DETROIT ? It was a reversal of fortune for Kansas City’s Jeff Suppan and Detroit’s Jeff Weaver.

Suppan (2-3) pitched a two-hitter and Kansas City broke a scoreless tie on Weaver’s wild pitch in the eighth inning as the Royals beat the Detroit Tigers 4-0 Monday night.

When the two pitchers faced each other last Tuesday, Weaver pitched a five-hitter and won 3-0.

“He threw a little better last time,” Suppan said. “Jeff is a good pitcher. He kept his team in the ballgame.”

Suppan (2-3) and Weaver (1-4) were locked in a scoreless duel into the eighth inning.

Carlos Febles singled with one out in the eighth and went to third on Donnie Sadler’s double. With a 1-1 count on Michael Tucker, Weaver threw a pitch in the dirt that got past Mike Rivera for a run-scoring wild pitch.

Weaver recovered to strike out Tucker and retire Carlos Beltran on a flyout. Kansas City then added three runs in the ninth on RBI singles by Joe Randa and Febles, and a bases-loaded walk to Sadler.

“We got a couple of guys on base and didn’t do anything with it,” Detroit’s Shane Halter said. “They did.”

Randall Simon came the closest to producing any runs for Detroit as he flew out to the left-field warning track in the second inning and to the right-field warning track in the fourth.

“They hit a couple of balls good to left field,” Kansas City manager Tony Muser said. “Another night, in a different ballpark, might’ve been out of the ballpark. But in this ballpark it’s big and it held them.”

Detroit got a runner to second with one out in the sixth on a walk and a sacrifice bunt. But Wendell Magee grounded out and Robert Fick struck out.

“I went with the back door curve ball,” Suppan said. “Fick is a very patient hitter.”

Suppan walked one and struck out three in his third career shutout and 10th complete game. Suppan’s previous low-hit game was a three-hitter, accomplished three times. It was his first shutout since beating Detroit 3-0 on Sept. 27, 2000.

“He had pretty good control,” Tigers manager Luis Pujols said. “He altered his speed and kept the ball away from our left-handed hitters.”

The Royals snapped a three-game losing streak and ended the Tigers’ three-game winning streak.

Weaver gave up four runs and nine hits in eight-plus innings. He walked two and struck out four.

“Basically, it came down to who was going to break through first,” Weaver said.