Chicago Cubs vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 9, 2026 Gametracker

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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
Matthew Boyd	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
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	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
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

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	08-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 4
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 4
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 6
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
Bobby Witt	Knee	06-24-2026Probable for Jun 25
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cubs CHC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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 RP	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

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	76	299	40	88	32	10	35	57	.294	.368	.465	.833	19	1	28	4	270
J. Caglianone RF	75	257	39	70	30	14	24	84	.272	.344	.490	.834	12	1	3	1	186
C. Jensen C	74	250	38	61	40	10	27	75	.244	.314	.428	.742	16	0	1	0	177
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	75	295	29	60	30	10	12	61	.203	.246	.336	.582	9	0	0	0	145
I. Collins LF	71	224	28	51	23	3	33	64	.228	.337	.317	.654	11	0	4	4	132
M. Massey 2B	63	184	24	49	27	7	7	32	.266	.289	.457	.746	14	0	2	0	130
N. Loftin 2B	45	129	21	33	24	3	17	20	.256	.353	.434	.787	12	1	1	0	114
L. Thomas CF	66	170	19	38	22	5	29	42	.224	.340	.353	.693	7	0	3	3	114
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	35	87	8	23	7	1	5	25	.264	.313	.345	.658	4	0	0	1	38
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	24	26	9	7	1	0	4	9	.269	.355	.269	.624	0	0	5	2	24
J. Rave RF	7	13	3	4	1	1	3	5	.308	.438	.846	1.284	2	1	0	0	15
J. Rojas 3B	4	7	2	3	4	1	0	0	.429	.429	1.000	1.429	1	0	0	0	13
K. Misner CF	10	28	1	8	4	0	1	12	.286	.310	.321	.631	1	0	2	1	12
Total	81	2725	348	675	331	81	272	641	.248	.320	.397	.717	145	9	62	19	1823

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	16	16	5-5	0	0	101.0	3.48	88	41	39	10	29	77	.236	1.16	224
S. Lugo SP	15	15	3-4	0	0	85.1	3.69	87	39	35	7	28	66	.269	1.35	166
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	31	0	3-3	12	18	29.2	5.16	34	19	17	2	19	25	.296	1.79	119
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	33	0	2-1	1	3	33.0	2.45	20	12	9	2	11	30	.168	0.94	88
A. Lange RP	33	0	0-4	6	6	35.0	3.86	29	17	15	2	19	36	.228	1.37	78
L. Avila RP	15	6	3-3	0	0	42.2	5.06	42	24	24	4	27	39	.268	1.62	59
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
J. Schreiber RP	34	0	0-3	1	2	31.2	2.56	24	10	9	5	12	24	.220	1.14	53
M. Strahm RP	27	0	3-1	0	3	24.2	6.20	25	17	17	8	10	19	.255	1.42	45
C. Seabold RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	2	.125	0.86	32
S. Cruz RP	21	0	1-2	0	1	23.0	6.26	23	17	16	8	13	30	.256	1.57	29
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	24
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
B. Way RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	3.97	11	5	5	2	6	11	.250	1.50	17
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 SP	2	1	0-1	0	0	8.0	13.50	11	12	12	1	6	4	.324	2.13	-8
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	81	81	34-47	21	37	716.1	4.55	692	386	362	98	307	628	.254	1.39	1387

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