Diamondbacks 8, White Sox 6
In Phoenix, Shea Hillenbrand hit his first National League homer and doubled twice in his fourth game since coming to Arizona from Boston as the Diamondbacks beat Chicago.
Chicago has lost five straight games and eight of 11.
Trailing 8-3, Chicago scored three times in the ninth inning off Mike Myers. Jose Valverde, who came up Sunday from minor lrague team Tuscon, entered and got three outs for his first career save.
Andrew Good (2-1), pitching because Curt Schilling has a broken hand, allowed three runs and five hits in six innings. Jon Garland (3-5) allowed seven runs and 10 hits in four innings.
Royals 2, Dodgers 1
In Los Angeles, rookie Kyle Snyder (1-3) combined on a three-hitter for his first major league victory, and Carlos Beltran and Angel Berroa homered off Hideo Nomo (6-6) as Kansas City beat Los Angeles.
The win was just the fifth in 20 games for the Royals, who evened their record at 28-28 one day after dropping below .500 for the first time this season.
Jason Grimsley pitched two perfect innings with four strikeouts, and rookie Mike MacDougal pitched a perfect ninth for his 13th save.
Tigers 5, Padres 3
In San Diego, pitcher Steve Avery had a pinch-hit single and scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning as Detroit beat San Diego.
The Padres, who have lost 30 of their last 37 games, became the worst team in the major leagues as Detroit (16-40) won for the second straight night and popped ahead of San Diego (17-43) by 3 percentage points.
Dmitri Young homered for the second straight night, a solo shot in the eighth off Jesse Orosco that gave the Tigers a 5-3 lead.
Wilfredo Ledezma (1-2) won and Luther Hackman (1-1) lost. Franklyn German pitched the ninth for his fifth save.
Rockies 2, Indians 1
In Denver, Darren Oliver (3-4) pitched four scoreless innings after a shaky start as Colorado beat Cleveland in the third-lowest scoring game in Coors Field history.
The only games with fewer runs were on June 16, 1995, when Atlanta beat the Rockies 2-0, and on Aug. 9 last year, when the Rockies beat the Chicago Cubs by the same score.
Preston Wilson homered for the second straight game and had an RBI single to lead Colorado's offense against Billy Traber (2-3). There were two rain delays totaling 2 hours, 8 minutes.
Giants 4, Twins 3
In San Francisco, Barry Bonds had an RBI triple, then singled home the winning run with two outs in the ninth off Juan Rincon (1-2).
Tim Worrell (2-2) worked the ninth for the win. Torii Hunter doubled twice and drove in a run for Minnesota.
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