detroit tigers

AL CENTRAL If the Chicago White Sox (86-74) and Minnesota Twins (87-74) are still within a half-game of each other after play is completed Sunday, Chicago must make up a rainout against the Detroit Tigers on Monday.

If the White Sox and Twins finish with the same record, they would play a tiebreaker game Tuesday in Chicago.

The Detroit Tigers placed right fielder Magglio Ordonez on the 15-day disabled list with a pulled muscle in his right side on Sunday.

Ordonez pulled his oblique muscle in the third inning of a 7-6 win over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.

Ordonez is hitting .307 with 12 home runs and 50 RBI. He hit .363 last season to win the American League batting title.

The Detroit Tigers placed Gary Sheffield on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with an oblique strain on his left side.

Sheffield, who started Monday night's game as the designated hitter, was injured running out a grounder to shortstop in the third inning.

He slowed up halfway down the line, grabbing his side, and was replaced by a pinch-hitter the next time he was due to bat in the sixth.