a American League East Champions 1985, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2015 American League Champions 1992, 1993 World Series Champions 1992, 1993 TORONTO BLUE JAYS (47-55) at CHICAGO WHITE SOX (36-67) RHP John Axford (4-1, 4.69) vs. RHP Lucas Giolito (7-8, 6.09) Game #103 Road #48 (20-27) July 28, 2018 7:10 pm TV: SNET RADIO: SN590 2018 AT A GLANCE ROAD TRIPPIN’: Record ..........................................................................47-55, 4th, 23.5 GB This evening marks the 2nd game of Toronto’s longest road trip of the Home Attendance (Total/Average) ..................................1,618,856/29,979 season, playing 10 games in a 10-day span...After this three-game Sellouts .....................................................................................................1 series in Chicago, will head to Oakland (61-44) for a trio of games before 2017 Season Record after 102 Games ..............................................48-54 completing the trip with four dates in Seattle (61-42). 2017 Season Record after 103 Games ..............................................48-55 The Jays went 2-4 on their last road trip...Have gone 3-6 in their last nine Come From Behind Wins ........................................................................26 road games and are 7-16 since May 29...Have an overall road record of Last Shutout by Blue Jays .............................. 2-0, June 16, 2018 vs. WAS 20-27...The .426 win% ranks 10th among AL clubs and is their lowest Last Shutout by Opponent ................................ 5-0, July 26, 2018 vs. MIN since 2009 (.383)...Have been out-scored, 245-213, and out-hit, 436- Under JOHN GIBBONS .................................................................767-755 379, during away contests...Have averaged 4.53 runs/game on the road vs. RHS/LHS ............................................................................36-30/11-25 (7th highest in the AL) while allowing 5.21 R/G (12th in the AL). Blue Jays/Opponents Scoring First ..........................................28-14/19-41 BLUE JAYS vs. THE WHITE SOX: Games Decided in Final AB/Walk-Off ..........................................19-10/7-3 All-Time: 206-191...All-Time, On The Road: 93-101...2018: 2-2 1-Run Games .....................................................................................14-12 The Blue Jays won two of three when the White Sox came to Rogers Franchise Record .......................................................................3290-3329 Centre in April...Are looking to win their first season series against the Home/Road ..............................................................................28-28/19-27 ChiSox since 2011, having gone 0-5-1 against them over the last six Series Record/Home/Road ..........................................10-16-8/5-9-4/5-7-4 seasons...Have gone 19-28 vs. CWS since the start of 2012 (10-13 in Series Openers/Finales ............................................................20-15/14-20 Chicago over that span). After 7.0, Ahead/Tied/Trailing ................................................ 36-4/6-6/5-45 Curtis Granderson went 5-for-10 vs. CWS in the previous series this After 8.0, Ahead/Tied/Trailing .............................................. 36-3/10-4/1-48 year, including two doubles and a triple...Has now gone 10-for-26 Extra-Inning Games/Home/Road .............................................. 9-5/6-4/3-1 (.385) with 3-2B, 1-3B 1-HR and 3-RBI in his last 8G against them. vs. East/Central/West/NL .......................................... 17-25/13-10/8-15/9-5 Kendrys Morales leads all current Jays with 48 career RBI against March/April/May/June/July ................................1-2/15-10/9-19/14-12/8-12 the White Sox...Has hits in all but two of his last 20 games vs. CWS, 2018 at ROGERS CENTRE batting .303 (23-for-76) with 2-2B, 7-HR and 21-RBI over that span Blue Jays HR Dome Open/Closed .....................................................35/38 (.977 OPS). Opponents HR Dome Open/Closed ...................................................29/45 Aledmys Diaz played his only two career games vs. CWS in the April W/L, 2018 open/closed/other .............................................14-11/13-17/0-0 series...Homered in both games and went 4-for-6 with a double and All-time/open/closed/other ................... 