Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 16, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Matt Strahm	Knee	05-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 31
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-28-2026Expected to be out until at least May 29
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 9
James McArthur	Elbow	05-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 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

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Jose Altuve	Oblique	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	05-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 31
Josh Hader	Biceps	06-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 2
Taylor Trammell	Groin	05-24-2026Expected to be out until at least May 25
Yordan Alvarez	Back	05-24-2026Probable for May 25
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	05-28-2026Expected to be out until at least May 29
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	05-28-2026Expected to be out until at least May 29
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 8
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Joey Loperfido	Quadriceps	05-24-2026Expected to be out until at least May 25

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	52	205	25	61	23	7	23	40	.298	.365	.473	.838	13	1	16	3	177
M. Garcia 3B	50	200	27	52	18	3	19	32	.260	.321	.385	.706	14	1	4	3	130
V. Pasquantino 1B	49	182	19	36	23	5	22	41	.198	.282	.324	.606	4	2	2	0	107
S. Perez C	50	193	18	39	21	8	9	42	.202	.249	.352	.601	5	0	0	0	99
C. Jensen C	48	147	20	34	21	6	20	51	.231	.322	.395	.717	6	0	0	0	94
J. Caglianone RF	47	154	18	38	11	5	12	51	.247	.310	.416	.726	9	1	1	1	82
I. Collins LF	45	141	16	30	16	3	21	46	.213	.327	.312	.639	5	0	3	3	81
K. Isbel CF	43	128	14	33	10	3	8	33	.258	.317	.391	.708	6	1	5	0	78
M. Massey 2B	37	99	10	23	12	3	3	21	.232	.250	.404	.654	8	0	1	0	56
L. Thomas CF	39	86	8	18	9	1	19	23	.209	.352	.267	.619	2	0	3	3	51
N. Loftin 2B	22	54	9	12	13	0	8	8	.222	.343	.333	.676	6	0	0	0	47
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	21	51	3	15	2	0	4	16	.294	.351	.353	.704	3	0	0	1	19
T. Tolbert SS	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	1	1	2
Total	52	1715	199	405	192	48	177	423	.236	.312	.376	.688	84	6	36	15	1057

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	10	10	4-2	0	0	63.1	2.70	45	20	19	7	20	55	.200	1.03	172
L. Erceg RP	20	0	3-1	11	14	19.1	3.26	15	9	7	0	13	17	.224	1.45	124
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
S. Lugo SP	10	10	1-4	0	0	58.2	3.68	61	25	24	2	21	51	.275	1.40	100
S. Kolek SP	4	4	3-0	0	0	26.0	2.77	17	8	8	3	5	14	.185	0.85	83
N. Cameron SP	9	9	2-3	0	0	47.2	4.72	53	28	25	5	16	44	.276	1.45	79
D. Lynch RP	20	0	1-0	1	2	21.0	1.71	12	7	4	1	7	26	.158	0.90	65
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	17	0	1-1	0	1	16.1	3.86	14	7	7	3	7	17	.222	1.29	30
N. Mears RP	20	0	2-3	0	2	18.2	3.86	16	8	8	2	9	14	.242	1.34	29
A. Lange RP	21	0	0-2	0	0	24.0	4.88	20	14	13	2	13	23	.235	1.38	25
J. Schreiber RP	21	0	0-2	1	1	19.1	3.26	18	7	7	3	10	11	.257	1.45	24
L. Avila RP	9	1	0-2	0	0	18.1	4.42	20	9	9	1	10	19	.294	1.64	15
E. Morgan RP	9	0	0-1	1	1	12.1	5.11	15	7	7	3	6	9	.294	1.70	15
M. Black RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	0.00	7	0	0	0	2	5	.350	1.93	7
T. Tolbert SS	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	1.50	2
E. Cerantola RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	9.00	2	3	3	1	4	5	.200	2.00	2
S. Cruz RP	11	0	0-2	0	1	10.1	8.71	11	11	10	5	8	14	.262	1.84	-1
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Falter RP	4	1	0-1	0	0	7.1	9.82	15	8	8	1	6	6	.429	2.86	-9
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
Total	52	52	21-31	14	23	461.0	4.16	413	226	213	55	213	429	.241	1.36	913

