Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 20, 2026 Gametracker

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M. WachaR	9-9 W-L	188.2 IP	3.34 ERA	3.04 SO/BB	1.10 WHIP
A. KellyR	0-0 W-L	14.1 IP	5.02 ERA	1.50 SO/BB	1.53 WHIP

9-9, 188.2 IP, 3.34 ERA

0-0, 14.1 IP, 5.02 ERA

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Connor Seabold	Lat	09-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 19
Tony Gonsolin	Elbow	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
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	03-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Apr 1
Beck Way	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Luinder Avila	Elbow	01-31-2028Expected to be out until at least Feb 1, 2028

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Kirby Yates	Shoulder	09-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 18
Mitch Keller	Arm	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Isaac Mattson	Hip	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Braxton Ashcraft	Arm	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Endy Rodriguez	Hip	04-30-2027Expected to be out until at least May 1
Esmerlyn Valdez	Hamstring	09-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 23

	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	134	521	84	144	54	18	66	104	.276	.359	.441	.800	30	1	42	8	461
C. Jensen C	142	498	74	117	75	24	64	159	.235	.322	.454	.776	33	2	2	1	365
J. Caglianone RF	136	484	66	134	70	23	30	139	.277	.328	.483	.811	27	2	6	2	347
S. Perez DH	143	550	48	125	72	19	23	112	.227	.272	.376	.648	23	1	1	0	309
V. Pasquantino 1B	105	388	45	92	49	12	50	71	.237	.325	.387	.712	18	2	5	0	271
M. Massey 2B	123	390	48	109	46	12	21	70	.279	.313	.438	.751	24	1	3	0	257
I. Collins LF	138	424	47	93	40	6	62	110	.219	.325	.333	.658	24	3	8	5	252
N. Loftin 3B	113	351	41	81	42	7	40	70	.231	.317	.373	.690	25	2	3	1	230
M. Garcia 3B	75	290	34	76	32	3	25	48	.262	.319	.376	.695	18	3	5	4	182
K. Isbel CF	92	274	30	60	24	6	15	67	.219	.265	.325	.590	9	1	6	0	139
T. Tolbert SS	75	122	31	36	8	3	12	28	.295	.360	.410	.770	5	0	21	4	126
J. Rave RF	45	117	23	26	13	6	15	30	.222	.311	.453	.764	7	1	7	1	102
J. Rojas 3B	41	100	11	24	13	2	5	16	.240	.283	.340	.623	4	0	1	0	58
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
L. Maile C	16	37	2	6	5	1	4	12	.162	.244	.270	.514	1	0	0	0	15
M. Lugo LF	9	14	0	2	0	0	1	6	.143	.200	.143	.343	0	0	0	0	0
Total	153	5124	643	1251	611	158	492	1198	.244	.314	.397	.711	273	19	123	32	3148

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	30	30	9-9	0	0	188.2	3.34	158	74	70	27	49	149	.226	1.10	434
N. Cameron SP	29	28	9-8	0	0	166.1	3.84	146	76	71	17	52	149	.233	1.19	355
S. Lugo SP	31	31	7-9	0	0	169.0	5.06	193	103	95	23	54	131	.292	1.46	269
D. Lynch IV RP	54	8	6-5	1	3	76.2	3.29	59	32	28	6	23	52	.208	1.07	167
S. Cruz RP	54	2	2-3	7	8	56.2	4.13	51	28	26	13	20	62	.241	1.25	149
R. Dobnak SP	13	11	3-4	0	0	69.1	2.73	65	21	21	6	23	47	.249	1.27	130
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	126
L. Erceg RP	48	0	4-4	12	18	44.1	6.09	53	35	30	5	29	32	.306	1.85	123
N. Pearson RP	22	0	1-1	3	4	23.0	1.57	15	4	4	0	8	22	.185	1.00	117
A. Lange RP	56	0	2-7	10	13	57.2	6.09	60	41	39	10	30	57	.269	1.56	115
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
L. Avila SP	21	12	5-4	0	0	70.0	5.53	71	43	43	7	42	61	.272	1.61	100
C. Kimbrel RP	13	0	1-3	1	1	12.1	3.65	11	7	5	0	6	8	.250	1.38	59
J. Rojas 3B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	58
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
M. Black RP	17	0	0-0	0	0	31.1	4.31	30	16	15	6	20	19	.252	1.60	36
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
J. Cuas RP	21	0	0-1	0	1	20.0	2.25	23	6	5	0	12	22	.291	1.75	26
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
A. Gose RP	9	0	1-1	0	0	8.1	0.00	6	2	0	0	1	2	.214	0.84	21
L. Maile C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	15
N. Hoffman RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	5.2	4.76	6	3	3	0	1	4	.286	1.24	12
C. Thomas RP	12	0	1-0	0	0	12.0	3.00	12	4	4	0	2	9	.261	1.17	7
E. McGee RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	8.68	16	9	9	3	4	8	.381	2.14	7
C. Duran RP	2	0	1-0	0	0	1.1	13.50	2	2	2	0	3	1	.333	3.75	4
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	153	153	67-86	36	60	1346.1	4.63	1326	740	692	190	541	1107	.258	1.39	2562

