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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (18-22, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (19-21, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Sunday, 7:20 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Brenan Hanifee<\/a> (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, four strikeouts); Royals: Noah Cameron<\/a> (2-2, 5.40 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, 28 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Royals -132, Tigers +110; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers head into the matchup against the Kansas City Royals after losing five straight games.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 19-21 overall and 13-9 in home games. The Royals have the ninth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.24.<\/p>\n Detroit is 6-16 on the road and 18-22 overall. The Tigers have the sixth-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .323.<\/p>\n The matchup Sunday is the sixth time these teams match up this season. The Tigers hold a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Carter Jensen<\/a> leads the Royals with six home runs while slugging .402. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 12 for 40 with five doubles, a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Kevin McGonigle<\/a> has two home runs, 22 walks and 16 RBIs while hitting .294 for the Tigers. Riley Greene<\/a> is 13 for 36 with four doubles, a home run and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 7-3, .246 batting average, 3.40 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n Tigers: 3-7, .213 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored by six 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: Kerry Carpenter<\/a>: day-to-day (undisclosed), 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 (18-22, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (19-21, second in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Sunday, 7:20 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Brenan Hanifee (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, four strikeouts); Royals: Noah Cameron (2-2, 5.40 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, 28 strikeouts) LINE: Royals -132, Tigers +110; over\/under is 8 […]<\/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":[461549,461551,471288,308583,360072,345193,455467,352106,345673,352796,313841,438640,43627,358465,461548,313842,311159,314825,352111,352795,461550],"class_list":["post-2409909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bailey-horn","tag-beau-brieske","tag-brenan-hanifee","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-event_preview","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-javier-baez","tag-jonathan-india","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-noah-cameron","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\/2409909","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=2409909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409910,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409909\/revisions\/2409910"}],"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=2409909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}