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DETROIT — Dillon Dingler will serve as designated hitter for the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The Tigers (77-53) have won four straight and eight of their last nine and have a 10.5-game lead over the Kansas City Royals (66-63), who they play at 6:10 p.m. at Comerica Park..<\/p>\n
Infielders Andy Ibanez and Trey Sweeney; and outfielders Wenceel Perez and Jahmai Jones will be available off the bench. The full lineup is below. <\/p>\n
On the mound, Tigers right-hander Chris Paddack (4-11, 5.10 ERA) will face Royals righty Michael Wacha (8-9, 3.34).<\/p>\n
Paddack, acquired from the Minnesota Twins at the trade deadline, has a 5.91 ERA in four starts since joining the Tigers. He\u2019s struck out 13 and walked four in 21 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Wacha, 34, is in the second season of a three-year, $51 million deal he signed with the Royals. He last started at Comerica Park on April 20, allowing a couple of runs in 5 2\/3 innings in the Royals\u2019 4-3 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\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.mlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DETROIT — Dillon Dingler will serve as designated hitter for the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night. The Tigers (77-53) have won four straight and eight of their last nine and have a 10.5-game lead over the Kansas City Royals (66-63), who they play at 6:10 p.m. at Comerica Park.. Infielders Andy Ibanez and Trey Sweeney; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-1976509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976509","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=1976509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}