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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (66-62, second in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (76-53, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Detroit; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Ryan Bergert<\/a> (1-1, 2.75 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 51 strikeouts); Tigers: Casey Mize<\/a> (12-4, 3.63 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 103 strikeouts)<\/p>\n Tigers -159, Royals +134; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers host the Kansas City Royals to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n Detroit has a 76-53 record overall and a 42-24 record in home games. Tigers hitters have a collective .319 on-base percentage, the fifth-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 66-62 overall and 30-32 on the road. Royals hitters are batting a collective .246, which ranks eighth in the AL.<\/p>\n The teams meet Friday for the eighth time this season. The Tigers are up 5-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Gleyber Torres<\/a> has 18 doubles and 13 home runs for the Tigers. Dillon Dingler<\/a> is 11 for 36 with two doubles, a triple and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Maikel Garcia<\/a> has a .299 batting average to lead the Royals, and has 32 doubles, five triples and 12 home runs. Bobby Witt Jr<\/a>. is 16 for 37 with a home run and four RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 8-2, .232 batting average, 2.57 ERA, outscored opponents by 19 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 8-2, .272 batting average, 3.10 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Tigers: Matt Vierling<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Paul Sewald<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows<\/a>: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Sean Guenther<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), Jason Foley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alex Cobb<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Ty Madden<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Urquidy<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: Hunter Harvey: 15-Day IL (abductor), Steven Cruz: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Jac Caglianone<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Cole Ragans<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Michael Massey<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Alec Marsh<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kansas City Royals (66-62, second in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (76-53, first in the AL Central) Detroit; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Ryan Bergert (1-1, 2.75 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 51 strikeouts); Tigers: Casey Mize (12-4, 3.63 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 103 strikeouts) Tigers -159, Royals +134; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs BOTTOM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1975253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Royals-vs-Tigers-Aug-22-2025-Pregame.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}