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	53	190	31	57	31	15	34	38	.300	.415	.595	1.010	11	0	1	0	196
C. Walker 1B	53	192	30	51	34	13	19	43	.266	.340	.521	.861	10	0	0	0	164
I. Paredes 3B	47	171	19	42	20	5	18	33	.246	.338	.380	.718	8	0	0	0	111
J. Altuve 2B	42	163	27	40	12	4	19	35	.245	.326	.380	.706	10	0	1	2	103
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Smith RF	52	168	19	35	17	4	19	54	.208	.297	.315	.612	6	0	6	1	95
C. Vazquez C	32	93	9	24	16	4	9	17	.258	.324	.430	.754	4	0	0	0	65
B. Matthews CF	43	125	13	26	14	4	9	44	.208	.259	.352	.611	4	1	2	2	60
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
B. Shewmake SS	21	60	7	16	7	3	1	11	.267	.279	.450	.729	2	0	0	0	36
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
J. Pena SS	15	63	6	15	1	0	3	10	.238	.279	.302	.581	4	0	1	0	27
J. Meyers CF	16	48	5	11	4	1	4	12	.229	.296	.333	.629	2	0	1	2	24
T. Trammell LF	10	29	4	10	4	0	4	9	.345	.424	.448	.872	1	1	1	0	22
Z. Cole LF	17	50	3	8	8	3	1	21	.160	.192	.360	.552	1	0	0	0	20
N. Allen SS	24	34	7	8	0	0	3	6	.235	.297	.265	.562	1	0	0	0	16
Z. Dezenzo LF	14	36	3	8	2	1	2	12	.222	.263	.389	.652	3	0	0	0	15
S. Whitcomb 3B	14	17	1	2	4	1	1	9	.118	.167	.294	.461	0	0	0	0	6
D. Johnson CF	8	14	1	2	0	0	2	3	.143	.294	.143	.437	0	0	0	0	4
C. Salazar C	6	14	0	1	0	0	2	2	.071	.188	.071	.259	0	0	0	0	2
Total	53	1779	225	437	215	63	179	426	.246	.320	.403	.723	85	3	17	9	1180

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	7	7	6-1	0	0	41.0	1.32	24	8	6	1	25	40	.169	1.20	128
K. Teng RP	17	4	3-3	0	0	37.0	2.19	24	9	9	3	15	36	.188	1.05	88
B. King RP	20	0	0-1	6	8	23.1	2.70	21	9	7	0	9	18	.236	1.29	76
P. Lambert SP	6	6	2-4	0	0	35.1	3.57	24	14	14	2	14	35	.189	1.08	71
M. Burrows SP	10	10	2-6	0	0	56.1	5.75	66	36	36	12	20	48	.293	1.53	58
E. De Los Santos RP	20	0	0-1	3	3	21.0	4.29	20	10	10	1	4	18	.241	1.14	54
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
A. Blubaugh RP	20	0	2-2	0	0	29.2	4.55	22	15	15	4	20	24	.210	1.42	47
S. Okert RP	25	1	0-0	0	0	22.1	4.03	17	10	10	3	7	20	.213	1.07	43
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
B. Abreu RP	18	0	2-2	3	3	16.0	7.31	14	14	13	4	19	21	.237	2.06	34
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
J. Alexander RP	3	1	1-0	0	0	12.1	7.30	15	10	10	2	6	10	.294	1.70	21
T. Imai SP	5	5	1-2	0	0	17.1	8.31	17	16	16	4	14	21	.258	1.79	9
L. VanWey RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	3	.143	0.50	6
J. Murray RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	7.15	16	9	9	0	7	5	.356	2.03	4
J. France RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
N. Pearson RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	3
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	2
R. Weiss RP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	1
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Gordon RP	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	53	53	22-31	13	15	464.1	5.18	441	276	267	68	257	446	.251	1.50	745

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