x
Breaking News
More () »

Chris Sale dominates Blue Jays lineup, improves to 5-0

TORONTO (AP) — Chris Sale won again, pitching eight sharp innings and leading the Chicago White Sox over the Toronto Blue Jays 10-1 Tuesday night for their fifth straight win.

TORONTO (AP) — Chris Sale won again, pitching eight sharp innings and leading the Chicago White Sox over the Toronto Blue Jays 10-1 Tuesday night for their fifth straight win.

Sale (5-0) has won all of his starts this season and leads the majors in victories. The lefty ace has a 1.66 ERA.

Sale carried a one-hitter into the seventh inning, retiring 13 straight batters before Edwin Encarnacion homered. Sale gave up four hits in eight innings, striking out six and walking two.

Dioner Navarro hit a two-run homer and Avisail Garcia and Adam Eaton added solo shots for Chicago.

 

The three home runs, 15 hits and 10 runs were all season highs for the White Sox.

R.A. Dickey (1-3) allowed six runs and eight hits in six innings. The knuckleballer is winless in his last four outings and dropped to 2-6 in 12 career games against Chicago.

Austin Jackson got three hits and drove in two runs. Every White Sox batter had at least one hit.

Chicago won its fifth in a row against the Blue Jays.

Sale had two streaks end in the victory, giving up his first earned run after 22 consecutive innings without one, and seeing his active MLB-best streak of 76 batters without a walk end in the first when Jose Bautista earned a free pass.

Garcia hit his third home run, a drive that smacked the facing of the second level beyond the center-field wall.

The White Sox broke it open with three runs in the fifth. They loaded the bases with none out after they successfully challenged Brett Lawrie being called out at third, after he turned for home only to find the coach sending him back to the bag.

Jackson hit a two-run double and Eaton added a sacrifice fly.

Chicago chased Dickey in the seventh, with Navarro homering against his former team.

Encarnacion hit his third home run of the season, and 200th as a Blue Jay, into the fan deck on the second level above the center-field fence in the seventh inning.

TRAINER'S ROOM

White Sox: C Kevan Smith (back) was placed on the 15-day DL retroactive to Sunday and replaced by Hector Sanchez, whose contract was purchased from Triple-A Charlotte.

Blue Jays: C Russell Martin (neck spasms) was scratched from the lineup for the third straight game and replaced by Josh Thole. Josh Donaldson (left leg) started as the DH with Matt Dominguez, recalled from Triple-A Buffalo earlier in the day, making his Blue Jays debut at Donaldson's usual position of third base. Drew Hutchison was optioned back to Buffalo to make roster room for Dominguez.

UP NEXT

White Sox: LHP Jose Quintana (2-1, 1.82) puts his perfect record in Toronto on the line. Quintana is 3-0 with an 0.89 ERA over three career starts at Rogers Centre.

Blue Jays: RHP Marco Estrada (1-1, 2.50) faces the White Sox for the second time in his career. He was a no-decision going seven innings and giving up three earned runs in a 5-3 home loss last May.

Before You Leave, Check This Out