Detroit Tigers at Kansas City Royals

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Detroit Tigers

47-54, 19-32 Away

Final
1 - 6

Kansas City Royals

42-55, 25-24 Home

Lynch, Soler and Perez lead Royals over Tigers 6-1

The Royals grabbed a 4-0 first-inning lead as Perez hit his team-leading 23rd home run and Soler followed with his 11th for the Royals, who have won fifth straight games.

It was the second straight game Perez has hit a three-run homer.

Soler hit his second home run of the day in the third inning, his fourth blast in five games.

Jarrod Dyson collected an RBI single in the seventh. The Royals finished the afternoon with eight hits and only two left on base in sweeping the three-game series.

“You don’t pitch eight major league innings without having confidence in your stuff,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. “For him to step in against a team that has been swinging the bat really well, I am just impressed with him.”

After being recalled from Triple-A Omaha on Sunday morning, Lynch (1-2) gave up five hits and struck out four. He was the first Kansas City starter this season to toss eight innings.

“I just told myself to just go out and make pitches.” Lynch said. “Cam Gallagher caught a great game and my team played great defense.”

Eric Haas tacked on the lone run for the Tigers off of Ervin Santana in the ninth. Jake Brentz came on and closed the door on Detroit.

Tarik Skubal (6-9) gave up five runs on five hits in five innings of work with four strikeouts.

“They were aggressive on Skubal's fastball early," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. "They did a lot of damage with it.”

The longball has punished Skubal all season. He had allowed 19 entering the game.

ROSTER MOVES

Royals: Kansas City optioned Tyler Zuber to Triple-A Omaha to correspond the move to recall Lynch.

Matt Manning (2-3, 5.79 ERA) will open a three-game series in Minnesota for the Tigers on Monday.

Kansas City begins a four-game series against Chicago Monday. Mike Minor (7-8, 5.45) will take the mound for the Royals.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Grossman grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Reyes out at second.
	9th Inning	Candelario struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Brentz relieved E. Santana
	9th Inning	Reyes ran for Cabrera
	9th Inning	Cabrera singled to left, Haase to second.
	9th Inning	Haase singled to center, Schoop scored.

Statistics

DET		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
0	Ground Balls	0
5	Strikeouts	8
1	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	0
0	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	6
2	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
33	At Bats	31
0	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	6
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
0	Fly Balls	0
0	Caught Stealing	0
117	Pitches	138
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
10	Total Bases	18
33	Plate Appearances	32
0.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
2	Extra Base Hits	4
1.5	Runs Created	4.8
.242	Batting Average	.258
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.303	Slugging Percentage	.581
.061	Secondary Average	.355
.242	On Base Percentage	.281
.545	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.862
0.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.0
1.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.4
16.0	Batter Rating	43.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	10.3
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.55	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.31
.061	Isolated Power	.323
0.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.13
.000	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.031
-.182	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.097
2.0	Runs Produced	12.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
71.5	MLB Rating	89.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0

Game Information

Kauffman Stadium

Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Attendance: 12,703 | Capacity:

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