BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays will try to build upon a nine-game win streak with a victory against the Chicago White Sox. Chicago has gone 19-25 at home and 30-61 overall. The White Sox have a 10-6 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.

If there were cracks in the fourth that deepened in the fifth, the sixth inning was an exercise in strip-mining. The first six Jays hitters of the inning reached base, the first three of those being on Burke, who departed shortly after Addison Barger added to the lefty hit parade with a two-run moonshot that blew the game open.

Chicago White Sox starter Sean Burke surrendered back-to-back home runs in the fifth inning and a two-run home run in the sixth in an 8-4 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.

No specific names were given by White Sox director of amateur scouting Mike Shirley when asked this past weekend about his team’s first-round plans for Day 1 of the 2025 MLB Draft presented by Nike on Sunday night.

That kind of day-to-day minutiae can obscure the bigger picture, distract from those once-in-a-baseball-lifetime moments: That this weekend in Denver, as the White Sox faced the Rockies, baseball’s official worst team ever was facing its upstart challenger,