Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Detroit 9, Kansas City 1
When: 7:05 PM ET, Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Where: Comerica Park, Detroit, Michigan
Temperature: 74°
Umpires: Home - Jim Reynolds, 1B - Bill Welke, 2B - Mike DiMuro, 3B - Tim Welke
Attendance: 29043
The Detroit Tigers’ offense continued to roll on Tuesday night, pounding out 16 hits while Rick Porcello threw a two-hit gem to down the Kansas City Royals 9-1.

It was just Porcello’s second win over his last 12 starts as he improved to 6-11 on the year. Porcello went seven innings, striking out four and walking one.

Six Tigers had at least two hits and Brennan Boesch and Will Rhymes each knocked in a pair of runs. Detroit has now scored 40 runs over its last five games.

Kyle Davies (6-8) was hit hard for Kansas City, giving up seven runs on 12 hits over 4 2/3 innings.

Ryan Raburn homered in the bottom of the fifth and Austin Jackson followed that up with an RBI double. Will Rhymes then added a two-run double to close out a four-run inning for the Tigers.

The win pulled Detroit back to .500 at 53-53 on the season while Kansas City fell to 53-73.

Johnny Damon announced before the game that he decided to stay with the Tigers instead of accepting a trade to his former club, the Boston Red Sox.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Kansas City   Detroit
Kyle Davies Player Rick Porcello
Loss W/L Win
4.2 IP 7.0
5 Strikeouts 4
12 Hits 2
13.50 ERA 0.00
Hitting
Kansas City   Detroit
Chris Getz Player Jhonny Peralta
1 Hits 3
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
1 TB 4
.333 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Kansas City 3 1 6 .103 8 5 1 2 0 0
Detroit 16 1 24 .444 22 6 9 3 1 0