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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (50-45, first in the AL Central) vs. Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (45-51, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Friday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Anthony Kay<\/a> (6-4, 4.33 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 71 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Spencer Miles<\/a> (4-1, 2.85 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 57 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Blue Jays -138, White Sox +114; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

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

Toronto is 45-51 overall and 24-25 at home. The Blue Jays are 10-17 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 50-45 record overall and a 19-28 record on the road. The White Sox have gone 35-12 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> has 14 doubles and six home runs for the Blue Jays. Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> is 10 for 38 with a double, three home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Miguel Vargas<\/a> has 20 doubles, a triple and 21 home runs while hitting .245 for the White Sox. Tristan Peters<\/a> is 12 for 29 with three doubles, a triple and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 5-5, .223 batting average, 4.45 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

White Sox: 5-5, .232 batting average, 3.23 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jays: Lenyn Sosa: 10-Day IL (wrist), Jesus Sanchez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Max Scherzer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Mantiply<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

White Sox: Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Everson Pereira<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Tyler Gilbert<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Austin Hays: 60-Day IL (calf), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox (50-45, first in the AL Central) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (45-51, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[6081,10945,383,5,138,49,2561,75686,10857,4942,4619,387,3685,19,381,4154,6278,4,63679,70,30019,2117,93,396,2562,2077],"class_list":["post-754014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-addison-barger","tag-anthony-kay","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-event_preview","tag-everson-pereira","tag-jesus-sanchez","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jose-berrios","tag-kazuma-okamoto","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-spencer-miles","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-tristan-peters","tag-tyler-gilbert","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116934338373406297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754014","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=754014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}