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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (18-22, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (19-21, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Sunday, 7:20 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Brenan Hanifee<\/a> (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, four strikeouts); Royals: Noah Cameron<\/a> (2-2, 5.40 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, 28 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -132, Tigers +110; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers head into the matchup against the Kansas City Royals after losing five straight games.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 19-21 overall and 13-9 in home games. The Royals have the ninth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.24.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 6-16 on the road and 18-22 overall. The Tigers have the sixth-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .323.<\/p>\n

The matchup Sunday is the sixth time these teams match up this season. The Tigers hold a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Carter Jensen<\/a> leads the Royals with six home runs while slugging .402. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 12 for 40 with five doubles, a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kevin McGonigle<\/a> has two home runs, 22 walks and 16 RBIs while hitting .294 for the Tigers. Riley Greene<\/a> is 13 for 36 with four doubles, a home run and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 7-3, .246 batting average, 3.40 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 3-7, .213 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Tigers: Kerry Carpenter<\/a>: day-to-day (undisclosed), Gleyber Torres: 10-Day IL (oblique), Will Vest: 15-Day IL (forearm), Tarik Skubal: 15-Day IL (elbow), Javier Baez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Casey Mize: 15-Day IL (groin), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Connor Seabold: 15-Day IL (ankle), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers (18-22, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (19-21, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2387],"tags":[29375,5,2259,1496,1092,21682,53,75686,713,1629,1329,2161,388,936,2123,55,2596,2595,391,4140,2162,19,4,1357,768,624,252,33608],"class_list":{"0":"post-695149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-bailey-horn","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-beau-brieske","11":"tag-brenan-hanifee","12":"tag-carlos-estevez","13":"tag-carter-jensen","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-jackson-jobe","17":"tag-james-mcarthur","18":"tag-javier-baez","19":"tag-jonathan-india","20":"tag-justin-verlander","21":"tag-kansas","22":"tag-kansas-city","23":"tag-kansas-city-royals","24":"tag-kansascity","25":"tag-kansascityroyals","26":"tag-kerry-carpenter","27":"tag-kevin-mcgonigle","28":"tag-maikel-garcia","29":"tag-major-league-baseball","30":"tag-mlb","31":"tag-noah-cameron","32":"tag-reese-olson","33":"tag-riley-greene","34":"tag-royals","35":"tag-troy-melton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116549808525845235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}