Northern Trust Open in February, but his showing since is a tie for eighth at a European Tour event in China.Both are outside of the top eight in the U.S. Ryder Cup team standings, and while the Olympic tourna

CHICAGO -- Backed by enough runs and some nifty defense, Jose Quintana finally reached a personal milestone hes been craving.Quintana pitched into the eighth inning to earn a career-best 10th win and Jose Abreu homered for the second straight game to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 4-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Sunday.This was really special for me, Quintana said. When the year started, (winning 10) was my first goal.All my guys, teammates, celebrated with me.Todd Frazier had three hits and drove in two runs, and Justin Morneau added an RBI double in Chicagos three-run first as the White Sox took the final two games of the series and handed Oakland its seventh loss in eight games. Tim Anderson also had three hits.Khris Davis hit his 32nd homer, a two-run shot , off Quintana (10-9) who finished with nine wins in each of the previous three seasons. The left-hander allowed struck out six and walked one in this one while allowing eight hits, and improved to 5-1 with a 2.25 ERA in his last nine starts.Frazier said the normally reserved Quintana was just yelling and screaming like a little kid when the White Sox re-entered their clubhouse.He deserves it, Frazier said. Sometimes you gotta get like that in this game.Quintana, who entered with a run support average of 3.31 per nine innings pitched -- second lowest in the AL -- got more help than usual from his teammates, both offensively and defensively. Center fielder J.B. Shuck made two great catches, including a running grab of Ryon Healys hard-hit line drive with two outs in the first and runners on second and third.The White Sox staked Quintana to a 3-0 lead in the bottom half.It helps a lot... with the lack of run support hes had over a period of time, manager Robin Ventura said. After that point, he was pretty strong.Quintana got two quick strikes on Jake Smolinski to lead off the eighth, but walked him and then was replaced by Nate Jones. After Jones tossed a scoreless inning, David Robertson go the last three outs for his 32nd save in 38 chances.Zach Neal (2-3) allowed four runs on eight hits in 4 2/3 innings as he started in place of Jesse Hahn, who had been expected to come off the disabled list. Hahn suffered discomfort in his strained right shoulder in a bullpen session on Friday and will need another rehab game before rejoining the Athletics rotation.Oaklands Marcus Semien had two doubles and Smolinski singled twice, but the As dropped to 1-5 on a nine-game road trip.They (White Sox) did a lot of great work, especially in the outfield taking away extra-base hits -- multiple ones -- the last couple of games, manager Bob Melvin said.With two outs in the first, Morneau doubled in the first run, then Fraziers single drove in two more.After Semien led off the fourth with his second double of game, Davis followed with his homer deep to right center to cut it to 3-2. Shuck made a another great catch, this time diving to grab Brett Eibners sinking liner , for the second out.Abreu led off the bottom half with his 16th homer to make it 4-2.FIRST HITOaklands Chad Pinder, who went 0 for 4 in major league debut Saturday, was back in the lineup at second base and got an infield single in the seventh for his first hit . The As second-round pick in 2013, Pinder is the 46th player to appear in a game for Oakland this season.TRAINERS ROOMAthletics: DH Billy Butler sat out with a stomach illness for the second day. ... LHP Sean Doolittle, on the DL since June 26 (strained left shoulder), will have his rehab assignment at Triple-A Nashville extended a few more days. ... RHP Henderson Alvarez, out all season as recovers from shoulder surgery, threw 25 pitches in a bullpen session on Sunday and will be re-evaluated on Monday.White Sox: INF Tyler Saladino (back) didnt start for a third game for what manager Robin Ventura called precautionary reasons, but is expected to return Tuesday. ... 2B Brett Lawrie (hamstring, quadriceps) left Double-A Birminghams game on Saturday after four innings after sitting out two games. Ventura said Lawrie needs to show he can go longer in a game before returning.UP NEXTAthletics: RHP Andrew Triggs (0-1, 4.98) faces RHP Carlos Carrasco (8-6, 3.34) as the As open a three game series at Cleveland.White Sox: Following a day off on Monday, LHP Carlos Rodon (3-8, 4.26) takes the mound against Jake Thompson (1-2, 8.79) when Chicago hosts the Phillies in the first of a two-game set. Rodon is 1-0 with a 2.00 ERA and 16 strikeouts in his last three starts after a stint on DL (sprained left wrist). 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Rickie Fowler astutely pointed out that the United States is the only country in the Olympic golf tournament that can sweep the podium and capture all three medals.But after the first round at the Olympic Golf Course, that will now be an extremely difficult task -- and could todays results could affect a few Ryder Cup hopes as well.Fowler struggled in the afternoon wind Thursday, and he was joined over par by Bubba Watson and Patrick Reed. For Fowler, a four-putt on the first hole didnt help.Usually on the green, youre at worse [a] two-putt, Fowler said. It made it tough. Cross-wind putting is very tough, especially when its breaking one way and its blowing the other.Of the Americans, only Matt Kuchar managed to get in red numbers, and his 2-under-par 69 left him tied for 11th, 6 strokes back of tournament leader Marcus Fraser from Australia.It was a disappointing showing for the only country to qualify four players in the 60-man tournament, especially considering all are presently ranked in the top 20 in the world, with two in the top 10.Reed shot 72, Watson 73 and Fowlers 75 left him near the bottom of the leaderboard, just 2 shots ahead of last place.Its called golf and its very tough, said Watson, who birdied the last hole but had a double-bogey on No. 10. Some guys show that its easy, and thats what we do. Youve got guys who played good every week, no matter who they are.For me, it was one shot. Theres only one shot I want to re-do. I can take some missed putts that I lipped out that I hit great. I hit a lot of great shots out there. The score is just not what I wanted. But Ive got three more days to challenge and keep enjoying my adventure this week.Say this for Watson and the others, they have so far relished their time in Rio and immersed themselves in the Olympic experience.When all four players met in the media on Tuesday for a pre-tournament news conference, they lit up the room with their stories and good-natured banter. It was a nice departure from the grind of tour golf, which seemed to contributee to a looser vibe.dddddddddddd.But that vibe didnt translate to the course, and this kind of golf is not going to help Watson and Fowlers Ryder Cup causes.Neither has fared very well over the last several months. Only once has Fowler contended since the Waste Management Phoenix Open, where in February he lost a playoff to Hideki Matsuyama. Fowler let a third-round lead slip in May at the Wells Fargo Championship and has struggled to regain the form he showed earlier when he won a European Tour event in Abu Dhabi and moved to fourth in the world.Now ranked eighth, Fowler missed cuts at the Masters and U.S. Open and his best recent finish is a tie for 10th at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational last month.Watson finished second at the WGC-Cadillac after winning the Northern Trust Open in February, but his showing since is a tie for eighth at a European Tour event in China.Both are outside of the top eight in the U.S. Ryder Cup team standings, and while the Olympic tournament cant earn them any Ryder Cup points, it could have earned them some goodwill with captain Davis Love III. The top eight becomes final in two weeks following the Barclays, with Loves at-large selections coming later.Reed snuck into the top eight last week with his performance at the Travelers Championship, but he was far from pleased.I couldnt hit the ball any worse and I couldnt putt worse, he said.Kuchar also has work to do to make the Ryder Cup team, but at least he can see the top of the leaderboard.As for that podium thing ...Yeah, we did pretty good on that, huh, said Reed, who then added that its still possible.We all want to be on the podium. I feel I can shoot three quality rounds of golf. There is lot of birdies out here. Theres still time. Thats the one thing about this sport and the Olympics is you have 72 holes of golf. Its not a sprint, its a marathon. If we post some low numbers, we might be able to climb up that board. ' ' '