Atlanta Braves vs. Chicago Cubs Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 16, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Joe Jimenez	Knee	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Ronald Acuna Jr.	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Joey Wentz	Knee	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Sean Murphy	Finger	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Spencer Strider	Elbow	08-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 25
Danny Young	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Robert Suarez	Forearm	06-25-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 26
Spencer Schwellenbach	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
A.J. Smith-Shawver	Elbow	07-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 29

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Shelby Miller	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Jameson Taillon	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Tyler Austin	Knee	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Hunter Harvey	Triceps	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Justin Steele	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Edward Cabrera	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Daniel Palencia	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Cade Horton	Elbow	07-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 1, 2027
Ben Brown	Neck	08-13-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 14
Porter Hodge	Elbow	04-30-2027Expected to be out until at least May 1
Riley Martin	Elbow	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Braves ATL-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cubs CHC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
M. Olson 1B	79	307	53	83	52	20	34	79	.270	.342	.528	.870	19	0	2	0	266
O. Albies 2B	79	303	51	85	42	12	24	39	.281	.333	.446	.779	14	0	1	3	235
M. Harris CF	73	265	37	81	42	14	12	57	.306	.337	.513	.850	13	0	4	1	206
M. Dubon SS	75	280	32	74	43	8	19	44	.264	.316	.418	.734	15	2	1	2	191
D. Baldwin C	56	220	42	59	39	14	24	63	.268	.349	.486	.835	6	0	1	1	185
R. Acuna Jr. RF	53	195	31	49	22	7	35	52	.251	.373	.421	.794	10	1	15	7	171
A. Riley 3B	79	285	32	61	36	8	28	93	.214	.296	.347	.643	12	1	4	1	161
D. Smith DH	65	172	26	48	31	6	11	25	.279	.317	.424	.741	5	1	0	0	129
M. Yastrzemski LF	71	193	27	44	19	4	20	54	.228	.313	.347	.660	9	1	1	0	112
J. Mateo SS	51	107	25	28	11	4	6	33	.262	.301	.421	.722	5	0	7	1	83
E. White RF	49	102	12	22	14	3	6	23	.216	.264	.363	.627	4	1	3	0	64
J. Bart C	4	11	1	2	3	1	0	0	.182	.182	.455	.637	0	0	0	0	38
H. Kim SS	23	65	4	5	3	0	7	18	.077	.167	.077	.244	0	0	1	0	12
J. Azocar RF	9	15	1	5	0	0	1	3	.333	.375	.467	.842	2	0	1	0	9
R. Tellez 1B	6	10	2	2	4	1	0	3	.200	.200	.500	.700	0	0	0	0	9
K. Farmer 3B	10	14	2	4	3	0	0	4	.286	.267	.357	.624	1	0	0	0	8
J. Camargo C	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	1	0	0	0	2
L. Williams 2B	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	1.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	1
J. Jarvis SS	2	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	0
S. Murphy C	4	14	1	1	0	0	0	6	.071	.071	.071	.142	0	0	0	0	-1
S. Leon C	21	44	0	4	0	0	0	18	.091	.091	.091	.182	0	0	0	0	-5
Total	79	2687	385	674	375	103	233	633	.251	.314	.416	.730	121	7	41	16	1876

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
C. Sale SP	14	14	8-5	0	0	84.0	2.14	67	24	20	6	21	99	.216	1.05	243
B. Elder SP	16	16	5-5	0	0	94.2	3.71	86	43	39	10	29	79	.237	1.21	207
M. Perez SP	16	12	6-4	0	0	72.0	3.00	54	24	24	7	27	60	.211	1.13	167
R. Iglesias RP	24	0	0-2	15	15	25.1	1.42	22	6	4	1	6	29	.237	1.11	153
R. Suarez RP	31	0	4-0	4	5	32.0	0.56	21	2	2	1	6	26	.184	0.84	136
G. Holmes SP	15	15	4-4	0	0	73.1	4.17	67	35	34	14	37	65	.240	1.42	135
D. Lee RP	36	0	3-0	0	1	34.2	1.04	17	5	4	1	5	42	.142	0.63	120
D. Fuentes RP	23	1	4-0	1	1	30.2	2.35	22	8	8	1	10	35	.200	1.04	102
R. Lopez RP	18	5	3-1	0	0	43.2	3.50	39	21	17	6	21	39	.236	1.37	91
S. Strider SP	8	8	4-2	0	0	39.0	5.31	33	24	23	9	20	46	.232	1.36	87
J. Mateo SS	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	83
T. Kinley RP	32	0	4-2	0	2	29.0	3.10	25	11	10	5	10	32	.227	1.21	75
J. Ritchie SP	8	7	1-2	0	0	40.2	4.87	33	25	22	7	25	37	.221	1.43	57
D. Dodd RP	14	0	0-0	1	1	19.0	2.84	11	6	6	3	8	22	.167	1.00	50
J. Karinchak RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	0.00	2	0	0	0	2	6	.095	0.60	19
A. Molina RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	5.40	6	4	3	1	1	2	.300	1.40	6
V. Mederos RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	0.50	5
I. Hamilton RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	13.50	2	3	3	0	2	3	.250	2.00	0
R. Munoz RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	13.50	5	3	3	1	1	3	.455	3.00	-1
J. Payamps RP	12	0	0-2	0	1	7.2	8.22	9	9	7	2	4	9	.281	1.70	-2
Total	79	79	48-31	23	30	701.2	3.42	586	293	267	84	264	681	.225	1.21	1733

