Field Level Media
08 Jul 2025, 08:10 GMT+10
(Photo credit: Matt Marton-Imagn Images)
Joey Loperfido, Nathan Lukes and Addison Barger homered and Jose Berrios pitched six strong innings as the visiting Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Chicago White Sox 8-4 on Monday to stretch their winning streak to nine games.
Toronto, winners of nine straight for the first time since 2015, cruised behind an opportunistic eight-hit attack and a solid outing from Berrios (5-3), who defeated the White Sox for the 16th time in 27 career starts against them.
The veteran right-hander scattered one run and two hits with two walks and four strikeouts and threw 48 of his 76 pitches for strikes.
Toronto can earn its fifth straight series victory with a win on Tuesday. The White Sox were the last team to take a series from the Blue Jays, winning two of three from June 20-22.
A two-out rally in the second inning Monday helped the White Sox produce the game's first run. After Lenyn Sosa struck out, rookie shortstop Colson Montgomery, making his home debut, worked a walk to bring up Brooks Baldwin, who grounded an RBI single off the glove of Toronto first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Recalled from Triple-A Charlotte on Friday, Montgomery went 0-for-3 with a walk and a run. Mike Tauchman collected three hits and two RBIs for the White Sox.
The Blue Jays tied the game on Bo Bichette's RBI single in the fourth inning, his first of two hits in the game.
Toronto took the lead for good in the fifth, courtesy of back-to-back home runs. Loperfido connected against Chicago starter Sean Burke for his first homer of the season before Lukes followed with another solo shot.
Barger's two-run blast in the sixth gave the Blue Jays a 5-1 advantage. Alejandro Kirk singled one batter later to chase Burke from the game.
Burke (4-8) yielded six runs and six hits in five-plus innings with three walks and two strikeouts.
Loperfido added a two-run single later in the sixth and finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs.
Tauchman had a two-run single in the seventh. The White Sox drew within the final margin on Sosa's RBI single in the eighth.
--Field Level Media
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