Royals 10, Tigers 3: Casey Mize gets KC barbecued

The Royals shelled Casey Mize right from the start of this one, and even their routine contact dropped over a long first three innings. The Tigers didn’t get a whole lot from the offense beyond Colt Keith and Matt Vierling, and they dropped the game and the series on Tuesday night in Kansas City.

Casey Mize got the start for the Tigers, and he was not good. The Royals were all over his slider, which remains the real weak link in the chain for the right-hander considering how often he uses it, but they hit his splitter and his fastball too. Maikel Garcia got a nice flat slab of slider brisket down in the zone 1-1 and opened the bottom of the first with a triple to the wall in left. Bobby Witt…