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

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C. SaleL	14-9 W-L	157.0 IP	2.18 ERA	6.13 SO/BB	0.99 WHIP
P. LambertR	8-9 W-L	145.2 IP	3.71 ERA	2.52 SO/BB	1.22 WHIP

14-9, 157.0 IP, 2.18 ERA

8-9, 145.2 IP, 3.71 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	10-10-2026Expected to be out until at least Oct 11
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
Yordan Alvarez	Ankle	09-12-2026Probable for Sep 13
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	09-12-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 13

	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	149	576	95	142	82	38	62	162	.247	.321	.502	.823	33	0	4	0	458
M. Harris II CF	143	542	69	156	83	25	21	112	.288	.315	.489	.804	32	1	11	3	403
O. Albies 2B	149	567	81	140	69	21	44	92	.247	.302	.409	.711	27	1	3	4	389
D. Baldwin C	126	499	78	138	74	23	51	121	.277	.352	.451	.803	18	0	3	1	380
M. Dubon LF	141	526	61	139	69	11	31	67	.264	.309	.382	.691	25	2	7	3	343
R. Acuna Jr. RF	96	364	55	93	47	17	49	94	.255	.349	.448	.797	17	1	20	8	304
A. Riley 3B	147	523	60	117	68	17	44	184	.224	.296	.369	.665	21	2	9	2	300
L. Thomas LF	21	41	6	7	3	1	5	15	.171	.261	.317	.578	3	0	2	0	216
M. Yastrzemski LF	126	324	46	75	34	9	37	88	.231	.316	.377	.693	18	1	1	0	201
D. Smith DH	105	263	39	67	44	8	22	46	.255	.312	.376	.688	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	24	81	9	17	8	3	7	29	.210	.273	.370	.643	4	0	0	0	39
H. Kim SS	43	107	8	14	9	0	11	31	.131	.218	.140	.358	1	0	2	0	32
B. Hicklen RF	15	24	8	8	3	0	6	10	.333	.467	.500	.967	4	0	0	0	24
J. Azocar RF	11	17	2	6	0	0	1	4	.353	.389	.471	.860	2	0	1	0	11
K. Farmer 3B	13	16	2	4	3	0	0	4	.250	.235	.313	.548	1	0	0	0	8
D. Keirsey CF	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	0	0	0	0	3
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	149	5027	689	1241	659	187	427	1202	.247	.310	.410	.720	238	11	77	23	3340

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
C. Sale SP	26	26	14-9	0	0	157.0	2.18	125	43	38	9	31	190	.216	0.99	468
R. Iglesias RP	54	0	1-2	32	35	55.0	2.78	47	21	17	6	17	57	.229	1.16	332
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
T. Mahle SP	7	7	3-1	0	0	43.1	1.25	34	8	6	4	6	38	.215	0.92	261
M. Perez SP	28	24	8-9	0	0	131.2	3.08	108	49	45	13	56	98	.224	1.25	258
D. Fuentes RP	54	1	7-2	3	9	67.1	2.27	53	18	17	5	20	86	.215	1.08	213
D. Lee RP	67	0	6-0	0	2	63.1	2.56	41	20	18	3	16	75	.183	0.90	194
B. Suter RP	9	0	1-0	0	0	21.0	1.71	21	6	4	1	8	17	.263	1.38	154
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
V. Mederos RP	25	0	4-1	1	1	30.1	2.97	23	10	10	1	11	29	.205	1.12	88
S. Strider SP	8	8	4-2	0	0	39.0	5.31	33	24	23	9	20	46	.232	1.36	87
E. Hernandez RP	4	0	2-0	1	1	11.0	2.45	10	3	3	3	6	11	.233	1.45	39
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
B. Falter RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0.00	-16
Total	149	149	88-61	46	65	1324.0	3.56	1145	568	523	165	496	1253	.232	1.24	3251

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	145	522	95	162	96	38	100	113	.310	.427	.590	1.017	30	1	1	0	554
I. Paredes 3B	142	516	61	134	83	20	63	82	.260	.358	.430	.788	26	1	0	0	407
C. Walker 1B	144	529	66	119	80	25	46	134	.225	.298	.418	.716	25	1	0	0	356
C. Smith RF	145	469	62	102	54	20	39	132	.217	.283	.405	.688	16	6	10	2	303
J. Altuve 2B	122	470	66	116	44	15	40	104	.247	.308	.400	.708	23	2	5	3	296
J. Pena SS	99	394	70	106	47	17	24	100	.269	.322	.449	.771	18	1	9	2	292
D. Varsho CF	33	123	11	23	13	4	10	28	.187	.248	.333	.581	4	1	3	0	269
Y. Diaz C	85	294	33	82	37	11	11	49	.279	.307	.435	.742	13	0	0	2	184
T. Trammell CF	90	232	27	48	21	7	24	79	.207	.292	.358	.650	10	2	4	3	124
C. Vazquez C	84	236	22	49	25	7	18	52	.208	.263	.326	.589	7	0	1	0	118
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
J. Barrosa LF	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	86
N. Allen 2B	85	134	22	37	13	2	9	30	.276	.320	.358	.678	5	0	2	0	82
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	149	5008	665	1205	634	194	485	1226	.241	.314	.408	.722	221	18	45	20	3657

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
J. Hader RP	42	0	4-1	25	25	41.1	0.87	16	4	4	1	11	54	.114	0.65	318
P. Lambert SP	26	26	8-9	0	0	145.2	3.71	122	62	60	14	56	141	.225	1.22	298
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	58	0	5-2	1	2	90.0	3.30	72	35	33	12	38	90	.221	1.22	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	61	0	6-4	8	9	58.1	3.86	40	27	25	8	40	76	.196	1.37	181
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	55	1	2-5	6	11	55.2	5.01	62	35	31	8	20	44	.278	1.47	101
C. Javier SP	15	10	2-5	0	0	55.2	5.50	58	34	34	9	23	55	.267	1.46	72
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
E. Pecko SP	5	4	1-0	0	0	23.0	4.30	17	12	11	5	12	15	.207	1.26	41
A. Santa RP	10	0	0-1	0	0	15.1	1.17	8	6	2	1	6	9	.160	0.91	29
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
B. Sousa RP	29	1	1-3	0	1	25.0	5.40	27	17	15	3	16	26	.278	1.72	22
L. VanWey RP	5	0	1-0	0	0	6.0	1.50	5	2	1	0	0	5	.250	0.83	21
M. Ullola RP	6	1	0-0	0	0	8.0	3.38	5	3	3	2	1	10	.172	0.75	20
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
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	149	149	75-74	47	58	1321.2	4.51	1175	708	662	188	602	1300	.238	1.34	2558

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