Game Thread: White Sox at Blue Jays

The South Siders enter Canada with an eight-game losing streak

The White Sox (23-52) are really suffering, as they have lost eight consecutive games. After getting swept by St. Louis (40-35) at home, the South Siders are traveling to Canada to take on the Blue Jays (40-34).

Grant Taylor, 23, will start on the mound for the White Sox, and this will be his first MLB start. Taylor enters this game with a 4.50 ERA and a 1.31 FIP in four MLB innings. Taylor is known as a fireballer, and he is averaging 99.2 mph on his four-seamer during his young MLB career. Before being promoted, Taylor pitched 26 ²⁄₃ innings in Double-A with the Birmingham Barons, posting a 1.01 ERA and a 1.58 FIP. During the 5-4 loss against St. Louis on Thursday, Taylor pitched in the seventh inning, and he retired all three batters he faced.

Spencer Turnbull, a right-handed pitcher, will pitch for the Blue Jays. Turnbull, 32, has only pitched 4 ¹⁄₃ innings this season, but he enters this game with a 2.08 ERA and a 3.53 FIP (0.0 fWAR due to the lack of playing time). In his career, Turnbull has a 4.78 ERA in 26 1⁄3 innings against the White Sox. Overall, Turnbull has a 4.24 ERA and a 3.82 FIP in 361 innings, rendering him a 6.7-fWAR pitcher.

Here are tonight’s starting lineups:

This afternoon, the White Sox made the following roster changes:

The biggest news there is that Davis Martin (3.79 ERA, 4.54 FIP, 0.7 fWAR in 80 ²⁄₃ innings) has a forearm strain that has landed him on the 15-day injured list. Martin was scheduled to start tonight’s game before this was announced. Best wishes to Martin as he recovers from his injury.

The first pitch is scheduled to happen at 6:07 p.m. Central. As usual, CHSN will televise the game, and WMVP 1000 AM will have the radio coverage.

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