{"id":121143,"date":"2025-06-21T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121143\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:14:12","slug":"blue-jays-dealt-unfortunate-news-before-white-sox-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121143\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Dealt Unfortunate News Before White Sox Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blue Jays Dealt Unfortunate News Before White Sox Game <\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Toronto Blue Jays are better than the Chicago White Sox, but that means nothing on a game-to-game basis. The White Sox showed that by blowing out the Blue Jays 7-1 at the Rogers Centre to open their series on Friday night.<\/p>\n

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Right-handed reliever Spencer Turnbull (1-1, 7.11 ERA) opened the game for Toronto and gave up four runs in two innings before southpaw Mason Fluharty (3-1, 4.55 ERA) allowed three runs in one inning. Chicago did a bullpen game with better results, highlighted by southpaw Tyler Alexander’s (4-7, 5.25 ERA) four-inning scoreless outing.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays also received an unfortunate update before Saturday’s rematch, via MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson.<\/p>\n

\"Toronto<\/p>\n

Toronto Blue Jays infielder Addison Barger (47)\u00a9 Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

“News: Addison Barger is out of the lineup with right hip discomfort,” he reported.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old infielder\/outfielder is slashing .270\/.332\/.500 with eight homers and 24 RBI in 53 games.<\/p>\n

Toronto drafted Barger in the sixth round of the 2018 MLB Draft and called him up for the first time in April 2024. The 6-foot, 210-pounder slashed .197\/.250\/.351 with seven homers and 28 RBI over 69 games last season.<\/p>\n

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Right-handed pitcher Jose Berrios (2-3, 3.81 ERA) will start for Toronto on Saturday against Chicago right-hander Aaron Civale (1-3, 4.67 ERA). The Blue Jays will start Ernie Clement at third base and Nathan Lukes in right field, which are Barger’s two regular positions.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 1.5 games behind the Tampa Bay Rays for second place in the AL East and three games behind the New York Yankees for first. It’s also 6-4 in its last 10.<\/p>\n

Related: Blue Jays Receive Daulton Varsho News on Friday<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Blue Jays Announce Two Changes After Loss to Diamondbacks<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 21, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Dealt Unfortunate News Before White Sox Game originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Toronto Blue Jays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[2132,6081,5,377,2554,49,6130,387,4072,4,8678,62,2027,68,1414,282,70,2553,9112],"class_list":{"0":"post-121143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-aaron-civale","9":"tag-addison-barger","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-blue-jays","12":"tag-bluejays","13":"tag-chicago-white-sox","14":"tag-ernie-clement","15":"tag-jose-berrios","16":"tag-mason-fluharty","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-nathan-lukes","19":"tag-new-york-yankees","20":"tag-spencer-turnbull","21":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","22":"tag-the-blue-jays","23":"tag-toronto","24":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","25":"tag-torontobluejays","26":"tag-tyler-alexander"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}