MINNEAPOLIS -- John Danks worked seven strong innings, Dayan Viciedo had four hits and Jose Abreu hit his Major League-leading 30th home run Friday night as the White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins, 9-5, at Target Field.Alexei Ramirez and Tyler Flowers also homered for the White Sox, who have won the first two games in the series with ace Chris Sale set to start on Saturday night.Danks was coming off his shortest start of the season, lasting just 4 1/3 innings against the Astros on Sunday. 
But he bounced back strong, at one point retiring 12 straight Twins in the middle innings. Danks gave up four earned runs on six hits, walking nobody and striking out five to reach nine wins for the first time since 2010.Abreu got the White Sox off to a quick start with a three-run blast in the top of the first. Adam Eaton and Ramirez led off the inning with singles against Twins starter Kevin Correia. Abreu then crushed a 1-2 offspeed pitch 427 feet to left-center that landed in the Twins' bullpen. Just like that, three batters in, the Sox led, 3-0.The long ball snapped a seven-game streak without a home run for Abreu, who extended his current hitting streak to 15 games. In his last 34 games, Abreu has been held hitless once.The Twins got one back on Kurt Suzuki's sacrifice fly in the second, but Ramirez restored the three-run cushion with a solo shot off the facing of the second deck in left leading off the third.Minnesota's defense contributed to its downfall, as the White Sox took advantage of two errors while continuing to batter Correia and tack on runs. With two out and the bases loaded in the third, Gordon Beckham hit a smash that third baseman Eduardo Nunez couldn't handle. One run scored on the error and Chicago led, 5-1.In the next inning, Ramirez drew a one-out walk and moved to second on Correia's errant pickoff attempt. Dunn drove him in with a bloop single to left, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on Viciedo's bloop single to right.Viciedo doubled in the sixth for his third career four-hit game and scored on Conor Gillaspie's single to make it 8-1.Patrick Donnelly / Special to MLB.com
But he bounced back strong, at one point retiring 12 straight Twins in the middle innings. Danks gave up four earned runs on six hits, walking nobody and striking out five to reach nine wins for the first time since 2010.Abreu got the White Sox off to a quick start with a three-run blast in the top of the first. Adam Eaton and Ramirez led off the inning with singles against Twins starter Kevin Correia. Abreu then crushed a 1-2 offspeed pitch 427 feet to left-center that landed in the Twins' bullpen. Just like that, three batters in, the Sox led, 3-0.The long ball snapped a seven-game streak without a home run for Abreu, who extended his current hitting streak to 15 games. In his last 34 games, Abreu has been held hitless once.The Twins got one back on Kurt Suzuki's sacrifice fly in the second, but Ramirez restored the three-run cushion with a solo shot off the facing of the second deck in left leading off the third.Minnesota's defense contributed to its downfall, as the White Sox took advantage of two errors while continuing to batter Correia and tack on runs. With two out and the bases loaded in the third, Gordon Beckham hit a smash that third baseman Eduardo Nunez couldn't handle. One run scored on the error and Chicago led, 5-1.In the next inning, Ramirez drew a one-out walk and moved to second on Correia's errant pickoff attempt. Dunn drove him in with a bloop single to left, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on Viciedo's bloop single to right.Viciedo doubled in the sixth for his third career four-hit game and scored on Conor Gillaspie's single to make it 8-1.Patrick Donnelly / Special to MLB.com
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