Game Thread: Blue Jays (4-4) at White Sox (3-5)

After clinching a series win yesterday, Munetaka Murakami, Seranthony Domínguez and the White Sox will try to achieve a home opening series sweep for the first time in 22 years. | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images Spread the word — the White Sox are on a winning streak! Just when it looked like things were as bad as ever or even worse, the Sox have begun to show some life as they’ve taken their season back home to Chicago.

Now, after back-to-back wins over the defending American League champions, they’re on the precipice of something unthinkable: a sweep. In my hurried research, the last instance I could find of the Sox sweeping their first series at home came all the way back in 2004, when they took three straight from Kansas City in Ozzie Guillén’s managerial debut at then-U. S.

Cellular Field. The winning pitchers in that series? Esteban Loaiza, Jon Adkins and Dámaso Marte.

Technically, they did sweep their opening series in 2018, though that was just two games, also against Kansas City — and on the road. The 2004 home opener was the first one I ever attended in person, and I can still picture my view from a far upper right-field corner as chants of “Ozzie! Ozzie!