Detroit ? The Royals and Tigers played a game that looked so ugly Saturday night that Detroit manager Jim Leyland could hardly watch.

Detroit's Brandon Inge connects on a two-run homer in the 10th inning that beat the Kansas City Royals, 10-8, Saturday in Detroit.

But was it so bad he could smell it?

“That one had a bad odor to it the whole way,” Leyland said.

Brandon Inge’s two-run homer in the 10th inning gave the Tigers a 10-8 win over Kansas City, which came back from four down in the fifth inning and tied the game with two runs in the ninth off closer Todd Jones.

“I had been trying to be aggressive and hit the ball on the screws,” said Inge, who had been 0-for-4 on the night. “I had gotten a lot of good swings and popped the ball up.”

Sean Casey singled with one out before Inge lined the first pitch he saw from reliever Joakim Soria (1-3) over the left-field fence for his 12th homer of the season. Soria had gone 202â3 innings without allowing a run.

“I wanted to give him a fastball in the zone,” he said. “I got it up and he hit it.”

Craig Monroe drove in four runs, including a three-run homer, Ryan Raburn hit his first major league home run, and Placido Polanco also homered for Detroit.

The Royals trailed 8-6 in the ninth. After Jones came on, David DeJesus had an RBI groundout, and Mark Grudzielanek’s single brought in Tony Pena Jr. with the tying run. It was Jones’ fifth blown save of the season.

“They scored early and often, we scored late,” said Kansas City’s Emil Brown. “We got back into the game but just couldn’t close it”

Justin Verlander gave up five runs, four earned, and seven hits in 52â3 innings, walking two and striking out seven. He also had a career-high three of the Tigers’ four wild pitches.

“It’s a long season, 36 starts,” Tigers reliever Chad Durbin said. “You’re going to have starts where your stuff isn’t 100 percent.”

But it benefited Durbin (7-3), who got the win by pitching a perfect 10th.

Royals starter Jorge De La Rosa got battered early, giving up seven runs on seven hits in 41â3 innings. He walked two and struck out one.

Monroe broke a 2-2 tie with his two-out, three-run homer in the third.

John Buck made it 5-3 in the fifth with his 16th home run. The drive to right center was originally ruled a double, but the Royals argued and after the umpires conferred, the call was reversed. Replays showed the ball hit above the yellow home run line.

The Tigers added two runs in the fifth on Gary Sheffield’s RBI double and Rodriguez’s two-out, run-scoring single, before Brown closed the gap to 7-5 with a two-out, two-run single in the sixth.

Polanco hit his fourth home run in the seventh, and the Royals got a run in the eighth on Alex Gordon’s fielder’s choice.