{"id":2410068,"date":"2026-05-10T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2410068"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:22:40","slug":"game-41-preview-tigers-try-to-avoid-road-sweep-at-royals-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/game-41-preview-tigers-try-to-avoid-road-sweep-at-royals-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 41 Preview: Tigers try to avoid road sweep at Royals on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Make it five straight losses for the Detroit Tigers after their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blessyouboys.com\/detroit-tigers-scores-standings\/90386\/detroit-tigers-recaps-kansas-city-royals-ty-madden-burch-smith-riley-greene\">5-1 loss<\/a> on Saturday night to the Kansas City Royals. Burch Smith\u2019s two runs surrendered in just 1\/3 of an inning as the opener was too much for the wet-noodle offense to overcome and\u2026 sigh\u2026 AJ Hinch\u2019s squad is in danger of its second-straight sweep.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Motor City Kitties will have right-hander Brenan Hanifee on the hill to open up Sunday\u2019s series finale in what should be yet another bullpen game. The 27-year-old has yet to surrender a run so far this season and the Tigers got scoreless three frames out of him in his last appearance against the Boston Red Sox, so maybe there is hope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meanwhile, second-year hurler Noah Cameron will take the mound for Kansas City. The 26-year-old southpaw had a strong rookie season last year, putting up a 2.99 ERA but a 4.18 FIP in 138.1 innings pitched with a 20.5% strikeout rate and 7.7% walk rate \u2014 those last two numbers are not far off from his numbers so far this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, after opening the 2026 campaign with a 1.69 ERA and 1.82 FIP over 10 2\/3 frames, which includes just a couple of walks and 10 strikeouts, he has posted a 7.29 ERA and a 5.80 FIP in the 21 innings he\u2019s thrown since on 30 hits (five home runs) and nine walks while striking out 18. Can the Tigers take advantage of the struggling starter?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Find out on Sunday night \u2014 if you have access to the NBC Sports Network or Peacock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><h2 class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Detroit Tigers<\/strong> (18-22) vs. <strong><strong>Kansas City Royals<\/strong><\/strong> (19-21)<\/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> 7:20 p.m.<br \/><strong>Place:<\/strong> Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri<br \/><strong>SB Nation Site:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalsreview.com\/\">Royals Review<\/a><br \/><strong>Media: <\/strong>NBC Sports Network\/Peacock, Tigers Radio Network<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>Game 41<\/strong>: RHP Brenan Hanifee (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. LHP Noah Cameron (2-2, 5.40 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>Make it five straight losses for the Detroit Tigers after their 5-1 loss on Saturday night to the Kansas City Royals. Burch Smith\u2019s two runs surrendered in just 1\/3 of an inning as the opener was too much for the wet-noodle offense to overcome and\u2026 sigh\u2026 AJ Hinch\u2019s squad is in danger of its second-straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2410069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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-2410068","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\/05\/Game-41-Preview-Tigers-try-to-avoid-road-sweep-at.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410068","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=2410068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410070,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410068\/revisions\/2410070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}