{"id":2374416,"date":"2026-04-15T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2374416"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:14:14","slug":"game-18-preview-tigers-look-to-clinch-series-continue-win-streak-vs-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/game-18-preview-tigers-look-to-clinch-series-continue-win-streak-vs-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 18 Preview: Tigers look to clinch series, continue win streak vs Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Not too long ago, it felt like the Detroit Tigers would never win again. Following a five-game losing streak, the Motor City Kitties have now won four straight after taking the series opener from the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blessyouboys.com\/detroit-tigers-scores-standings\/88625\/detroit-tigers-kansas-city-royals-recap-framber-valdez-zach-mckinstry-dillon-dingler-kevin-mcgonigle\">2-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">AJ Hinch and Co. have a chance to get back to the .500 mark and clinch their second straight series win on Wednesday night at Comerica Park, where they are 6-1 so far this season. The lone loss came against the St. Louis Cardinals two Sundays ago, which kicked off the recent schneid that has since been snapped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Tigers have right-hander Jack Flaherty, who is still searching for his mojo in 2026, lined up for the start against fellow righty Seth Lugo, who has looked good so far this year. Here is a look at how they match up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><h2 class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Detroit Tigers<\/strong> (8-9) vs. <strong>Kansas City Royals<\/strong> (7-10)<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>Time (ET):<\/strong> 6:40 p.m.<br \/><strong>Place:<\/strong> Comerica Park, Detroit, Michigan<br \/><strong>SB Nation Site:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalsreview.com\/\">Royals Review<\/a><br \/><strong>Media: <strong>Detroit SportsNet<\/strong><\/strong>, <strong>MLB.TV<\/strong>, <strong>Tigers Radio Network<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>Game 18<\/strong>: RHP Jack Flaherty (0-1, 5.14 ERA) vs. RHP Seth Lugo (1-1, 1.53 ERA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.blessyouboys.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, it felt like the Detroit Tigers would never win again. Following a five-game losing streak, the Motor City Kitties have now won four straight after taking the series opener from the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night, 2-1. AJ Hinch and Co. have a chance to get back to the .500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2374417,"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":[461941],"class_list":["post-2374416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-detroit-tigers-game-information"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Game-18-Preview-Tigers-look-to-clinch-series-continue-win.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374416","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=2374416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374418,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374416\/revisions\/2374418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}