Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - August 23, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Justin Verlander	Hip	06-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 17
Javier Baez	Ankle	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Burch Smith	Shoulder	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Jack Flaherty	Leg	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Parker Meadows	Arm	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
Casey Mize	Thigh	06-13-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 14
Tarik Skubal	Elbow	06-12-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 13
Jackson Jobe	Elbow	08-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 15
Trey Sweeney	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brant Hurter	Back	07-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 23
Bailey Horn	Elbow	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Seth Lugo	Concussion	06-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 21
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	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
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15

	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	66	247	44	70	24	4	42	38	.283	.392	.417	.809	15	3	9	0	214
D. Dingler C	62	228	33	58	49	16	22	52	.254	.332	.526	.858	14	0	0	0	203
R. Greene LF	69	249	36	75	33	8	36	80	.301	.391	.462	.853	16	0	1	1	183
S. Torkelson 1B	68	227	24	48	27	10	30	86	.211	.312	.405	.717	14	0	0	1	133
G. Torres 2B	40	149	25	42	18	4	27	32	.282	.394	.396	.790	5	0	0	0	115
M. Vierling CF	59	171	16	35	23	4	16	31	.205	.267	.345	.612	10	1	2	2	100
W. Perez RF	51	156	22	29	17	7	13	28	.186	.249	.359	.608	4	1	3	1	99
K. Carpenter RF	46	131	15	31	26	9	13	48	.237	.313	.496	.809	3	2	0	0	98
C. Keith 3B	63	187	24	49	10	1	11	41	.262	.305	.342	.647	8	2	3	0	95
Z. McKinstry 2B	45	130	8	25	10	2	18	27	.192	.287	.277	.564	3	1	1	3	57
J. Baez SS	24	78	10	20	6	2	2	16	.256	.280	.397	.677	5	0	1	1	43
H. Lee 2B	32	83	6	17	9	2	4	24	.205	.241	.337	.578	3	1	0	0	35
J. Rogers C	22	57	6	9	5	1	6	20	.158	.242	.281	.523	2	1	1	0	26
J. Jones DH	46	79	6	11	7	2	9	26	.139	.227	.241	.468	2	0	0	2	26
P. Meadows CF	12	36	3	9	2	0	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.641	1	1	3	0	21
G. Workman 3B	16	38	3	6	5	2	0	16	.158	.158	.395	.553	3	0	0	0	15
J. Jung DH	3	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542	0	0	0	0	3
Total	69	2288	285	541	273	74	260	588	.236	.318	.393	.711	110	13	24	11	1466

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Montero SP	13	13	3-4	0	0	72.1	3.61	56	30	29	8	17	48	.211	1.01	153
F. Valdez SP	14	14	3-5	0	0	77.2	4.40	75	42	38	9	29	61	.249	1.34	130
T. Skubal SP	7	7	3-2	0	0	43.1	2.70	35	14	13	2	6	45	.222	0.95	123
C. Mize SP	9	9	2-3	0	0	47.2	2.27	34	12	12	2	12	49	.200	0.97	122
D. Anderson RP	24	1	2-3	2	4	42.2	3.80	36	20	18	6	17	52	.225	1.24	95
T. Melton SP	4	4	3-0	0	0	25.2	2.81	20	8	8	5	6	14	.213	1.01	76
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
K. Jansen RP	18	0	1-3	7	11	15.0	4.80	9	8	8	4	9	19	.170	1.20	69
K. Finnegan RP	30	0	1-0	1	5	31.1	2.01	25	7	7	2	21	20	.231	1.47	65
E. De Jesus RP	18	0	2-0	1	1	26.1	4.78	25	17	14	1	12	25	.245	1.41	61
J. Flaherty SP	14	14	1-7	0	0	62.2	5.31	66	45	37	8	33	77	.265	1.58	60
T. Madden RP	6	1	0-0	0	0	18.0	3.50	15	7	7	2	5	20	.217	1.11	36
T. Holton RP	30	2	1-4	0	1	30.1	4.15	36	16	14	4	8	27	.300	1.45	31
W. Vest RP	21	0	2-4	1	4	20.2	6.53	22	17	15	2	8	23	.272	1.45	28
J. Rogers C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.50	26
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	14	2	0-0	0	0	13.2	3.29	15	5	5	2	4	6	.283	1.39	19
D. Sommers RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	3	5	.091	1.09	8
B. Brieske RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	12.46	6	6	6	2	4	4	.353	2.31	-1
J. Verlander SP	1	1	0-1	0	0	3.2	12.27	6	5	5	1	2	1	.353	2.18	-6
R. Vanasco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	6.1	15.63	14	12	11	2	6	4	.412	3.16	-15
Total	69	69	29-40	12	27	604.2	3.97	548	294	267	67	226	553	.240	1.28	1172

