Chi. White Sox 5, Toronto 4
When: 7:07 PM ET, Friday, June 27, 2014
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature:
74°
Umpires:
Home -
Manny Gonzalez, 1B -
Jim Reynolds, 2B -
Brian Knight, 3B -
Fieldin Culbreth
Attendance:
24173
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White Sox 5, Blue Jays 4: Jose Abreu homered twice and Dayan Viciedo and Alexei Ramirez also went deep as visiting Chicago held on to even the four-game series at a game apiece.
The White Sox did all their scoring on home runs as they won for only the second time in their last 12 road games. John Danks (7-6) allowed two runs and five hits over six innings to earn the win and Jake Petricka recorded the final two outs to get out of a jam and notch his second save.
Edwin Encarnacion and Dioner Navarro hit back-to-back homers in the sixth and Colby Rasmus led off the ninth with a blast for Toronto. R.A. Dickey (6-7) racked up a season-high nine strikeouts and surpassed 1,000 in his career but also was tagged for five runs and five hits — four of them homers — in six innings.
Abreu led off the fifth with his 24th homer -- tying Encarnacion and Baltimore's Nelson Cruz for the major-league lead -- and Viciedo went deep later in the inning for a 2-0 lead. Encarnacion regained the league lead when he and Navarro went back-to-back in the sixth to tie it, but Abreu tied him again with his 25th blast in the seventh.
Ramirez pulled a deep drive just inside the left-field foul pole later in the inning for a two-run blast to make it 5-2. Rasmus led off the ninth with an opposite-field blast off closer Ronald Belisario, who also surrendered back-to-back singles to Munenori Kawasaki and Anthony Gose before Petricka got Jose Reyes to bounce into a run-scoring fielder's choice and retired Melky Cabrera to strand the tying run at third.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Abreu joined Atlanta's Bob Horner (1978) as the only players in major-league history with four multi-homer games over their first 67 career games. … The four homers were the most Dickey has allowed since giving up six versus Detroit on April 6, 2006. … Blue Jays RF Jose Bautista (hamstring) missed his fifth straight game.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Chi. White Sox |
|
Toronto |
|
John Danks
|
Player |
R.A. Dickey
|
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
6.0 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
2 |
Strikeouts |
9 |
|
5 |
Hits |
5 |
|
3.00 |
ERA |
7.50 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Chi. White Sox
|
8 |
4 |
20 |
.229 |
11 |
15 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
| Toronto
|
9 |
3 |
20 |
.243 |
15 |
6 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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