Detroit Tigers at Kansas City Royals

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Detroit Tigers

23-24, 13-11 Away

Final
3 - 8

Kansas City Royals

30-19, 19-8 Home

Massey, Perez hit homers to lead Royals in 8-3 win over Tigers

Massey opened the scoring in the second with a leadoff homer, the first long ball given up this season by Tigers starter Reese Olson after 48 1/3 innings, snapping the majors’ longest homerless streak.

“The home run was 95 (mph), down and in,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “He wouldn’t have been looking there on a 3-2 pitch, but he was able to get the barrel to it. He’s just in a good spot and seeing the ball well.”

In his next at-bat, Massey stunned Olson with a liner off his right hip while Vinnie Pasquantino scored on a throwing error for a 2-0 Royals lead.

After a few warmup pitches, Olson (0-5) exited with a right hip contusion. He threw 2 2/3 innings, allowing the two runs and five hits with one walk and two strikeouts.

“He could have (continued),” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “He was trying, but he was really tentative. Given that it was his drive leg, we were not going to take any chances. We took him out for precaution.”

In a 10-pitch at-bat, Perez led off the sixth with his ninth homer as the Royals greeted reliever Joey Wentz with five consecutive hits.

“I was late on 3-1, after that I just tried to make adjustments,” Perez said. “I got a pitch around the middle and I hit it pretty good.”

Seven straight batters reached safely while Kansas City scored six runs to build an 8-1 lead.

“It stems from being prepared,” said Massey, who doubled after Perez’s homer for his third hit. “You get a bunch of guys in a row that execute and you get those big innings.”

Michael Wacha (4-4) allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings while walking one with three strikeouts to win his third straight start.

“He was in the zone, so they were aggressive,” Quatraro said. “It looked like he located his fastball really well.”

“Getting back in attack mode and being ahead in the count kind of keeps them on their heels,” Wacha said.

Chris Stratton recorded four outs for his third save.

Kerry Carpenter hit his sixth homer into the leftfield fountains in the fourth, then doubled and scored in the seventh on Colt Keith’s two-out double. Keith had three of Detroit’s seven hits.

Carpenter’s eighth-inning sacrifice fly capped the scoring.

The Tigers have scored 20 runs while losing 8-of-9 starts by Olson.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Tigers RHP Reese Olson left Monday’s game with a right hip contusion after being struck by a third-inning line drive.

Royals LHP Jake Brentz was reinstated from the Injured List and optioned to Double-A Northwest Arkansas.

ROSTER MOVES

Royals designated RHP Matt Sauer for assignment and selected LHP Sam Long from Triple-A Omaha.

Tigers RHP Casey Mize (1-2, 3.50 ERA) opposes Royals RHP Alec Marsh (3-1, 2.43) Tuesday night.

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 52.2%

Tigers: 47.8%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Rogers struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Báez grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Keith lined out to left.
	8th Inning	Pasquantino grounded out to second.
	8th Inning	Witt Jr. walked.
	8th Inning	Garcia to third on wild pitch by Lange.

Statistics

DET		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
15	Ground Balls	9
4	Strikeouts	6
3	Runs Batted In	7
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	11
0	Stolen Bases	0
4	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	8
2	Ground Into Double Play	0
1	Sacrifice Flies	1
31	At Bats	34
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	3
13	Fly Balls	20
0	Caught Stealing	0
141	Pitches	155
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
12	Total Bases	20
36	Plate Appearances	39
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	5
3.4	Runs Created	7.7
.226	Batting Average	.324
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.387	Slugging Percentage	.588
.290	Secondary Average	.382
.306	On Base Percentage	.385
.693	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.973
1.2	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
3.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	8.7
26.0	Batter Rating	53.0
31.0	At Bats Per Home Run	17.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.92	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.97
.161	Isolated Power	.265
1.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.67
.111	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.103
.065	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.059
6.0	Runs Produced	15.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
78.3	MLB Rating	99.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0