{"id":660805,"date":"2026-04-03T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660805\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:42:20","slug":"blue-jays-vs-white-sox-4-apr-2026-pregame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660805\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays vs. White Sox (4 Apr, 2026) Pregame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (4-2) vs. Chicago White Sox<\/a> (1-5)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Friday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Dylan Cease<\/a> (0-0, 1.69 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, 12 strikeouts); White Sox: Grant Taylor<\/a> (0-0, 4.50 ERA, 2.50 WHIP, four strikeouts)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays -215, White Sox +176; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox host the Toronto Blue Jays to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Chicago went 60-102 overall and 33-48 at home a season ago. The White Sox pitching staff averaged 8.2 strikeouts per nine innings while giving up 4.6 runs per game in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Toronto went 94-68 overall and 40-41 on the road last season. The Blue Jays averaged 9.0 hits per game in the 2025 season with 3.1 extra base hits per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: White Sox: Everson Pereira<\/a>: day-to-day (ankle), Kyle Teel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Drew Thorpe: 15-Day IL (elbow), Brooks Baldwin<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil: 15-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ky Bush<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Cody Ponce: 15-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Shane Bieber: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jose Berrios: 15-Day IL (elbow), Yimi Garcia: 15-Day IL (elbow), Trey Yesavage: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Bowden Francis<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays (4-2) vs. Chicago White Sox (1-5) Chicago; Friday, 2:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-660805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-white-sox","14":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116341069881810723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660805","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=660805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}