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
P. Crow-Armstrong CF	80	302	49	86	44	17	32	89	.285	.366	.520	.886	12	4	18	5	276
I. Happ LF	76	284	54	65	37	16	44	104	.229	.339	.465	.804	15	2	4	0	227
N. Hoerner 2B	78	315	34	76	35	4	33	26	.241	.317	.346	.663	21	0	12	2	224
M. Busch 1B	79	287	32	69	44	9	54	79	.240	.372	.394	.766	13	2	2	0	215
D. Swanson SS	76	252	47	51	46	11	37	69	.202	.303	.385	.688	9	2	10	0	213
A. Bregman 3B	78	308	36	75	25	6	40	57	.244	.339	.341	.680	10	1	2	1	186
S. Suzuki RF	65	240	36	62	31	10	31	74	.258	.349	.425	.774	10	0	0	0	166
C. Kelly C	58	184	30	52	29	4	21	34	.283	.365	.397	.762	9	0	0	0	139
M. Ballesteros DH	59	156	16	36	23	6	17	36	.231	.303	.385	.688	6	0	1	0	100
M. Shaw RF	52	126	17	31	20	4	9	26	.246	.309	.421	.730	6	2	4	1	96
M. Amaya C	44	105	18	24	10	3	15	26	.229	.362	.362	.724	5	0	0	0	75
M. Conforto RF	49	103	13	23	14	4	16	37	.223	.325	.437	.762	10	0	1	0	71
P. Ramirez 2B	19	45	7	13	6	1	3	5	.289	.333	.422	.755	3	0	2	0	36
J. Dean CF	2	3	1	2	3	0	0	0	.667	.667	1.333	2.000	0	1	0	0	8
S. Kingery 2B	8	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	1	0	5
K. Alcantara DH	12	9	1	1	0	0	1	4	.111	.200	.111	.311	0	0	0	1	0
D. Carlson LF	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	80	2732	395	667	367	95	353	670	.244	.338	.406	.744	129	14	57	10	2037

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Imanaga SP	16	16	5-6	0	0	92.0	4.40	74	46	45	20	23	88	.216	1.05	198
B. Brown RP	20	8	4-2	1	2	68.0	1.85	45	16	14	2	19	65	.186	0.94	190
C. Kelly C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	2	0	0	.400	2.00	139
E. Cabrera SP	14	14	5-4	0	0	72.1	5.10	72	46	41	14	29	65	.262	1.40	133
C. Rea SP	16	12	5-5	1	1	79.1	4.99	83	45	44	12	28	59	.267	1.40	130
J. Assad SP	12	6	6-1	0	0	49.0	4.04	40	22	22	8	11	30	.225	1.04	128
J. Taillon SP	13	13	2-5	0	0	67.2	5.19	65	40	39	20	23	59	.248	1.30	104
R. Rolison RP	25	1	5-1	0	1	29.2	1.82	20	8	6	3	13	29	.202	1.11	94
H. Milner RP	37	0	1-0	1	2	35.2	3.28	31	13	13	3	9	18	.238	1.12	74
J. Webb RP	34	0	1-2	2	6	33.1	3.78	34	17	14	6	12	40	.258	1.38	71
D. Palencia RP	19	0	2-1	3	3	16.2	2.70	17	5	5	2	6	19	.266	1.38	61
C. Thielbar RP	24	0	2-2	2	5	21.0	4.71	16	12	11	5	11	25	.205	1.29	55
M. Boyd SP	5	5	2-1	0	0	24.0	6.00	25	17	16	2	6	31	.266	1.29	52
T. Thornton RP	16	0	2-2	0	0	21.0	3.00	14	8	7	4	9	10	.194	1.10	41
E. Roberts RP	20	0	0-1	0	0	23.2	3.04	18	9	8	2	11	17	.214	1.23	34
C. Horton P	2	2	1-0	0	0	7.1	2.45	4	2	2	1	2	4	.167	0.82	26
R. Martin P	8	1	0-0	0	0	8.1	2.16	5	2	2	1	2	10	.179	0.84	21
P. Maton RP	29	0	0-1	0	1	25.1	6.04	30	17	17	4	15	29	.297	1.78	19
T. Blach RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.111	0.33	9
V. Velasquez SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.125	0.43	6
Y. Rios RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	0.00	6
T. Ferguson RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	6.75	3	1	1	1	0	3	.429	2.25	5
G. Hollowell RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	6.23	5	3	3	2	5	3	.294	2.31	1
H. Harvey RP	4	0	0-1	0	0	4.0	6.75	5	3	3	2	1	4	.294	1.50	0
L. Little RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	2	1	1	1	0	1	.400	2.00	0
J. Wicks SP	2	2	0-2	0	0	6.1	15.63	13	11	11	1	1	6	.406	2.21	-14
Total	80	80	43-37	11	22	710.1	4.30	636	359	339	121	245	629	.239	1.24	1583

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