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Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Kansas City Royals (38-32) @ Detroit Tigers (36-31) Comerica Park - Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Game #71 - Road Game #37 Fox Sports Kansas City (HD) & KCSP Radio (610 Sports) UPCOMING PITCHING PROBABLES Thursday, June 19 @ Detroit Tigers: LHP Danny Duffy (4-5, 2.83) vs. RHP Anibal Sanchez (3-2, 2.44), 1:08 p.m. (CDT), FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Friday, June 20 vs. Seattle Mariners: RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (5-3, 2.59) vs. RHP James Shields (7-3, 3.44), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Saturday, June 21 vs. Seattle Mariners: RHP Chris Young (6-4, 3.40) vs. LHP Jason Vargas (7-2, 3.25), 1:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Sunday, June 22 vs. Seattle Mariners: LHP Roenis Elias (6-5, 3.91) vs. RHP Yordano Ventura (5-5, 3.26), 1:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Today’s game is being broadcast in Kansas City on KCSP Radio (610 Sports) and the Royals Radio Network with Denny Matthews, Ryan Lefebvre and Steve Stewart, while Don Free controls the dials as the producer/engineer...today’s game is being televised in High Definition on Fox Sports Kansas City with Steve Physioc and Rex Hudler on the call, while Joel Goldberg and Jeff Montgomery anchor Royals Live. Royals vs. Tigers ROYALS STREAK INTO TOP SPOT--The hottest team in the Majors continued its roll last night as The Royals have plated 11 runs in each of the first two games Kansas City rode a 7-run second inning off defending Cy Young champ, Max Scherzer, and landed an of this series to get into win column vs. the Tigers this year...it 11-4 victory over the Tigers...the Royals have now won nine in a row, matching their longest streak of a marks the first time KC has scored at least 11 runs in consecutive year ago (July 22-August 1) and come to the yard today in first place by a half-game over the host club... games vs. the Tigers in franchise history...the 1994 Royals scored just 24 hours after scoring seven times off of KC nemesis Justin Verlander, the Royals saddled Scherzer 11 twice in the same series at Tiger Stadium on April 16 and 18... KC has now tied the all-time series at 307-307, including a 147- with 10 runs in just 4.0+ innings...Alex Gordon opened the onslaught with a 2-run homer in the second 163 deficit in Motown, 60-71 here in Comerica. and then following a walk to Sal Perez, Mike Moustakas added a 2-run blast of his own...KC would plate Date Site Score WP LP Att. three more runs in the second and then play add-on with three in the fifth and one more in the seventh... 3/31 @ Det L, 3-4 Nathan Davis 45,068 4/2 @ Det L, 1-2 (10) Albuquerque Collins 26,906 nine different Royals had hits in the game, led by Alcides Escobar with a 3-hit effort...all of this is support 4/3 @ Det Rained out (Rescheduled for June 19) of Yordano Ventura, who worked 7.0 innings to earn his third straight win and even his season mark at 5/2 KC L, 2-8 Porcello Shields 28,021 5-5...Kansas City is now 5-0 on this road trip that began with a 3-game sweep of the White Sox in “The 5/3 KC L, 2-9 Smyly Duffy 29,200 Cell” and a win today would give the Royals their first streak of at least 10 wins since July 23-August 5, 5/4 KC L, 4-9 Verlander Vargas 22,504 6/16 @ Det W, 11-8 Vargas Verlander 31,774 1994, when they won 14 straight. 