Chicago White Sox 3 – 0 Toronto Blue Jays

MLB · July 19, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Chicago White Sox shut out the Toronto Blue Jays three to nothing on Saturday afternoon, and it was never particularly close once the South Siders got their footing in the middle innings.

Chicago drew first blood in the fourth, Andrew Benintendi lifting a sacrifice fly to center that scored Marco Vargas and put the White Sox on the board. Toronto had no immediate answer, and the sixth inning is where this game was truly decided. C. Montgomery stepped in and launched a solo shot three hundred and eighty-eight feet to right center — that's your turning point right there — and then moments later B. Montgomery singled to center to plate Benintendi and push the lead to three. He was thrown out trying to stretch it to a double, but the damage was done and Toronto never recovered.

C. Montgomery was the story offensively, going two for four with the home run and one run batted in, providing the kind of punch this lineup needed. On the other side, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was held hitless in four at-bats, and Kotaro Okamoto contributed nothing at the plate either — a quiet, frustrating afternoon for a Blue Jays offense that simply never found its rhythm against Chicago's pitching.

The White Sox were disciplined, efficient, and clinical when the opportunities presented themselves, and that was more than enough. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

Benintendi hit sacrifice fly to center, Vargas scored. P4 · 1–0
C. Montgomery homered to right center (388 feet). P6 · 2–0
B. Montgomery singled to center, Benintendi scored, B. Montgomery thrown out at second. P6 · 3–0

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Trey Yesavage pitches to Sam Antonacci P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Antonacci grounded out to shortstop. P1

Trey Yesavage pitches to Munetaka Murakami P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Murakami struck out swinging. P1

Trey Yesavage pitches to Miguel Vargas P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Vargas struck out swinging. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Sean Burke pitches to Ernie Clement P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1

Clement popped out to second. P1

Sean Burke pitches to Nathan Lukes P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P1

Lukes grounded out to second. P1

Sean Burke pitches to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1

Guerrero Jr. grounded out to shortstop. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Trey Yesavage pitches to Colson Montgomery P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

C. Montgomery struck out swinging. P2

Trey Yesavage pitches to Andrew Benintendi P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P2

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P2

Benintendi walked. P2

Trey Yesavage pitches to Braden Montgomery P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P2

B. Montgomery struck out looking. P2

Trey Yesavage pitches to Randal Grichuk P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Benintendi to second on wild pitch by Yesavage. P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Grichuk struck out swinging. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Sean Burke pitches to Kazuma Okamoto P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P2

Okamoto lined out to center. P2

Sean Burke pitches to Daulton Varsho P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P2

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P2

Varsho flied out to center. P2

Sean Burke pitches to Sean Keys P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Keys struck out swinging. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Trey Yesavage pitches to Tristan Peters P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Peters struck out swinging. P3

Trey Yesavage pitches to Drew Romo P3

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3

Romo fouled out to catcher. P3

Trey Yesavage pitches to Sam Antonacci P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Antonacci flied out to center. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Sean Burke pitches to Brandon Valenzuela P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Valenzuela flied out to center. P3

Sean Burke pitches to Andres Gimenez P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3

Giménez popped out to second. P3

Sean Burke pitches to Jonatan Clase P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P3

Clase struck out looking. Chicago White Sox challenged: call on the field was overturned. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Trey Yesavage pitches to Munetaka Murakami P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P4

Murakami walked. P4

Trey Yesavage pitches to Miguel Vargas P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P4

Vargas grounded into fielder's choice to third, Murakami out at second. P4

Trey Yesavage pitches to Colson Montgomery P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

C. Montgomery singled to right, Vargas to third. P4

Trey Yesavage pitches to Andrew Benintendi P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

Benintendi hit sacrifice fly to center, Vargas scored. P4

Trey Yesavage pitches to Braden Montgomery P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P4

B. Montgomery singled to center, C. Montgomery to second. P4

Trey Yesavage pitches to Randal Grichuk P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Grichuk lined out to center. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Sean Burke pitches to Ernie Clement P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Clement flied out to left. P4

Sean Burke pitches to Nathan Lukes P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Lukes reached on infield single to third. P4

