WHITE SOX vs. BLUE JAYS: Official Full Game Highlights (July 17) | 2026 MLB Season

The second half has arrived and tonight in Toronto, a matchup of the reigning pennant winners and an upstart nobody saw coming as the Toronto Blue Jays host the Chicago White Sox. Two Japanese sluggers have helped carry their respective clubs. Kazuma Okamoto has been one of the few bright spots for a Blue Jays team sitting on the outside of the postseason picture looking in. While on the south side, Monotaka Murakami has been a huge spark plug for a White Sox team that has shocked the baseball world sitting in a tie for first place in the AL Central. As the second half gets underway, they'll face Spencer Miles. What a story he's been. Fourth start, 27th appearance. Spencer Miles right now is really tough on the right-handed side. So this is going to be a good matchup for Murakami and the left-handed hitters for the Chicago White Sox. Here is Murakami. Payoff pitch. Lays off. But Alejandro Kirk wants the challenge. And we'll see if Kirk can flip this to a strikeout. He does. Quality breaking ball there from Miles. If he's going to have success off these lefties, he has to land that breaking ball. He's done it two different ways. But right here to Murakami, you see a backdoor. Starts out of the ball and just catches the end. Lower half of the strike zone and the outer half as well. Good challenge. And now Miguel Vargas. What a year for him. Homer to the all-star game. A former Dodger teammate, Justin Robleski, in the eighth inning. That provided the exclamation point for the American League. He's only the third White Sox player to hit a home run in an all-star game. He joins Frank Thomas and Maglio Ordonez. Swing and a miss. He got him. Runs the fastball up to 99 miles an hour to punch out Vargas and retire the shot. It's Colson Montgomery, the cleanup man, leading off the Sox second in a nothing-nothing tie. As this soft line drive will drop in for a base hit for Colson Montgomery. So the leadoff hitter has reached. Here's Benintendi, recently reached. Ten years of major league service. Swing and a ground ball and it's into right. Montgomery's going to try for third. Here's the throw. Cut off in the middle of the diamond. Colson goes first to third and they're at the corners with nobody out. Boy, it's good to see what we just witnessed, and that is Colson off to the races, digging for third base. We need this team to continue to do that. Take the extra 90 feet if they get a chance. So they're in business for Kyle Teal. Situational game to take advantage of early. Montgomery will score. Benintendi to third. Teal to second with an RBI double and the White Sox have the lead. You got three soft hit balls for results. I don't know if they're working on that, but it's working. Three consecutive hits to open the inning. Here's a rookie, Brayden Montgomery. There's a ground ball to the shortstop and the throw's going to go to third. A run's going to score. They've got Teal caught in a rundown and they get him. So Ernie Clement, I thought, might throw to home plate, but he had a more sure out of Teal. So that'll be an RBI fielder's choice for Brayden on a very interesting and strange play. Montgomery just stole second base. I love this aggressiveness that the White Sox are showing right now. First career steal for Brayden. Get the bag. This White Sox team creating havoc. Montgomery running in front of that ground ball will get to third as Tristan Peters grounds out. Some of that young energy we were talking about heading into today. Chase Midroth here. Bouncing ball up the middle. Base hits. And the White Sox extend the lead. An RBI single for Midroth. And it's 3-0 Chicago. The young Chicago White Sox. Big knock after big knock. Putting pressure. I think what we've witnessed in this inning really is illustrative of how dynamic this offense has been all season. But this team slugs and hits home runs, but it also can do what we've seen in this inning. As this is drilled. Right field. Could be trouble. That ball is gone. Sam Antonacci makes it a 5-0 lead for Chicago. A towering home run. Sam Antonacci turning and burning. And, wow, what a swing. This young White Sox team seems like they're picking up right where they left off. As Anthony Kaye, the southpaw, toes the rubber for the White Sox. And Kirk will take his base. And you want all these righties against Kaye because coming into this game, righties this year had hit .283 against him with an .839 OPS. Lefties .185 with a .572 OPS. That's an all-star player or a player that might get sent down if their season numbers were like that. And he gets Valenzuela to chase. Big strikeout for Kaye. A former Blue Jays. Two gone. All of a sudden, Kaye pulls the string on a perfectly executed changeup for the strikeout. In the air out of the left center field. And it'll be caught. Sliding catch by Sam Antonacci. That was a great read by Antonacci to take away a little cheap hit. Nice defense by the White Sox. Through two from Toronto. Breaking ball caught. Clements on the foot. And he'll go down to first. Second hit batter for Kaye. The Blue Jays will take that for sure. Doing anything they can to start something here in the bottom of the third inning. Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. at the plate. Who's 0 for 1. Although we did maybe see the sparks of a hot streak before the all-star break. Guerrero lines one off the glove of Murakami. And in the right. Clement going first to third. Sharply hit. Single for Guerrero. And the Blue Jays are in business. Man at the corners and one out. Walker, Okamoto, and the bases are loaded. And you know who could use a big moment in the worst way is the man coming to the plate. In George Springer. Getting a start in left field. His first appearance in the field since last September. Ground ball left side. Flipped to second for one. On to first. Comes home and the Blue Jays are on the board. One out. Bases empty. The pitch to Luis Urias. Is clubbed. On a line. Deep left field. And gone. Home run Luis Urias. His second as a Blue Jay. And it's five to two in the bottom of the fourth. Luis Urias was screaming as he was rounding second base. A meaningful home run for him. A good swing. That was a fastball right down the middle. He barreled it up. He got it out of here in a hurry. Just got over that high wall. And the Blue Jays have now scored each of the last two runs that have been plated in this game overall. Makos struggled over his last three outings. He's given up seven earned runs in four total innings. He's looking for a bounce back outing. But that has been made harder by the hit and walk allowed now. He entered runner on first. Nobody out. Now it's bases loaded. Nobody out. And he doesn't have the left on left matchup. It's righty hitting Miguel Vargas standing in. Vargas strikes out. Huge first out in the fifth. Colson Montgomery. A slugging shortstop for the White Sox. Chance to really break it open. There's a swing and a line drive. Base hit. Left center field. Meindroth scores. Antonacci right behind him. Murakami to third. He's going to be sent. And he will score from first base. That is a bases-clearing double for Colson Montgomery. And it's 8-2. More left on left crime. This time not a home run. But we'll take the bases-clearing double. Springer didn't get a great jump on that ball. That's the deepest part of the stadium too. No reason for third base coach Justin Dursley to not send home Murakami there. Good all-around aggressive offensive baseball from Chicago White Sox. Springer in left. Maybe he's not 100%. Got to wonder if that's a knockout blow here in Toronto. The White Sox have just about blown the roof off this place with the way that they have gone about their business tonight. Anthony Kaye gives way to the White Sox bullpen. And Trevor Richards makes his 25th appearance of the season. Two retired. The batter is George Springer. Swing and a high fly ball out to left field. Going back Antonacci. He's out of room. It's gone. Home run George Springer. Second home run the Blue Jays have hit in as many innings. And they trail it 8-3. George Springer, what a swing from him. He's slowly starting to get out of that early slump that he was in. He'll slip on the jacket as the Blue Jays have scored in three innings in a row. The issue is two big innings from the White Sox still have them in front. 8-3 is the score. Been playing from behind all night. They'll try to get a little bit closer here with the bottom third of the order coming up against Richards. Valenzuela has spun around now. The switch hitter will paddle left. Rather than from the right side where he's 0-2 tonight with a couple of swinging strikeouts. Pass ball ripped on a line. Deep right field. Hook in toward the corner. And out of here. Homers in three innings in a row for the Blue Jays who continue to try and chip away. They trail at 8-4 on Brandon Valenzuela's eighth homerun this season. Valenzuela was able to drop the barrel and rip it out of here. Got it out of here to hurry it. Like you said, the Blue Jays are continuing to put together pretty good at-bats and they're chipping away at this lead. It's now a four-run lead for the White Sox. Four runs on three homers for the Blue Jays. Vargas, Montgomery, and Gritchick. 3-4 and 5 for the White Sox. So two on, nobody out. Here's Randall Gritchick. Line drive on one hop. Knocked down by Okamoto. He'll go to second and won't get out there with Arias off the bag. A wide throw after he saved a run by knocking that ball down, but Okamoto couldn't hit the target and the bases are loaded. Braden Montgomery will step in from the left side. And he smacks one to right field against the new pitcher, Braden Fisher. That'll get down into the corner and it might clear the bases again. Three runs will come home on a bases-clearing triple for Braden Montgomery. And the White Sox have blown it open in the seventh. Braden Montgomery with his first career big league triple. Fly ball to right field, sending Straw back. He'll make the catch. Montgomery will tag and head home to make it a dozen on the night for the Southsiders. Big innings for the White Sox. Blue Jays have actually scored in more innings. They've scored in four separate innings in this game. The White Sox have scored in three different innings, but it was five in the second, three in the fifth, four in the seventh. That helps Chicago to this 12-4 lead. And there are two outs. The Blue Jays down to their last chance. The out of ten class A. Blue Jays down to their final strike. That's strike three and the ball game is over. A 12-4 final and a statement win to start the second half for Chicago. Statement win is right. Chicago White Sox not slowing down one bit. Coming out of the all-star break, guns blazing and looking strong here as we take on this second half of baseball. Love that celebration. Double touch in the outfield. They are having fun and they are winning while doing it. Yes, they are. What a story.