TORONTO -- Back-to-back home runs ended a long drought for Aaron Hill and Edwin Encarnacion.
Hill hit his first homer of the season and first career grand slam before Encarnacion also hit his first homer, and the Blue Jays went on to beat the Chicago White Sox 13-4 on Sunday.
Encarnacion's homer completed a six-run first inning for the Jays (27-26), who had 18 hits to win three of the four-game series.
"It's taken a while," Hill said. "It's always nice. It relaxes you a bit to get one on the board and you keep going."
Hill couldn't remember hitting a grand slam in college, either. "It's something I've always wanted to do," he said. "Obviously I've never done it before. To get the team rolling especially in the first inning, it's always nice."
Corey Patterson hit his fourth homer of the season for Toronto and had four hits and three RBIs. He had a career high five hits including the game-winning homer in the 14th inning on Saturday.
Carlos Quentin hit his 13th homer for Chicago (24-31) while Ramon Castro added his second of the season in the ninth inning.
Blue Jays left-hander Ricky Romero (5-4) has often lacked run support this season but took advantage of the hits, allowing six hits and two runs in seven innings on a day when he said he did not have his best stuff.
Romero contributed in another way -- Encarnacion used one of the pitcher's bats to hit his home run before breaking it on a fifth-inning single.
"I actually just got my bats in this week because we're getting ready for interleague play," Romero said, "And I told (Encarnacion) messing around, if you need a home run just go grab my bat because it probably has a lot in it.
"Sure enough, he comes out of the dugout and he's kind of flashing the bat in front of me and I said, 'oh you are going to use it?' And sure enough he goes out there and hits a home run with it."
Romero has a couple of other bats left from the shipment and he told Encarnacion he is welcome to use one of them. "Just don't break it," he said.
Romero said his warm-up in the bullpen did not go well. He could not get his arm angle where he wanted it.
"But I battled and I let them put the ball in play and let the defence work," he said. "Credit to our offence they did a tremendous job today. I started feeling a lot better in the last two or three innings. Mechanically I felt the ball was starting to come out of my hand a little better."
The support was there in the field as well. Third baseman Jayson Nix made a diving catch in the first inning and centre-fielder Rajai Davis made a difficult catch on a liner at the warning track in the second and his momentum carried him into the wall.
Left-hander John Danks (0-8) allowed nine hits and nine runs in four innings on 96 pitches and before he was done exchanged words with Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista in the fourth inning after he had popped out to shortstop. He did not like the way Bautista acted when he popped up on the 3-2 pitch.
"I just told him to run the bases," Danks said. "He was out there acting like a ... clown. I told him to run the bases. He's a good player. He's had a great year and a half, no doubt, he's been one of the best hitters in the league. He was out there acting like he's Babe Ruth or something. ... I just told him to run the bases and quit acting like a clown.
"That's just the way I feel. I have pride. I really do. I've had a pretty crappy year to this point but I have pride still and I'm not going to let him sit out there and show me up like that."
Bautista replied: "That should not be his concern. I was upset with missing a pitch at myself. If he took it the wrong way, I'm sorry. I'm not here to make him feel good.
"It really doesn't matter to me what he thought. What I'm not going to allow when I'm running by him is him yelling at me. So I yelled back at him."
Quentin's homer came in the top of the first before the Blue Jays went to work in the bottom of the inning.
It didn't take long for the Blue Jays to tie the game when their first three batters -- Yunel Escobar, Patterson and Bautista -- singled. With one out, J.P. Arencibia walked to load the bases for Hill, who homered to left on a 1-1 fastball.
Encarnacion hit a 2-2 change-up to left to complete the scoring in the six-run inning.
Paul Konerko's single in the third scored Juan Pierre to cut Toronto's lead to 6-2.
But the Blue Jays came back with three in the fourth, two on Patterson's fourth homer.
Escobar knocked in the first run of the fourth with a single. It scored Davis, who was hit by a pitch, took second on a groundout and stole third.
Nix, who ended a 0-for-22 drought with a first-inning single, doubled home two runs in the fifth against right-hander Lucas Harrell.
Patterson singled home Nix to make the score 12-2 before Arencibia singled in a run in the sixth to end Toronto's scoring.
Notes: Attendance at Rogers Centre was 18,325. ...Left-hander Jo-Jo Reyes (0-4, 4.70 earned-run average) will try to avoid a major-league record 29th consecutive winless start on Monday when he faces Cleveland's Fausto Carmona (3-5, 4.73 ERA) in the opener of a three-game series. ... Escobar's first-inning single gave him a 10-game hit streak and Juan Rivera's second-inning double gave him an 11-game hit streak, but he was later thrown out trying for a triple. ... With Toronto leading 12-2 in the sixth, rookie Eric Thames took over from Bautista in right field. ... Mike McCoy replaced Escobar at shortstop in the seventh.
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