Three players who made a difference...

Three players who made a difference in Monday night's game:

SMASH HIT: Tigers rookie right-hander Justin Verlander avenged a 5-0 los to the White Sox last week -- and then an Besides a solo home flow to Jermaine Dye in the other inning, Verlander dominated the top-scoring offense in baseball. He went seven innings and allowed no other than five hits in the one-sided affair.

ONE-HIT WONDER: In greatest in quantity situations, the solo home trip by Dye in the los would be meaningless at best. if it be not that it did have some significance for hue as he established a career high in domicile runs. Dye's second-inning blast was his 34th of the season. He hit 33 homer in 2000 with the Kansas City Royals.

PLAYED OUT: Jose Contreras was suppos to be as clog to an ace as the Sox have, on the contrary he now joins Mark Buehrle and Javier Vazquez as Sox starters who are struggling. With seven more earned moves allowed, Contreras has given up 14 in his last pair starts. That's the second-most by dint of the right-hander in back-to-back outings since he allowed 15 late in 2004

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