Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 17, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Foot	05-11-2026Expected to be out until at least May 12
Stephen Kolek	Oblique	04-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Apr 30
James McArthur	Elbow	05-23-2026Expected to be out until at least May 24
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
Bailey Falter	Elbow	04-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Apr 30
Vinnie Pasquantino	Back	04-30-2026Probable for May 1

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Josh Hader	Biceps	05-23-2026Expected to be out until at least May 24
Taylor Trammell	Groin	04-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 1
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Nick Allen	Back	05-02-2026Expected to be out until at least May 3
Jake Meyers	Oblique	04-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 1
Nate Pearson	Elbow	05-10-2026Expected to be out until at least May 11
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 8
Jeremy Pena	Hamstring	05-07-2026Expected to be out until at least May 8
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 5
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Joey Loperfido	Quadriceps	05-02-2026Expected to be out until at least May 3
Zach Dezenzo	Elbow	04-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 1
Tatsuya Imai	Arm	05-07-2026Expected to be out until at least May 8

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	30	118	10	35	15	2	14	22	.297	.366	.441	.807	9	1	10	2	98
C. Jensen C	28	86	13	23	16	6	11	27	.267	.354	.500	.854	2	0	0	0	70
M. Garcia 3B	28	108	15	28	10	2	12	22	.259	.331	.389	.720	6	1	2	2	70
V. Pasquantino 1B	28	102	11	17	14	3	16	24	.167	.276	.324	.600	3	2	0	0	63
K. Isbel CF	25	72	11	21	8	3	4	19	.292	.354	.458	.812	3	0	5	0	59
S. Perez C	29	116	10	23	11	5	4	25	.198	.230	.353	.583	3	0	0	0	54
I. Collins LF	25	75	12	16	8	2	12	28	.213	.337	.307	.644	1	0	1	2	43
J. Caglianone 1B	26	87	11	21	4	2	9	33	.241	.327	.391	.718	5	1	0	1	42
L. Thomas RF	24	57	6	14	5	1	13	12	.246	.386	.316	.702	1	0	3	1	41
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
N. Loftin 1B	10	29	7	8	7	0	5	3	.276	.382	.379	.761	3	0	0	0	28
M. Massey 2B	19	49	5	11	7	1	2	12	.224	.245	.388	.633	5	0	0	0	27
S. Marte RF	11	29	2	7	1	0	0	10	.241	.258	.345	.603	3	0	0	0	9
E. Diaz C	3	7	1	3	2	0	1	1	.429	.500	.714	1.214	2	0	0	0	8
T. Tolbert SS	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	1	1	2
Total	30	988	123	236	116	29	111	252	.239	.320	.385	.705	47	5	22	9	648

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	6	6	2-2	0	0	37.1	3.13	28	13	13	4	14	33	.212	1.13	88
S. Lugo SP	6	6	1-1	0	0	37.2	2.63	33	12	11	1	11	31	.241	1.17	87
K. Bubic SP	6	6	2-1	0	0	33.2	3.74	23	14	14	3	17	35	.193	1.19	81
L. Erceg RP	13	0	2-1	7	9	12.1	4.38	10	7	6	0	10	10	.238	1.62	74
N. Cameron P	5	5	2-1	0	0	26.1	5.13	31	17	15	5	9	23	.287	1.52	47
C. Ragans RP	6	6	1-4	0	0	27.0	5.00	22	16	15	7	18	33	.229	1.48	38
D. Lynch SP	11	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	0.79	3	4	1	0	3	13	.079	0.53	32
N. Mears RP	12	0	2-1	0	2	11.0	2.45	6	3	3	0	6	9	.167	1.09	31
E. Morgan RP	7	0	0-1	1	1	10.1	2.61	8	3	3	2	6	9	.205	1.35	20
M. Strahm RP	11	0	0-0	0	1	10.2	4.22	10	5	5	2	5	12	.238	1.41	17
M. Black P	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	0.00	6	0	0	0	2	5	.300	1.71	8
J. Schreiber RP	12	0	0-2	1	1	10.0	4.50	9	5	5	2	6	5	.257	1.50	8
A. Lange RP	11	0	0-2	0	0	12.2	7.11	13	11	10	2	10	19	.260	1.82	3
T. Tolbert SS	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	1.50	2
S. Cruz RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	14.40	7	8	8	4	4	7	.318	2.20	0
M. Spence SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Falter SP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	13.50	8	5	5	1	2	4	.444	3.00	-3
L. Avila SP	3	1	0-1	0	0	7.0	9.00	16	7	7	1	4	8	.471	2.86	-7
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
Total	30	30	12-18	9	15	265.1	4.51	242	142	133	36	134	259	.244	1.42	509

