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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (18-21, second in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (18-21, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Burch Smith (0-1, 1.59 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 16 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (3-2, 3.05 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 36 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Royals -135, Tigers +114; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers look to end a four-game losing streak with a win over the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 18-21 overall and 12-9 at home. The Royals have the 10th-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .320.<\/p>\n Detroit has an 18-21 record overall and a 6-15 record on the road. The Tigers have a 13-8 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n Saturday’s game is the fifth time these teams square off this season. The Tigers are ahead 3-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 11 doubles, a triple and four home runs for the Royals. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 11 for 41 with four doubles, a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Dillon Dingler<\/a> has seven doubles, six home runs and 26 RBIs for the Tigers. Riley Greene<\/a> is 12 for 36 with three doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 6-4, .245 batting average, 3.84 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n Tigers: 3-7, .219 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n Tigers: Gleyber Torres: 10-Day IL (oblique), Will Vest: 15-Day IL (forearm), Tarik Skubal: 15-Day IL (elbow), Javier Baez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Casey Mize: 15-Day IL (groin), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Connor Seabold: 15-Day IL (ankle), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/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":" Detroit Tigers (18-21, second in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (18-21, third in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 7:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Burch Smith (0-1, 1.59 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 16 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha (3-2, 3.05 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 36 strikeouts) LINE: Royals -135, Tigers +114; over\/under is 9 […]<\/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":[461549,461551,91466,308583,345193,352104,455467,352106,345673,352796,313841,438640,43627,313842,311159,311237,352111,352795,461550],"class_list":["post-2408896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bailey-horn","tag-beau-brieske","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-event_preview","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-javier-baez","tag-jonathan-india","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-wacha","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","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\/2408896","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=2408896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408897,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408896\/revisions\/2408897"}],"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=2408896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}