Kansas City, Mo. ? Royals pitcher Luke Hochevar has faced the Detroit lineup enough over the years that he should be keenly aware of how dangerous Victor Martinez, Miguel Cabrera and the rest of them can be.

Lest he forgot, they gave Hochevar a nice reminder Thursday night.

Cabrera hit a go-ahead two-run homer off him, James McCann also took the reliever deep, and Martinez had three homers against other Kansas City pitchers in a 10-4 victory to open their four-game series.

“They have a good lineup, but then again you don’t want to go into it tying your own hands,” Hochevar said. “You’ve still got to go out and pitch your game, pitch your strengths and attack them and trust your stuff is good enough to get them out.”

It wasn’t on Thursday night. Not by about 400 feet.

Hochevar (1-1) took the loss, but just about everyone got in on the act. Starting pitcher Danny Duffy gave up a trio of homers, and Chien-Ming Wang served up Martinez’s third in the ninth inning.

“You don’t usually see that many home runs in this ballpark,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said.

Justin Verlander (7-5) allowed four runs on eight hits over seven innings, continuing his mastery of the Royals at Kauffman Stadium. Verlander improved to 13-5 in 22 starts in the ballpark.

Not only did the Royals’ five-game win streak end, so did their nine game home winning streak. It was their longest since reeling off 11 consecutive victories from March 31 to May 5, 2003.

“I hung the bullpen out to dry,” Duffy said. “I didn’t have my best stuff. I didn’t feel my best. That’s one thing people who stick around here do, is battle when they don’t feel as good as they normally do.”

The Tigers still absorbed a big loss in their come-from-behind win: outfielder J.D. Martinez left the game in the second inning after slamming into the wall chasing a fly ball.