, while Carlos Braithwaite clubbed Stokes for four consecutive sixes to seal the trophy.Samuels, who was later fined 30% of his match fee for abusive langua

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Jose Abreu is reaching some significant milestones with others in reach, but they are not transitioning into a winning record for the Chicago White Sox.Abreu homered in an 8-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals on Monday, becoming the first player in White Sox history to hit at least 25 home runs in his first three major league seasons.Abreu needs five home runs and four RBI to join Albert Pujols as the only players in major league history with 30 home runs and 100 RBI in their first three seasons. The homer total may be difficult to reach with only a dozen games left on the schedule.I think thats something I can accomplish, but, I mean, of course its tough because of the short amount of games that we have, but, of course, its in the picture, Abreu said through a translator. Im just glad that I have this opportunity, because after what I passed through the first half, the second half has been very good.Abreu has turned it up several notches, reaching base in 42 of his past 45 games, hitting .370 with a .417 on-base percentage and a .641 slugging percentage. He has 14 home with 40 RBI in that span, which began August 2.The Royals went 14-5 against the White Sox this year.Its tough playing against them because we have to play perfect, Abreu said. They have all the ingredients to be a successful team, and I think that everybody has seen that. They won the World Series last year and they are a very tough team. I think that its desire. Their desire to win, their hunger to win games and to be good. And for me that is the main point for them.Yordano Ventura (11-11) gave up nine hits, struck out five and walked one, picking up his first complete-game victory.Ventura had allowed 10 runs, 17 hits and six walks in 11 1/3 innings in losing his previous two starts. He threw only 16 pitches in a 10-batter span to end the fifth and into the seventh.Kendrys Morales homered off Carlos Rodon (7-10) in a four-run fifth. Morales homered in back-to-back games, bringing his total to 29. The last Royal to hit 30 home runs in a season was Jermaine Dye, with 33 in 2000.Theyre a good ballclub, Rodon said. Guys that have been in the game for a while and just understand that, make me throw pitches and get deep in the count, and they did a really good job of that. They swing the bat well, but our guys swung the bat well, too. Some hard balls hit and some home runs, and thats baseball.Paulo Orlando and Alcides Escobar homered in the second for the Royals. Eric Hosmer drove in two runs with a pair of singles, giving him 97 RBI.Billy Burns had three hits, was hit by a pitch, stole a base and scored two runs.Carlos Sanchez also homered for the White Sox.It wasnt our day, Sanchez said. When a pitcher has his day its tough for us to hit.Todd Frazier added an RBI single and had two hits off Ventura.Hes throwing 97, 98 (mile per hour), Frazier said late in the game. Thats tough to pick up, tough to lay off, too, as well, because it looks like a strike and comes off. He had good command, basically.TRAINERS ROOMWhite Sox: INF Tyler Saladino (sore left calf) was out of the lineup for the third consecutive game. We could play him, but I think an extra day would be best for him, White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. ... DH Justin Morneau (neck discomfort) returned to the lineup after missing the previous six games and went 2 for 4 with a double and scored a run.UP NEXTWhite Sox: RHP James Shields, who is 0-5 with a 9.37 ERA in his past nine starts, will start Tuesday at Philadelphia. 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Ben Stokes believes Marlon Samuels lacks respect following the pairs various confrontations over the years.A feisty, often angry, rivalry which began with Samuels saluting Stokes after a dismissal in the Grenada Test in early 2015 further escalated during the World T20 final in Kolkata earlier this year went the pair went face-to-face in the middle.Samuels would end up finishing unbeaten on 85, and earn the Man-of-the Match-award, while Carlos Braithwaite clubbed Stokes for four consecutive sixes to seal the trophy.Samuels, who was later fined 30% of his match fee for abusive language, further raised the tension in the post-match press conference by saying: Stokes is a nervous laddie...he doesnt learn.In his autobiography, Firestarter: Me, Cricket and The Heat of the Moment, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail, Stokes makes clear that resentment remains strong.Marlon Samuels lacks respect. You get that if you have spent any time with him on a cricket field. Marlons conduct after West Indies victory over us in this years World Twenty20 final showed a total disrespect for the game.Without removing his batting pads, Marlon walked into a press conference, sat down and placed his feet on the desk. Totally lacking manners.It didnt require him to give me a character assassination -- bizarrely claiming I am some sort of nervous laddie -- to help me form the opinion that I do not like him one bit. I believe in the saying respect the game. I dont think he respects the game.Yes, he played an unbelievable innings but, because of our personal history, it stops me short of saying hes a good player. Team players are the good players in my eyes.Recalling how tthe tensions rose early in West Indies run chase, after they had been reduced to 14 for 3, Stokes writes:His mannerisms got me involved with Marlon.dddddddddddd I was at mid-off and, in my enthusiasm, found myself creeping in from my position and I noticed that Samuels, at the non-strikers end, was walking around like the big easy. I couldnt resist. Youve got a bit of a swagger on here, Marlon, considering youre 14 for three, I said. Shut the f*** up, you little bitch, came the reply.It appeared Stokes would be able to have the final say, however, when he had 19 to defend off the final over to earn England their second World T20 title. But he began with a poor leg-side delivery to Brathwaite, which was swung over deep square leg, and three balls later it was all over, leaving Stokes distraught, on his knees, in the middle of Eden Gardens.It was a numb feeling. I felt hollow, he writes. My England team-mates were the ones I had affected most with those four deliveries. We had gone all the way to the tournaments final over. But in a flash, all that hard graft had come to nothing.I knew the cameras would be all over me to see how I was holding up. I may have looked OK. That was an act. I was gutted. Do not show it, keep your head up -- Joe Root had said exactly that to me more than once as I crouched motionless on the square.In the aftermath, it was natural to question my methods. I wondered whether things might have been different had I plumped for four slower balls. The answer was no. My regret was execution, not selection. ' ' '