Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 21, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Justin Verlander	Hip	06-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 5
Kenley Jansen	Pelvis	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
Javier Baez	Ankle	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Burch Smith	Shoulder	06-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 6
Gleyber Torres	Oblique	06-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 5
Parker Meadows	Arm	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
Casey Mize	Groin	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
Tarik Skubal	Elbow	06-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 17
Jackson Jobe	Elbow	08-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 15
Trey Sweeney	Shoulder	06-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 10
Ty Madden	Forearm	05-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Brant Hurter	Back	07-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 23
Bailey Horn	Elbow	06-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 8

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 9
Maikel Garcia	Hamstring	05-31-2026Probable for Jun 1
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 18
James McArthur	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
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

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Tigers DET-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
K. McGonigle SS	58	217	36	62	21	3	35	35	.286	.390	.410	.800	12	3	9	0	183
R. Greene LF	60	216	30	65	25	4	30	70	.301	.391	.426	.817	15	0	1	1	145
D. Dingler C	53	190	23	43	34	11	20	46	.226	.313	.458	.771	11	0	0	0	145
S. Torkelson 1B	59	196	18	42	22	8	27	73	.214	.317	.403	.720	13	0	0	1	111
M. Vierling CF	50	152	14	32	21	4	16	30	.211	.281	.349	.630	9	0	2	2	91
G. Torres 2B	32	116	18	30	11	2	25	22	.259	.389	.328	.717	2	0	0	0	82
C. Keith 3B	55	161	21	45	7	0	10	35	.280	.324	.342	.666	8	1	1	0	78
W. Perez RF	44	138	17	23	11	5	11	22	.167	.228	.304	.532	4	0	3	1	75
K. Carpenter RF	38	104	11	23	17	6	11	41	.221	.303	.452	.755	2	2	0	0	67
J. Baez SS	24	78	10	20	6	2	2	16	.256	.280	.397	.677	5	0	1	1	43
Z. McKinstry 2B	38	108	2	17	9	1	13	23	.157	.244	.213	.457	3	0	1	2	35
H. Lee 2B	31	78	4	15	8	1	4	24	.192	.232	.295	.527	3	1	0	0	27
J. Jones DH	41	71	6	11	7	2	7	24	.155	.231	.268	.499	2	0	0	2	25
P. Meadows CF	12	36	3	9	2	0	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.641	1	1	3	0	21
J. Rogers C	20	51	4	7	4	0	5	19	.137	.220	.216	.436	2	1	1	0	17
G. Workman 3B	16	38	3	6	5	2	0	16	.158	.158	.395	.553	3	0	0	0	15
Z. Short SS	15	25	2	3	1	0	7	8	.120	.324	.160	.484	1	0	0	0	11
J. Jung DH	3	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542	0	0	0	0	3
Total	60	1981	223	454	211	51	227	515	.229	.312	.364	.676	96	9	22	10	1174

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	11	11	2-3	0	0	61.0	3.69	46	26	25	7	15	43	.206	1.00	128
T. Skubal SP	7	7	3-2	0	0	43.1	2.70	35	14	13	2	6	45	.222	0.95	123
C. Mize SP	9	9	2-3	0	0	47.2	2.27	34	12	12	2	12	49	.200	0.97	122
F. Valdez SP	12	12	2-4	0	0	67.2	4.39	64	37	33	7	25	54	.243	1.32	118
D. Anderson RP	20	1	2-3	2	4	38.0	4.03	32	19	17	5	16	46	.225	1.26	84
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
K. Jansen RP	18	0	1-3	7	11	15.0	4.80	9	8	8	4	9	19	.170	1.20	69
K. Finnegan RP	26	0	1-0	1	5	26.2	2.03	23	6	6	2	19	15	.247	1.58	53
E. De Jesus RP	16	0	2-0	0	0	21.1	5.91	25	17	14	1	11	21	.284	1.69	38
T. Melton SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	12.2	1.42	8	2	2	0	4	4	.178	0.95	36
J. Flaherty SP	12	12	0-7	0	0	52.2	5.81	55	42	34	8	30	64	.264	1.61	34
T. Madden P	3	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	2.38	7	3	3	1	2	12	.171	0.79	28
B. Hanifee RP	11	2	0-0	0	0	12.1	1.46	12	2	2	1	2	6	.261	1.14	24
B. Smith RP	13	1	0-2	0	0	17.0	3.18	18	8	6	2	7	20	.277	1.47	20
T. Holton RP	25	2	0-4	0	1	26.0	4.50	29	15	13	4	8	23	.287	1.42	18
J. Rogers C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.50	17
W. Vest RP	18	0	1-4	0	3	17.0	7.41	18	16	14	2	7	18	.269	1.47	8
D. Sommers RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.1	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0.00	1
B. Brieske RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	20.25	3	3	3	2	0	3	.429	2.25	0
J. Verlander SP	1	1	0-1	0	0	3.2	12.27	6	5	5	1	2	1	.353	2.18	-6
R. Vanasco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	6.1	15.63	14	12	11	2	6	4	.412	3.16	-15
Total	60	60	22-38	10	25	523.2	4.04	472	262	235	56	198	481	.239	1.28	972

