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Pitching matchups:

Kansas City Royals @ Detroit Tigers
Monday, June 16, 7:08 PM EDT , Comerica Park

Jason Vargas, LHP
Last 3 starts
Regular season
Last 5 years vs. DET hitters
Career stats
Vargas stifled the Indians for most of eight innings, finally yielding three runs but earning his sixth win. He gave up six hits and no walks, but hit three batters for the first time in his career. Vargas has gone at least six in 12 of 14 starts.

Justin Verlander, RHP
Last 3 starts
Regular season
Last 5 years vs. KC hitters
Career stats
Verlander has been encouraged by his fastball lately, but his results haven't translated. After holding the White Sox to one run over five innings, he gave up six runs in the sixth, five of them after his second and final out.


Kansas City Royals @ Detroit Tigers
Tuesday, June 17, 7:08 PM EDT , Comerica Park

Yordano Ventura, RHP
Last 3 starts
Regular season
Last 5 years vs. DET hitters
Career stats
Ventura had perhaps his best fastball command in a seven-inning win against the Indians on Wednesday. He issued no walks, and 61 of his 85 pitches were strikes. Although capable of 100-plus mph, Ventura stayed mostly in the 95-97 range.

Max Scherzer, RHP
Last 3 starts
Regular season
Last 5 years vs. KC hitters
Career stats
Scherzer threw his first career complete game in his last outing, a three-hit shutout of the White Sox last Thursday in Chicago with three walks and eight strikeouts. It broke a string of four outings without a quality start.


Kansas City Royals @ Detroit Tigers
Wednesday, June 18, 1:08 PM EDT , Comerica Park

Jeremy Guthrie, RHP
Last 3 starts
Regular season
Last 5 years vs. DET hitters
Career stats
Guthrie ended an 11-start winless stretch his last time up despite putting together a worse outing than many of his starts during the drought. He struggled with command but managed 5 2/3 innings of two-run ball while striking out nine to four walks.

Drew Smyly, LHP
Last 3 starts
Regular season
Last 5 years vs. KC hitters
Career stats
Smyly is quietly finding his form again, having tossed back-to-back outings with six innings and one earned runs allowed, but paid for a hanging curveball with an Eduardo Escobar home run in Thursday's 2-0 loss to the Twins.


Kansas City Royals @ Detroit Tigers
Thursday, June 19, 1:08 PM EDT , Comerica Park

Danny Duffy, LHP
Last 3 starts
Regular season
Last 5 years vs. DET hitters
Career stats
Following a dead-arm period at the end of May, Duffy has been on a roll in June. With seven scoreless innings Saturday vs. the White Sox, Duffy lowered his ERA in three June starts to 1.45 to go along with a 0.86 WHIP and 18 K's in 18 2/3 innings.

Anibal Sanchez, RHP
Last 3 starts
Regular season
Last 5 years vs. KC hitters
Career stats
Sanchez is unbeaten in six outings since his return from the disabled list in mid-May, the last five of them quality starts. He has allowed just 20 hits over 34 2/3 innings in those five starts, walking five and fanning 32.