Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 17, 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	06-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 9
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 9
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

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	05-25-2026Expected to be out until at least May 26
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	06-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 8
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	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
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	05-25-2026Expected to be out until at least May 26

	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	54	214	26	63	24	8	23	42	.294	.360	.481	.841	14	1	16	3	184
M. Garcia 3B	52	210	27	55	20	3	19	33	.262	.320	.381	.701	14	1	4	3	134
V. Pasquantino 1B	51	189	21	38	23	5	24	41	.201	.289	.333	.622	6	2	2	0	115
S. Perez C	52	200	21	43	25	9	10	43	.215	.263	.375	.638	5	0	0	0	113
C. Jensen C	50	155	20	35	23	6	20	53	.226	.313	.387	.700	7	0	0	0	97
I. Collins LF	47	147	18	32	16	3	23	47	.218	.335	.320	.655	6	0	3	3	87
J. Caglianone RF	49	159	18	38	11	5	14	52	.239	.309	.403	.712	9	1	1	1	84
K. Isbel CF	45	133	15	34	11	3	8	35	.256	.310	.383	.693	6	1	5	0	80
M. Massey 2B	39	102	11	23	13	3	4	21	.225	.248	.392	.640	8	0	1	0	59
L. Thomas CF	40	87	8	18	9	1	20	23	.207	.355	.264	.619	2	0	3	3	52
N. Loftin 2B	23	56	9	13	13	0	8	8	.232	.348	.357	.705	7	0	0	0	49
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	22	52	3	15	2	0	4	16	.288	.345	.346	.691	3	0	0	1	19
T. Tolbert SS	10	5	2	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	3	1	7
Total	54	1779	210	421	203	50	186	433	.237	.313	.378	.691	90	6	38	15	1114

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	11	11	4-2	0	0	70.1	2.69	50	22	21	8	22	60	.200	1.02	190
S. Lugo SP	11	11	2-4	0	0	65.0	3.74	67	28	27	3	23	54	.271	1.38	120
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	22	0	3-2	11	15	21.1	5.06	23	14	12	0	13	18	.288	1.69	113
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	22	0	1-0	1	2	22.2	1.59	13	7	4	1	7	27	.159	0.88	69
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
J. Schreiber RP	22	0	0-2	1	1	20.1	3.10	19	7	7	3	10	12	.257	1.43	27
A. Lange RP	21	0	0-2	0	0	24.0	4.88	20	14	13	2	13	23	.235	1.38	25
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	7
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	54	54	22-32	14	24	479.0	4.19	434	236	223	57	217	440	.243	1.36	952

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	54	193	32	58	33	16	35	38	.301	.415	.606	1.021	11	0	1	0	204
C. Walker 1B	55	200	32	53	40	15	20	44	.265	.339	.540	.879	10	0	0	0	181
I. Paredes 3B	49	179	19	44	20	5	18	33	.246	.335	.374	.709	8	0	0	0	113
C. Smith RF	54	175	22	37	17	4	20	56	.211	.303	.320	.623	7	0	7	1	104
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. Vazquez C	34	101	10	26	17	4	9	17	.257	.318	.416	.734	4	0	0	0	69
B. Matthews CF	45	132	13	27	14	4	9	46	.205	.254	.341	.595	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	23	61	7	17	7	3	1	11	.279	.290	.475	.765	3	0	0	0	38
J. Pena SS	17	69	9	17	4	0	3	13	.246	.303	.304	.607	4	0	2	0	37
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
N. Allen SS	26	42	10	13	4	1	3	8	.310	.370	.405	.775	1	0	1	0	33
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
J. Meyers CF	18	57	7	12	5	2	4	13	.211	.270	.351	.621	2	0	1	2	30
T. Trammell LF	10	29	4	10	4	0	4	9	.345	.424	.448	.872	1	1	1	0	22
Z. Cole LF	18	51	3	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	20
Z. Dezenzo LF	16	40	5	8	2	1	4	16	.200	.273	.350	.623	3	0	0	0	17
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	55	1849	242	456	232	68	184	441	.247	.322	.407	.729	87	3	20	9	1257

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
P. Lambert SP	7	7	3-4	0	0	40.1	3.79	29	17	17	2	18	40	.200	1.17	83
B. King RP	20	0	0-1	6	8	23.1	2.70	21	9	7	0	9	18	.236	1.29	76
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	21	0	2-2	0	0	31.2	4.83	23	17	17	5	21	24	.205	1.39	49
S. Okert RP	26	1	0-0	0	0	23.1	3.86	17	10	10	3	8	21	.205	1.07	45
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	19	0	2-2	3	3	17.0	6.88	15	14	13	4	20	21	.242	2.06	35
T. Imai SP	6	6	2-2	0	0	23.1	6.17	17	16	16	4	18	23	.207	1.50	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
N. Pearson RP	2	0	0-0	1	1	2.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	0.50	12
L. VanWey RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	3	.143	0.50	6
A. Santa RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0.00	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
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	55	55	24-31	14	16	482.1	5.08	448	281	272	69	269	455	.247	1.49	802

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