Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 17, 2026 Gametracker

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S. LugoR	7-8 W-L	164.0 IP	4.99 ERA	2.38 SO/BB	1.45 WHIP
M. UllolaR	0-0 W-L	8.0 IP	3.38 ERA	10.00 SO/BB	0.75 WHIP

7-8, 164.0 IP, 4.99 ERA

0-0, 8.0 IP, 3.38 ERA

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Connor Seabold	Lat	09-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 18
Tony Gonsolin	Elbow	09-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 18
James McArthur	Elbow	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
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	03-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Apr 1
Beck Way	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Luinder Avila	Elbow	01-31-2028Expected to be out until at least Feb 1, 2028

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Steven Okert	Hamstring	09-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 16
Michael Burrows	Elbow	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brice Matthews	Knee	09-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 16

	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	133	518	84	144	54	18	65	102	.278	.359	.444	.803	30	1	42	8	461
C. Jensen C	141	495	73	115	74	24	63	159	.232	.319	.453	.772	33	2	2	1	356
J. Caglianone RF	135	482	66	134	70	23	30	138	.278	.328	.485	.813	27	2	6	2	347
S. Perez DH	142	547	48	125	72	19	23	112	.229	.273	.378	.651	23	1	1	0	309
V. Pasquantino 1B	105	388	45	92	49	12	50	71	.237	.325	.387	.712	18	2	5	0	271
I. Collins LF	137	421	47	93	40	6	62	110	.221	.327	.335	.662	24	3	8	5	252
M. Massey 2B	122	386	48	109	46	12	21	69	.282	.316	.443	.759	24	1	3	0	249
N. Loftin 3B	112	350	41	81	42	7	40	70	.231	.318	.374	.692	25	2	3	1	228
M. Garcia 3B	74	286	34	76	32	3	25	48	.266	.323	.381	.704	18	3	5	4	182
K. Isbel CF	91	271	30	60	24	6	15	66	.221	.268	.328	.596	9	1	6	0	140
T. Tolbert SS	75	122	31	36	8	3	12	28	.295	.360	.410	.770	5	0	21	4	126
J. Rave RF	44	114	22	25	13	6	15	29	.219	.310	.447	.757	6	1	7	1	93
J. Rojas 3B	41	100	11	24	13	2	5	16	.240	.283	.340	.623	4	0	1	0	55
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
L. Maile C	16	37	2	6	5	1	4	12	.162	.244	.270	.514	1	0	0	0	15
M. Lugo LF	9	14	0	2	0	0	1	6	.143	.200	.143	.343	0	0	0	0	0
Total	152	5095	641	1248	610	158	490	1192	.245	.315	.399	.714	272	19	123	32	3118

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	30	30	9-9	0	0	188.2	3.34	158	74	70	27	49	149	.226	1.10	434
N. Cameron SP	29	28	9-8	0	0	166.1	3.84	146	76	71	17	52	149	.233	1.19	355
S. Lugo SP	30	30	7-8	0	0	164.0	4.99	185	99	91	19	53	126	.290	1.45	270
D. Lynch IV RP	54	8	6-5	1	3	76.2	3.29	59	32	28	6	23	52	.208	1.07	167
S. Cruz RP	54	2	2-3	7	8	56.2	4.13	51	28	26	13	20	62	.241	1.25	147
R. Dobnak SP	13	11	3-4	0	0	69.1	2.73	65	21	21	6	23	47	.249	1.27	130
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	126
L. Erceg RP	48	0	4-4	12	18	44.1	6.09	53	35	30	5	29	32	.306	1.85	123
N. Pearson RP	21	0	1-1	3	4	22.0	1.23	14	3	3	0	7	22	.179	0.95	117
A. Lange RP	55	0	2-7	10	13	56.2	6.04	59	40	38	9	30	56	.269	1.57	115
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
L. Avila SP	21	12	5-4	0	0	70.0	5.53	71	43	43	7	42	61	.272	1.61	100
C. Kimbrel RP	12	0	1-3	1	1	11.1	3.97	10	7	5	0	6	8	.250	1.41	57
J. Rojas 3B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	55
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
M. Black RP	17	0	0-0	0	0	31.1	4.31	30	16	15	6	20	19	.252	1.60	36
B. Way RP	19	1	1-1	0	0	23.1	3.86	27	13	10	4	10	21	.293	1.59	34
C. Seabold RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	9.00	7	6	5	0	4	5	.318	2.20	31
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
J. Cuas RP	20	0	0-1	0	1	19.0	2.37	23	6	5	0	12	21	.303	1.84	22
E. Morgan RP	16	0	0-1	1	1	19.1	5.12	24	11	11	5	9	16	.300	1.71	22
A. Gose RP	9	0	1-1	0	0	8.1	0.00	6	2	0	0	1	2	.214	0.84	18
L. Maile C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	15
N. Hoffman RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	5.2	4.76	6	3	3	0	1	4	.286	1.24	12
C. Thomas RP	11	0	1-0	0	0	11.0	2.45	10	3	3	0	1	9	.244	1.00	8
E. McGee RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	8.68	16	9	9	3	4	8	.381	2.14	7
C. Duran RP	2	0	1-0	0	0	1.1	13.50	2	2	2	0	3	1	.333	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
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	152	152	67-85	36	60	1338.1	4.61	1315	734	686	185	539	1100	.258	1.39	2550

