É«É«À² Blue Jays’ Joey Loperfido celebrates after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
É«É«À² Blue Jays’ Joey Loperfido celebrates with teammates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
É«É«À² Blue Jays starter Jose Berrios delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
Chicago White Sox starter Sean Burke delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the É«É«À² Blue Jays, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
É«É«À² Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr. celebrates with teammates in the dugout after scoring on a Bo Bichette single during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
Loperfido homers, Blue Jays beat White Sox 8-4 for 9th consecutive win
CHICAGO (AP) — Joey Loperfido homered and drove in three runs, and the É«É«À² Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox 8-4 on Monday night for their ninth consecutive win.
É«É«À² Blue Jays’ Joey Loperfido celebrates after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
CHICAGO (AP) — Joey Loperfido homered and drove in three runs, and the É«É«À² Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox 8-4 on Monday night for their ninth consecutive win.
Addison Barger and Nathan Lukes also connected as AL East-leading É«É«À² improved to 27-10 in its last 37 games. Bo Bichette had two hits and All-Star slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walked three times.
At 53-38, the Blue Jays matched the franchise record for most victories before the All-Star break. It’s the longest win streak for the team since an 11-game run in August 2015.
Mike Tauchman had three hits and two RBIs for the last-place White Sox, who won two of three at É«É«À² last month. Colson Montgomery, one of the team’s top prospects, went 0-for-3 with a walk .
The Blue Jays opened an 8-1 lead when they scored five times in the sixth. Barger hit a two-run drive off Sean Burke for his 12th homer, and Loperfido chopped a two-run single over a drawn-in infield.
Burke (4-8) was charged with six runs and six hits in five-plus innings. The right-hander allowed two earned runs in 16 1/3 innings over his previous three outings.
KEY MOMENT
Loperfido and Lukes hit back-to-back homers in the fifth, giving É«É«À² a 3-1 lead. It was Loperfido’s first homer of the season and fifth of his career.
KEY STAT
It was Chicago’s eighth consecutive home loss against É«É«À².
UP NEXT
Chris Bassitt (8-4, 4.32 ERA) starts for É«É«À² on Tuesday night, and fellow right-hander Aaron Civale (0-3, 4.29 ERA) pitches for Chicago.
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