Detroit Tigers (17-11) vs Kansas City Royals (10-20)
Kauffman Stadium @ 7:10pm EST
FSND / AM 1270 / FM 97.1

Mike Maroth (2-0, 4.82 ERA) vs Odalis Perez (2-3, 6.91 ERA)

Lefty vs Lefty matchup. Gary Sheffield will not be in today’s game as he will be at his grandfathers funeral, so Pudge will be today’s DH and likely leadoff batter. Leyland will put in his righty-heavy lineup to backup Mike Maroth who has had some rough outings so far this year. Maroth struggled in his last start against the Royals allowing 7 hits and 4 earned runs over 5.2 innings of work.

For Kansas city, Perez has had some even worse starts but managed to last 6 innings in each of his last two starts. This will be his first time facing Detroit this year although they took him for 8 hits and 6 earned runs over 3 innings in 2006.

Irrelevant stat: Mike Maroth’s ERA is a whole run smaller during night games (4.41 night vs 5.40 day)