Yankees Rivalry Roundup: Blue Jays odd skid continues in White Sox walk-off

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CHICAGO, IL APRIL 03: Derek Hill 25 of the Chicago White Sox slides safely into home with the winning run in the 10th inning during the game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Chicago White Sox at Rate Field on Friday, April 3, 202in Chicago, by Geoff Stellfox MLB Photos via MLB Photos via Andrew Mearns is the managing editor of Pinstripe Alley, where he first started writing in has also edited for multiple Baseball Prospectus Annuals and Futures Guides, contributes to the BP site, and previously wrote for Cut4 at Yankees’ hot start to 202hummed along yesterday in their home Judge and Ben Rice brought the lumber as Will Warren outpitched talented young Marlins righty Eury Prez, and the Yankees won, 61, the Yankees have the best record in call the season there! It’s over!No? Whatever, ‘ll roll on tonight as the Yankees take on the Marlins the meantime, we’ll catch up on the other notable American League action from Blue Jays 43 4, Chicago White Sox 25 5 10 inningsThe defending AL champions got to start off 202with a cushy ninegame slate before their April 68 rematch with the Dodgers, and they seemeed on track to take care of business by sweeping the A’s in their Opening Day then Jay Bruce Jersey, though? They inexplicably dropped two of three to the rebuilding Rockies at Rogers Centre, where they rarely lost in 2025, and now they’ve begun their first road series of the year by falling to the White Sox, who have lost 324 games across the last three afternoon both began and ended with sloppy plays from Toronto that proved grabbed an early 10 lead when Dylan Cease dropped a throw from Vladimir Guerrero first base, allowing Chase Meidroth to Barger and Alejandro Kirk responded with backtoback doubles in the second to tie it up, but from there, bulk guy Sean Burke stymied Toronto on two hits, no walks, and seven strikeouts while tossing six the strength of a tworun double off Cease from newcomer Austin Hays, the White Sox carried a 31 lead into the one of Toronto’s lightest hitters, Andrs Gimnez, silenced the excited South Side crowd:Both sides had a chance to push across the goahead run to break the tie in the after Daulton Varsho’s twoout double, White Sox skipper Will Venable called upon freeagent signing Seranthony Domnguez to strand him, and he did by fanning Kazuma Pale Hose missed their first shot at walking off despite having the winning run at second with one down in the Rogers got Meidroth to fly out, intentionally walked Munetaka Murakami, and then got Miguel Vargas to ground would compound his problems in the top of the 10th, as his twoout throw from third on a grounder eversoslightly pulled Murakami off the bag, bringing home the zombie Toronto handed a 43 lead to closer Jeff Hoffman, and it seemed like a done deal when Colson Montgomery grounded out and Hays went down the Hays atbat, however, a foul ball might’ve changed the course of the final result, as it went straight off Kirk’s thumb behind the was immediately in pain and had to leave Xrays were still pending as of the time I write this, forcing Toronto to put in backup Tyler to their last out, Derek Hill made the bold call to surprise the defense by dropping down a bunt, and Heineman was quickly throw to Guerrero went down the rightfield line to score their zombie runner and give 26yearold rookie Tristan Peterspurchased from the Rays in Decembera chance to win the did just that, roping a single to right to make the White Sox winners in their home Red Sox 25 5, San Diego Padres 25 2Both San Diego and Boston were off to shaky starts to 2026, but since they squared off against each other on Friday, someone had to get back on the right would be the Red Sox, as the fans at Fenway for their home opener went home was a pitching matchup of former Yankees, with Michael King squaring off against Sonny Gray who only overlapped in 2018 spring training, and the latter trade acquisition had the edge early with four scoreless while King allowed RBI hits to Ceddanne Rafaela and Caleb erstwhile Baby Bomber Durbin had been 0for18 to start the season after coming over from Milwaukee and got booed early on, but his single scored Jarren Duran to make it 20, Red parade of old friends making an impact on this game continued in the fifth, when Miguel Andujar tripled off his former teammate Gray on a ball that Rafaela seemingly lost in the scored on a Gavin Sheets single, and Sheets came around himself on a Luis Campusano 22 tie held until the home half of the sixth, when Boston knocked King out of the game and took the lead for Contreras delivered his first homer in a Red Sox uniform, a 423foot blast to put Boston up, and after Wandy Peralta hey, another former Yankee relieved King, 2021 fourthoverall pick Marcelo Mayer went yard for a decisive tworun Ron Marinaccio another! pitched a scoreless frame after Peralta left, the Padres never chipped Carlos Narvez another!! behind the plate, the Boston bullpen trio of Greg Weissert another!!!

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