Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 18, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Seth Lugo	Head	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 23
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
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	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Chris Devenski	Illness	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Oneil Cruz	Hand	07-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 10
Joey Bart	Foot	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Endy Rodriguez	Hip	06-10-2026Probable for Jun 11
Konnor Griffin	Elbow	06-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 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	68	269	33	75	27	9	31	56	.279	.353	.450	.803	17	1	24	4	229
V. Pasquantino 1B	65	244	27	54	30	6	31	49	.221	.307	.352	.659	10	2	3	0	156
M. Garcia 3B	62	241	30	63	24	3	23	40	.261	.323	.378	.701	15	2	4	3	153
J. Caglianone RF	62	204	25	56	19	8	20	66	.275	.348	.456	.804	11	1	3	1	132
C. Jensen C	62	201	27	43	31	8	21	69	.214	.285	.383	.668	10	0	0	0	122
S. Perez C	63	244	22	48	26	9	12	51	.197	.245	.332	.577	6	0	0	0	120
I. Collins LF	59	184	23	40	17	3	30	58	.217	.336	.310	.646	8	0	3	3	105
M. Massey 2B	51	141	16	37	20	6	5	27	.262	.282	.461	.743	10	0	1	0	94
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
L. Thomas CF	53	124	12	29	15	2	24	32	.234	.362	.315	.677	4	0	3	3	79
N. Loftin 2B	34	91	14	21	18	1	14	14	.231	.342	.374	.716	8	1	0	0	76
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	30	70	5	18	5	1	5	23	.257	.321	.343	.664	3	0	0	1	28
T. Tolbert RF	19	14	5	3	0	0	2	6	.214	.313	.214	.527	0	0	5	2	15
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	68	2266	267	541	258	63	237	550	.239	.315	.379	.694	112	8	51	17	1434

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	13	13	4-4	0	0	81.0	3.44	66	33	31	9	26	67	.223	1.14	185
S. Lugo SP	14	14	2-4	0	0	79.1	3.86	82	37	34	7	25	66	.270	1.35	147
N. Cameron SP	12	12	3-4	0	0	65.2	3.84	61	32	28	6	17	63	.239	1.19	138
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
S. Kolek SP	7	7	3-1	0	0	43.0	3.14	37	18	15	5	9	30	.228	1.07	110
L. Erceg RP	27	0	3-3	12	18	24.1	6.29	31	19	17	2	18	22	.320	2.01	107
D. Lynch RP	28	0	2-0	1	3	28.0	1.93	18	9	6	1	9	29	.176	0.96	84
A. Lange RP	29	0	0-3	4	4	31.0	4.06	27	16	14	2	18	34	.239	1.45	61
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	21	0	3-1	0	2	20.1	4.43	18	10	10	6	7	18	.228	1.23	50
J. Schreiber RP	30	0	0-3	1	2	27.0	2.67	21	9	8	4	11	18	.223	1.19	41
L. Avila RP	12	3	1-2	0	0	31.1	4.02	31	14	14	2	19	28	.272	1.60	41
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	9	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	2.38	12	3	3	1	5	12	.273	1.50	19
S. Cruz RP	17	0	1-2	0	1	17.2	6.62	18	14	13	7	12	25	.261	1.70	19
E. Morgan RP	13	0	0-1	1	1	16.1	5.51	23	10	10	4	8	15	.324	1.90	15
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	15
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Way RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	27.00	4	4	4	1	1	2	.500	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
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
Total	68	68	28-40	19	34	602.1	4.38	569	315	293	82	263	556	.250	1.38	1184