Sean Burke pitches to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

Guerrero Jr. flied out to left. P4

Sean Burke pitches to Kazuma Okamoto P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Okamoto popped out to second. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Trey Yesavage pitches to Tristan Peters P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Peters struck out swinging. P5

Trey Yesavage pitches to Drew Romo P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Romo struck out swinging. P5

Trey Yesavage pitches to Sam Antonacci P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Antonacci grounded out to second. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Sean Burke pitches to Daulton Varsho P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5

Varsho grounded out to second. P5

Sean Burke pitches to Sean Keys P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5

Keys lined out to left. P5

Sean Burke pitches to Brandon Valenzuela P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Valenzuela flied out to center. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Trey Yesavage pitches to Munetaka Murakami P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Murakami struck out swinging. P6

Trey Yesavage pitches to Miguel Vargas P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Vargas flied out to left. P6

Trey Yesavage pitches to Colson Montgomery P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6

C. Montgomery homered to right center (388 feet). P6

Trey Yesavage pitches to Andrew Benintendi P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6

Benintendi doubled to left. P6

Trey Yesavage pitches to Braden Montgomery P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P6

B. Montgomery singled to center, Benintendi scored, B. Montgomery thrown out at second. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Sean Burke pitches to Andres Gimenez P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6

Giménez lined out to second. P6

Sean Burke pitches to Jonatan Clase P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Clase struck out swinging. P6

Sean Burke pitches to Ernie Clement P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P6

Clement walked. P6

Sean Burke pitches to Nathan Lukes P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6

Lukes lined out to right. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Fisher relieved Yesavage P7

Braydon Fisher pitches to Randal Grichuk P7

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7

Grichuk singled to right. P7

Perez ran for Grichuk P7

Braydon Fisher pitches to Tristan Peters P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P7

Peters struck out looking. Chicago White Sox challenged: call on the field was upheld. P7

Braydon Fisher pitches to Drew Romo P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

Romo grounded out to shortstop, Perez to second. P7

Fluharty relieved Fisher P7

Mason Fluharty pitches to Sam Antonacci P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P7

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Antonacci struck out swinging. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Perez in left field. P7

Sean Burke pitches to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Guerrero Jr. struck out swinging. P7

Sean Burke pitches to Kazuma Okamoto P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Okamoto struck out swinging. P7

Sean Burke pitches to Daulton Varsho P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7

Varsho singled to center. P7

Kirk hit for Keys P7

Hudson relieved Burke P7

Bryan Hudson pitches to Alejandro Kirk P7

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7

Kirk grounded out to shortstop. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Kirk catching. P8

Valenzuela at first base. P8

Mason Fluharty pitches to Munetaka Murakami P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8

Murakami lined out to left. P8

Mason Fluharty pitches to Miguel Vargas P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8

Vargas flied out to center. P8

Mason Fluharty pitches to Colson Montgomery P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

C. Montgomery struck out swinging. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

Bryan Hudson pitches to Brandon Valenzuela P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P8

Valenzuela flied out to left. P8

Urías hit for Giménez P8

Bryan Hudson pitches to Luis Urias P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Urías struck out swinging. P8

Bryan Hudson pitches to Jonatan Clase P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8

Clase grounded out to shortstop. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Clement at shortstop. P9

Urías at second base. P9

Estrada relieved Fluharty P9

Lazaro Estrada pitches to Andrew Benintendi P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P9

Benintendi fouled out to catcher. P9

Lazaro Estrada pitches to Braden Montgomery P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

B. Montgomery flied out to center. P9

Lazaro Estrada pitches to Junior Perez P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Perez grounded out to shortstop. P9

Middle of the 9th inning P9

Bottom of the 9th inning P9

Taylor relieved Hudson P9

Grant Taylor pitches to Ernie Clement P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P9

Clement reached on infield single to third. P9

Grant Taylor pitches to Nathan Lukes P9

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9

Lukes reached on bunt single to third, Clement to second. P9

Grant Taylor pitches to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. P9

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9

Guerrero Jr. lined out to right, Clement to third. P9

Grant Taylor pitches to Kazuma Okamoto P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Okamoto grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Lukes out at second. P9

End of the 9th inning P9