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	148	529	96	164	98	39	103	115	.310	.428	.594	1.022	31	1	1	0	564
I. Paredes 3B	145	526	62	135	86	21	64	84	.257	.354	.430	.784	26	1	0	0	414
C. Walker 1B	147	537	66	119	80	25	47	138	.222	.295	.412	.707	25	1	0	0	356
J. Pena SS	102	404	73	112	49	19	24	102	.277	.329	.470	.799	19	1	9	2	305
C. Smith RF	148	478	62	102	54	20	39	133	.213	.278	.397	.675	16	6	10	2	302
J. Altuve 2B	125	482	66	117	44	15	40	104	.243	.303	.392	.695	23	2	5	3	297
D. Varsho CF	37	136	11	24	13	4	10	32	.176	.233	.309	.542	4	1	3	0	269
Y. Diaz C	88	303	34	84	38	12	12	51	.277	.309	.439	.748	13	0	0	2	192
T. Trammell CF	91	235	27	48	21	7	25	81	.204	.292	.353	.645	10	2	4	3	124
C. Vazquez C	84	236	22	49	25	7	18	52	.208	.263	.326	.589	7	0	1	0	118
B. Matthews LF	82	208	23	41	22	7	15	71	.197	.250	.332	.582	5	1	4	4	97
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
N. Allen 2B	87	136	24	38	14	3	10	30	.279	.327	.382	.709	5	0	2	0	90
J. Barrosa LF	3	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.400	.600	1	0	0	0	88
L. Wade Jr. LF	50	114	15	23	18	3	18	33	.202	.311	.325	.636	5	0	0	0	71
J. Meyers CF	57	141	15	30	11	3	10	31	.213	.268	.326	.594	7	0	1	2	67
N. Velazquez LF	12	22	2	3	6	2	1	10	.136	.167	.409	.576	0	0	0	0	62
J. Loperfido LF	40	103	13	22	12	1	14	32	.214	.311	.330	.641	7	1	1	1	59
B. Shewmake 3B	30	78	10	20	9	3	2	13	.256	.272	.423	.695	4	0	0	0	54
Z. Dezenzo LF	35	75	11	16	3	1	7	31	.213	.280	.307	.587	4	0	1	0	30
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
R. Delgado 2B	19	37	4	9	4	1	3	7	.243	.300	.351	.651	1	0	0	0	20
L. Spence CF	14	37	4	6	3	0	3	15	.162	.244	.189	.433	1	0	0	1	9
C. Salazar C	9	18	0	1	1	0	3	3	.056	.227	.056	.283	0	0	0	0	4
C. Price C	7	12	1	2	0	0	1	6	.167	.231	.250	.481	1	0	0	0	2
Total	152	5100	675	1221	644	201	495	1245	.239	.313	.409	.722	224	18	45	20	3711

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
J. Hader RP	43	0	4-1	26	26	42.1	0.85	17	4	4	1	11	55	.118	0.66	327
P. Lambert SP	26	26	8-9	0	0	145.2	3.71	122	62	60	14	56	141	.225	1.22	298
H. Brown SP	18	18	6-3	0	0	97.0	3.43	76	40	37	11	49	110	.216	1.29	228
A. Blubaugh RP	59	0	5-2	1	2	91.0	3.26	72	35	33	12	38	91	.219	1.21	204
S. Okert RP	68	1	6-2	0	1	67.2	2.13	45	17	16	7	14	68	.190	0.87	190
B. Abreu RP	62	0	6-4	8	9	59.1	3.79	40	27	25	8	40	77	.193	1.35	184
E. De Los Santos RP	65	0	3-3	5	7	69.1	4.67	67	41	36	10	20	64	.250	1.25	158
T. Imai SP	21	15	6-4	0	0	73.2	5.13	58	42	42	9	51	92	.214	1.48	146
H. Wesneski SP	9	9	5-2	0	0	48.2	3.70	39	24	20	4	16	38	.219	1.13	125
K. Teng RP	30	10	5-7	0	0	73.2	4.76	69	43	39	10	33	73	.245	1.38	109
M. Burrows SP	18	17	4-9	0	0	94.2	5.99	112	69	63	21	35	75	.292	1.55	102
B. King RP	56	1	2-5	6	11	57.0	4.89	63	35	31	8	21	45	.276	1.47	101
C. Javier SP	16	11	2-6	0	0	61.0	5.31	63	36	36	10	26	57	.265	1.46	72
L. Wade Jr. LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	3	2	2	1	0	0	.500	3.00	71
J. Meyers CF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	67
E. Pecko SP	5	4	1-0	0	0	23.0	4.30	17	12	11	5	12	15	.207	1.26	41
R. Blanco SP	7	5	0-1	0	0	31.2	7.11	30	25	25	9	15	26	.252	1.42	32
A. Santa RP	10	0	0-1	0	0	15.1	1.17	8	6	2	1	6	9	.160	0.91	29
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
B. Sousa RP	30	1	1-3	0	1	26.0	5.54	28	18	16	4	16	27	.277	1.69	23
L. VanWey RP	5	0	1-0	0	0	6.0	1.50	5	2	1	0	0	5	.250	0.83	21
M. Ullola RP	6	1	0-0	0	0	8.0	3.38	5	3	3	2	1	10	.172	0.75	20
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
Total	152	152	76-76	48	59	1347.2	4.53	1202	729	678	195	614	1325	.238	1.35	2590

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