CHICAGO — The White Sox have feasted on the long ball this season.

Entering Monday, they had scored 48.1% of their runs via the home run, which ranked second in the Majors.

However, during their six-game West Coast road trip, they hit just four solo home runs, scored 24 runs and went 2-4 against the Mariners and Giants.

The White Sox went back to their mashing ways upon their return to Rate Field on Monday, clubbing a pair of home runs — a solo blast from Munetaka Murakami and a two-run shot from Drew Romo — to beat the Twins 3-1 in the series opener. The win moved the White Sox over .500 (27-26) and in a Wild Card spot nearly a third of the way into the season.

“I mean, personally, I haven’t been on a team .500 or above for a few years,” Romo said. “I haven’t been on a team this good in a long time. So seeing how talented we are, seeing us perform day in and day out, winning ballgames, that fires me up.

“And I’m pumped to go out there and compete every night. I feel super confident in our team, our guys, that we can beat anybody. So, yeah, it’s been a lot of fun.”

Murakami’s AL-leading 18th home run came in the bottom of the first on a 97.5 mph four-seamer by Twins starter Zebby Matthews, tying the game after Brooks Lee had given Minnesota a lead in the top of the frame. It left the bat at 105.7 mph, traveled a Statcast-projected 375 feet and would have been a home run in every MLB park but Fenway.

The slugging first baseman’s home run was a welcome sight for White Sox fans. He had been in a home run drought by his standards — the Japanese rookie went seven games without a long ball, the second-longest stretch without one since an eight-game stretch in April. Murakami’s was his first since a two-homer game against the Cubs on May 16.

“Always nice to have Mune homers, and these guys who go through these stretches certainly understand the concern,” White Sox manager Will Venable said after the win. “But for us, Mune continues to take really good swings. He’s making good swing decisions. He has been consistent about how he’s taking his at-bats, consistent in how he goes about his day and his preparation.

“No concerns for us, but obviously very happy to see a Mune homer.”

An inning later, Romo hit his fifth of the season to give the White Sox a lead they would not relinquish.

“Hitters and the coaches, we had a great meeting and great preparation going into it, great plan of attack and I went up there, first pitch of the game I saw I was ready for it and executed,” Romo continued. “So, it was good to do that for the team.”

Murakami also made a bit of history on Monday with his teammate, Rikuu Nishida. The White Sox became the third team in MLB history to have two Japanese-born position players in the same starting lineup with the duo, joining the Phillies (2008) and Mariners (2012). Nishida, making his MLB debut, collected his first Major League hit in the fourth on a single to center field.

The two blasts were enough support for White Sox starter Anthony Kay, who settled in after Lee’s first-inning home run by turning in six innings of one-run ball on five hits with five strikeouts.

The left-hander has settled into a groove for the White Sox this month. He has thrown five or more innings and allowed two or fewer earned runs in his last five starts. He has a 1.98 ERA, and the White Sox are 5-0 in games he’s started in May.

Kay came back out for the sixth inning and bookended a pair of strikeouts around a groundout to first base to match a career-high in innings pitched. He shook off Romo “a couple of times,” the catcher said, using his confidence to pick up the two punchouts.

“Just conviction [in] what I really wanted there, especially so late in the game,” Kay said. “I knew what was working best for me and what was a good strike pitch in those counts and I think having that conviction is massive.”