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	153	569	101	149	71	17	84	155	.262	.366	.424	.790	37	2	9	0	448
B. Lowe 2B	142	552	89	144	89	31	59	180	.261	.332	.486	.818	29	1	2	0	422
N. Gonzales 3B	141	526	68	160	60	6	41	95	.304	.367	.392	.759	26	1	7	3	350
O. Cruz CF	90	345	58	94	66	19	45	134	.272	.361	.478	.839	12	1	27	7	317
R. O'Hearn 1B	101	376	55	101	72	18	32	89	.269	.332	.452	.784	15	0	1	0	291
J. Mangum CF	126	413	55	116	30	4	24	86	.281	.337	.366	.703	19	2	23	9	266
S. Horwitz 1B	107	364	41	89	44	10	50	67	.245	.344	.365	.709	12	1	1	0	243
K. Griffin SS	71	275	41	72	29	5	19	77	.262	.317	.385	.702	13	3	22	2	202
E. Valdez RF	72	241	40	56	47	17	42	108	.232	.345	.510	.855	14	1	0	1	198
J. Triolo SS	116	315	33	76	29	3	28	69	.241	.312	.308	.620	12	0	13	1	182
H. Davis C	93	246	32	41	37	10	27	59	.167	.269	.309	.578	5	0	3	1	155
J. Gonzalez SS	48	116	9	24	13	4	3	20	.207	.238	.353	.591	5	0	2	1	119
E. Rodriguez C	45	135	20	36	20	7	23	41	.267	.373	.467	.840	6	0	6	1	116
R. Flores C	41	127	15	34	20	9	12	40	.268	.331	.512	.843	4	0	0	0	92
T. Callihan RF	40	95	13	20	15	3	9	38	.211	.283	.389	.672	4	2	1	0	58
N. Yorke 3B	40	104	7	22	12	1	9	26	.212	.284	.279	.563	4	0	1	0	48
B. Cook CF	81	51	12	9	2	0	1	20	.176	.208	.235	.443	1	1	6	1	29
R. Simon RF	13	40	7	13	2	0	3	5	.325	.372	.375	.747	2	0	2	0	28
J. Garcia CF	20	48	2	8	2	0	1	16	.167	.200	.188	.388	1	0	0	0	7
J. Brannigan 3B	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	153	5257	730	1331	697	175	541	1429	.253	.330	.402	.732	229	15	126	27	3571

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	28	28	14-6	0	0	165.1	3.65	145	73	67	22	35	173	.235	1.09	435
P. Skenes SP	30	30	10-11	0	0	162.0	3.78	137	76	68	17	46	185	.229	1.13	367
M. Montgomery RP	65	5	6-3	14	16	64.0	2.67	41	20	19	5	25	97	.177	1.03	279
B. Chandler SP	29	28	8-9	0	0	147.1	4.28	124	80	70	14	75	132	.226	1.35	259
G. Soto RP	65	0	6-5	14	20	63.1	3.84	46	31	27	5	28	74	.198	1.17	234
C. Mlodzinski RP	35	12	7-7	2	4	117.2	3.90	121	59	51	9	41	91	.260	1.38	213
J. Jones SP	19	19	4-6	0	0	90.2	4.17	77	43	42	12	31	109	.224	1.19	187
Y. Ramirez RP	62	1	6-4	2	4	79.2	3.05	55	32	27	4	43	94	.192	1.23	185
M. Keller SP	22	22	6-8	0	0	115.2	5.29	117	73	68	15	42	89	.259	1.37	185
L. Bachar SP	11	6	0-2	0	0	22.2	2.78	14	7	7	4	14	23	.179	1.24	158
L. Weaver RP	14	0	0-0	0	2	13.0	6.23	16	9	9	2	4	14	.308	1.54	139
C. Doval RP	19	0	0-1	0	0	18.0	3.00	15	7	6	1	14	21	.238	1.61	107
R. Flores C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	.400	2.00	92
K. Yates RP	13	0	2-0	0	0	12.1	2.19	11	3	3	1	5	11	.239	1.30	85
B. Eisert RP	11	0	1-1	0	0	13.1	4.05	12	6	6	0	4	15	.245	1.20	81
E. Sisk RP	39	0	1-0	0	2	42.2	3.16	33	15	15	2	23	48	.220	1.31	79
T. Callihan RF	4	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	3	0	0	0	3	1	.250	2.00	58
I. Mattson RP	38	0	0-0	0	2	38.2	5.35	44	23	23	3	18	36	.282	1.60	48
W. Dotel RP	20	2	1-5	0	1	37.1	4.82	37	22	20	2	15	38	.261	1.39	41
K. Curtis RP	5	0	2-0	0	0	17.1	4.67	10	9	9	1	11	10	.172	1.21	40
A. Kelly RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	14.1	5.02	16	8	8	2	6	9	.286	1.53	17
N. Murdock RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	0.00	3	0	0	0	3	4	.273	1.80	6
H. Barco RP	7	0	0-1	0	1	17.2	7.64	21	17	15	4	13	14	.296	1.92	4
Total	153	153	76-77	35	58	1365.1	4.19	1222	706	635	146	558	1398	.237	1.30	3299

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