"Injuries are part of baseball. For some teams, the biggest part.

If the team is the Detroit Tigers, the equation fits, especially given where the then-healthy Tigers stood in the American League Central on July 11 -- in second place, a half-game behind the first-place White Sox.

Theirs has been a precipitous fall since then as injuries mounted. And yet Sox manager Ozzie Guillen sounded a word of caution before the game Saturday.

''I was looking at their lineup, man to man, and that's a pretty good lineup,'' he said. ''They are still dangerous -- very, very dangerous. Right now, they are playing relaxed and loose. That's the worst thing about it. When you face a team like that, you really can get hurt. They still have a lineup to score a lot of runs. And I think their pitching staff is still there.''"