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	69	273	33	76	27	9	31	56	.278	.352	.447	.799	17	1	24	4	230
V. Pasquantino 1B	66	247	28	55	30	6	32	50	.223	.310	.352	.662	10	2	3	0	159
M. Garcia 3B	62	241	30	63	24	3	23	40	.261	.323	.378	.701	15	2	4	3	153
J. Caglianone RF	63	208	26	58	19	8	20	67	.279	.351	.457	.808	11	1	3	1	134
C. Jensen C	63	205	27	44	31	8	21	69	.215	.284	.385	.669	11	0	0	0	124
S. Perez C	63	244	22	48	26	9	12	51	.197	.245	.332	.577	6	0	0	0	120
I. Collins LF	60	187	23	40	17	3	30	59	.214	.332	.305	.637	8	0	3	3	104
M. Massey 2B	52	145	16	37	20	6	5	28	.255	.275	.448	.723	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	54	127	12	29	15	2	25	34	.228	.359	.307	.666	4	0	3	3	79
N. Loftin 2B	35	94	14	21	18	1	14	14	.223	.333	.362	.695	8	1	0	0	76
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	30	70	5	18	5	1	5	23	.257	.321	.343	.664	3	0	0	1	28
T. Tolbert RF	19	14	5	3	0	0	2	6	.214	.313	.214	.527	0	0	5	2	15
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
K. Misner CF	2	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167	0	0	0	0	2
Total	69	2296	269	547	259	63	240	557	.238	.314	.377	.691	113	8	51	17	1443

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	14	14	4-5	0	0	88.0	3.58	75	37	35	10	27	69	.231	1.16	188
S. Lugo SP	14	14	2-4	0	0	79.1	3.86	82	37	34	7	25	66	.270	1.35	147
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	27	0	3-3	12	18	24.1	6.29	31	19	17	2	18	22	.320	2.01	107
D. Lynch RP	28	0	2-0	1	3	28.0	1.93	18	9	6	1	9	29	.176	0.96	84
A. Lange RP	29	0	0-3	4	4	31.0	4.06	27	16	14	2	18	34	.239	1.45	61
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	21	0	3-1	0	2	20.1	4.43	18	10	10	6	7	18	.228	1.23	50
J. Schreiber RP	30	0	0-3	1	2	27.0	2.67	21	9	8	4	11	18	.223	1.19	41
L. Avila RP	12	3	1-2	0	0	31.1	4.02	31	14	14	2	19	28	.272	1.60	41
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	9	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	2.38	12	3	3	1	5	12	.273	1.50	19
S. Cruz RP	17	0	1-2	0	1	17.2	6.62	18	14	13	7	12	25	.261	1.70	19
E. Morgan RP	13	0	0-1	1	1	16.1	5.51	23	10	10	4	8	15	.324	1.90	15
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	15
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
B. Way RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	10.80	6	4	4	1	1	6	.375	2.10	2
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
Total	69	69	28-41	19	34	611.1	4.37	580	319	297	83	264	562	.251	1.38	1193

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