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By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
Kansas City Royals (66-64, second in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (78-53, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo (8-6, 3.73 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 115 strikeouts); Tigers: Jack Flaherty (7-12, 4.51 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 162 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Tigers -152, Royals +126; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals will try to end a three-game road losing streak when they play the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n Detroit has a 44-24 record at home and a 78-53 record overall. The Tigers have the fifth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .251.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 66-64 overall and 30-34 in road games. The Royals have gone 49-27 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s game is the 10th time these teams square off this season. The Tigers are up 7-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Gleyber Torres has 19 doubles, 13 home runs and 60 RBIs for the Tigers. Riley Greene is 5 for 32 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Vinnie Pasquantino has 22 doubles, a triple and 27 home runs for the Royals. Mike Yastrzemski is 8 for 30 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 9-1, .248 batting average, 2.35 ERA, outscored opponents by 25 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 6-4, .275 batting average, 3.38 ERA, outscored opponents by eight 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: Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (biceps), 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 (66-64, second in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (78-53, first in the AL Central) Detroit; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo (8-6, 3.73 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 115 strikeouts); Tigers: Jack Flaherty (7-12, 4.51 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 162 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers -152, 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-1977170","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\/1977170","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=1977170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977170\/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=1977170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}