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City Royals POSTGAME NOTES

Detroit 3, Kansas City 2 4 Saturday, September 20, 2014 R H E LOB (86-68) 3 7 0 5 Starting : (113/75) Kansas City (83-70) 2 11 0 10 : (103/69)

WP: Max Scherzer (17-5) LP: James Shields (14-8) SV: Joe Nathan (33) Time: 3:29 Temp: 79 Attendance: 37,074 Recap (Season Total • Inning • Runners on Base • Count • Distance • Pitcher) KANSAS CITY DETROIT None Torii Hunter (17 • 4 • 0 • 1-2 • 401 ft. • Shields)

Attendance Comparison Dates Total Average 2014 80 1,919,270 23,991 2013 80 1,722,855 21,536 Difference - 196,415 2,455

Kansas City Royals Notes 4The Royals eclipsed 1.9 million fans for the first time since 1993 (1,934,578). 4Kansas City is 22-23 in one-run games and 14-11 at home. 4James Shields (6.2 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 6 SO, 1 HR) finishes his regular season home schedule with a 3.51 ERA (40 ER, 102.2 IP) in 15 starts. 4Alcides Escobar doubled for the 32nd time this season, the most in a season by a Royals since Jose Offerman had 33 in 1996...now has 39 multi- games this season...he entered Saturday tied for seventh among Major League in multi-hit efforts...tied a career-high with four hits (fifth time, first since August 29 vs. Cleveland). 4Jarrod Dyson snapped an 0-for-20 skid with a in the third inning...matched a career-best with his fourth three-hit game of the season and first since August 10 vs. San Francisco. 4Nori Aoki sacrifice bunted twice, the fifth time the Royals have had two sac bunts in one game, first since July 23 at Chicago-AL, and first occurrence by one player... is the last KC player to twice in one game (July 27, 2013 at Chicago-AL). 4Mike Moustakas stole his first base in exactly one year, September 20, 2013 vs. Texas. 4Lane Adams scored his first Major League run in the eighth inning after pinch-running for Salvador Perez.

Detroit Tigers Notes 4Detroit is 22-20 in one-run games and 12-15 on the road. 4Max Scherzer (7.0 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 SO, 1 HBP) worked at least 7.0 innings while allowing one or fewer runs for the 10th time this season and first since throwing 8.0 shutout innings on August 14 at Pittsburgh. 4Torii Hunter hit his 331st career home run, matching Hall of Famer and Tigers great Greenberg along with Derrek Lee for 104th on MLB’s all-time list...has multiple hits in a career-best six straight games and nine of his last 12...in those 12 games, he is batting .404 (21-for-52) with nine runs scored, three doubles, two home runs and eight RBI...is now 21-for-62 (.339) with four doubles, one triple, one home run and two RBI against James Shields in his career. 4Tyler Collins improved to 3-for-5 (.600) with one home run and four RBI as a pinch-hitter. 4Miguel Cabrera has had his 17 game on-base streak snapped. 4With one out and runners on second and third, Brad Ausmus challenged that Salvador Perez did not tag up after ’s line drive was caught by . After review, the call was overturned and Perez was out on an inning-ending play. The replay took 2 minutes, 47 seconds...the Tigers are 23-for-39 (.590) getting challenges overturned this season.