After winning seven games in a row and scoring 61 runs in the previous week, the White Sox went 1-5 and scored just 14 runs in a six-game stretch last week.

It took the White Sox just one game to surpass their run total from last week, as Chicago blasted four home runs en route to a convincing defeat of the Pittsburgh Pirates June 17.

The White Sox took advantage of struggling Pirates starter Ian Snell, who went just 4.0 innings, allowing seven runs (all earned) on nine hits and a whopping six walks.

In total, Chicago banged out 19 hits off Pirates' hurlers, making the crowd of 28,012 at U.S. Cellular Field quickly forget the team's offensive struggles of last week.

Orlando Cabrera, AJ Pierzynski, and Nick Swisher all collected three hits while Jermaine Dye, Jim Thome, Alexei Ramirez, and Dewayne Wise all picked up two apiece.

After the White Sox picked up two runs in the first, the Pirates tagged White Sox starter Javier Vazquez for four runs in the top of the second to go up 4-2. However, in the bottom of the third, Dye hit his 12th home run of the year to cut the Pirates' lead to one and Ramirez singled in Swisher to tie the game.

After a Wise single and a balk by Snell, the White Sox had men on second and third for Cabrera, who hit a sacrifice fly to put the White Sox up 5-4.

Pittsburgh would quickly tie the game up at five on a solo home run by Jose Bautista, but the rest of the game belonged to Chicago, which scored the next 11 runs of the game.

Joe Crede added to his All-Star résumé with his 15th home run of the year, a two-run shot coming off Pirates' reliever Franquelis Osoria in the sixth. Cabrera and Thome each blasted home runs in the seventh to put the game definitively out of reach for the Pirates.

Wise performed well, going 2/5 with a run scored, after being called up to replace first baseman Paul Konerko, who went on the 15-day disabled list today (retroactive to June 15) with a left oblique strain.

Vazquez struggled for the third straight start, allowing five earned runs in six innings to see his ERA rise to 4.13.

Adam Russell made his major-league debut with a scoreless ninth inning out of the White Sox bullpen. The 6' 8", 250-lb. right-hander featured an impressive mid-90's fastball and could develop into a nice mid-to-late inning option for Ozzie Guillen if he locates that pitch well.

The White Sox will take on the Pirates for the second of this three-game series tomorrow at 7:11. Mark Buehrle will get the start for Chicago against Evergreen Park's very own Tom Gorzelanny, who played his college baseball at Triton College in River Grove, Ill.