Matt Davidson gave the Whitesox a bit of breathing room in the eighth with a solo home run of his own. Davidson, a first round pick of the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2009, had just three career home runs coming into the season, but Monday clubbed his team-leading 19th. That helped Miguel Gonzalez pick up his first win since May 28 after 7 1/3 innings of seven-hit ball.
The Cubs, who immediately fell back into second place behind Milwaukee a day after tying for the division lead for the first time since June 6, took a 1-0 lead in the second on pitcher Kyle Hendricks' run-scoring ground out.
Hendricks lasted 4 1/3 innings and allowed eight hits and the one earned run on Abreu's double, which chased the right-hander from the game. Hendricks was making his first start since June 4.
Some other scores from Monday's MLB action:
Royals 5, Tigers 3 (12)
Salvador Perez and Mike Moustakas hit back-to-back home runs off Drew VerHagen in the top of the 12th to send Kansas City to its sixth consecutive victory.
Detroit had tied the game with a three-run sixth inning highlighted by Alex Avila's tying, two-run single. The rally came off starter Jason Hammel, then seven Royals' relievers combined for 6 1/3 innings of two-hit ball.
Carlos Santana hit a pair of solo home runs as Cleveland won a makeup of a May 25 rain out.
The Reds, who have lost nine of 11, got to within 3-2 on Zack Cozart's sixth-inning home run. Santana answered an inning later with his first long ball and Bradley Zimmer's run-scoring single made it 5-2.
Astros 13, Phillies 4
Baseball's best road team pounded Philadelphia pitching before and after a one hour, 52-minute delay to move to a season-high-tying 33 games over .500.
Facing Phillies' starter Vince Velasquez in the second, Brian McCann took the first pitch he saw and ripped his 13th home run to right-center field and Alex Bregman followed with an opposite field shot, his 10th, and the Astros led 2-0.
It was a 3-1 game before rain forced the teams off the field for nearly two hours. Once play resumed in the fourth, Houston (66-33) added five runs against Ricardo Pinto - Jose Altuve and Carlos Beltran each had a two-run single in the frame - and led 8-1.
Joe Musgrove tossed three scoreless innings out of the bullpen to pick up the win.
Marlins 4, Rangers 0
Adam Conley struck out five over seven shut out innings and Giancarlo Stanton homered twice for the Marlins.
Stanton's 32 home runs are tied with the New York Yankees' Aaron Judge for most in baseball.
Texas' Adrian Beltre went 4-for-4 to reach 2,993 career hits. Beltre, in his 20th season, hopes to soon become the 31st player to reach the 3,000 hit plateau.
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