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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (61-66, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (55-74, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Troy Melton<\/a> (7-1, 1.71 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, 73 strikeouts); Royals: Noah Cameron<\/a> (7-8, 4.16 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 126 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -119, Royals -101; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals host the Detroit Tigers to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 55-74 record overall and a 33-30 record in home games. The Royals have a 44-27 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 61-66 overall and 29-35 on the road. Tigers hitters have a collective .406 slugging percentage to rank 10th in MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the 11th meeting between these teams this season. The Tigers have a 6-4 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 26 doubles, a triple and 16 home runs while hitting .286 for the Royals. Jac Caglianone<\/a> is 16 for 36 with a double and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dillon Dingler<\/a> leads the Tigers with 26 home runs while slugging .490. Eduardo Valencia<\/a> is 7 for 28 with two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 6-4, .248 batting average, 3.93 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 4-6, .223 batting average, 4.14 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Carlos Estevez: 60-Day IL (foot), Beck Way<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: day-to-day (hamstring), Connor Seabold: 60-Day IL (lat), Tony Gonsolin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Luinder Avila<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Tigers: Riley Greene<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jack Flaherty<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Matt Vierling: 10-Day IL (adductor), Brant Hurter: 60-Day IL (back), James Outman<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Wenceel Perez: 60-Day IL (face), Kerry Carpenter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (heel), Burch Smith: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Will Vest: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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 (61-66, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (55-74, fifth in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[29375,5,94104,1351,53,1390,60893,75686,231,84,1629,4571,2161,388,936,2123,55,2596,2595,391,40028,2162,19,4,1357,768,624,252,5176,725,33608],"class_list":["post-784471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-beck-way","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-eduardo-valencia","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-james-outman","tag-jonathan-india","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-noah-cameron","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","tag-royals","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-tony-gonsolin","tag-troy-melton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117133073738848773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784471","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=784471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}