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Cron went 3-for-5 with a double, home run, three RBI and two runs scored Thursday against the White Sox.

Cron delivered a two-RBI single in the first inning to extend the Twins' lead to 4-0. He followed that up with a solo home run in the third frame, his 22nd long ball of the season. Cron is now riding a four-game hitting streak and has at least one hit in six of his last seven starts. Though he missed a significant portion of the season with a thumb injury, he has a strong chance to match his 30-homer output from a season ago. Through 433 plate appearances this season, he's put together a .261/.321/.484 line.

Gurriel went 1-for-3 with a walk, a home run, two RBI and two runs scored in Wednesday's 8-6 win over the Rays.

Gurriel has been the Astros' most dangerous hitter since the beginning of July, no small feat given the caliber of hitters in the lineup. He has a 1.201 OPS with 19 homers and 58 RBI over 47 games. The 35-year-old, who entered the season with 34 home runs in 311 career games with Houston, has launched 27 homers in 124 games in 2019.

Abreu went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI in Wednesday's 8-2 loss to the Twins.

Abreu's been piling up the milestones of late. After notching his 1,000th career hit and 100th RBI of the season over the weekend, the 32-year-old laced his 30th double of the season, becoming the first member of the White Sox to hit 30 or more doubles in six consecutive seasons. Abreu has hit safely in eight of the last nine games, going 12-for-33 (.364) with five extra-base hits and 12 RBI.

O'Hearn went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run in Wednesday's win over the A's.

With no outs in the sixth inning, O'Hearn tied the game with a two-run homer off Tanner Roark. The 26-year-old has been heating up of late, earning himself more opportunities in the Royals lineup. Through 81 games this season, O'Hearn is slashing just .177/.269/.331. He'll need to continue improving on those anemic numbers to secure playing time over Cheslor Cuthbert.

Calhoun went 1-for-3 with a double, a run and two RBI in Tuesday's 5-2 win over the Rangers.

Calhoun put the Angels on the board in the seventh inning, when he scored two runs on a bases-loaded double. With two more RBI, Calhoun is now up to 66 on the season, giving him an outside shot at reaching the career-high 83 he accrued in 2015.

Santana went 3-for-5 with a double and three runs scored in Tuesday's win at Detroit.

Santana never had any plate appearances with a runner on base Tuesday, but he got on base himself and put the bottom half of the order in position to produce. The veteran slugger has a .349/.477/.640 slash line with 25 runs scored, seven home runs and 19 RBI over 25 games in August.

Dalbec went 1-for-4 with a two-run home run Monday in Triple-A Pawtucket's 7-4 loss to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Dalbec left the yard for the third game in a row, with his sixth Triple-A home run -- and 26th overall on the season -- coming off the Yankees' top pitching prospect, Deivi Garcia. The 24-year-old third baseman hasn't sacrificed much power while trimming his strikeout rate by a healthy margin in 2019, a development that may give him a shot at earning a promotion to the Red Sox in September.

Olson went 3-for-4 with a two-run double, a walk and two runs in a win over the Royals on Monday.

Olson has been racking up multi-hit efforts during what is his second straight solid month at the plate. The slugging first baseman has an impressive 23 hits overall during August. Olson has boosted his season average 17 points to .264 since the calendar flipped to July, and following Monday's production, his slugging percentage sits at .529, the second-highest mark of his career.

O'Hearn went 2-for-3 with two solo home runs, two walks and an additional run Sunday in the Royals' 9-8 win over the Indians in 10 innings.

O'Hearn had already been eating into Cheslor Cuthbert's playing time at first base versus right-handed pitching of late and may have cemented himself as the Royals' top option on the depth chart with his performance in the series finale. His extra-inning blast off reliever Nick Goody held up as the game-winning run, allowing the Royals to snap a four-game losing streak. O'Hearn will be back in the lineup Monday versus the Athletics, starting at first base and occupying the No. 5 spot in the order.

Abreu went 1-for-3 and knocked in both runs in Sunday's 2-0 win over the Rangers.

The two RBI give Abreu 100 for the season, the fifth time in six seasons he's achieved that milestone. He's on pace to set a new career benchmark, which he established during his rookie 2014 season, when he drove in 107 runs.