Cajun Sports

The Kansas City Royals are in the Motor City playing a four-game mid-week set against the host Detroit Tigers. Thursday night they will take the field for the fourth and final game of this series with the Tigers holding a 2 to 1 lead after the Royals grabbed a win on Wednesday night. Detroit’s offense has been rolling of late scoring twenty-two runs in their last three trips to the diamond and scoring six or more runs in four of their last six outings. If the Tigers plate at least three runs they are a perfect 6-0 their last six qualifying contests. Those twenty-two runs the Tigers scored have been allowed by this Royals team. For the Royals when they allow more than three runs they have lost six straight in that situation. Kansas City is 25-23 SU at home this season but they have won just once in their last five at Kauffman Stadium. The Tigers will send Michael Fulmer to the bump with his 10-6 record and his ERA of 3.06 this season. When Fulmer starts on the road he is 4-4 with an ERA of 2.25 on the year and he is perfect in his last three outings overall with a 3-0 record and an ERA of 2.45 over that span. Fulmer faced this Royals team back in late June in Detroit winning 7 to 3 while going 8.7 innings allowing three runs with two of those earned on seven hits and striking out seven in the win. Detroit has won seven of their last nine games versus divisional opponents when Fulmer gets the start. The Royals will send Danny Duffy to the hill with his 5-6 record on the year and his ERA of 3.51. Over his last three outings Duffy is 1-2 with an ERA of 3.42. Our BbTPR Index projects a run advantage of 1.42 runs in favor of the Tigers. The SPMatrix has Michael Fulmer with an average of 7.18 compared to Danny Duffy who has an average of 5.05. Our next set of metrics gives us an overall Pitchers Power Rating based on the situation. In this matrix Michael Fulmer has an average for this game of 109 and Danny Duffy comes in with an average of 86 compared to the league average of 100. The BbMomentum Matrix has the Tigers solidly in positive territory while the Royals even with their win last night continue to be just over the break-even average of .500. The Tigers have a Momentum average of .612 and the Royals come in with an average of only .504. The numbers tell us the Tigers will look to win this series with a victory tonight in Kansas City as they take a 3 to 1 series victory over a very average Royals team.