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Guerrero's second hit, an RBI double in the
seventh inning, provided the final margin. The Blue Jays earned
a sweep of the three-game set to finish 6-0 against the White
Sox this season.
Blue Jays starter Yusei Kikuchi allowed four runs and eight hits
in five innings, with no walks and four strikeouts. Jay Jackson
(1-1) retired all four batters he faced to earn the victory, and
Nate Pearson allowed one hit in picking up a four-out save, his
first save of the season.
Andrew Benintendi and Seby Zavala had two hits apiece for
Chicago, which has lost five of six to fall to a season-low 15
games under .500.
Nick Padilla (0-1) took the loss, allowing one run and two hits
in the seventh, with one strikeout.
Chicago approached Game 2 of the twin bill as a bullpen game.
Opener Jesse Scholtens surrendered three runs on 11 hits in
four-plus innings, with one strikeout.
Scholtens pitched with a lead for the final stages of his
outing, as Tim Anderson's RBI single and a two-run homer by Eloy
Jimenez in the third inning put the hosts ahead 3-1.
Toronto rallied behind Chapman's solo home run leading off the
fourth and Guerrero's RBI single in the fifth, the last in a
string of three straight Blue Jays hits against Scholtens to
start the inning.
A run scored when Anderson grounded into a double play in the
bottom half to put the White Sox back ahead 4-3. Merrifield
answered in the next half-inning, though, connecting for a solo
shot against Bryan Shaw.
--Field Level Media
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