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Guillen gets answer he was looking for: 10 runs

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen's prayers finally were answered Wednesday night.

"Every time I wake up in the morning, I pray to God," Guillen said. "And I don't believe in that. It's hard, man. It's hard. We've got a good thing going and coming home, nothing happens."

Nothing as in no offense.

Entering Wednesday's interleague game against the Los Angeles Dodgers with a .217 bating average at U.S. Cellular Field compared to .280 on the road, Guillen didn't have any explanation for the baffling discrepancy.

"In the past, we've been good here," he said. "We've been a good hitting team in this place and this is a good hitting ballpark. I wish I had the answer about what's wrong with us offensively here, but I don't."

Guillen can get up off his knees and stop scratching his head after the Sox' bats finally woke up in a 10-7 victory over the Dodgers. The White Sox hit 6 home runs, just 1 shy of the club record.

"That helped," Guillen said of the offensive explosion. "That definitely helped."

Alexei Ramirez got the long hit parade started with a solo shot off Los Angeles starter Randy Wolf in the first inning.

The Dodgers took advantage of errors by Gordon Beckham and Ramirez and a passed ball by A.J. Pierzynski to score 3 runs (1 earned) off Gavin Floyd in the second inning.

At that point, it looked like the Sox were heading for their 11th loss in the last 15 home games.

In the third inning, Jermaine Dye changed the momentum with a 2-run homer to tie the game.

Josh Fields added another 2-run shot in the fourth to chase Wolf and put the White Sox in front for good. Paul Konerko, Jayson Nix and Fields all homered in the Sox' 5-run fifth inning to seemingly put the game out of reach.

The Dodgers did tighten it up with a run off reliever D.J. Carrasco in the seventh inning and 3 more off Jimmy Gobble in the eighth.

"When you score runs, every player feels good about himself," Guillen said. "It's nice to see. I know we take it one day at a time and what we did tonight doesn't mean anything tomorrow. But hopefully the enthusiasm will carry over.

"And with the bats still hot, now that we are seeing the ball carry a little more in the ballpark, hopefully we can take advantage of that."

Nix is in his first season with the White Sox, but like Guillen, he's puzzled by why the offense has struggled so badly at home during the first three months.

"It is hard to pinpoint," Nix said. "If we knew exactly what it was, we'd fix it. We've got to stay more consistent and come in each day and battle and fight when we're down, but it's hard to pinpoint."

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