Hao-Yu Lee takes a 10-game hitting streak into the Detroit Tigers’ game against the Kansas City Royals at 1:40 p.m. ET on Sunday, at Comerica Park. Framber Valdez (5-7, 4.57 ERA) will start for the Tigers, who are 50-55 this season and fourth in the AL Central. Luinder Avila (5-3, 4.86 ERA) is the expected starter for the Royals, who are 44-62 and fifth in the AL Central.

How to watch Kansas City Royals vs. Detroit Tigers

Royals vs. Tigers odds

• Favorite Moneyline: Tigers -190
• Underdog Moneyline: Royals +155
• Total: 9
• Total Over Odds: -110
• Total Under Odds: -110

Injury reports

Tigers

Jack Flaherty: 15 Day IL (Flexor), Jackson Jobe: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Bailey Horn: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Parker Meadows: 60 Day IL (Head/arm), Burch Smith: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Javier Baez: 60 Day IL (Ankle), Reese Olson: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Will Vest: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Wenceel Perez: 60 Day IL (Face), Brant Hurter: 60 Day IL (Back), Justin Verlander: 60 Day IL (Hip)

Royals

Kyle Isbel: 10 Day IL (Foot), Bobby Witt Jr.: 10 Day IL (Back), Maikel Garcia: 10 Day IL (Hand), Connor Seabold: 15 Day IL (Lat), Jonathan India: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Cole Ragans: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Alec Marsh: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Kris Bubic: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Carlos Estévez: 60 Day IL (Foot), Nick Mears: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Stephen Kolek: 60 Day IL (Flexor), James McArthur: 60 Day IL (Elbow)

Stats to know

• Detroit’s Kevin McGonigle is slashing .278/.385/.417 this season with nine home runs, 35 RBIs and an OPS of .802. He has a 13.9% strikeout rate and a 14.1% walk rate in 447 plate appearances, and he has scored 61 total runs. McGonigle has recorded 11 steals on 12 attempts.
• In 396 plate appearances, Dillon Dingler has slashed .271/.338/.531 this season. He has hit 22 long balls (14th in MLB) and driven in 66 runs (10th in MLB) with a strikeout rate of 21.5% and a walk rate of 6.3%. He has come around to score 54 times.
• Kansas City’s Carter Jensen is slashing .241/.308/.429 this season with 14 home runs, 52 RBIs and an OPS of .737. He has a 28.8% strikeout rate and a 9.1% walk rate in 386 plate appearances, and he has scored 44 total runs.
• In 372 plate appearances, Jac Caglianone has hit 16 long balls, tallied 37 RBIs and scored 46 runs. He is batting .254/.312/.456 and has posted a 28.2% strikeout rate and a 6.7% walk rate.

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The famous final stage, which for the overall contenders is an unchallenged formality, typically becomes a flat bunch sprint.

Last year organisers ASO introduced a circuit which takes on a cobbled climb over the city’s famous Montmartre hill, changing the parcours enough to encourage the heavier, more powerful riders to challenge for victory.

On Sunday it was powerhouse classics legend Van der Poel who took victory after charging away with 11km remaining with Pogacar.

Pogacar and Van der Poel led through the picturesque and narrow lanes over Montmartre and past Sacre-Coeur, where some fans had their mobile phones knocked out of their hands as the riders squeezed past at speed, before Pogacar began to fade after three weeks of dominance and showing no weakness.

Van der Poel, whose strength and staying power allow him to pull out gaps in gruelling one-day races, just managed stayed ahead of a chasing pack which included several sprinters and was rapidly closing, before he collapsed off his bike and lay under a barrier, breathing heavily for several minutes.

Van der Poel added this prestigious victory on the famous cobbles to many of the sport’s biggest one-day races, such as multiple victories in Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders.

He said: “We have a saying in Dutch that it has to come for your toes. I don’t know where this came from, but not from my toes.”

The stage was reduced from 133km to 89km after the redirection of emergency services to help tackle wildfires in south-west France.

Lando Norris ended the first half of the Formula 1 season with a victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix that he described as “one of my best performances”.

It was a drive that had been a long time coming, after a difficult start to the season for the reigning world champion and his McLaren team.

But when McLaren finally gave him a car of the performance level he had become used to in the past season and a half, he more than made the most of it.

While Ferrari, the pre-race favourites, floundered and made, in the words of their team boss Frederic Vasseur “too many mistakes”, Norris and McLaren were almost perfect.

Even in the context of Kimi Antonelli’s stellar start to the season for Mercedes, this was one of the most impressive and convincing victories of the season.

Norris’ one mistake was on the first lap. He converted his pole position into a lead at the first corner, only to misjudge the grip available at Turn Two, slide wide, and gift his position to team-mate Oscar Piastri.

It looked to have been a potentially fatal error to his victory hopes on a track where overtaking is all but impossible between evenly matched cars on similar strategies, but Norris stayed calm.

Seeing he could easily keep pace with Piastri despite being in the dirty air, he said he always believed the win was on.

“It wasn’t my finest Turn Two,” Norris said, “but after that, seeing what my pace was like and I was just better in every sense, in terms of degradation and pace, I was convinced I could still win the race.”

Trapped, Norris begged for a different strategy to give himself a chance of victory, and eventually circumstances presented it to him.

Around half-distance. McLaren pitted Piastri to cover off Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari, which had just stopped for fresh tyres. That gave Norris clean air and he set a blistering pace.

Piastri might still have held the lead, but for a collision with Carlos Sainz as he lapped his Williams. The Australian was angry after Norris came out ahead from his stop a few laps later – but at the Spaniard, not McLaren.

“The fact I could keep up with Oscar on this kind of track, where it’s impossible to follow and impossible to overtake, I was within 0.8 seconds or something for, I don’t know, almost 40 laps, the fact I could do this is what gave me confidence that I’d win the race no matter what, whether he boxed early or late or whatever,” Norris said.

“The pace advantage I had was huge today. But I don’t know why. The cars are identical, and I’ve just been feeling very strong lately.

“I’ve worked on many areas from last year. I feel much more confident lately with how to extract performance, and I’ve worked a lot with my engineers to understand this car because it’s certainly not an easy car to understand and figure out how to drive on the limit consistently.

“So, why? Just hard work. Hard work from my engineers and from myself to improve me as a driver and improve my driving. That is the answer.”