{"id":661716,"date":"2026-05-11T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661716\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:38:08","slug":"detroit-tigers-beat-kansas-city-royals-6-3-to-stop-5-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661716\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers beat Kansas City Royals 6-3 to stop 5-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gage Workman came off the bench and hit his first major league homer, a two-run shot that sent the Detroit Tigers past the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Sunday night to snap a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Vierling had a two-run double and Riley Greene reached safely four times as the Tigers prevented a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Called up hours earlier from Triple-A Toledo when Kerry Carpenter was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left shoulder sprain, Workman entered as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Workman drove a 1-1 slider from Nick Mears (2-2) to right field to give Detroit a 5-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Wenceel P\u00e9rez added an RBI single in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Enmanuel De Jesus (2-0), the fourth of six Tigers pitchers, retired all seven batters he faced. Kenley Jansen struck out two in a perfect ninth for his 483rd career save and seventh this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City lost for only the third time in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Hao-Yu Lee&#8217;s two-out RBI triple off the outstretched glove of Royals right fielder Jac Caglianone opened the scoring in the second. Zack Short walked and Vierling delivered a two-run double off the left-field wall to give the Tigers a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the third, Kansas City greeted reliever Drew Anderson with three straight hits, scoring their first run on a hit-and-run, opposite-field single by Vinnie Pasquantino, and another on Carter Jensen&#8217;s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth, Caglianone doubled to left-center and scored the tying run on Maikel Garcia&#8217;s third hit, a two-out single to center.<\/p>\n<p>Royals starter Noah Cameron exited after allowing a leadoff hit in the fifth on his 95th pitch. He allowed three runs and five hits with three walks and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>The top three Kansas City batters combined for seven of the team&#8217;s eight hits.<\/p>\n<p>Greene has reached base safely in a career-best 21 consecutive games. In 27 games since April 11, he is batting .384 with 13 extra-base hits.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Tigers RHP Jack Flaherty (0-3, 5.56 ERA) faces Mets RHP Freddy Peralta (2-3, 3.12) on Tuesday night in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Royals RHP Stephen Kolek (1-0, 4.50 ERA) pitches Tuesday in Chicago against White Sox RHP Erick Fedde (0-4, 3.79).<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gage Workman came off the bench and hit his first major league homer, a two-run shot that sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,3961,490,474,501,462,475,82],"class_list":["post-661716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}