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	59	234	28	67	26	9	24	46	.286	.350	.474	.824	15	1	17	3	197
M. Garcia 3B	56	224	28	60	21	3	20	35	.268	.325	.384	.709	15	1	4	3	142
V. Pasquantino 1B	56	207	21	43	25	5	27	45	.208	.297	.333	.630	7	2	2	0	124
S. Perez C	57	218	21	45	25	9	11	47	.206	.257	.358	.615	6	0	0	0	116
C. Jensen C	54	171	22	39	26	7	20	56	.228	.308	.398	.706	8	0	0	0	109
I. Collins LF	51	157	21	34	16	3	25	50	.217	.335	.318	.653	7	0	3	3	94
J. Caglianone RF	54	178	18	42	11	5	15	60	.236	.303	.382	.685	9	1	1	1	85
K. Isbel CF	49	143	15	36	11	3	8	36	.252	.303	.378	.681	7	1	5	0	83
M. Massey 2B	43	111	13	26	15	4	5	23	.234	.261	.423	.684	9	0	1	0	70
L. Thomas CF	45	101	8	21	10	1	21	27	.208	.344	.267	.611	3	0	3	3	56
N. Loftin 2B	27	67	10	14	13	0	9	10	.209	.321	.313	.634	7	0	0	0	51
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	25	57	3	15	2	0	4	18	.263	.328	.316	.644	3	0	0	1	19
E. Diaz C	10	22	3	5	5	2	1	5	.227	.261	.591	.852	2	0	0	0	19
T. Tolbert SS	12	7	2	1	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	0	0	3	1	7
Total	59	1945	221	456	214	53	198	473	.234	.309	.373	.682	99	6	39	15	1206

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	12	12	4-3	0	0	75.1	3.23	58	28	27	8	26	65	.214	1.12	184
S. Lugo SP	12	12	2-4	0	0	71.0	3.55	73	31	28	4	23	60	.269	1.35	136
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
L. Erceg RP	23	0	3-3	11	16	21.1	6.33	28	17	15	1	13	18	.329	1.92	100
S. Kolek SP	5	5	3-1	0	0	31.0	3.48	23	14	12	4	6	19	.202	0.94	85
N. Cameron SP	10	10	2-4	0	0	52.2	4.61	57	30	27	5	17	48	.271	1.41	84
D. Lynch RP	23	0	1-0	1	2	23.1	1.93	15	8	5	1	8	27	.174	0.99	67
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
J. Schreiber RP	24	0	0-2	1	1	22.0	2.86	19	7	7	3	10	12	.244	1.32	32
M. Strahm RP	17	0	1-1	0	1	16.1	3.86	14	7	7	3	7	17	.222	1.29	30
A. Lange RP	23	0	0-2	0	0	25.0	4.68	22	14	13	2	13	24	.244	1.40	27
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	12	0	0-1	1	1	15.1	5.28	21	9	9	4	7	12	.318	1.83	15
M. Black RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	7.2	2.35	8	2	2	1	3	8	.267	1.43	14
L. Avila RP	10	1	0-2	0	0	21.1	5.06	27	12	12	1	12	20	.325	1.83	13
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	7
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
S. Cruz RP	14	0	0-2	0	1	14.0	8.36	15	14	13	7	11	20	.268	1.86	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
Total	59	59	22-37	14	25	521.0	4.54	500	280	263	69	234	477	.253	1.41	976

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