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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (44-62, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (50-55, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Detroit; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Luinder Avila<\/a> (5-3, 4.86 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 57 strikeouts); Tigers: Framber Valdez<\/a> (5-7, 4.57 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 88 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Tigers -194, Royals +157; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers play the Kansas City Royals, leading the series 2-1.<\/p>\n Detroit has a 29-24 record in home games and a 50-55 record overall. Tigers pitchers have a collective 3.61 ERA, which ranks fifth in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 44-62 overall and 18-35 in road games. The Royals are 24-52 in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n The matchup Sunday is the 10th time these teams meet this season. The Tigers hold a 6-3 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> has 20 doubles, three triples and nine home runs for the Tigers. Hao-Yu Lee<\/a> is 13 for 34 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Carter Jensen<\/a> has 14 home runs, 35 walks and 52 RBIs while hitting .241 for the Royals. Michael Massey<\/a> is 11 for 34 with three doubles and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 6-4, .223 batting average, 3.34 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n Royals: 6-4, .251 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Tigers: Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Javier Baez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brant Hurter: 60-Day IL (back), Jack Flaherty<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Burch Smith: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Will Vest: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Wenceel Perez: 60-Day IL (face), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), Bobby Witt<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (back), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (44-62, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (50-55, fourth in the AL Central) Detroit; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Luinder Avila (5-3, 4.86 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 57 strikeouts); Tigers: Framber Valdez (5-7, 4.57 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 88 strikeouts) LINE: Tigers -194, Royals +157; over\/under is 9 runs BOTTOM […]<\/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":[461549,91466,308583,360072,345193,455467,404701,497069,353423,352106,345673,352796,313841,438640,43627,461548,314436,342882,313842,311159,313843,352111,347944],"class_list":["post-2517698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bailey-horn","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-event_preview","tag-framber-valdez","tag-hao-yu-lee","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-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-massey","tag-reese-olson","tag-stephen-kolek"],"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\/2517698","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=2517698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517699,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517698\/revisions\/2517699"}],"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=2517698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}