Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 23, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Justin Verlander	Hamstring	07-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 8
Javier Baez	Ankle	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Burch Smith	Shoulder	07-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 21
Gleyber Torres	Oblique	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Wenceel Perez	Orbital	08-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 15
Parker Meadows	Arm	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
Jackson Jobe	Elbow	08-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 15
Trey Sweeney	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brant Hurter	Back	07-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 23
Bailey Horn	Elbow	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	07-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 10
Cole Ragans	Elbow	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 4
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 12
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
James McArthur	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
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	07-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 4
Nick Loftin	Groin	06-29-2026Probable for Jun 30
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Jac Caglianone	Groin	06-29-2026Probable for Jun 30

	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	82	306	52	87	30	6	54	50	.284	.397	.422	.819	18	3	11	0	265
D. Dingler C	78	290	44	76	59	19	23	70	.262	.326	.528	.854	16	2	0	0	250
R. Greene LF	84	305	41	87	34	9	44	95	.285	.377	.430	.807	17	0	1	1	205
S. Torkelson 1B	84	281	32	60	35	13	37	105	.214	.314	.416	.730	18	0	0	1	172
C. Keith 3B	76	226	30	56	18	5	12	45	.248	.293	.372	.665	9	2	4	0	132
K. Carpenter RF	62	174	21	41	35	12	16	60	.236	.310	.494	.804	5	2	0	0	132
M. Vierling CF	72	212	20	43	28	5	17	38	.203	.258	.335	.593	11	1	3	2	121
G. Torres 2B	43	157	26	44	18	4	29	33	.280	.395	.395	.790	6	0	0	0	120
W. Perez RF	53	161	22	29	17	7	14	29	.180	.246	.348	.594	4	1	3	1	99
Z. McKinstry 2B	60	178	14	35	14	3	22	35	.197	.282	.298	.580	5	2	1	3	84
H. Lee 2B	47	128	9	33	13	3	6	35	.258	.291	.391	.682	6	1	1	2	60
J. Outman CF	13	27	4	5	5	2	4	15	.185	.290	.407	.697	0	0	1	0	45
J. Baez SS	24	78	10	20	6	2	2	16	.256	.280	.397	.677	5	0	1	1	43
J. Rogers C	27	71	7	11	6	1	7	25	.155	.235	.254	.489	2	1	1	0	28
J. Jones DH	56	93	7	13	7	2	10	34	.140	.223	.226	.449	2	0	0	2	26
P. Meadows CF	12	36	3	9	2	0	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.641	1	1	3	0	21
G. Workman 3B	16	38	3	6	5	2	0	16	.158	.158	.395	.553	3	0	0	0	15
B. Malgeri RF	5	10	1	2	1	0	2	4	.200	.308	.200	.508	0	0	0	0	4
J. Jung DH	3	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542	0	0	0	0	3
T. Cruz RF	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	-1
Total	85	2822	351	665	335	95	310	732	.236	.315	.394	.709	130	16	30	13	1824

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	16	15	4-5	0	0	87.2	3.39	69	35	33	9	18	56	.212	0.99	193
F. Valdez SP	17	17	4-5	0	0	95.2	4.05	93	48	43	10	34	77	.249	1.33	177
C. Mize SP	12	12	3-5	0	0	65.0	2.63	49	19	19	4	14	68	.208	0.97	160
T. Skubal SP	10	10	3-4	0	0	59.2	3.32	51	24	22	8	8	66	.230	0.99	145
T. Melton SP	6	6	4-1	0	0	37.2	2.39	23	10	10	7	9	25	.173	0.85	116
D. Anderson RP	30	2	3-3	2	4	50.2	4.09	45	25	23	7	20	65	.233	1.28	114
K. Finnegan RP	37	0	2-0	1	6	39.1	2.06	33	9	9	3	25	30	.237	1.47	87
K. Jansen RP	23	0	1-4	9	13	20.1	5.31	14	13	12	5	11	23	.192	1.23	85
E. De Jesus RP	22	0	2-0	1	1	31.2	3.98	27	17	14	1	13	31	.227	1.26	77
J. Flaherty SP	16	16	1-8	0	0	70.2	4.97	71	47	39	8	37	87	.255	1.53	73
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
T. Holton RP	36	2	1-4	0	1	38.2	3.26	43	18	14	5	9	33	.283	1.34	51
W. Vest RP	27	0	3-5	2	7	26.2	6.08	28	22	18	2	10	27	.275	1.43	45
T. Madden RP	7	1	0-0	0	0	20.0	3.15	16	7	7	2	5	23	.211	1.05	42
J. Rogers C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.50	28
B. Smith RP	13	1	0-2	0	0	17.0	3.18	18	8	6	2	7	20	.277	1.47	20
B. Hanifee RP	14	2	0-0	0	0	13.2	3.29	15	5	5	2	4	6	.283	1.39	19
J. Waguespack RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	7.2	2.35	4	2	2	2	2	5	.154	0.78	16
D. Sommers RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	8.0	3.38	6	3	3	1	4	12	.207	1.25	16
B. Brieske RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	12.46	6	6	6	2	4	4	.353	2.31	-1
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	85	85	36-49	15	33	746.2	3.78	665	350	314	86	259	696	.236	1.24	1514