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	30	110	22	39	26	11	20	11	.355	.463	.736	1.199	9	0	1	0	148
C. Walker 1B	30	107	19	32	23	7	13	22	.299	.377	.579	.956	9	0	0	0	107
C. Correa SS	27	101	20	28	14	2	15	20	.277	.368	.406	.774	7	0	1	0	82
J. Altuve 2B	28	109	19	27	8	3	16	24	.248	.344	.394	.738	7	0	1	1	75
C. Smith 3B	30	101	15	22	12	3	13	33	.218	.314	.356	.670	5	0	4	0	69
I. Paredes 3B	25	90	12	20	14	3	9	18	.222	.320	.367	.687	4	0	0	0	63
Y. Diaz C	21	83	6	19	12	2	3	14	.229	.250	.349	.599	4	0	0	1	42
C. Vazquez C	14	45	6	14	10	2	5	8	.311	.380	.533	.913	4	0	0	0	41
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
B. Matthews SS	21	48	4	9	7	2	5	21	.188	.264	.396	.660	4	0	1	0	26
J. Meyers CF	12	37	5	9	4	1	4	8	.243	.326	.378	.704	2	0	1	2	24
T. Trammell LF	10	29	4	10	4	0	4	9	.345	.424	.448	.872	1	1	1	0	22
J. Pena SS	10	43	5	11	0	0	3	6	.256	.304	.349	.653	4	0	1	0	22
D. Harris 1B	6	16	3	1	1	0	2	5	.063	.211	.188	.399	0	1	0	0	22
N. Allen SS	14	20	5	5	0	0	2	5	.250	.318	.300	.618	1	0	0	0	10
B. Shewmake SS	2	5	1	1	1	1	0	1	.200	.200	.800	1.000	0	0	0	0	5
S. Whitcomb SS	7	10	1	1	3	1	1	7	.100	.182	.400	.582	0	0	0	0	5
D. Johnson CF	4	8	0	1	0	0	1	2	.125	.300	.125	.425	0	0	0	0	2
Total	30	1020	154	265	146	38	122	233	.260	.344	.440	.784	66	2	12	5	798

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti P	3	3	3-0	0	0	18.0	2.00	11	4	4	1	9	21	.169	1.11	63
K. Teng SP	12	1	1-2	0	0	19.2	2.75	14	6	6	3	6	18	.197	1.02	39
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
E. De Los Santos RP	10	0	0-1	3	3	10.1	6.10	12	7	7	1	3	8	.279	1.45	29
L. McCullers SP	5	5	1-2	0	0	25.1	6.75	25	21	19	4	13	24	.266	1.50	29
M. Burrows SP	6	6	1-3	0	0	31.2	6.25	41	22	22	7	12	33	.315	1.67	27
S. Okert RP	15	0	0-0	0	0	13.1	2.70	9	4	4	1	5	9	.200	1.05	26
P. Lambert RP	2	2	1-1	0	0	11.0	3.27	10	4	4	0	4	16	.238	1.27	26
A. Blubaugh P	12	0	2-2	0	0	17.1	6.23	16	12	12	3	11	14	.250	1.56	24
B. King P	10	0	0-1	1	2	11.2	3.86	11	7	5	0	5	13	.244	1.37	19
T. Imai SP	3	3	1-0	0	0	8.2	7.27	7	7	7	0	11	13	.219	2.08	13
C. Bolton RP	3	2	0-1	1	1	8.1	5.40	7	5	5	1	7	11	.233	1.68	12
R. Weiss SP	8	2	0-2	0	0	21.2	6.65	27	17	16	6	16	25	.300	1.98	8
J. Murray SP	4	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	6.00	7	4	4	0	5	5	.318	2.00	4
J. France SP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
B. Sousa RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	13.50	1	2	2	0	4	3	.250	3.75	-1
C. Gordon P	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
B. Abreu RP	10	0	0-2	1	1	8.1	12.96	9	13	12	4	13	13	.273	2.64	-5
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	30	30	11-19	6	7	261.1	5.96	269	179	173	44	160	274	.268	1.64	335

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