Detroit Tigers at Kansas City Royals

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Detroit Tigers

23-25, 13-12 Away

Final
3 - 10

Kansas City Royals

31-19, 20-8 Home

Bobby Witt Jr.’s 2 homers and 6 RBIs lead Royals past Tigers 10-3

Maikel Garcia led off the first with a triple and scored on Witt’s infield hit. Witt stole second and scored when Salvador Perez hit a single to right.

After Kyle Isbel and Garcia singled in the second, Witt hit Casey Mize’s splitter 468 feet — the farthest of his career — into the upper deck fountains.

“I didn’t really watch it,” Witt said. “I just kind of hit it and started running, but yeah, it felt good.”

“That’s probably one of the longest balls I’ve ever seen hit,” said Royals starting pitcher Alec Marsh. “Unbelievable. He’s a generational talent. You think you’d get used to it being around him every day, and then he does something new that you haven’t seen and it’s just ‘wow.’ The wow factor is unbelievable.”

Mize (1-3) surrendered six runs on nine hits with two strikeouts in 1 2/3 innings, the shortest outing of his career.

“They were taking really good swings off him,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “He threw some chase pitches that got hit for base hits. He threw some pitches in the strike zone that got hit hard. It just wasn’t his day.”

Garcia drove an RBI triple to right and scored on Witt’s third-inning sacrifice fly to give the Royals an 8-0 lead. Garcia scored three runs while matching a career best with four hits, extending his hitting streak to nine games.

“Maikel setting the tone kind of gave me excitement,” Witt said. “He’s doing the job, I’ve got to do my part.”

Witt added a solo homer leading off the sixth. It was his fourth multihomer game as he matched a career best with six RBI.

In the seventh, Hunter Renfroe’s fourth homer of the season capped the scoring.

Kansas City collected six extra-base hits and has at least one extra-base hit in all 50 games this year, one game shy of their franchise record set in 1978.

Marsh (4-1) allowed three runs on five hits and two walks with five strikeouts in six innings. The Royals have won all but one of his eight starts.

“Anytime we play like that we’re going to win a lot of games,” Marsh said of the Royals’ early offense. “First three innings I wasn’t paying attention. Sitting there for 20 or 30 minutes, I was like ‘what’s going on out there?'”

Kansas City has led or been tied for all 45 innings of the current homestand and hasn’t trailed since Wednesday’s loss at Seattle.

Matt Vierling hit a two-run triple in the fourth and scored on Colt Keith’s single. Keith had three of Detroit’s six hits.

Tigers LHP Tarik Skubal (6-0, 1.80 ERA) opposes Royals LHP Cole Ragans (3-3, 3.70) in Wednesday's series finale.

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 58.6%

Tigers: 41.4%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Kelly struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Ibáñez struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Torkelson walked.
	9th Inning	Keith doubled to left.
	9th Inning	Vierling fouled out to right.
	9th Inning	Anderson relieved Long

Statistics

DET		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
8	Ground Balls	10
8	Strikeouts	7
3	Runs Batted In	10
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	15
0	Stolen Bases	1
3	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	10
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	2
33	At Bats	38
0	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	11
1	Triples	2
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
17	Fly Balls	23
0	Caught Stealing	0
141	Pitches	139
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
9	Total Bases	29
36	Plate Appearances	41
0.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
2	Extra Base Hits	6
2.2	Runs Created	10.8
.182	Batting Average	.395
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.273	Slugging Percentage	.763
.182	Secondary Average	.421
.250	On Base Percentage	.390
.523	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.153
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
2.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	11.6
22.5	Batter Rating	72.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	12.7
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.92	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.39
.091	Isolated Power	.368
0.38	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.14
.083	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.024
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.026
6.0	Runs Produced	20.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.8
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
72.0	MLB Rating	116.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0