TORONTO (AP) JosĆ© BerrĆos struck out a season-high nine over seven innings, Danny Jansen homered twice and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the White Sox 7-0 Tuesday night, extending Chicagoās losing streak to six.
BerrĆos (2-3) allowed four hits - all singles - and walked one in his second straight seven-inning outing.
āHeās a confident dude right now and heās just executing,ā Blue Jays manager John Schneider said.
BerrĆos had lost three of his previous four starts against the White Sox but beat them Tuesday for the first time since September 2020. Heās made 23 starts against Chicago, his most against any opponent.
āThat team has been killing me lately,ā BerrĆos said. āTonight, finally, I stopped my bad streak against them.ā
BerrĆos struck out the side in the first and didnāt allow a runner to reach scoring position until Elvis Andrus advanced from first to third on Andrew Benitendiās two-out single in the sixth. Eloy JimĆ©nez took a called third strike.
āHe had a three-pitch mix today and kept us off balance all game long,ā White Sox manager Pedro Grifol said of BerrĆos.
Nate Pearson and Anthony Bass finished with hitless relief as the Blue Jays won for the 14th time in 20 games.
Kevin Kiermaier hit a two-run triple, and George Springer had three hits and drove in a run for Toronto.
Chicago has lost 11 of 13 and 14 of 17. The White Sox were blanked for the second time this season and have three runs and 10 hits in their last three games.
āIt hurts to lose a major league game, and it hurts to lose six in a row,ā Grifol said. āThereās a lot of care in here. People care about winning. Weāve just got to work, man. Weāve got to continue to work. We canāt let this thing break us, and it wonāt.ā
Right-hander Mike Clevinger also said the White Sox arenāt letting losing get them down.
āNo one is coming to the field pouting,ā Clevinger said. āEveryone is ready to win every time they show up. Everyone is showing up as the same guy, and thatās what you need to see. Itās still early and weāve still got a long way to go.ā
Clevinger (2-2) allowed a season-high six runs and seven hits in five innings. All three batters he walked came around to score.
āNot his sharpest outing,ā Grifol said. āFour of the five innings he pitched, the leadoff hitter got on.ā
Jansen went 3 for 4 and scored three runs. He flied out in his final at-bat.
Jansen hit a three-run homer in the second and added a solo drive in the sixth off left-hander Tanner Banks for his fifth career multi-homer game. Jansen has three home runs this season.
TRAINERāS ROOM
White Sox: Seby Zavala replaced Yasmani Grandal at C in the bottom of the seventh after Grandal struck out in the top half. Grifol said Grandal departed because of a sore lower back but said it wasnāt serious. āWe think heās going to be all right but weāll see how he comes in tomorrow,ā Grifol said. ā¦ Grifol said 3B YoĆ”n Moncada (sore lower back) is making āsignificant improvementsā but remains at least a week or two away from returning.
COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
RF JimƩnez put his hands on his hips and exchanged words with CF Luis Robert in the fourth after Robert cut in front of JimƩnez to make a catch for the second time in the game.
NEED FOR SPEED
BerrĆos fanned JimĆ©nez with a 97.4 mph pitch to end the first. It was the sixth-fastest pitch of his career and his fastest since a 97.8 mph fastball on Sept. 28, 2018, also against Chicago.
UP NEXT
RHP Michael Kopech (0-2, 6.97) starts Wednesdayās series finale against Blue Jays LHP Yusei Kikuchi (3-0, 3.80). Kopech has a 20.77 ERA in four games against Toronto, allowing 10 earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.
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