Kansas City 10, Detroit 3
When: 7:40 PM ET, Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Where: Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri
Temperature:
75°
Umpires:
Home -
Clint Vondrak, 1B -
Mark Wegner, 2B -
Bruce Dreckman, 3B -
Jeremie Rehak
Attendance:
14031
By Field Level Media
Bobby Witt Jr. went 3-for-4 with two home runs and tied a career high with six RBIs to help the Kansas City Royals win their fifth straight, 10-3 against the visiting Detroit Tigers on Tuesday.
Royals starting pitcher Alec Marsh (4-1) went six innings, allowing three runs on five hits and two walks while striking out five.
Detroit starter Casey Mize (1-3) gave up six runs on nine hits with a pair of strikeouts in 1 2/3 innings. The Tigers have lost three straight and five of their past seven.
Witt notched his second home run of the night in the sixth inning, belting a solo shot to center field to give Kansas City a 9-3 lead. He gave the hosts a 5-0 lead in the second when he pounded a three-run shot 468 feet to the center-field deck.
Maikel Garcia, who went 4-for-5, led off the first with a triple and scored on Witt's ensuing single for a 1-0 lead. After Vinnie Pasquantino flied out to right field to advance Witt to third, Salvador Perez's single to right field drove him in to make it 2-0.
Kansas City then sent nine batters to the plate in the second.
After Witt's home run with one out, Pasquantino doubled off the center-field wall, went to third on Perez's single and scored to extend the lead to 6-0 on a sacrifice fly by Michael Massey.
Mize was pulled after giving up a line-drive single to left field on the next at-bat.
Hunter Renfroe walked to lead off the third and scored on Garcia's line-drive triple. Witt brought Garcia home with a sacrifice fly, putting Kansas City ahead 8-0.
Detroit finally broke through in the fourth.
After drawing a leadoff walk, Mark Canha advanced to third on Wenceel Perez's single to right field. Then, with one out, Matt Vierling hit a line-drive triple to center, scoring Canha and Perez to cut it to 8-2. Colt Keith followed with a single up the middle to drive in Vierling and narrow it to 8-3.
Renfroe made it 10-3 when he added a solo home run to left-center field in the seventh inning.
Keith went 3-for-4 for the Tigers.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Detroit |
|
Kansas City |
Casey Mize
|
Player |
Alec Marsh
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
1.2 |
IP |
6.0 |
2 |
Strikeouts |
5 |
9 |
Hits |
5 |
32.40 |
ERA |
4.50 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Detroit
|
6 |
0 |
9 |
.182 |
11 |
8 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
Kansas City
|
15 |
3 |
29 |
.395 |
11 |
7 |
10 |
1 |
1 |
0 |