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
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 |
Detroit | Kansas City | |
Colt Keith | Player | Maikel Garcia |
3 | Hits | 4 |
1 | RBI | 1 |
0 | HR | 0 |
4 | TB | 8 |
.750 | Avg | .800 |
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 |