{"id":2410866,"date":"2026-05-11T03:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2410866"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:33:14","slug":"detroit-tigers-beat-kansas-city-royals-6-3-to-stop-5-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/detroit-tigers-beat-kansas-city-royals-6-3-to-stop-5-game-losing-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers beat Kansas City Royals 6-3 to stop 5-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Gage Workman came off the bench and hit his first major league homer, a two-run shot that sent the Detroit Tigers past the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Sunday night to snap a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Vierling had a two-run double and Riley Greene reached safely four times as the Tigers prevented a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Called up hours earlier from Triple-A Toledo when Kerry Carpenter was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left shoulder sprain, Workman entered as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Workman drove a 1-1 slider from Nick Mears (2-2) to right field to give Detroit a 5-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Wenceel P\u00e9rez added an RBI single in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Enmanuel De Jesus (2-0), the fourth of six Tigers pitchers, retired all seven batters he faced. Kenley Jansen struck out two in a perfect ninth for his 483rd career save and seventh this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City lost for only the third time in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Hao-Yu Lee&#8217;s two-out RBI triple off the outstretched glove of Royals right fielder Jac Caglianone opened the scoring in the second. Zack Short walked and Vierling delivered a two-run double off the left-field wall to give the Tigers a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the third, Kansas City greeted reliever Drew Anderson with three straight hits, scoring their first run on a hit-and-run, opposite-field single by Vinnie Pasquantino, and another on Carter Jensen&#8217;s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth, Caglianone doubled to left-center and scored the tying run on Maikel Garcia&#8217;s third hit, a two-out single to center.<\/p>\n<p>Royals starter Noah Cameron exited after allowing a leadoff hit in the fifth on his 95th pitch. He allowed three runs and five hits with three walks and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>The top three Kansas City batters combined for seven of the team&#8217;s eight hits.<\/p>\n<p>Greene has reached base safely in a career-best 21 consecutive games. In 27 games since April 11, he is batting .384 with 13 extra-base hits.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>Tigers RHP Jack Flaherty (0-3, 5.56 ERA) faces Mets RHP Freddy Peralta (2-3, 3.12) on Tuesday night in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Royals RHP Stephen Kolek (1-0, 4.50 ERA) pitches Tuesday in Chicago against White Sox RHP Erick Fedde (0-4, 3.79).<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/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.cbsnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gage Workman came off the bench and hit his first major league homer, a two-run shot that sent the Detroit Tigers past the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Sunday night to snap a five-game losing streak. 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