{"id":47728,"date":"2025-07-08T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47728\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:06:09","slug":"chicago-white-sox-give-up-3-home-runs-in-loss-to-toronto-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47728\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox give up 3 home runs in loss to Toronto Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago White Sox starter Sean Burke<\/a> missed on his first two pitches to Toronto Blue Jays left fielder Joey Loperfido during the fifth inning on Monday at Rate Field.<\/p>\n

Burke then threw a fastball over the outer portion of the plate and Loperfido crushed it for a tie-breaking solo home run to right field.<\/p>\n

Two pitches later, Burke surrendered a home run to Nathan Lukes on a high changeup.<\/p>\n

The Sox never recovered from the back-to-back blasts, falling 8-4 in front of 13,292 at Rate Field.<\/p>\n

The consecutive home runs gave the Blue Jays a 3-1 lead. Toronto (53-38) added five more runs the next inning on the way to winning their ninth straight game.<\/p>\n

The Sox, meanwhile, matched a season high<\/a> by falling 31 games under .500 (30-61).<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I could have done a better job in some parts,\u201d Burke said. \u201cIt\u2019s a good lineup, they\u2019re hot right now. I didn\u2019t really feel great with my stuff, kind of overall tonight. But a few pitches here and there, maybe pitch-selection-wise, could have been better. I think some of the pitches, a little bit better execution would have helped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey also hit some pretty good pitches, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Burke allowed six runs on six hits with two strikeouts and three walks in five-plus innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought his stuff was good,\u201d Sox manager Will Venable said. \u201cThere were a couple of pitches he thought that didn\u2019t go his way. And with an offense like that, you need every one of those pitches. You can\u2019t make mistakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all kind of culminated in an outing that probably was a worse line than how he pitched.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sox grabbed the early lead with an RBI single by Brooks Baldwin in the second inning. The Blue Jays tied the score with an RBI single by Bo Bichette in the fourth. The back-to-back home runs by Loperfido and Lukes came in the fifth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first one, fastball away, 2-0 count, maybe pivot to a different pitch \u2014 I don\u2019t think it was a bad pitch 2-0,\u201d Burke said. \u201c(The changeup to Lukes) was just a terrible location, it was high, got to get that pitch lower.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeave a changeup middle-up, it\u2019s not going to be a great result.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burke surrendered a double to Bichette to begin the sixth. Addison Barger followed with a home run on a 1-2 changeup, extending Toronto\u2019s lead to 5-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe changeup (Barger) hit was a good pitch, he just went down and got it,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n

Burke faced one more batter, allowing a single to Alejandro Kirk. Loperfido added a two-run single and Lukes had a sacrifice fly later in the sixth against reliever Brandon Eisert as the Blue Jays pushed their lead to 8-1.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey make you pay for mistakes,\u201d Venable said. \u201cThey are swinging the bats really well right now. I thought early there, Sean did an OK job and he was all right. Then in the sixth, they really grinded at-bats, two-strike damage. It was really the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sox couldn\u2019t get much going offensively against Blue Jays starter Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos. The right-hander allowed one run on two hits with four strikeouts and two walks in six innings.<\/p>\n

Some offense came later in the game with a two-run single by Mike Tauchman in the seventh against Robinson Pi\u00f1a. Tauchman had three hits on Monday<\/a> and has 10 hits in his last four games.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe continues to hit the ball hard, make good swing decisions and he seems to always be on time, always on every pitch,\u201d Venable said. \u201cHe\u2019s hitting fastballs, he\u2019s taking close pitches, making good decisions and giving us really quality at-bats, really consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burke is looking forward to the opportunity to return to the consistency he showed in his three previous starts (two earned runs over 16 1\/3 innings).<\/p>\n

\u201cJust not as crisp, as sharp as it has been,\u201d Burke said of Monday\u2019s outing. \u201cFelt I was yanking some of the breaking balls or leaving some stuff up. As the game went on, usually I kind of start to find my groove a little bit later in the game. But I felt the stuff, the feel didn\u2019t really improve as I\u2019d like it to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox starter Sean Burke missed on his first two pitches to Toronto Blue Jays left fielder…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1274,5386,1818,36756,18901,1822,27036,1290,13250],"class_list":{"0":"post-47728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-white-sox","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-joey-loperfido","13":"tag-mike-tauchman","14":"tag-mlb-baseball","15":"tag-sean-burke","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","17":"tag-will-venable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114815643582111030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}