Kansas City at Detroit

Tarik Skubal takes the mound tonight for a Tigers team riding real momentum, winners of 14 of their last 19 games and pushing hard for a playoff spot with the trade deadline bearing down. This might be his final turn in a Detroit uniform if the front office moves the two-time reigning Cy Young winner before August 3, and a pitcher with that much riding on a start tends to bring his best stuff. We backed against Detroit on the road in Chicago two nights ago and got beat, a 5-1 result that showed exactly the form I'm leaning on now. Kansas City counters with Beck Way, a rookie making just his second big-league start, against a Royals lineup that owns the worst run differential in the American League Central. The sharp move today lines up on Detroit's side of this game, the cash outweighing the ticket count by a wide margin. Skubal's return from elbow surgery has been close to seamless, with a sub-3 ERA since he came back in mid-June, and with the rotation and lineup both finding rhythm, this is a clean spot to lay the price. Detroit is the right side tonight.