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	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
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	06-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 30
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	06-23-2026Probable for Jun 24
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
Jared Jones	Elbow	06-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 27
Konnor Griffin	Forearm	06-25-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 26
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	76	299	40	88	32	10	35	57	.294	.368	.465	.833	19	1	28	4	270
C. Jensen C	72	242	36	59	40	10	25	74	.244	.311	.434	.745	16	0	1	0	172
J. Caglianone RF	73	248	35	67	27	12	24	81	.270	.344	.472	.816	12	1	3	1	171
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	73	287	28	59	28	10	12	59	.206	.249	.338	.587	8	0	0	0	141
I. Collins LF	70	220	28	50	23	3	33	62	.227	.338	.318	.656	11	0	4	4	132
M. Massey 2B	61	176	23	46	27	7	7	31	.261	.285	.449	.734	12	0	2	0	124
L. Thomas CF	64	164	19	38	22	5	29	40	.232	.350	.366	.716	7	0	3	3	115
N. Loftin 2B	43	120	17	29	22	2	17	20	.242	.343	.408	.751	12	1	1	0	100
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	34	83	8	23	6	1	5	25	.277	.330	.361	.691	4	0	0	1	37
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	22	21	7	4	1	0	3	9	.190	.280	.190	.470	0	0	5	2	18
J. Rave RF	5	10	3	3	1	1	3	3	.300	.462	.900	1.362	1	1	0	0	14
K. Misner CF	8	20	1	7	3	0	1	7	.350	.381	.350	.731	0	0	1	1	9
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	79	2651	333	654	320	77	269	623	.247	.320	.393	.713	139	9	61	19	1760

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	14	14	4-4	0	0	75.0	4.20	76	40	35	8	19	70	.255	1.27	152
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	30	0	3-3	12	18	28.2	5.34	33	19	17	2	19	24	.295	1.81	117
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	32	0	2-1	1	3	32.0	2.53	20	12	9	2	11	30	.172	0.97	85
A. Lange RP	33	0	0-4	6	6	35.0	3.86	29	17	15	2	19	36	.228	1.37	78
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
L. Avila RP	14	5	2-3	0	0	37.2	5.50	39	23	23	4	23	33	.277	1.65	43
M. Strahm RP	26	0	3-1	0	3	23.2	6.46	25	17	17	8	9	18	.263	1.44	43
C. Seabold RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	2	.125	0.86	36
S. Cruz RP	20	0	1-2	0	1	22.0	6.55	22	17	16	8	13	30	.256	1.59	27
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	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
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	18
B. Way RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	3.86	9	4	4	1	5	11	.250	1.50	15
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	79	79	33-46	21	37	699.1	4.53	673	376	352	97	297	613	.253	1.39	1363

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	78	279	52	80	51	11	49	71	.287	.400	.484	.884	18	2	5	0	266
B. Lowe 2B	72	279	47	68	49	18	33	81	.244	.325	.509	.834	18	1	0	0	232
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
S. Horwitz 1B	72	240	36	68	33	10	39	38	.283	.389	.463	.852	11	1	1	0	207
N. Gonzales 3B	72	270	40	79	35	3	16	52	.293	.342	.374	.716	11	1	4	2	177
R. O'Hearn RF	63	233	33	64	41	11	20	58	.275	.335	.451	.786	8	0	1	0	174
K. Griffin SS	51	189	30	51	22	4	14	56	.270	.327	.402	.729	9	2	14	1	144
J. Mangum LF	58	160	21	49	13	1	10	29	.306	.353	.369	.722	7	0	13	3	113
M. Ozuna DH	53	196	16	39	24	6	19	63	.199	.276	.316	.592	5	0	0	0	91
H. Davis C	49	132	14	18	17	5	14	32	.136	.238	.280	.518	4	0	1	1	71
J. Triolo SS	45	136	13	32	9	0	12	38	.235	.307	.279	.586	6	0	5	1	64
E. Rodriguez C	26	68	10	17	8	3	16	20	.250	.393	.426	.819	3	0	2	0	57
T. Callihan LF	17	40	7	11	7	2	7	12	.275	.396	.525	.921	2	1	1	0	39
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
E. Valdez RF	10	27	3	3	5	2	2	13	.111	.172	.370	.542	1	0	0	0	13
R. Flores C	2	3	2	2	2	1	2	0	.667	.800	2.000	2.800	1	0	0	0	12
J. Garcia CF	13	35	2	7	2	0	1	10	.200	.243	.229	.472	1	0	0	0	9
B. Cook RF	40	25	5	4	0	0	0	11	.160	.160	.160	.320	0	0	3	1	8
D. Wendzel 1B	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	78	2700	391	688	374	94	293	720	.255	.335	.409	.744	119	8	71	13	1939

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	15	15	6-3	0	0	90.2	3.18	78	36	32	8	22	97	.233	1.10	236
P. Skenes SP	16	16	6-7	0	0	88.0	2.86	64	34	28	9	18	107	.199	0.93	232
G. Soto RP	33	0	4-1	11	14	32.1	3.34	20	14	12	2	13	38	.174	1.02	169
M. Keller SP	15	15	5-4	0	0	82.1	4.92	78	49	45	7	31	65	.248	1.32	155
C. Mlodzinski SP	15	9	4-3	1	1	67.2	3.72	72	35	28	6	25	56	.271	1.43	127
Y. Ramirez RP	33	0	5-2	1	3	43.2	3.92	31	22	19	4	23	48	.196	1.24	106
B. Chandler SP	15	14	2-7	0	0	74.0	4.62	59	44	38	9	43	69	.213	1.38	97
E. Sisk RP	29	0	1-0	0	2	34.0	1.85	27	7	7	2	11	42	.223	1.12	81
D. Santana RP	33	0	2-3	2	4	31.0	5.23	30	20	18	4	16	26	.248	1.48	53
M. Montgomery RP	29	4	2-2	0	2	28.2	4.71	27	16	15	3	15	37	.241	1.47	51
T. Callihan LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	39
I. Mattson RP	23	0	0-0	0	2	22.0	4.09	20	10	10	1	12	18	.241	1.45	32
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	13	0	0-0	0	0	14.0	5.14	15	13	8	4	11	17	.273	1.86	15
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	78	78	39-39	16	31	698.2	4.17	625	377	324	75	287	711	.236	1.31	1453

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