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By Andrew Carrigan<\/p>\n
Toronto Blue Jays (4-2) vs. Chicago White Sox (1-5)<\/p>\n
Chicago; Friday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Dylan Cease (0-0, 1.69 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, 12 strikeouts); White Sox: Grant Taylor (0-0, 4.50 ERA, 2.50 WHIP, four strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> 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: day-to-day (ankle), Kyle Teel: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Drew Thorpe: 15-Day IL (elbow), Brooks Baldwin: 10-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil: 15-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Blue Jays: Cody Ponce: 15-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander: 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: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Data Skrive. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Andrew Carrigan Toronto Blue Jays (4-2) vs. Chicago White Sox (1-5) Chicago; Friday, 2:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[13378,8125,152,3287,5,377,2554,49,13379,5163,19,3637,4,256,3227,1467,185,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-660949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-al-central","9":"tag-al-east","10":"tag-american-league","11":"tag-athlete-injuries","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-blue-jays","14":"tag-bluejays","15":"tag-chicago-white-sox","16":"tag-data-skrive","17":"tag-illinois","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-men","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-mlb-baseball","22":"tag-preview","23":"tag-professional","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-toronto","26":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","27":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116341397393163111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660949","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=660949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}