Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 18, 2026 Gametracker

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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
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

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Chris Devenski	Illness	07-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 5
Oneil Cruz	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Spencer Horwitz	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Wilber Dotel	Lat	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Pirates PIT-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	77	302	41	88	32	10	36	58	.291	.367	.460	.827	19	1	28	4	272
J. Caglianone RF	77	264	39	71	30	14	25	89	.269	.341	.489	.830	12	2	3	1	187
C. Jensen C	76	258	39	63	42	11	27	77	.244	.313	.434	.747	16	0	1	0	184
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	77	301	29	60	30	10	12	63	.199	.241	.329	.570	9	0	0	0	144
I. Collins LF	73	230	28	52	23	3	33	65	.226	.333	.317	.650	12	0	4	4	133
M. Massey 2B	64	188	24	49	27	7	7	33	.261	.283	.447	.730	14	0	2	0	129
N. Loftin 3B	47	136	21	33	24	3	17	21	.243	.338	.412	.750	12	1	1	0	113
L. Thomas CF	68	176	19	38	22	5	30	45	.216	.333	.341	.674	7	0	3	3	113
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	36	88	9	23	7	1	7	26	.261	.323	.341	.664	4	0	0	1	41
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	26	29	9	7	1	0	4	10	.241	.324	.241	.565	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 2B	6	13	2	4	4	1	0	1	.308	.308	.615	.923	1	0	0	0	13
K. Misner CF	11	28	1	8	4	0	1	12	.286	.310	.321	.631	1	0	2	1	12
Total	83	2782	351	680	333	82	277	660	.244	.317	.393	.710	146	10	62	19	1833

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	16	16	3-5	0	0	90.1	4.18	94	46	42	10	30	69	.272	1.37	161
N. Cameron SP	15	15	4-5	0	0	80.0	4.50	84	45	40	8	22	75	.263	1.33	147
S. Kolek SP	9	9	4-2	0	0	52.0	4.15	51	27	24	8	11	34	.255	1.19	118
L. Erceg RP	32	0	3-3	12	18	30.2	5.58	36	21	19	3	19	25	.300	1.79	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	34	0	2-1	1	3	33.2	2.41	21	12	9	2	11	30	.172	0.95	89
A. Lange RP	34	0	0-4	6	6	35.1	5.09	33	22	20	2	21	37	.250	1.53	68
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
M. Strahm RP	28	0	3-1	0	3	25.2	5.96	25	17	17	8	10	20	.248	1.36	49
J. Schreiber RP	35	0	0-3	1	2	32.2	3.31	29	14	12	6	12	25	.248	1.26	48
S. Cruz RP	22	1	1-2	0	1	24.1	5.92	23	17	16	8	14	33	.245	1.52	33
C. Seabold RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	8.31	7	4	4	0	2	5	.350	2.08	33
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	4	0	0-0	0	0	3.2	17.18	11	7	7	2	2	0	.550	3.55	24
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
B. Way RP	9	0	0-0	0	0	12.2	4.26	13	6	6	3	6	13	.260	1.50	19
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
M. Spence SP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	83	83	34-49	21	37	732.1	4.87	730	421	396	107	316	642	.260	1.43	1357

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	82	294	54	85	52	11	52	75	.289	.402	.480	.882	19	2	5	0	276
B. Lowe 2B	76	297	50	73	52	19	33	85	.246	.321	.508	.829	19	1	0	0	245
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
S. Horwitz 1B	74	246	36	69	33	10	40	40	.280	.386	.455	.841	11	1	1	0	208
R. O'Hearn RF	67	249	35	70	45	11	21	62	.281	.339	.458	.797	11	0	1	0	188
N. Gonzales 3B	76	285	42	84	35	3	16	56	.295	.342	.372	.714	11	1	4	2	182
K. Griffin SS	52	193	31	53	23	5	14	56	.275	.333	.420	.753	9	2	14	1	152
J. Mangum LF	62	176	22	53	14	1	10	34	.301	.344	.358	.702	7	0	14	5	117
M. Ozuna DH	55	202	17	42	26	7	21	65	.208	.289	.337	.626	5	0	0	0	101
H. Davis C	52	137	17	20	19	6	14	32	.146	.244	.314	.558	5	0	2	1	84
E. Rodriguez C	29	78	12	20	11	3	17	23	.256	.389	.436	.825	5	0	2	0	66
J. Triolo SS	49	147	14	33	9	0	13	41	.224	.296	.265	.561	6	0	5	1	65
T. Callihan RF	20	47	8	12	9	2	7	16	.255	.357	.511	.868	2	2	1	0	43
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
E. Valdez RF	13	37	5	7	7	3	2	18	.189	.231	.486	.717	2	0	0	0	23
R. Flores C	2	3	2	2	2	1	2	0	.667	.800	2.000	2.800	1	0	0	0	12
B. Cook CF	44	26	6	4	0	0	0	11	.154	.154	.154	.308	0	0	4	1	11
J. Garcia CF	13	35	2	7	2	0	1	10	.200	.243	.229	.472	1	0	0	0	9
D. Wendzel 1B	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	82	2840	413	730	395	99	302	760	.257	.335	.413	.748	128	9	74	15	2044

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	16	16	7-3	0	0	96.2	3.07	83	37	33	8	22	107	.232	1.09	263
P. Skenes SP	17	17	6-7	0	0	93.0	3.10	70	38	32	9	20	114	.205	0.97	239
G. Soto RP	34	0	4-1	11	14	33.1	3.24	20	14	12	2	13	39	.169	0.99	172
M. Keller SP	16	16	5-5	0	0	88.1	4.89	85	52	48	9	32	69	.251	1.32	162
C. Mlodzinski SP	16	9	4-3	2	2	70.2	3.57	74	35	28	6	25	59	.267	1.40	142
B. Chandler SP	16	15	3-7	0	0	79.1	4.42	64	45	39	9	46	73	.215	1.39	113
Y. Ramirez RP	34	0	5-2	1	3	44.0	3.89	31	22	19	4	25	48	.195	1.27	105
E. Sisk RP	30	0	1-0	0	2	35.0	1.80	28	7	7	2	12	42	.224	1.14	81
D. Santana RP	35	0	2-3	2	4	33.1	4.86	30	20	18	4	17	29	.234	1.41	60
M. Montgomery RP	32	4	2-3	0	2	31.2	4.83	30	18	17	4	15	44	.242	1.42	54
T. Callihan RF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	43
I. Mattson RP	25	0	0-0	0	2	24.0	3.75	20	10	10	1	12	20	.225	1.33	39
J. Jones SP	5	5	1-1	0	0	20.1	5.75	23	13	13	4	8	21	.280	1.52	29
W. Dotel RP	9	0	1-2	0	0	18.1	5.89	16	12	12	2	9	19	.232	1.36	24
B. Bidois RP	14	0	0-0	0	0	15.0	4.80	15	13	8	4	11	18	.259	1.73	19
C. Sanders RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	9.00	6	6	6	0	5	8	.261	1.83	4
A. Kelly RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	2	2	2	1	1	1	.250	1.29	2
C. Devenski RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	5	2	2	1	0	3	.417	2.14	1
J. Urquidy RP	5	0	0-1	1	1	6.1	8.53	15	10	6	1	2	6	.441	2.68	1
H. Barco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	11.2	7.71	14	12	10	3	9	8	.292	1.97	-1
Total	82	82	41-41	17	32	734.2	4.10	654	388	335	78	297	753	.235	1.29	1552

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