Both the Cubs and White Sox came into this first Cross Town meeting of the season with similar records(bad)and with the Blackhawks being honored with a parade at the same time,the fans at sold out Wrigley Field were quite apathetic. The White Sox bats woke up against slumping Randy Wells, while A.J. Pierzybski and Alex Rios each had four hits and homered and Jake Peavy overcame an early long ball as the Sox won their third straight 10-5 over the Cubs. Unhappy Lou Piniella had gone into a 4 minuted diatribe before the game during his meeting with the media about his unhappiness with some reporters who criticised his handling of things such as Tyler Colvin. Piniella called out Sox Broadcaster Steve Stone in particular.The four hits tied a season high for Rios and set one for Pierzynski, who also drove in a season-best three runs. The White Sox, meanwhile, matched their longest win streak. Pierzynski raised his average to .237 on a muggy afternoon in which he singled in a run during a two-run first, doubled home another in a three-run fifth off Wells and homered off Jeff Stevens in the seventh. He is 10 for 19 in his past four games against the Cubs — all White Sox wins.He becomes a 10-and-five player on Monday, meaning he’ll have the right to waive any trade, and Pierzynski made two things clear. He wants to stay with the White Sox, and he’s had that date circled.Rios capped a four-run eighth against James Russell with a two-run drive that made it 10-2, after Carlos Quentin went deep leading off while batting for Peavy (5-5).That was plenty for the former NL Cy Young Award winner, who had dropped three of four starts. He has pitched better lately, allowing two runs and six hits over seven innings in each of his past two starts.He did give up Alfonso Soriano’s 300th homer — a two-run shot that tied it at 2 in the second — but came away with his 100th career win.Paul Konerko had two hits, including the tiebreaking two-run double in the fifth, and drove in two while scoring twice. Wells (3-5) is 0-5 with a 6.47 ERA in his past eight starts after allowing five runs and 10 hits in five innings. He has not won since beating Arizona on April 30.Guillen acknowledged tension with GM Kenny Williams and said the relationship needs to improve if they’re going to keep working together. That comment came on the heels of a Chicago Sun-Times report that the two nearly came to blows this week after the organization drafted the manager’s son Ozney in the 22nd round. Piniella snapped at critics before the game, calling out Stone for questioning his handling of Colvin. Fans also drowned out the national anthem, just as they do before hockey games at the United Center, but the cheers turned to boos when the BP Crosstown Cup was presented behind home plate before the game — a loud message to the embattled oil company and title sponsor of the series.The White Sox wasted little time jumping on Wells, who allowed run-scoring singles by Andruw Jones and Pierzynski in another rough first inning.That follows a recent pattern that includes a loss to St. Louis on May 28 in which he failed to retire a batter and another against Houston on Sunday when he gave up three runs in the first. Soriano became the second Cub in three days to reach 300 homers, joining Derrek Lee, when he lined a two-run shot over the center-field wall in the second, after Marlon Byrd got hit, for his 10th homer and his first in 44 at-bats. The home run was Soriano’s third and seventh hit in 17 at-bats against Peavy, but a rough outing for Wells led to another loss for the Cubs.

NOTES—The game was delayed 21 minutes at the start due to the threat of rain….Soriano is the 127th major leaguer to hit 300 home runs, Lee had been # 126 earlier in the week in Milwaukee….Konerko has a 16-game hitting streak at Wrigley Field dating to 2004.