munoz RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	13.50	5	3	3	1	1	3	.455	3.00	-1
J. Payamps RP	12	0	0-2	0	1	7.2	8.22	9	9	7	2	4	9	.281	1.70	-2
H. Waldrep SP	3	2	0-1	0	0	10.2	8.44	13	10	10	3	10	9	.295	2.16	-3
Total	146	146	85-61	45	64	1295.0	3.59	1126	560	517	162	489	1234	.233	1.25	3129

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	144	519	95	162	96	38	99	110	.312	.428	.593	1.021	30	1	1	0	555
I. Paredes 3B	139	504	59	131	82	19	63	78	.260	.360	.427	.787	25	1	0	0	399
C. Walker 1B	141	517	65	118	80	25	46	133	.228	.303	.426	.729	25	1	0	0	354
C. Smith RF	142	458	61	99	53	19	38	128	.216	.281	.402	.683	16	6	10	2	296
J. Pena SS	96	383	70	104	47	17	23	94	.272	.325	.457	.782	18	1	9	1	293
J. Altuve 2B	119	459	65	112	44	15	39	103	.244	.306	.397	.703	21	2	4	3	286
D. Varsho CF	31	115	10	22	13	4	10	27	.191	.256	.348	.604	4	1	3	0	271
Y. Diaz C	82	285	33	77	35	11	10	47	.270	.298	.432	.730	13	0	0	2	177
C. Vazquez C	82	231	22	49	25	7	18	49	.212	.268	.333	.601	7	0	1	0	119
T. Trammell CF	87	223	27	46	20	7	22	78	.206	.289	.359	.648	9	2	4	3	119
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	83	131	22	36	13	2	9	30	.275	.319	.359	.678	5	0	2	0	81
L. Wade Jr. LF	47	110	15	23	18	3	18	33	.209	.320	.336	.656	5	0	0	0	71
J. Meyers CF	57	141	15	30	11	3	10	31	.213	.268	.326	.594	7	0	1	2	67
J. Loperfido LF	39	102	13	22	12	1	14	31	.216	.314	.333	.647	7	1	1	1	59
N. Velazquez LF	11	20	1	2	5	1	1	10	.100	.136	.250	.386	0	0	0	0	56
B. Shewmake 3B	30	78	10	20	9	3	2	13	.256	.272	.423	.695	4	0	0	0	54
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	19	37	4	9	4	1	3	7	.243	.300	.351	.651	1	0	0	0	20
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	146	4910	660	1183	629	192	478	1196	.241	.315	.410	.725	217	18	44	19	3536

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
J. Hader RP	41	0	4-1	24	24	40.1	0.89	16	4	4	1	11	53	.117	0.67	307
P. Lambert SP	25	25	8-8	0	0	139.2	3.67	116	59	57	14	56	137	.223	1.23	289
H. Brown SP	17	17	5-3	0	0	92.0	3.52	74	39	36	11	46	100	.221	1.30	207
A. Blubaugh RP	57	0	5-2	1	2	89.0	3.34	71	35	33	12	36	90	.220	1.20	201
S. Okert RP	68	1	6-2	0	1	67.2	2.13	45	17	16	7	14	68	.190	0.87	190
B. Abreu RP	59	0	5-3	8	9	57.0	3.63	38	25	23	7	40	72	.192	1.37	177
E. De Los Santos RP	63	0	3-3	5	7	67.1	4.28	61	36	32	8	18	62	.238	1.17	162
T. Imai SP	20	15	6-4	0	0	72.2	5.20	58	42	42	9	50	91	.216	1.49	146
H. Wesneski SP	8	8	5-1	0	0	45.2	3.35	33	17	17	3	14	36	.204	1.03	131
K. Teng RP	30	10	5-7	0	0	73.2	4.76	69	43	39	10	33	73	.245	1.38	109
M. Burrows SP	18	17	4-9	0	0	94.2	5.99	112	69	63	21	35	75	.292	1.55	102
B. King RP	53	1	2-5	6	11	54.0	5.17	61	35	31	8	19	44	.281	1.48	98
L. Wade Jr. LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	3	2	2	1	0	0	.500	3.00	71
J. Meyers CF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	67
C. Javier SP	14	9	2-5	0	0	49.2	5.98	55	33	33	9	22	50	.278	1.55	54
A. Santa RP	10	0	0-1	0	0	15.1	1.17	8	6	2	1	6	9	.160	0.91	29
E. Pecko SP	4	4	1-0	0	0	17.1	5.19	16	11	10	4	10	11	.242	1.50	27
R. Blanco SP	6	5	0-1	0	0	27.1	6.59	25	20	20	7	15	23	.248	1.46	27
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
L. VanWey RP	5	0	1-0	0	0	6.0	1.50	5	2	1	0	0	5	.250	0.83	21
B. Sousa RP	27	1	1-3	0	1	23.1	5.79	27	17	15	3	15	26	.290	1.80	18
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
M. Ullola RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	7.0	3.86	5	3	3	2	1	10	.192	0.86	17
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	146	146	74-72	46	57	1296.1	4.55	1161	701	655	186	595	1282	.239	1.35	2492

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