Garcia went 2-for-3 with a walk and three runs scored while Navarro got some revenge against his former team with a 2-for-4 night, which included a walk, a pair of RBIs and two runs scored. White Sox center fielder Austin Jackson also had a three-hit night as the bottom three of Chicago's batting order combined to go 7-for-11 against Toronto pitchers.
Chicago did most of its damage against veteran knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who allowed six earned runs for the second time in five starts this season. Dickey got off to a good start, but he surrendered a solo homer to Garcia in the third, allowed three more runs in the fifth and was then chased from the game in the seventh when Navarro hit a two-run shot.
"It's really frustrating, in particular because you know you're facing a guy where the margin of error is slim," said Dickey, who has a 6.75 ERA this season. "It's tough. I've got to find a way to arrest those big innings. I'm thankful April is over, let's put it that way."
Encarnacion was the lone bright spot on offense for the Blue Jays, as he went deep in the seventh inning for his 200th career homer as a Blue Jay. It was one of two extra-base hits for Toronto, and the club had only one at-bat with a runner in scoring position.
Encarnacion's mammoth homer
CWS@TOR: Encarnacion hammers a solo blast to center
Edwin Encarnacion launches a solo home run to the second deck in center field off Chris Sale, putting the Blue Jays on the board in the 7th
MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
Blowing it open: The White Sox scored three runs in the top of the fifth off Dickey to take a commanding 4-0 lead. After a pair of hits and a walk loaded up the bases, Jackson delivered the big blow with a two-run double to the gap in right-center field, and Eaton followed with a sacrifice fly to complete the rally.
Jackson's two-run double
CWS@TOR: Jackson doubles in a pair in the 5th
Austin Jackson hammers a double to the gap in right-center field, scoring Brett Lawrie and Avisail Garcia to give the White Sox a 3-0 lead
Dickey disappoints: Dickey has been prone to giving up home runs during his time with the Blue Jays, and Tuesday night was no exception. He allowed a solo shot to Garcia in the third, but it was the seventh inning that put the game on ice for good. Dickey served up a 1-0 knuckleball that Navarro sent over the wall in right field for his second homer of the season. According to Statcast™, Navarro's homer was projected to travel 346 feet and left his bat at 92 mph.
"When they start putting baserunners on base, you're looking for the ground ball, and he does get a lot of those, but he needs that to bail him out," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "He had a tough draw tonight, that's pretty simple right there. But it will turn for him, it will turn for the whole team. We still have confidence in ourselves, we'll get it going."
Navarro's two-run homer
CWS@TOR: Navarro extends the lead with two-run blast
Dioner Navarro belts his second home run of the season to right, a two-run shot off R.A. Dickey that pads the lead for the White Sox
Smooth sailing: After a pair of hits Monday night, Garcia continued his hot hitting, adding two more hits and three runs scored on Tuesday. Garcia opened the scoring in the top of the third, taking an 3-1 pitch from Dickey over the left-center-field wall. The home run was Garcia's third of the season and traveled a projected 434 feet according to Statcast™.
A. Garcia's long solo homer
CWS@TOR: A. Garcia launches a solo blast off Dickey
Avisail Garcia opens the scoring after he cranks a long solo home run off R.A. Dickey that hits the facade of the second deck
No. 200 for Edwin: Encarnacion reached the 200-homer plateau as a Blue Jay in his traditional way by smoking a ball over the wall in straightaway center during the seventh inning. According to Statcast™, Encarnacion's third of the season was projected to travel 434 feet and left his bat at 110 mph. Encarnacion became the sixth player to reach 200 homers in a Blue Jays uniform joining Carlos Delgado (336), Jose Bautista (247), Vernon Wells (223), Joe Carter (203) and George Bell (202).
QUOTABLE
"It feels very familiar from the past years that I've been here. For myself and for the team, for that matter. We've always been pretty much a slow-starting team. It takes us a little time to find our rhythm it seems, and that's the same for me in particular. Nobody in here is panicking, at all. We have the players in here to do it. It's just a matter of being consistent, and I'm speaking about me more than anybody." -- Dickey, on his slow start and the team's disappointing 10-12 record
SOUND SMART WITH YOUR FRIENDS
Tulowitzki's errorless streak as a Blue Jay came to an end when he dropped a grounder during the first inning. It was the first error he made since joining Toronto prior to last year's non-waiver Trade Deadline. His 60 games at shortstop without an error fell just shy of the Blue Jays' record set at 65 by Tony Fernandez in 1988. The Major League record for shortstops belongs to Baltimore's Mike Bordick, who went 110 games without an error in 2002.
Tulo's first Blue Jays' error
CWS@TOR: Tulo commits first error with Blue Jays
Troy Tulowitzki commits a fielding error on Adam Eaton's ground ball to lead off the game, his first error as a member of the Blue Jays
UNDER REVIEW
The White Sox won their challenge in the top of the fifth inning on a tag play at third base. Brett Lawrie rounded third before heading back to the bag on a single by Navarro. Lawrie was initially called out, but replays showed the White Sox second baseman slid under Tulowitzki's tag, and the call was overturned.
Lawrie safe at third
CWS@TOR: Lawrie gets to third after call overturned
The White Sox challenge Brett Lawrie being called out at third on a single in the 5th, and after review, the call is overturned
WHAT'S NEXT
White Sox: Left-hander Jose Quintana (2-1, 1.82 ERA) gets the ball for the finale of the White Sox three-game series against the Blue Jays on Wednesday at 6:07 p.m. CT at Rogers Centre. Quintana went seven shutout innings his last time out against the Rangers, and he has yet to allow a home run this season.
Blue Jays: Right-hander Marco Estrada (1-1, 2.50) will take the mound when the Blue Jays close out their series against Chicago. Estrada has battled through a variety of injuries during the early part of the season, but he managed to get through five innings of his last start vs. Baltimore with only one earned run.
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