CHICAGO – These were supposed to be Paul Konerko's final games against the Twins, but the White Sox slugger is sidelined with a broken bone in his left hand. He expects to return to the lineup this week.

But his days of tormenting the Twins are over. He will retire after the season, ending an 18-year career.

"We've been nicer to him than he's been nice to us," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He's hit home runs against us. He's added to his totals. We had the opportunity and the pleasure to watch him trot around the bases — if you can call it a pleasure — too many times.

"A class act, a very good baseball player over there."

In 257 career games against the Twins, Konerko, 38, hit .286 with 50 home runs and 136 RBI. The home runs are the most against any opponent and include some painful ones to the Twins.

Funny how people focus on the negative. When asked for his memories of the Twins through his career, Konerko talked about what the Twins have done to him.

"I think more of the crushing Metrodome losses that we had there," Konerko said. "Just a lot of good battles. For a while there it was just us and them kind of battling every year. You always felt uneasy playing them. Fundamentally speaking, the way they played the game, the way they conducted themselves over there. Throughout the whole time I was here. they were a very tough team to play."

Konerko liked the contrasting styles. The Twins never had teams loaded with power in the 2000s and liked to be aggressive on the basepaths. The White Sox liked the long ball.

"You just never felt a lead was safe," he said.

Bonus shortage

Friday's rainout caused Twins pitcher Phil Hughes to have his start pushed back to Saturday.

And that has nudged him out of a $500,000 bonus.

Hughes needed to reach 215 innings pitched to earn the bonus. He was on track to make two more starts this season, but being pushed back to Saturday pushed him out of the season-ending game against Detroit. And Hughes said coming back on three days' rest to make a run at the bonus is not likely.

"Who knows how it shakes out?" Hughes said. "I just want to throw a couple quality ballgames and not so much worry about the innings count. If I get there, great. If not, there's still a lot of other things to feel pretty good about this year."

Twins pitching coach Rick Anderson, aware of the ramifications of the rainout, called Hughes in his hotel room Friday — moments after the game was postponed — to apologize to him.

No worries, however. Hughes has thrown 194⅔ innings this season. He earned a $250,000 bonus for reaching 180 innings and will earn another $250,000 once he reaches 195 innings — one out away.

Etc.

• The Twins were able to get through the series without using righthander Anthony Swarzak, so he will definitely start Monday.