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By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
Kansas City Royals (66-63, second in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (77-53, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Saturday, 6:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha (8-9, 3.34 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 104 strikeouts); Tigers: Chris Paddack (4-11, 5.10 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 96 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Tigers -125, Royals +105; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers, on a five-game home winning streak, host the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n Detroit has gone 43-24 in home games and 77-53 overall. Tigers pitchers have a collective 3.77 ERA, which ranks fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 66-63 record overall and a 30-33 record in road games. The Royals are 27-50 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s game is the ninth meeting between these teams this season. The Tigers hold a 6-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Spencer Torkelson has 25 doubles and 26 home runs for the Tigers. Riley Greene is 6 for 32 with two doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Maikel Garcia has a .301 batting average to lead the Royals, and has 32 doubles, five triples and 12 home runs. Bobby Witt Jr. is 15 for 37 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 8-2, .242 batting average, 2.97 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 7-3, .271 batting average, 3.44 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Tigers: Matt Vierling: 10-Day IL (oblique), Paul Sewald: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Sean Guenther: 60-Day IL (hip), Jackson Jobe: 60-Day IL (flexor), Jason Foley: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alex Cobb: 60-Day IL (hip), Ty Madden: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Urquidy: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: Hunter Harvey: 15-Day IL (abductor), Steven Cruz: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Jac Caglianone: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Michael Massey: 10-Day IL (ankle), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur: 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<\/p><\/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.newspressnow.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By The Associated Press Kansas City Royals (66-63, second in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (77-53, first in the AL Central) Detroit; Saturday, 6:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha (8-9, 3.34 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 104 strikeouts); Tigers: Chris Paddack (4-11, 5.10 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 96 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers -125, Royals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1949144,"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-1976294","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\/Twins-start-3-game-series-at-home-against-the-Royals-newspressnowcom.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976294","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=1976294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}