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Sale improves to 5-0 in rout of Blue Jays
- Updated: April 27, 2016
TORONTO — Chris Sale dominated the powerful Blue Jays lineup by allowing just one run over eight innings and Avisail Garcia, Dioner Navarro and Adam Eaton each homered as the White Sox picked up their fifth consecutive victory with a 10-1 win over the Blue Jays on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre.
Sale allowed four hits, struck out six and walked two while throwing 63 of his 100 pitches for strikes as he earned his Major League-leading fifth win. Toronto’s Darwin Barney led off the third inning with a single, but from that point on Sale faced the minimum until Edwin Encarnacion homered with one out in the seventh.
Garcia went 2-for-3 with a walk and three runs scored while Navarro got some revenge against his former team with a 2-for-4 night, which included a walk, a pair of RBIs and two runs scored. White Sox center fielder Austin Jackson also had a three-hit night as the bottom three of Chicago’s batting order combined to go 7-for-11 against Toronto pitchers.
Chicago did most of its damage against veteran knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who allowed six earned runs for the second time in five starts this season. Dickey got off to a good start, but he surrendered a solo homer to Garcia in the third, allowed three more runs in the fifth and was then chased from the game in the seventh when Navarro hit a two-run shot.
“It’s really frustrating, in particular because you know you’re facing a guy where the margin of error is slim,” said Dickey, who has a 6.75 ERA this season. “It’s tough. I’ve got to find a way to arrest those big innings. I’m thankful April is over, let’s put it that way.”
Encarnacion was the lone bright spot on offense for the Blue Jays, as he went deep in the seventh inning for his 200th career homer as a Blue Jay. It was one of two extra-base hits for Toronto, and the club had only one at-bat with a runner in scoring position.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDBlowing it open: The White Sox scored three runs in the top of the fifth off Dickey to take a commanding 4-0 lead. After a pair of hits and a walk loaded up the bases, Jackson delivered the big blow with a two-run double to the gap in right-center field, and Eaton followed with a …
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