KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Interstat) — Michael Wacha pitched seven strong innings and the Kansas City Royals beat the Detroit Tigers 3-1 on Saturday at Kauffman Stadium. Wacha allowed three hits and one earned run while striking out six to improve to 7-8. Craig Kimbrel pitched a scoreless ninth, striking out two, for his first save.

Kansas City opened the scoring in the third inning on Kyle Isbel’s sixth home run, then doubled its lead in the fourth on Salvador Perez’s 17th homer. Detroit answered in the fifth when Hao-Yu Lee connected for his seventh homer. The Royals added an insurance run in the sixth.

Drew Anderson took the loss, going five innings and giving up five hits and three earned runs with four strikeouts. His record dropped to 4-5. Drew Sommers provided two scoreless relief innings for Detroit, striking out four.

The Royals collected five hits to Detroit’s three. Kansas City improved to 58-74 and Detroit fell to 61-68. The announced attendance was 23,156 and the game took 2:06.