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	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 23
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Kyle Isbel	Foot	06-09-2026Probable for Jun 10
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	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Chris Devenski	Illness	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Oneil Cruz	Hand	06-09-2026Probable for Jun 10
Joey Bart	Foot	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Konnor Griffin	Elbow	06-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 23

	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	67	264	33	73	27	9	31	55	.277	.352	.451	.803	17	1	23	4	225
M. Garcia 3B	61	237	30	63	24	3	22	39	.266	.326	.384	.710	15	2	4	3	152
V. Pasquantino 1B	64	240	26	53	30	6	30	48	.221	.305	.354	.659	10	2	2	0	152
J. Caglianone RF	61	199	23	52	18	8	20	65	.261	.338	.442	.780	10	1	3	1	124
C. Jensen C	62	201	27	43	31	8	21	69	.214	.285	.383	.668	10	0	0	0	122
S. Perez C	62	239	22	48	26	9	12	49	.201	.250	.339	.589	6	0	0	0	121
I. Collins LF	58	179	22	38	16	3	30	56	.212	.335	.302	.637	7	0	3	3	101
M. Massey 2B	51	141	16	37	20	6	5	27	.262	.282	.461	.743	10	0	1	0	94
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
L. Thomas CF	52	120	12	27	14	2	24	31	.225	.354	.308	.662	4	0	3	3	75
N. Loftin 2B	33	87	14	20	17	1	13	13	.230	.340	.356	.696	8	0	0	0	71
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	29	66	5	17	5	1	4	22	.258	.315	.348	.663	3	0	0	1	27
T. Tolbert RF	18	13	5	3	0	0	2	6	.231	.333	.231	.564	0	0	5	1	16
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	67	2225	263	528	254	63	233	539	.237	.313	.378	.691	110	7	49	16	1405

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	13	13	4-4	0	0	81.0	3.44	66	33	31	9	26	67	.223	1.14	185
S. Lugo SP	13	13	2-4	0	0	76.0	3.91	79	36	33	7	24	64	.271	1.36	141
N. Cameron SP	12	12	3-4	0	0	65.2	3.84	61	32	28	6	17	63	.239	1.19	138
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
S. Kolek SP	7	7	3-1	0	0	43.0	3.14	37	18	15	5	9	30	.228	1.07	110
L. Erceg RP	26	0	3-3	12	18	24.0	6.00	31	18	16	2	16	21	.323	1.96	109
D. Lynch RP	27	0	2-0	1	2	27.1	1.98	18	9	6	1	8	29	.178	0.95	83
A. Lange RP	28	0	0-2	4	4	30.0	3.90	25	14	13	2	16	33	.231	1.37	67
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	20	0	3-1	0	1	19.1	4.19	16	9	9	5	7	17	.216	1.19	49
L. Avila RP	12	3	1-2	0	0	31.1	4.02	31	14	14	2	19	28	.272	1.60	41
J. Schreiber RP	29	0	0-3	1	2	26.0	2.77	21	9	8	4	11	17	.231	1.23	37
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	8	0	0-0	0	0	9.2	1.86	10	2	2	1	3	10	.263	1.34	19
S. Cruz RP	16	0	1-2	0	1	16.2	7.02	16	14	13	7	11	24	.246	1.62	19
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	16
E. Morgan RP	13	0	0-1	1	1	16.1	5.51	23	10	10	4	8	15	.324	1.90	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 RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Way RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	27.00	4	4	4	1	1	2	.500	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
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
Total	67	67	28-39	19	32	592.1	4.38	558	309	288	81	254	547	.249	1.37	1181

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
B. Reynolds LF	67	236	44	63	40	7	46	62	.267	.392	.432	.824	14	2	5	0	215
B. Lowe 2B	61	233	40	58	41	15	28	66	.249	.332	.515	.847	15	1	0	0	198
S. Horwitz 1B	61	196	26	56	27	8	33	29	.286	.387	.459	.846	8	1	1	0	165
R. O'Hearn RF	52	186	31	53	34	10	20	44	.285	.357	.478	.835	6	0	1	0	156
N. Gonzales 3B	61	227	34	69	31	2	15	43	.304	.354	.379	.733	11	0	3	2	151
K. Griffin SS	51	189	30	51	22	4	14	56	.270	.327	.402	.729	9	2	14	1	144
J. Mangum LF	47	121	17	34	9	1	9	25	.281	.338	.331	.669	3	0	11	1	85
M. Ozuna DH	50	185	15	36	23	5	19	60	.195	.277	.303	.580	5	0	0	0	85
H. Davis C	45	123	13	17	17	5	14	30	.138	.241	.285	.526	3	0	1	0	69
J. Triolo SS	35	101	9	23	6	0	9	27	.228	.297	.257	.554	3	0	2	1	40
E. Rodriguez C	17	43	7	10	5	1	12	14	.233	.400	.349	.749	2	0	2	0	36
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
J. Bart C	21	58	9	15	6	2	2	21	.259	.290	.379	.669	1	0	0	0	29
E. Valdez RF	5	16	2	2	5	2	2	9	.125	.222	.500	.722	0	0	0	0	12
T. Callihan LF	6	10	1	2	2	0	3	2	.200	.385	.400	.785	2	0	1	0	11
B. Cook RF	32	21	5	4	0	0	0	8	.190	.190	.190	.380	0	0	3	1	10
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	67	2310	336	581	320	77	264	621	.252	.334	.398	.732	96	6	65	10	1677

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
P. Skenes SP	14	14	6-5	0	0	76.0	2.84	56	30	24	6	15	89	.200	0.93	208
B. Ashcraft SP	13	13	5-3	0	0	79.2	3.28	69	32	29	8	17	86	.235	1.08	205
M. Keller SP	13	13	5-3	0	0	73.0	4.81	67	39	39	5	23	55	.243	1.23	154
G. Soto RP	29	0	4-1	8	11	28.1	2.86	13	10	9	1	12	34	.134	0.88	145
C. Mlodzinski SP	12	9	4-3	1	1	59.0	3.66	62	25	24	4	20	49	.272	1.39	116
B. Chandler SP	13	12	2-7	0	0	62.1	4.91	50	40	34	8	40	62	.213	1.44	75
Y. Ramirez RP	28	0	3-2	1	3	36.2	4.66	30	22	19	4	18	41	.219	1.31	74
E. Sisk RP	23	0	0-0	0	2	28.0	1.29	20	4	4	1	10	34	.208	1.07	64
M. Montgomery RP	26	4	1-1	0	0	25.2	4.56	22	14	13	3	14	34	.224	1.40	47
D. Santana RP	29	0	2-3	2	4	27.0	5.00	27	17	15	3	16	22	.255	1.59	45
W. Dotel RP	8	0	1-1	0	0	16.2	4.32	12	8	8	2	6	17	.197	1.08	34
I. Mattson RP	21	0	0-0	0	2	19.2	4.12	19	9	9	0	10	15	.253	1.47	27
J. Jones SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	9.1	4.82	11	5	5	2	4	10	.289	1.61	20
B. Bidois RP	11	0	0-0	0	0	12.0	4.50	10	10	6	4	10	14	.227	1.67	17
T. Callihan LF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.250	2.00	11
C. Sanders RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	9.00	6	6	6	0	5	8	.261	1.83	4
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	67	67	34-33	13	26	602.2	4.11	531	315	275	60	244	612	.233	1.29	1247

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