1277-1067/698-584/509-431/70-52 four RBI as well. THE LATEST: Last night, the Blue Jays connected for five home runs in the first five EVEN MORE FROM MORALES: innings en route to a 10-5 win over the White Sox...Was the team’s 1st Kendrys Morales recorded his 12th home run last night...Was his 9th 5-HR game of the season, last doing so on Sept. 26, 2017 at BOS. solo HR and his 7th road HR...Also drew a walk and has now reached The Jays are now 8-12 in July and have won 17 of their last 34 games, base multiple times in six straight games to match a career-long streak as well as 22 of their last 41...Are now 5.0 games back of the Rays for (6G in 2009, 6G in 2016)...Has gone 19-for-51 (.373) with 3-2B, 4-HR, 3rd place in the AL East...Remain 23.5 games behind the division-leading 8-RBI and 11-BB over his last 16 games (.476 OBP, 1.143 OPS). Red Sox. LOURDES, SO HOT RIGHT NOW: GRICH STILL GOING: Lourdes Gurriel Jr. extended his career-best hitting streak to nine games Randal Grichuk hit a two-run homer in the 2nd inning last night...Was last night with a 1st-inning home run...He homered again in the 4th for his 14th homer of the season and his 4th on the road, last doing so on his 1st career multi-HR game...In his final at-bat, he doubled for his 3rd June 25 at HOU...Now has eight extra-base hits in his last eight games three-hit game (last: July 14 at BOS) - all of which have come on the (5-2B, 3-HR)...His 12 HR since June 3rd are tied for 5th most in the AL. road - and his 1st career game with three extra-base hits. With his perfomance, the 24 year old extended his multi-hit streak to STRO’S STRETCH OF STARTS: Marcus Stroman allowed a pair of runs on seven hits over 6.2 innings nine games, tying Tony Fernandez (1986) for the longest such streak of work last night...Walked a batter and struck out three...Won back-to- in franchise history...The streak is also tied with Pittsburgh’s Jim back starts for the 1st time this year...Has posted a record of 4-2 with a Viox (1913) and Pittsburgh’s Rennie Stennett (1971) for the most by 2.98 ERA (14 ER/42.1 IP) over seven starts since landing on the DL... a rookie since 1913 (courtesy STATS). Gurriel Jr. has hits in each of his last 15 starts, batting .422 (27-for-64) with Was 0-5 with a 7.71 ERA (32 ER/37.1 IP) in his seven prior starts. 4-2B, 5-HR and 11-RBI over that span...Is now hitting .302 for the season, 2nd best among all MLB rookies with at least 100 plate appearances A NEW (MAPLE) LEAF: (Juan Soto - .315)...Now has seven homers over the course of his first 36 John Axford will make his 1st MLB start tonight after pitching in 537 career games, tied for 3rd most in team history and the most since Brett games...Only six players all-time have pitched in more games before Lawrie recorded 9 in 2011...Has hit .410 (25-for-61) over the course of their 1st start...He becomes the 8th pitcher all-time to have played 530+ July for the highest AVG in the AL this month (min. 40 AB). games before his 1st start, three of which have come this year (Sergio Romo - 588, Jerry Blevins - 532). Toronto, Longest Multi-Hit Streaks - All-Time The Simcoe, ON native will be the 6th Candian starter in team history. Rank Player Games Start - End He also becomes the 26th pitcher all-time to make his 1st start at the age 1 Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 9 07/11/18-Current of 35 or older...At 35 years and 118 days old, will be the 4th oldest to do 1 Tony Fernandez 9 06/18/86-06/27/86 so since the year 2000 (courtesy STATS). 3 Marco Scutaro 7 05/24/09-05/31/09 3 Mike Bordick 7 07/29/03-08/05/03 Oldest Player To Make 1st Start of MLB Career – Since 2000 3 Al Woods 7 05/04/77-05/10/77 Troy Percival, StL 38y, 52d 09/30/2007 Jason Lane, SD 37y, 218d 07/28/2014 Chris Smith, Oak 36y, 90d 07/08/2017 THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY: John Axford, Tor 35y, 118d 07/28/2018 Curtis Granderson started the game with a home run, his 47th career Sergio Romo, TB 35y, 66d 05/19/2018 leadoff HR...Ranks 5th all-time in leadoff HR, and is one back of Ian Kinsler (48) for the most among active players. Gurrel Jr.’s 1st home run followed up Granderson’s for Toronto’s 4th set THE DRIVE FOR FIVE: of back-to-back homers this season...Marked the 4th time in team history Last night’s win was Toronto’s 37th this year when scoring five or more to start a game with back-to-back home runs, also doing so on Aug. 18, runs...Are now 37-6 (.860) when plating 5+ runs...Conversly, are 10-49 1991 at DET (White/Alomar), June 14, 2006 vs. BAL (Rios/Catalanotto) (.169) when scoring less than five runs...The .691 win% difference is the and May 22, 2016 at MIN (Bautista/Donaldson). highest in the Majors (courtesy STATS). UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS: (All Times Eastern) Sunday, July 29 at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 pm...LHP Ryan Borucki (0-2, 2.79) vs.