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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Matt Vierling capped a three-run eighth inning with a two-run double that lifted the Detroit Tigers over Kansas City on Monday night and sent the Royals to their ninth loss in 11 games.

Taylor Clarke (1-4) gave up Akil Baddoo’s leadoff double, hit Riley Greene with a pitch with two outs and walked Spencer Torkelson.

José Cuas relieved and walked Kerry Carpenter on four pitches, forcing in a run and ending Detroit’s 20-inning scoreless streak. Vierling sliced a sinker to the opposite field in right.

FILE - Hairstylist Bunnei Johnson checks out the scene on the fifth floor of a building at 1409 Washington Ave., where 10 teens were shot overnight, one fatally, during a party in the building in downtown St. Louis, June 18, 2023. A former judge, state lawmaker and criminologist on Wednesday, June 29, filed initiative petitions that would amend Missouri's Constitution to allow St. Louis and other local governments to adopt their own gun policies. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

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Kansas City Royals right fielder Drew Waters runs onto the field before the third inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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FILE - Police detective Eric DeValkenaere, who shot and killed Cameron Lamb after a chase, testifies, Nov. 10, 2021, at the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, Mo. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is asking a state appeals court to reverse the conviction of DeValkenaere, a white former Kansas City police detective who shot and killed a Black man three years ago. In a brief filed Monday, June 26, 2023, Bailey said evidence presented at a trial in 2021 did not support DeValkenaere's conviction for second-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of Lamb in 2019. (Rich Sugg/The Kansas City Star via AP, File)

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FILE - Ralph Yarl looks at a badge that he received after walking at a brain injury awareness event on Monday, May 29, 2023 in Kansas City, Mo. Yarl tells ABC's “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, June 27, that he never thought he would be shot even after the white man at the door he had mistakenly knocked on in Kansas City pointed a gun at him. Yarl was shot in the head and arm in April, after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell. (KCTV via AP)

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Brendan White (2-2) entered with two on and one out in the seventh and retired pinch-hitter Matt Duffy on a flyout and struck out Nicky Lopez.

Alex Lange struck out two in a perfect ninth for his 15th save in 18 chances.

Kansas City dropped to 27-68, last in the AL Central.

MJ Melendez, Freddy Fermin and Nick Pratto had consecutive singles in the fourth, the latter two driving in runs. Kansas City had six hits.

Royals starter Jordan Lyles allowed three hits in six shutout innings. Detroit’s Matt Manning gave up two runs and four hits in 5 2/3 innings.

Baddoo, in a 3-for-37 slide, had the game’s only extra-base hit with a leadoff double in the eighth.

TRAINER’S ROOM

RHP Zack Greinke, placed on the 15-day om IL July 5 with right shoulder tendinitis, threw a bullpen session Sunday and is expected to return to the mound against the Tigers. “Everything was good yesterday,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “We’re on track for him to make a start Thursday.”