Chicago Cubs vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 8, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Shelby Miller	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Jameson Taillon	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Tyler Austin	Knee	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1
Hunter Harvey	Triceps	06-25-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 26
Matthew Boyd	Knee	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
Justin Steele	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Cade Horton	Elbow	07-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 1, 2027
Porter Hodge	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Riley Martin	Elbow	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22

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

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cubs CHC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
N. Hoerner 2B	66	263	26	65	33	4	30	20	.247	.330	.346	.676	14	0	12	2	196
P. Crow-Armstrong CF	67	248	37	63	32	11	24	73	.254	.338	.435	.773	8	2	14	5	195
I. Happ LF	63	235	42	54	34	14	40	89	.230	.349	.481	.830	13	2	2	0	191
M. Busch 1B	66	239	28	59	37	7	44	68	.247	.371	.402	.773	12	2	1	0	178
A. Bregman 3B	66	266	30	66	20	5	29	51	.248	.329	.346	.675	9	1	2	1	152
D. Swanson SS	63	209	36	38	28	7	30	57	.182	.284	.325	.609	7	1	5	0	144
S. Suzuki RF	53	194	29	48	22	9	23	55	.247	.335	.412	.747	5	0	0	0	129
C. Kelly C	49	158	19	45	18	2	15	30	.285	.358	.361	.719	6	0	0	0	97
M. Ballesteros DH	53	141	15	34	22	6	16	32	.241	.314	.404	.718	5	0	0	0	94
M. Conforto DH	43	89	12	22	13	4	15	30	.247	.352	.483	.835	9	0	1	0	70
M. Amaya C	39	92	15	20	10	3	14	24	.217	.351	.348	.699	3	0	0	0	64
M. Shaw RF	43	96	10	23	12	3	6	18	.240	.288	.396	.684	6	0	3	1	63
P. Ramirez 2B	11	23	2	5	1	0	3	1	.217	.308	.261	.569	1	0	0	0	11
S. Kingery 2B	8	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	1	0	5
K. Alcantara DH	12	9	1	1	0	0	1	4	.111	.200	.111	.311	0	0	0	1	0
D. Carlson LF	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	67	2275	306	544	282	75	290	556	.239	.333	.388	.721	98	8	41	10	1589

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Imanaga SP	13	13	4-6	0	0	76.0	4.74	63	41	40	17	19	74	.221	1.08	156
B. Brown RP	18	6	2-2	1	2	57.0	1.74	34	13	11	1	16	58	.170	0.88	154
C. Rea SP	14	11	5-4	1	1	69.1	5.19	74	41	40	11	25	54	.271	1.43	120
J. Taillon SP	13	13	2-5	0	0	67.2	5.19	65	40	39	20	23	59	.248	1.30	104
E. Cabrera SP	11	11	3-3	0	0	57.2	4.99	61	37	32	11	21	53	.276	1.42	102
C. Kelly C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	2	0	0	.400	2.00	97
R. Rolison RP	19	0	5-1	0	1	23.0	2.35	17	8	6	3	12	22	.218	1.26	75
J. Assad RP	9	3	3-1	0	0	32.1	4.73	27	17	17	4	8	19	.231	1.08	69
J. Webb RP	28	0	1-1	1	3	28.1	2.22	26	10	7	3	10	34	.239	1.27	68
D. Palencia RP	17	0	1-0	3	3	15.2	2.30	15	4	4	2	4	16	.254	1.21	60
H. Milner RP	30	0	1-0	1	2	29.0	4.03	26	13	13	3	7	15	.241	1.14	59
M. Boyd SP	5	5	2-1	0	0	24.0	6.00	25	17	16	2	6	31	.266	1.29	52
C. Thielbar RP	18	0	2-2	2	4	15.0	4.20	13	8	7	4	8	17	.228	1.40	43
T. Thornton RP	12	0	2-2	0	0	16.0	1.69	10	4	3	2	7	6	.185	1.06	35
E. Roberts RP	15	0	0-1	0	0	19.1	1.86	14	5	4	1	8	14	.209	1.14	32
C. Horton P	2	2	1-0	0	0	7.1	2.45	4	2	2	1	2	4	.167	0.82	26
R. Martin P	8	1	0-0	0	0	8.1	2.16	5	2	2	1	2	10	.179	0.84	21
P. Maton RP	23	0	0-1	0	0	20.1	7.08	24	16	16	3	11	23	.300	1.72	13
T. Blach RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.111	0.33	9
V. Velasquez SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.125	0.43	6
Y. Rios RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	0.00	6
H. Harvey RP	4	0	0-1	0	0	4.0	6.75	5	3	3	2	1	4	.294	1.50	0
L. Little RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	2	1	1	1	0	1	.400	2.00	0
G. Hollowell RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	2	2	2	1	4	1	.286	3.60	-2
J. Wicks SP	2	2	0-2	0	0	6.1	15.63	13	11	11	1	1	6	.406	2.21	-14
Total	67	67	34-33	10	17	595.1	4.34	538	307	287	98	203	531	.241	1.24	1291

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

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