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	79	309	42	89	33	10	37	60	.288	.363	.456	.819	20	1	28	4	276
C. Jensen C	78	267	39	67	45	11	27	79	.251	.317	.438	.755	17	0	1	0	191
J. Caglianone RF	78	268	39	71	30	14	25	90	.265	.337	.481	.818	12	2	3	1	187
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
S. Perez C	79	310	29	63	30	10	12	66	.203	.244	.332	.576	10	0	0	0	147
I. Collins LF	75	235	29	54	24	3	34	65	.230	.339	.323	.662	13	0	4	4	140
M. Massey 2B	66	193	24	51	27	7	9	33	.264	.293	.446	.739	14	0	2	0	133
L. Thomas CF	70	185	20	40	23	5	30	48	.216	.329	.335	.664	7	0	4	3	118
N. Loftin 3B	48	139	21	33	24	3	17	22	.237	.331	.403	.734	12	1	1	0	113
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	38	94	11	25	7	1	8	28	.266	.330	.340	.670	4	0	1	1	47
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	28	32	10	7	1	0	4	10	.219	.297	.219	.516	0	0	7	2	29
J. Rave RF	8	15	3	4	1	1	3	6	.267	.389	.733	1.122	2	1	0	0	15
K. Misner CF	13	32	1	9	4	0	1	13	.281	.303	.313	.616	1	0	3	1	14
J. Rojas 3B	8	15	2	4	4	1	0	2	.267	.267	.533	.800	1	0	0	0	13
Total	85	2850	357	697	339	82	282	677	.245	.316	.391	.707	150	10	67	19	1876

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	17	17	5-5	0	0	108.2	3.31	94	42	40	10	30	84	.234	1.14	246
S. Lugo SP	16	16	3-5	0	0	90.1	4.18	94	46	42	10	30	69	.272	1.37	161
N. Cameron SP	15	15	4-5	0	0	80.0	4.50	84	45	40	8	22	75	.263	1.33	147
L. Erceg RP	33	0	3-3	12	18	31.2	5.40	36	21	19	3	20	25	.295	1.77	120
S. Kolek SP	9	9	4-2	0	0	52.0	4.15	51	27	24	8	11	34	.255	1.19	118
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
D. Lynch RP	35	0	2-2	1	3	34.0	2.65	24	13	10	2	11	30	.190	1.03	81
A. Lange RP	35	0	0-4	7	7	36.1	4.95	33	22	20	2	21	37	.244	1.49	78
L. Avila RP	16	7	3-3	0	0	46.2	5.40	48	28	28	5	30	43	.276	1.67	60
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
M. Strahm RP	29	0	3-1	0	3	26.2	5.74	25	17	17	8	10	20	.240	1.31	52
J. Schreiber RP	36	0	0-3	1	2	33.0	3.27	30	14	12	6	12	26	.252	1.27	49
S. Cruz RP	23	1	2-2	0	1	25.1	5.68	23	17	16	8	14	34	.237	1.46	44
C. Seabold RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	8.31	7	4	4	0	2	5	.350	2.08	33
T. Tolbert SS	4	0	0-0	0	0	3.2	17.18	11	7	7	2	2	0	.550	3.55	29
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
B. Way RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	13.2	3.95	14	6	6	3	7	14	.259	1.54	21
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	85	85	35-50	22	38	749.2	4.83	747	427	402	108	322	656	.260	1.43	1406

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