The win runs the Kansas City Royals record to 9-4 on the season, and opens a .5 game lead over the White Sox in the AL Central.
Salvador Perez put the KC Royals ahead 5-0 in the fourth inning with a double to the gap in left to score Alex Gordon from first base and Kendrys Morales from second. Perez then seemed to put the game out of reach after the Tigers scored twice in the fifth, by taking former Kansas City Royals farmhand Blaine Hardy deep with a three-run blast in the bottom of the same inning to give the Royals a commanding 8-2 lead.