Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 22, 2026 Gametracker

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D. AndersonR	4-4 W-L	76.1 IP	4.01 ERA	3.00 SO/BB	1.30 WHIP
M. WachaR	5-8 W-L	150.2 IP	3.46 ERA	2.85 SO/BB	1.15 WHIP

4-4, 76.1 IP, 4.01 ERA

5-8, 150.2 IP, 3.46 ERA

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Justin Verlander	Hamstring	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Burch Smith	Shoulder	08-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 28
Jack Flaherty	Forearm	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Wenceel Perez	Orbital	09-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 4
Will Vest	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Parker Meadows	Arm	08-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 20
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
James Outman	Concussion	08-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 21
Matt Vierling	Thigh	08-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 21
Riley Greene	Hamstring	08-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 22
Kerry Carpenter	Foot	08-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 21
Trey Sweeney	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brant Hurter	Back	08-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 17
Bailey Horn	Elbow	08-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Sep 1, 2027

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Connor Seabold	Lat	08-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 30
James McArthur	Elbow	08-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 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	08-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 25
Beck Way	Back	08-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 22
Luinder Avila	Elbow	01-31-2028Expected to be out until at least Feb 1, 2028

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Tigers DET-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
K. McGonigle SS	120	459	80	129	48	12	77	76	.281	.386	.418	.804	21	3	12	1	385
D. Dingler C	115	441	65	114	82	26	30	108	.259	.322	.499	.821	24	2	0	0	356
R. Greene LF	117	422	65	115	54	16	61	133	.273	.366	.450	.816	25	1	3	1	312
S. Torkelson 1B	123	425	53	97	63	20	53	148	.228	.318	.419	.737	21	0	0	1	277
C. Keith 3B	114	324	44	87	32	9	23	66	.269	.321	.423	.744	15	4	5	0	216
G. Torres 2B	67	251	41	68	33	8	42	56	.271	.379	.406	.785	10	0	0	0	193
Z. McKinstry 2B	99	296	33	64	24	4	34	51	.216	.299	.321	.620	13	3	1	5	159
K. Carpenter RF	81	231	27	48	36	13	18	75	.208	.276	.416	.692	5	2	0	0	144
M. Vierling CF	92	266	24	55	31	5	19	49	.207	.255	.335	.590	13	3	4	2	144
H. Lee 2B	79	204	20	54	28	6	10	52	.265	.296	.417	.713	11	1	1	2	117
W. Perez RF	53	161	22	29	17	7	14	29	.180	.246	.348	.594	4	1	3	1	99
J. Outman CF	45	93	14	17	14	5	5	42	.183	.240	.366	.606	0	1	2	1	76
J. Baez SS	37	130	19	35	14	2	4	25	.269	.294	.369	.663	7	0	1	2	73
E. Valencia C	19	54	12	21	17	6	1	15	.389	.411	.833	1.244	6	0	0	0	68
B. Malgeri RF	29	56	9	15	10	3	10	14	.268	.382	.464	.846	2	0	0	0	49
M. Clark CF	15	58	7	15	8	1	4	15	.259	.317	.414	.731	2	2	0	0	36
P. Meadows CF	12	36	3	9	2	0	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.641	1	1	3	0	21
B. Callahan LF	1	2	1	1	2	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.500	2.000	0	1	0	0	5
J. Jung DH	3	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542	0	0	0	0	3
C. Julks RF	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.750	1	0	0	0	2
Total	124	4186	565	1015	538	150	439	1064	.242	.319	.408	.727	190	26	36	18	2735

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	26	20	9-7	1	1	128.2	3.22	99	50	46	13	29	86	.208	0.99	312
T. Melton SP	14	14	7-1	0	0	84.1	1.71	57	18	16	8	25	73	.189	0.97	257
F. Valdez SP	24	24	7-8	0	0	133.0	4.26	135	69	63	13	50	106	.259	1.39	236
K. Jansen RP	36	0	3-4	15	19	32.2	3.86	20	15	14	5	20	37	.174	1.22	168
Z. McKinstry 2B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	0	3	0	.400	5.00	159
D. Anderson RP	43	5	4-4	2	7	76.1	4.01	70	37	34	11	29	87	.241	1.30	157
J. Flaherty SP	19	19	3-8	0	0	86.1	4.59	80	52	44	11	42	102	.240	1.41	124
K. Finnegan RP	51	0	2-0	2	10	50.2	3.38	49	19	19	8	28	38	.263	1.52	102
T. Holton RP	53	3	1-5	2	4	58.0	3.10	59	25	20	7	14	45	.263	1.26	95
E. De Jesus RP	28	0	2-0	1	1	41.0	3.95	37	21	18	3	15	39	.239	1.27	92
T. Madden RP	14	1	1-0	0	0	34.1	2.62	23	10	10	3	12	35	.183	1.02	81
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
J. Waguespack RP	20	0	1-1	0	0	27.0	1.67	13	6	5	4	9	16	.143	0.81	63
W. Vest RP	27	0	3-5	2	7	26.2	6.08	28	22	18	2	10	27	.275	1.43	45
D. Sommers RP	28	0	0-3	0	1	22.0	3.68	22	11	9	2	11	34	.262	1.50	25
B. Smith RP	13	1	0-2	0	0	17.0	3.18	18	8	6	2	7	20	.277	1.47	20
B. Hanifee RP	23	2	0-1	0	0	21.1	5.06	24	12	12	5	7	10	.286	1.45	20
J. Jobe SP	2	2	1-1	0	0	8.2	6.23	10	6	6	2	2	8	.286	1.38	12
B. Brieske RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	6.75	9	7	7	3	4	8	.257	1.39	12
T. Rainey RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	4	4	.091	1.36	8
J. Verlander SP	1	1	0-1	0	0	3.2	12.27	6	5	5	1	2	1	.353	2.18	-6
Y. Diaz RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	3	.250	2.00	-10
R. Vanasco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	6.1	15.63	14	12	11	2	6	4	.412	3.16	-15
Total	124	124	60-64	25	51	1099.2	3.55	953	482	434	123	381	1019	.231	1.21	2029

