Blue Jays vs White Sox Odds: Giolito Looks to Get White Sox Rolling Against Visiting Blue Jays

Blue Jays Still in Contention for Postseason Spot in Star-Studded AL East

The Toronto Blue Jays had a pretty solid June before dropping their first two games in July. They are still in a much better position than the underachieving Chicago White Sox. When looking at the Blue Jays vs White Sox odds, the Blue Jays are favored in Tuesday’s series opener.

Toronto is 22-22 on the road this season with the White Sox 20-20 at home in 2023. The struggles of winning at home are nothing new for the White Sox as they were 37-44 at home in 2022. Toronto was nine games over .500 on the road a season ago.

When looking at the MLB point spreads, Toronto has one of the worst marks of 37-48 against the run line with the White Sox currently sitting at 44-42.

Toronto swept the White Sox back in April with the Blue Jays outscoring Chicago 20-2 in the three games played in Toronto.

Toronto (+2000) is seventh in the odds to win the World Series. The White Sox are well back at +15000 in the championship odds after opening the season at +3300 in the World Series odds.

Probable Starting Pitching Matchups

• Tuesday: Chris Bassitt (Blue Jays); Lucas Giolito (White Sox)
• Wednesday: Jose Berrios (Blue Jays); Lance Lynn (White Sox)
• Thursday: Yusei Kikuchi (Blue Jays); Dylan Cease (White Sox)

What a Relief It Is

Five different pitchers have 0.00 ERAs over the last six games for the Blue Jays as Toronto tries to keep pace in the American League East with every team currently over .500.

Nate Pearson, Yimi Garcia, Mitch White, and Tim Mayza allowed five hits and no runs with nine strikeouts in 8.2 innings during that span. That is just one of the reasons why the Blue Jays vs White Sox odds favor Toronto in the series opener.

Toronto’s bullpen has a 3.84 ERA this season so getting multiple relievers going could be a key to a potential surge.

Chris Bassitt allowed three hits and no runs with 12 strikeouts in six innings in his lone start during that stretch.

Four of Toronto’s last six games finished under the total.

Offense Coming to Life

The list of teams with a .300 batting average over the last week is a rather short one with the Chicago White Sox joined by the Texas Rangers.

There hasn’t been much power during that stretch with seven home runs. However, infielder Zach Remillard is hitting .500 with designated hitter Eloy Jimenez posting a .440 average during that stretch.

Outfielder Luis Robert had six home runs in a seven-game span with first baseman Andrew Vaughn reaching base at least once in each of his last seven games. Still, according to the Blue Jays vs White Sox odds the White Sox begin the series as the underdog.

The total has gone over in each of the last five games played by the White Sox.

Who’s Hot

• Dylan Cease, Chicago White Sox P: Cease has a 2.65 ERA with 47 strikeouts in 34 innings in his last six starts.
• Nate Pearson, Toronto Blue Jays P: Pearson allowed two hits and no runs with two strikeouts in 3.2 innings over his last three appearances.
• George Springer, Toronto Blue Jays OF: Springer is 12-for-40 with two doubles, two home runs, eight runs scored and six RBIs in his last 10 games.
• Andrew Vaughn, Chicago White Sox 1B: Vaughn is batting .348 with four runs, three extra-base hits and four RBIs in his last four games.

Who’s Not

• Vlad Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays 1B: Guerrero has three hits in his last 21 at-bats. Two of the hits have been for extra bases.
• Lance Lynn, Chicago White Sox P: Lynn was 1-2 with a 6.28 ERA in his five starts in the month of June. He has allowed 10 home runs in his last six outings.
• Gavin Sheets, Chicago White Sox OF: Sheets is 3-for-23 in his last 11 games with no extra-base hits during that stretch.
• Erik Swanson, Toronto Blue Jays P: Swanson has surrendered seven hits and five runs over 4.1 innings in his last four games.

Blue Jays vs White Sox Injury Update

The Blue Jays continue to be without pitchers Chad Green and Hyun Ryu. While he isn’t expected to go on the injured list, Garcia is dealing with a knee injury.

For the White Sox, infielder Yoan Moncada is joined on the injured list by Mike Clevinger and Michael Kopech.

Blue Jays vs White Sox Betting Preview

It wasn’t much of a series when the teams met in April.

Chicago failed to score a run in the last 24 innings of the three-game series. Toronto had 10 extra-base hits and a .302 batting average compared to 11 total hits, a .121 batting average, and 33 strikeouts for the White Sox.

Toronto has won four games in a row and seven of the last nine against the White Sox. The two wins by Chicago were both one-run affairs and part of a seven-game run in the series when all the games finished over the total. Thanks in large part to the offensive struggles by the White Sox, all three games played between the teams this season finished under the total.

The teams are a combined 49-44 when listed as the favorite compared to a mark of 30-44 as underdogs.

Toronto has seen 24 of its 44 road games finish over the total.

When looking at today’s MLB schedule, Toronto is priced at -119 to win the series opener.

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