Atlanta Braves vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 18, 2026 Gametracker

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C. SaleL	14-9 W-L	157.0 IP	2.18 ERA	6.13 SO/BB	0.99 WHIP
P. LambertR	8-9 W-L	145.2 IP	3.71 ERA	2.52 SO/BB	1.22 WHIP

14-9, 157.0 IP, 2.18 ERA

8-9, 145.2 IP, 3.71 ERA

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Reynaldo Lopez	Shoulder	09-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 29
Joe Jimenez	Knee	09-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 25
Joey Wentz	Knee	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lane Thomas	Side	10-10-2026Expected to be out until at least Oct 11
Spencer Strider	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Bryce Elder	Knee	10-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Oct 2
Robert Suarez	Elbow	09-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 22
Spencer Schwellenbach	Elbow	03-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Apr 1

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
Braves ATL-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
M. Olson 1B	152	588	96	147	85	39	63	166	.250	.324	.505	.829	33	0	4	0	469
M. Harris II CF	146	555	72	161	83	25	21	115	.290	.317	.486	.803	32	1	11	3	409
O. Albies 2B	152	580	83	142	71	22	44	93	.245	.299	.409	.708	27	1	4	4	399
D. Baldwin C	129	511	80	143	77	24	52	125	.280	.354	.456	.810	18	0	3	1	392
M. Dubon LF	144	536	61	145	69	11	34	68	.271	.317	.386	.703	25	2	9	3	356
R. Acuna Jr. RF	99	378	57	96	49	18	50	97	.254	.346	.447	.793	17	1	20	8	313
A. Riley 3B	150	533	61	118	68	17	46	188	.221	.295	.364	.659	21	2	9	2	302
L. Thomas LF	21	41	6	7	3	1	5	15	.171	.261	.317	.578	3	0	2	0	216
M. Yastrzemski LF	129	333	47	76	36	10	38	90	.228	.313	.378	.691	18	1	1	0	208
D. Smith DH	105	263	39	67	44	8	22	46	.255	.312	.376	.688	6	1	0	0	183
J. Jarvis SS	38	111	10	23	11	1	8	23	.207	.267	.297	.564	5	1	0	1	50
S. Murphy C	25	85	10	17	9	3	7	31	.200	.261	.353	.614	4	0	0	0	40
H. Kim SS	45	111	8	14	9	0	13	32	.126	.224	.135	.359	1	0	2	0	34
B. Hicklen RF	16	27	8	9	3	0	7	12	.333	.471	.519	.990	5	0	0	0	26
J. Azocar RF	11	17	2	6	0	0	1	4	.353	.389	.471	.860	2	0	1	0	11
K. Farmer 3B	13	16	2	4	3	0	0	4	.250	.235	.313	.548	1	0	0	0	8
D. Keirsey CF	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	0	0	0	0	3
L. Williams 2B	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	1.000	.000	.000	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	152	5131	702	1270	672	192	439	1229	.248	.311	.411	.722	239	11	80	23	3415

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
C. Sale SP	26	26	14-9	0	0	157.0	2.18	125	43	38	9	31	190	.216	0.99	468
R. Iglesias RP	55	0	1-2	33	36	56.0	2.73	47	21	17	6	17	57	.226	1.14	342
B. Elder SP	26	26	8-8	0	0	149.0	4.11	140	74	68	24	49	121	.244	1.27	308
G. Holmes SP	29	28	9-5	0	0	141.2	3.49	125	57	55	20	59	110	.235	1.30	303
M. Perez SP	29	25	9-9	0	0	137.2	3.07	113	52	47	13	60	100	.224	1.26	276
T. Mahle SP	7	7	3-1	0	0	43.1	1.25	34	8	6	4	6	38	.215	0.92	261
D. Fuentes RP	55	1	7-2	3	9	69.1	2.21	53	18	17	5	20	88	.210	1.05	220
D. Lee RP	68	0	6-1	0	2	64.0	3.09	45	24	22	3	16	75	.196	0.95	183
B. Suter RP	10	0	1-0	0	0	23.0	1.96	22	7	5	2	8	18	.253	1.30	154
R. Suarez RP	31	0	4-0	4	5	32.0	0.56	21	2	2	1	6	26	.184	0.84	136
D. Dodd RP	44	0	4-1	1	1	45.1	2.38	28	12	12	6	14	47	.175	0.93	133
R. Lopez RP	26	13	4-5	0	0	79.1	4.54	80	44	40	11	34	73	.261	1.44	125
J. Ritchie SP	14	8	1-2	1	1	58.0	4.50	47	32	29	9	36	53	.221	1.43	90
S. Strider SP	8	8	4-2	0	0	39.0	5.31	33	24	23	9	20	46	.232	1.36	87
V. Mederos RP	26	0	4-1	1	1	30.1	3.86	27	13	13	1	12	29	.233	1.29	80
E. Hernandez RP	4	0	2-0	1	1	11.0	2.45	10	3	3	3	6	11	.233	1.45	39
R. Kerr RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	14.1	1.26	6	2	2	1	1	10	.130	0.49	37
J. Karinchak RP	9	0	0-0	0	0	9.2	1.86	4	2	2	1	5	8	.129	0.93	22
C. Carrasco RP	8	0	0-0	0	2	16.2	5.94	21	11	11	3	3	7	.318	1.44	16
A. Smith-Shawver SP	6	5	0-2	0	0	26.0	6.92	29	20	20	5	16	20	.274	1.73	12
O. Murphy RP	3	1	0-1	0	0	6.2	4.05	6	5	3	1	2	6	.231	1.20	6
I. Hamilton RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	7.71	6	4	4	0	3	4	.300	1.93	3
B. Burkhalter RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	0	1	1	.333	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
H. Waldrep SP	3	2	0-1	0	0	10.2	8.44	13	10	10	3	10	9	.295	2.16	-3
Total	152	152	89-63	47	66	1350.0	3.61	1176	587	541	167	508	1266	.233	1.25	3295

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	147	525	96	163	98	39	103	114	.310	.429	.594	1.023	30	1	1	0	564
I. Paredes 3B	144	523	62	135	85	21	64	83	.258	.357	.432	.789	26	1	0	0	414
C. Walker 1B	146	533	66	119	80	25	47	136	.223	.297	.415	.712	25	1	0	0	356
J. Pena SS	101	400	73	109	49	19	24	102	.273	.325	.465	.790	18	1	9	2	305
C. Smith RF	147	476	62	102	54	20	39	133	.214	.279	.399	.678	16	6	10	2	302
J. Altuve 2B	124	478	66	116	44	15	40	104	.243	.303	.393	.696	23	2	5	3	296
D. Varsho CF	37	136	11	24	13	4	10	32	.176	.233	.309	.542	4	1	3	0	269
Y. Diaz C	87	299	33	82	37	11	12	51	.274	.307	.428	.735	13	0	0	2	185
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	49	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	39	102	13	22	12	1	14	31	.216	.314	.333	.647	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	151	5067	673	1213	642	200	493	1238	.239	.314	.409	.723	222	18	45	20	3703

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	64	0	3-3	5	7	68.0	4.50	65	38	34	9	18	62	.248	1.22	158
T. Imai SP	20	15	6-4	0	0	72.2	5.20	58	42	42	9	50	91	.216	1.49	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	55	1	2-5	6	11	55.2	5.01	62	35	31	8	20	44	.278	1.47	101
C. Javier SP	15	10	2-5	0	0	55.2	5.50	58	34	34	9	23	55	.267	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	151	151	76-75	48	59	1338.2	4.53	1194	724	674	193	607	1319	.238	1.35	2590

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