6/17 @ Det W, 11-4 Ventura Scherzer 34,328 6/18 @ Det INSIDE THE WINNING STREAK--With 32 hits in the first two games of this visit to Motown, the Royals 6/19 @ Det are now batting .333 (107-for-321) during this 9-game winning streak with 20 doubles, a triple, 12 homers 7/10 KC and 67 runs scored (7.4 per game), while slugging at a .514 clip...individually during the nine straight wins, 7/11 KC Alcides Escobar leads the pack with a .412 average (14-for-34) with 7 runs scored, followed in order by 7/12 KC 7/13 KC Billy Butler at .406 (13-for-32) with 10 RBI, Salvador Perez at .400 (14-for-35) with 8 runs and 7 driven 9/8 @ Det in, Jarrod Dyson at .389 (7-for-18), Omar Infante at .316 (12-for-38) with 9 runs and 10 RBI, Lorenzo Cain 9/9 @ Det at .313 (10-for-32) with 7 RBI and Mike Moustakas also at .313 (10-for-32) with 7 runs and 7 RBI...on the 9/10 @ Det 9/19 KC hill, the staff has compiled a solid 3.11 overall ERA, but the starting rotation has been exemplary with a 9/20 KC 2.59 mark (17 earned runs in 59.0 innings) with 7 of the 9 games going as “quality” starts. 9/21 KC STREAKING ON THE ROAD TOO--Last night’s victory was KC’s fifth straight on this specific trip, but the seventh in a row on the road dating back to a 2-game sweep of St. Louis on June 2-3...it’s one more consecutive road win than a year ago on July 26-August 1 when the Royals won six straight away from home and it’s not the longest road win skein since taking eight straight from September 13-27, 2008...this year’s group has also won 9 of its last 11 road games and is now 20-16 overall away from “The K”...as for this excursion, Kansas City has outscored the home club by a 44-18 margin through the first five games. STRONG JUNE SHOWING--The Royals are 12-3 in June and enter riding a 7.0-game flip in the standings after being 6 1/2 games back on June 1...a year ago after 70 games, KC was 34-46 and five games out...this current run of success actually dates back to the end of May when the Royals opened a 4-game series in Toronto with a pair of wins to jumpstart this overall 14-4 mark in the last 18 contests...the stop in Toronto kicked off a 29-game stretch in which all but one of KC’s next nine opponents had a record over .500...this stretch has 11 games left with two here in Detroit (36-30) and then 3-game sets vs. Seattle (36-34), the L.A. Dodgers (38-34) and the L.A. Angels (37-32)...so far the Royals have gone 2-2 vs. Toronto, 3-1 vs. St. Louis, 2-1 vs. the Yankees, 2-0 vs. Cleveland and 3-0 vs. the White Sox. TODAY’S STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Jeremy Guthrie (3-6, 3.94) vs. LHP Drew Smyly (3-5, 3.58) 2014 2013 Career 2014 2013 Career Jeremy Guthrie vs. Tigers 0-0 2-2 7-5 Major League Record 3-6 (3.94 ERA) 15-12 73-95 Drew Smyly vs. Royals 1-0 1-0 3-0 Major League Record 3-5 (3.58 ERA) 6-0 13-8 JEREMY GUTHRIE makes his 15th start of the season, the 258th outing of his career and 231st start...he faces Detroit for the 19th time (16th start)...he is in the second year of a three-year deal with KC and was originally acquired on July 20, 2012 from Colorado in exchange for Jonathan Sanchez. BACK IN THE WIN COLUMN--Friday the 13th was a good day for Jeremy and Jeremy’s 2014 Starts the Royals as he opened this road trip with a 7-2 win over the White Sox in Chicago... DATE OPPONENT SCORE IP H R ER HR BB SO TP-K LEFT 4/4 Chicago W, 7-5 5.2 7 4 4 0 4 3 111-68 7-2 the victory snapped his 11-start dry spell that witnessed an 0-6 ledger since his last 4/9 Tampa Bay W, 7-3 7.0 4 1 1 1 1 4 109-70 7-1 previous win back on April 9...with run support at a premium for Guthrie this year, it 4/16 at Houston ND, 6-4 (11) 6.0 6 4 4 2 2 4 103-64 4-4 4/21 at Cleveland L, 3-4 6.1 10 4 4 2 0 3 98-69 3-4 wasn’t an issue on Friday as he took the mound in the bottom of the first with a 5-0 4/26 at Baltimore ND, 2-3 (10) 7.0 6 2 2 0 1 3 97-69 2-2 5/1 Toronto L, 3-7 6.0 8 4 4 2 2 4 109-72 3-4 lead...Chicago plated single tallies in the first and second, then Jeremy and a quartet of 5/6 at San Diego ND, 3-1 (11) 8.0 4 1 1 1 1 2 107-70 1-1 relievers fired 7.0 shutout inning from that point...Guthrie worked 5.2 innings, striking 5/11 at Seattle ND, 9-7 4.2 8 7 7 3 0 2 80-48 5-7 5/16 Baltimore L, 0-4 8.0 8 4 4 1 1 2 116-79 0-4 out 9, justd one shy of his career-best done on 3 occasions.