Tigers 19 - Royals 4
Coming into this game the Tigers had been owned by Kansas City in 2008. First the Royals swept Detroit (at Detroit) to start the year (starting the 0-7 start). When the Tigers went to KC the Royals swept them again. Coming into this game the Royals had scored 21 runs against the Tigers this year. Detroit had only scored 11 runs in those first 6 games.
It isn't like this one game erases the 6 games Detroit gave up to KC so far this year. It doesn't even mean that Detroit won't give the next two games away and leave Kansas City with a 1 and 8 record against the Royals. But, it does mean that for one night all is good: Detroit gave the Royals a much deserved spanking. As a bonus the White Sox and the Twins lost today so the Tigers are 5.5 games out of 1st and 5.0 games out of 2nd place (7.0 games out of the Wild Card).
