Blue Jays place pitcher Gavin Floyd on 15-day DL

The game would remain scoreless until the bottom of the third inning when the White Sox broke through for two against Stroman.

Trainers came out to check on Floyd, who had a 2-0 count on Shuck, and promptly took him out of the game with nobody warming in the pen. The ace left-hander allowed five hits, struck out seven and walked two in his fourth straight victory.

Floyd played seven seasons with the Sox from 2007-13.

“Well, he’s one of the best in the game”, said Jays manager John Gibbons.

“I felt good”, Sale said. “He’s one of the best pitchers in the game, he’s pretty well dominant every time out so. obviously you know who you’re going against and you know it’s going to be a pretty tough task for the offence”. “I was back down in the zone, my velocity felt better, (so I’m) going to take a positive out of this and work”.

“You don’t want to think when you’re out there”, he said. But Encarnacion’s had his third hit and second double in Toronto’s two-run ninth.

Be proactive – Use the “Flag as Inappropriate” link at the upper right corner of each comment to let us know of abusive posts. The Marlins, meanwhile, are six games over.500 of the first time since June 2012. I’m just trying to execute my pitches and get on the same wavelength with Russ (Martin). Two runs with Chris Sale pitching is a recipe for success and it was on this day. With one out and 2B Devon Travis at third base, the Blue Jays hit three straight doubles by 1B Edwin Encarnacion, LF Michael Saunders and SS Troy Tulowitzki to put three runs on the board.

Chicago White Sox’s Tim Anderson reacts after striking out swinging during the first inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Chicago, Saturday, June 25, 2016. Only seven batters reached all game, and they didn’t have a single at-bat with a runner in scoring position. “With the wind blowing the way it was you had to get it in the air and we got quite a few of them but just couldn’t stop them”.

The Chicago White Sox have enough at the top of the rotation to overcome some weak hitting, but don’t now seem to have enough at the back end to be successful – even with a historic offensive effort. Lawrie’s homer in the second hit the top of the left field wall and bounced back into play and was ruled an inside-the-park deal, a career first for the Canadian and the first inside the park job allowed by the Jays since Chris Singleton recorded one against Brett Cecil on August 2, 2014 in Houston. Stroman recovered to strike out both Alex Avila and Brett Lawrie to end the frame. “I thought his fastball had a little more life to it, that’s how it looked to me. That’s a good sign”. He got a couple big strikeouts to finish his five innings. “You nearly had to be flawless”.

Cabrera drove a solo homer off Aaron Sanchez in the fifth and finished with three hits against his former team.

Stroman, meanwhile, will try to lock in on the gains he made Sunday and leverage them when he starts the Canada Day matinee against the Cleveland Indians on Friday. Logic loses out in this case as the White Sox hit 7 of those 8 home runs and still came away with the loss.