{"id":759948,"date":"2026-07-24T05:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/759948\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T05:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:12:27","slug":"outman-has-3-run-homer-and-dingler-the-go-ahead-rbi-tigers-beat-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/759948\/","title":{"rendered":"Outman has 3-run homer and Dingler the go-ahead RBI; Tigers beat Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 James Outman hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning, Dillon Dingler had a tiebreaking double in the eighth and the surging Detroit Tigers<\/a> beat the Kansas City Royals<\/a> 4-3 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have won 14 of 19 games to potentially persuade the franchise to keep Tarik Skubal<\/a> and make a push for the playoffs, instead of dealing the two-time Cy Young Award winner before the Aug. 3 trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Drew Anderson (4-4) gave up one run in the eighth inning and Kyle Finnegan entered with two on and one out in the ninth and got out of the jam with a double play for his second save.<\/p>\n

Kansas City’s John Schreiber was an out away from getting out of the seventh with a two-run lead, but Outman hit his 2-2 fastball just over the fence in right field to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n

Josh Rojas pulled the Royals into a 3-all tie with an RBI single in the eighth inning. Dingler hit an RBI double off Steven Cruz (2-3) in the home half.<\/p>\n

Isaac Collins broke a scoreless tie with a two-run homer in the sixth inning and Randy Dobnak threw five scoreless innings for the Royals.<\/p>\n

Tiger starter Troy Melton allowed two runs, five hits and four walks over five innings.<\/p>\n

Before the game, Skubal said his preference is to finish the season with the Tigers and compete for a championship.<\/p>\n

Skubal knows his next start, on Friday night against the Royals, could be his last with the team.<\/p>\n

Royals manager Matt Quatraro<\/a> was not with the team due to a personal matter. The Royals, who did not give details, said they expect Quatraro back soon.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Skubal (6-5, 2.83 ERA) is scheduled to pitch the second game of the series and LHP Noah Cameron (5-8, 5.27) might start for the Royals.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 James Outman hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning, Dillon Dingler had a tiebreaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[14040,5,147,13485,53,2583,4,594,14041],"class_list":["post-759948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-7-action-news-sports","tag-baseball","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-sports","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-mlb","tag-tigers","tag-wxyz-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116973243225380722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759948","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=759948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}