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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (7-9, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (7-9, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Detroit; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Cole Ragans (0-3, 5.91 ERA, 1.69 WHIP, 15 strikeouts); Tigers: Framber Valdez<\/a> (1-1, 4.76 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers -125, Royals +105; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers, on a three-game home winning streak, host the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n Detroit has a 5-1 record at home and a 7-9 record overall. The Tigers have gone 0-1 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 7-9 record overall and a 2-4 record on the road. The Royals have a 0-2 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n The matchup Tuesday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> has six doubles, a triple, a home run and eight RBIs for the Tigers. Kerry Carpenter<\/a> is 8 for 29 with a double, three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Kyle Isbel<\/a> has a double and two home runs for the Royals. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 9 for 31 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 5-5, .255 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 4-6, .211 batting average, 3.68 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Tigers: Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip inflammation), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n Royals: Cole Ragans: day-to-day (thumb), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Alec Marsh: 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 <\/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.foxsports.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kansas City Royals (7-9, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (7-9, third in the AL Central) Detroit; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Cole Ragans (0-3, 5.91 ERA, 1.69 WHIP, 15 strikeouts); Tigers: Framber Valdez (1-1, 4.76 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 12 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers -125, Royals +105; over\/under is 7 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031064,"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":[461549,461551,308583,360072,345193,455467,404701,352106,345673,438640,43627,358465,461548,314436,311159,352111,347944,461550],"class_list":["post-2372642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bailey-horn","tag-beau-brieske","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-event_preview","tag-framber-valdez","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-reese-olson","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-troy-melton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Suarez-leads-Mariners-against-the-Royals-following-4-hit-game.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372642","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=2372642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372643,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372642\/revisions\/2372643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}