CHICAGO – Jim Thome already has as many home runs as he did last season.

Thome and Jermaine Dye hit two-run homers, and Scott Podsednik broke out of his slump to lift the Chicago White Sox over the Toronto Blue Jays 6-4 on Sunday in a game that was stopped by rain after the top of the fifth inning.

The game was called after a 50-minute delay – the second of the afternoon.

Dye went deep in the first, and Thome hit one out in the second for his seventh home run, equaling his total from last season with Philadelphia.

Podsednik tripled, singled and scored two runs after starting the season 3-for-38 and stole his first base.

Toronto’s Vernon Wells singled in the third to extend his hitting streak to 12 this season and 13 dating to last year.

Chicago’s Freddy Garcia took a shutout into the fifth before running into trouble. With rain pounding the field, he walked four batters, two with the bases loaded, during a four-run rally that cut the lead to 6-4.

Garcia (2-1) allowed an RBI single to Russ Adams and walked Wells with the bases loaded to force in a second run with none out. After Troy Glaus struck out, Lyle Overbay walked to make it 6-3. Shea Hillenbrand flied to right, but a ground ball by Benji Molina splashed under second baseman Tadahito Iguchi’s glove for an error that allowed Frank Catalanotto to score.

Garcia then struck out Eric Hinske – who walked leading off the inning and scored – for the final out.

The game was delayed 42 minutes by rain with one out in the top of the third. By then, the White Sox had built a 5-0 lead against Josh Towers. A 13-game winner last season, Towers (0-3) allowed seven hits, including two homers, in two innings.

Podsednik tripled into the right-field corner in the first and scored on Iguchi’s single to center. After a strikeout by Thome and pop out by Paul Konerko, Dye lined his second homer over the left-field wall for a 3-0 lead. A.J. Pierzynski and Joe Crede singled before Rob Mackowiak struck out.

The White Sox struck again in the second.

Podsednik started it with a one-out single. Second in the majors with 59 steals last season, he swiped second base on his first attempt of the season and moved to third on Towers’ balk. With two out, Thome homered to right to make it 5-0. He also singled and scored in the fourth.

Acquired for Aaron Rowand in November, Thome looks healthy after being limited to 59 games by back and elbow problems last season. The slugger has scored at least one run in each of the first 11 games – the longest streak to open the season by a major leaguer since former White Sox star Frank Thomas scored at least one in the first 14 games of 1994.