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	106	415	63	117	43	14	47	83	.282	.354	.448	.802	25	1	32	6	356
J. Caglianone RF	116	416	56	113	58	22	29	117	.272	.324	.490	.814	21	2	6	2	302
C. Jensen C	116	406	54	89	56	16	46	135	.219	.298	.401	.699	24	1	1	0	255
S. Perez DH	115	443	41	95	52	16	18	96	.214	.260	.366	.626	17	1	0	0	237
M. Massey 2B	104	321	42	87	42	11	16	61	.271	.301	.442	.743	20	1	2	0	215
I. Collins LF	112	354	40	81	35	6	46	92	.229	.326	.353	.679	20	3	6	5	213
V. Pasquantino 1B	79	293	34	68	33	6	37	60	.232	.318	.345	.663	11	2	4	0	185
N. Loftin 3B	87	264	33	62	35	5	31	47	.235	.325	.375	.700	20	1	2	1	183
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
T. Tolbert SS	56	92	24	28	6	3	9	19	.304	.363	.457	.820	5	0	17	3	102
K. Isbel CF	67	195	19	45	15	4	11	48	.231	.280	.338	.618	7	1	5	0	100
J. Rojas 3B	30	76	6	17	9	1	3	13	.224	.253	.303	.556	3	0	1	0	36
J. Rave RF	24	55	8	11	2	2	5	14	.200	.267	.418	.685	4	1	2	0	35
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
L. Maile C	8	21	2	5	5	1	1	8	.238	.273	.429	.702	1	0	0	0	13
A. Velazquez SS	6	15	0	1	0	0	0	2	.067	.067	.067	.134	0	0	1	0	2
Total	125	4183	513	1014	489	126	382	994	.242	.310	.393	.703	220	16	96	26	2438

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	24	24	5-8	0	0	150.2	3.46	132	62	58	18	41	117	.235	1.15	317
N. Cameron SP	24	23	7-8	0	0	138.1	4.16	126	69	64	14	43	126	.240	1.22	275
S. Lugo SP	25	25	5-7	0	0	139.1	4.59	146	79	71	16	46	108	.274	1.38	244
L. Erceg RP	46	0	4-4	12	18	43.1	6.02	52	34	29	5	27	31	.308	1.82	123
D. Lynch IV RP	48	2	4-4	1	3	50.0	2.88	37	20	16	4	14	40	.199	1.02	116
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
S. Cruz RP	43	2	2-3	4	5	45.1	4.17	37	22	21	11	18	51	.220	1.21	110
A. Lange RP	46	0	2-7	10	13	47.2	6.23	49	35	33	6	26	51	.266	1.57	104
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	102
L. Avila SP	21	12	5-4	0	0	70.0	5.53	71	43	43	7	42	61	.272	1.61	100
R. Dobnak SP	8	6	2-1	0	0	41.2	1.73	38	8	8	2	16	25	.242	1.30	87
N. Pearson RP	9	0	1-1	1	2	8.2	1.04	4	1	1	0	3	9	.138	0.81	75
J. Schreiber RP	49	0	0-3	1	4	44.0	3.68	40	21	18	7	21	33	.250	1.39	60
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
C. Kimbrel RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.167	0.86	47
J. Rojas 3B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	36
B. Way RP	19	1	1-1	0	0	23.1	3.86	27	13	10	4	10	21	.293	1.59	34
M. Black RP	14	0	0-0	0	0	25.2	3.51	25	10	10	5	16	18	.258	1.60	33
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
E. Morgan RP	16	0	0-1	1	1	19.1	5.12	24	11	11	5	9	16	.300	1.71	22
J. Cuas RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	11.0	1.64	12	2	2	0	4	13	.279	1.45	21
E. McGee RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	11.81	11	7	7	2	3	6	.423	2.63	2
A. Bummer RP	2	0	0-1	0	0	1.1	40.50	6	6	6	1	1	0	.600	5.25	-1
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	125	125	51-74	30	53	1097.1	4.78	1089	624	583	157	461	925	.260	1.41	2083

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