This five-game, four-day White Sox-Royals series featured a home-run barrage by Matt Davidson, a “respect the game” finger-wag by Salvador Perez, no weather delays (!), three Sox victories and an unlikely hero in the finale.

Cheslor Cuthbert, a backup infielder who probably did not go high in your fantasy baseball draft, hit two home runs in the Royals’ 5-4 victory over the Sox.

His first snapped an 0-for-14 skid and ended a homerless streak of 109 at-bats that began in August. His second was a backbreaker for the Sox. It came one pitch after right fielder Daniel Palka failed to make a sliding catch on a ball hit by Jorge Soler with two outs.

“Just popped out of my glove after I got extended,” Palka said. “Didn’t quite squeeze it.”

Hector Santiago, a reliever originally drafted by the Sox in 2006, allowed two runs in 42/3 innings, saying: “I was just trying to get as deep as I can and keep us in the game. I think I did that for the most part. … I’ll take all the spot starts or innings they want me to eat up.”

In a better place? A week before the end of the 2015 season, Tigers brass did something unusual: They sent pitcher Bruce Rondon home, citing an “effort level” that did not meet Detroit’s standards.

“Other than saying that (general manager) Al Avila and myself completely agreed on it, there will be no other details or comment,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said at the time.

Rondon pitched effectively (2.97 ERA, 0.96 WHIP) the following season, but the Tigers released him after an ugly 2017 (10.91 ERA).

Sox manager Rick Renteria spoke well of Rondon before Sunday’s game, saying: “As far as I’m concerned, with us he’s been great. You get no complaints from anybody in our clubhouse, any of the staff. We’ve asked him to do every single thing that we’ve wanted him to do, and he’s doing it. We’re really happy he’s here.”

Perhaps less happy after the 27-year-old right-hander surrendered Sunday’s lead in the eighth. He hit Alcides Escobar with a 1-2 pitch, leading to Whit Merrifield’s RBI single. The run was unearned because of a passed ball.

Remember him? Soler had a feast-or-famine day in right field. He lost his battle with the wind on a high fly by Palka that was misplayed into a two-run double. He later made an outstretched, sliding grab on a Yoan Moncada liner. The former Cub is having a solid year at the plate, hitting .307 with two homers and six RBIs.

Family man: Renteria returned to the team after attending his mother’s funeral in Austin, Texas. Angela Renteria was 91.

“Our family is very grateful,” he said. “We had a lot of outpouring from the game. We think she’s in a much better place now. We see her laughing in our mind’s eye now, and I’m sure she’ll be up there cheering the White Sox on with my dad and probably arguing with me up there every now and then.”