Bobby Witt Jr. went 3-for-4 with two home runs and tied a career high with six RBIs to help the Kansas City Royals win their fifth straight, 10-3 against the visiting Detroit Tigers on Tuesday.

Royals starting pitcher Alec Marsh (4-1) went six innings, allowing three runs on five hits and two walks while striking out five.

Detroit starter Casey Mize (1-3) gave up six runs on nine hits with a pair of strikeouts in 1 2/3 innings. The Tigers have lost three straight and five of their past seven.

Witt notched his second home run of the night in the sixth inning, belting a solo shot to center field to give Kansas City a 9-3 lead. He gave the hosts a 5-0 lead in the second when he pounded a three-run shot 468 feet to the center-field deck.

Maikel Garcia, who went 4-for-5, led off the first with a triple and scored on Witt's ensuing single for a 1-0 lead. After Vinnie Pasquantino flied out to right field to advance Witt to third, Salvador Perez's single to right field drove him in to make it 2-0.

Kansas City then sent nine batters to the plate in the second.

After Witt's home run with one out, Pasquantino doubled off the center-field wall, went to third on Perez's single and scored to extend the lead to 6-0 on a sacrifice fly by Michael Massey.

Mize was pulled after giving up a line-drive single to left field on the next at-bat.

Hunter Renfroe walked to lead off the third and scored on Garcia's line-drive triple. Witt brought Garcia home with a sacrifice fly, putting Kansas City ahead 8-0.

Detroit finally broke through in the fourth.

After drawing a leadoff walk, Mark Canha advanced to third on Wenceel Perez's single to right field. Then, with one out, Matt Vierling hit a line-drive triple to center, scoring Canha and Perez to cut it to 8-2. Colt Keith followed with a single up the middle to drive in Vierling and narrow it to 8-3.

Renfroe made it 10-3 when he added a solo home run to left-center field in the seventh inning.

Keith went 3-for-4 for the Tigers.