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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (43-60, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (48-54, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Detroit; Thursday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Randy Dobnak<\/a> (0-0, 1.93 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, seven strikeouts); Tigers: Troy Melton<\/a> (5-1, 1.80 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, 50 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Tigers -208, Royals +168; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals will attempt to keep a three-game win streak alive when they play the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n Detroit is 27-23 at home and 48-54 overall. The Tigers have a 33-18 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 43-60 record overall and a 17-33 record on the road. The Royals have a 23-51 record in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n The teams meet Thursday for the seventh time this season. The Tigers are ahead 4-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> has 20 doubles, three triples, nine home runs and 35 RBIs for the Tigers. Spencer Torkelson<\/a> is 6 for 38 with four home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Jac Caglianone<\/a> ranks third on the Royals with 35 extra base hits (17 doubles, two triples and 16 home runs). Lane Thomas<\/a> is 11 for 39 with two doubles, three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 6-4, .224 batting average, 3.24 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n Royals: 5-5, .248 batting average, 5.59 ERA, outscored by 25 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Tigers: Jack Flaherty<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Burch Smith: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Casey Mize: day-to-day (groin), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Will Vest: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Javier Baez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Wenceel Perez: 60-Day IL (face), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brant Hurter: 60-Day IL (back), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), Jac Caglianone: day-to-day (shoulder), Bobby Witt<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (back), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (elbow), Connor Seabold: 15-Day IL (lat), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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":" Kansas City Royals (43-60, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (48-54, fourth in the AL Central) Detroit; Thursday, 6:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Randy Dobnak (0-0, 1.93 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, seven strikeouts); Tigers: Troy Melton (5-1, 1.80 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, 50 strikeouts) LINE: Tigers -208, Royals +168; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs […]<\/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_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":[461549,91466,308583,345193,455467,279830,353423,352106,345673,352796,313841,438640,43627,461548,314436,423377,313842,311159,484793,352111,353422,347944,461550],"class_list":["post-2513807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bailey-horn","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-javier-baez","tag-jonathan-india","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-lane-thomas","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-randy-dobnak","tag-reese-olson","tag-spencer-torkelson","tag-stephen-kolek","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\/2513807","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=2513807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513808,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513807\/revisions\/2513808"}],"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=2513807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}