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
B. Reynolds LF	68	240	44	64	40	7	46	63	.267	.392	.429	.821	14	2	5	0	216
B. Lowe 2B	62	237	41	59	43	15	29	66	.249	.333	.515	.848	16	1	0	0	204
S. Horwitz 1B	62	201	27	58	29	9	33	30	.289	.388	.473	.861	8	1	1	0	173
R. O'Hearn RF	53	191	31	54	34	10	20	46	.283	.353	.471	.824	6	0	1	0	156
N. Gonzales 3B	62	230	35	69	31	2	16	44	.300	.352	.374	.726	11	0	3	2	153
K. Griffin SS	51	189	30	51	22	4	14	56	.270	.327	.402	.729	9	2	14	1	144
J. Mangum LF	48	125	18	37	9	1	9	25	.296	.350	.352	.702	4	0	11	2	89
M. Ozuna DH	50	185	15	36	23	5	19	60	.195	.277	.303	.580	5	0	0	0	85
H. Davis C	45	123	13	17	17	5	14	30	.138	.241	.285	.526	3	0	1	0	69
J. Triolo SS	36	105	10	24	6	0	9	29	.229	.296	.267	.563	4	0	2	1	42
E. Rodriguez C	18	46	7	10	5	1	12	14	.217	.379	.326	.705	2	0	2	0	36
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
J. Bart C	21	58	9	15	6	2	2	21	.259	.290	.379	.669	1	0	0	0	29
T. Callihan LF	7	12	4	4	6	2	5	2	.333	.529	1.000	1.529	2	0	1	0	28
E. Valdez RF	5	16	2	2	5	2	2	9	.125	.222	.500	.722	0	0	0	0	12
B. Cook RF	33	21	5	4	0	0	0	8	.190	.190	.190	.380	0	0	3	1	10
J. Garcia CF	13	35	2	7	2	0	1	10	.200	.243	.229	.472	1	0	0	0	9
R. Flores C	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	.000	1.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	2
D. Wendzel 1B	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	68	2344	345	592	328	80	269	628	.253	.335	.402	.737	99	6	65	11	1719

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
P. Skenes SP	14	14	6-5	0	0	76.0	2.84	56	30	24	6	15	89	.200	0.93	208
B. Ashcraft SP	13	13	5-3	0	0	79.2	3.28	69	32	29	8	17	86	.235	1.08	205
M. Keller SP	13	13	5-3	0	0	73.0	4.81	67	39	39	5	23	55	.243	1.23	154
G. Soto RP	30	0	4-1	9	12	29.1	3.38	15	12	11	2	12	34	.147	0.92	151
C. Mlodzinski SP	13	9	4-3	1	1	62.2	4.02	65	29	28	5	23	52	.269	1.40	119
B. Chandler SP	13	12	2-7	0	0	62.1	4.91	50	40	34	8	40	62	.213	1.44	75
Y. Ramirez RP	28	0	3-2	1	3	36.2	4.66	30	22	19	4	18	41	.219	1.31	74
E. Sisk RP	24	0	1-0	0	2	28.1	1.27	20	4	4	1	10	35	.206	1.06	72
M. Montgomery RP	26	4	1-1	0	0	25.2	4.56	22	14	13	3	14	34	.224	1.40	47
D. Santana RP	29	0	2-3	2	4	27.0	5.00	27	17	15	3	16	22	.255	1.59	45
W. Dotel RP	8	0	1-1	0	0	16.2	4.32	12	8	8	2	6	17	.197	1.08	34
T. Callihan LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	28
J. Jones SP	3	3	1-0	0	0	13.1	4.73	14	7	7	2	5	14	.264	1.43	28
I. Mattson RP	21	0	0-0	0	2	19.2	4.12	19	9	9	0	10	15	.253	1.47	27
B. Bidois RP	11	0	0-0	0	0	12.0	4.50	10	10	6	4	10	14	.227	1.67	17
C. Sanders RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	9.00	6	6	6	0	5	8	.261	1.83	4
C. Devenski RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	5	2	2	1	0	3	.417	2.14	1
J. Urquidy RP	5	0	0-1	1	1	6.1	8.53	15	10	6	1	2	6	.441	2.68	1
H. Barco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	11.2	7.71	14	12	10	3	9	8	.292	1.97	-1
Total	68	68	35-33	14	27	611.2	4.16	539	323	283	62	248	620	.233	1.29	1289

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