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team in their second game of the day, they fell in six innings.

Stephen Burrows, head coach of the team, talked about the loss to Cuba.

“We came out a bit slow at the beginning. Sometimes guys get the game jitters, by the time we were able to snap out of it and string runs together, it was a bit too late,” Burrows said.

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TIGERS 3, ROYALS 0 KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(AP) — Michael Lorenthree-hit ball, and Detroit wrapped up another series win against its AL Central rival. his scoreless streak to 23 2/3 innings dating to June 30 at Colorado.

The All-Star right-hander struck out three and walked one.

Tyler Holton worked a perfect eighth before Jason Foley handled the ninth for his fourth save.

Spencer Torkelson, Andy drove in runs for Detroit, which took three of four from the Royals for its fifth straight series win against them.

He added that the team made a lot of key errors in the third inning that caused Cuba to score several runs, but after tightening up on defence they were able to get them out.

Although it was a close loss, Burrows was happy with the way the team tried to comeback against Cuba.

In the initial game of the day, Team Bahamas got the easy win in three innings. The team had already scored 19 runs by the bottom of the first inning. In the second inning, the score had already ballooned to 27-0 against the Cayman Islands team.

Next up for The Bahamas will be Jamaica and the Netherlands.

Coach Burrows is confident going into the games against the two teams today and will look to tighten up defensively and offensively to get runs around the bases.