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#963 Kansas City Royals (Ragans) -105 over Detroit Tigers (Gipson-Long) 1:45 PM CT

Cole Ragans has delivered excellent results for the Royals and should provide some optimism for the Kansas City rotation in 2024. Since moving to a starting role after the All-Star break, Ragans has a 2.34 ERA with a 11.2 K/9, going 5-1 in decisions. Sawyer Gipson-Long has a 2.40 ERA for a nice looking line but he has made only three starts for 15 innings. Gipson-Long had a 5.45 ERA in AAA and only made six starts at that level as he has made a big leap in the past few months thanks to big strikeout potential. In AA his HR/9 was 1.7 and it was 2.1 in AAA as it seems unlikely that his current pace with only one home run allowed will sustain. While Ragans has pitched against several quality teams, Gipson-Long has faced three bad teams in his three starts. That doesn’t change today but Kansas City is quietly 13-9 in September including going 5-1 vs. Houston in the past two weeks. On Tuesday Detroit won 6-3 but Kansas City had more hits in that game. Yesterday these teams played about half of a game with the conclusion of Wednesday’s game to precede the start of this game. Detroit has a 4-0 lead in that game but has burned one of the top pitchers and neither bullpen has been very successful of late. Ragans has been more reliable and durable as Kansas City should have a significant edge on the mound with Detroit likely to need at least four innings of relief following Gipson-Long with both teams likely to be pinched for relief options with the extra innings played ahead of the start of this game.