Konerko sprained his right knee on Tuesday, in what was called a mild sprain of the medial collateral ligament. He showed a bit more bounce in his step over the weekend, which caught Guillen's eye and also gave him some optimism.

"No predictions," Konerko said, when asked about what Guillen had hinted. "There's no real update right now. (I'm) just doing work and that's it. It feels all right. It feels better -- a little sore -- but that's it."

But at least Konerko is putting some work in on the baseball side of things, as the first baseman took swings in the batting cage on Saturday. While he didn't go all out, he did test the right leg and saw how much support it gave him.

"It was just off a tee," Konerko said. "It wasn't all out. Good first day with that and we're doing more."

If there is limited soreness Monday, he will likely move on to taking flips in the batting cage, with the hope of taking batting practice Tuesday.

This is the second injury Konerko suffered this season. He went on the disabled list back in mid-June with a Grade 1 strain of his left oblique muscle. It was the first time the White Sox captain was placed on the DL during his 10-year career in Chicago, and the first time he said he could ever remember being on the DL in any level of baseball.

With Konerko on the shelf, the Sox continued to go with Nick Swisher at first and some combination of Dewayne Wise and Brian Anderson in the outfield, depending on the opposing pitcher. Both Wise and Anderson played huge roles in the two-game sweep of the doubleheader against Detroit on Sunday.

WHITE SOX 4, TIGERS 2 (first game): The Sox still showed some power in the Game 1 win on Sunday, as Alexei Ramirez hit a seventh-inning solo home run, but it was the formula that manager Ozzie Guillen truly covets that was the difference, as pitcher Javier Vazquez was dominant. The right-hander threw 7 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing just three hits.

Detroit did make it interesting in the ninth, as Bobby Jenks allowed a Magglio Ordonez two-run homer in a non-save situation, but Jenks cleaned up his mess.

WHITE SOX 11, TIGERS 7 (second game): The doubleheader was completed with yet another win by the Sox, but the bullpen certainly didn't make it easy.

With John Danks in the showers for the night after six shutout innings, thinking the win was in his pocket, the bullpen picked a bad time to implode, allowing the Tigers to score two in the seventh and then five in the eighth to tie the game. Dewayne Wise played hero, however, hitting the eighth-inning grand slam to give the Sox a 1 1/2-game lead over the Twins in the AL Central.