The Detroit Tigers returned to Comerica Park on Monday after winning three games against the Minnesota Twins, the best team in the weak American League Central, in a four-game series at Target Field.
But the lowly Kansas City Royals, by far the worst team in the division and the second-worst team in the AL (ahead of the Oakland Athletics), threatened to pause the Tigers' momentum until Kerry Carpenter's go-ahead home run with two strikes and two outs in the seventh inning.