{"id":439347,"date":"2023-07-06T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/toronto-chicago-matchup-postponed-doubleheader-on-thursday\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T13:58:10","slug":"toronto-chicago-matchup-postponed-doubleheader-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/toronto-chicago-matchup-postponed-doubleheader-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto \u2013 Chicago matchup postponed; doubleheader on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clash between the Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago White Sox has been postponed because of enormous rain in Chicago, and the franchises will play 2 matches between them on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The bout was delayed for just 1 hour before the franchises shared that it was canceled.<\/p>\n<p>The final clash of the 3-game matchup was scheduled for 8.10 PM ET. Because of the unexpected circumstance, matches 2 and 3 of the series will start back-to-back as the beginning is at 5.10 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Berrios had to start for Toronto in Game 2 on Wednesday, while Lance Lynn was Chicago\u2019s choice. Sources close to the Blue Jays shared that Berrios will start Game 2 on Thursday, while Yusei Kikuchi will play in Game 3, as the original pitching rotation will be preserved.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays triumphed 4-3 in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> match on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tonight&#8217;s game has been postponed due to rain and will be made up as part of a straight doubleheader tomorrow beginning at 5:10pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>We are the TORONTO Blue Jays, but you can yell at us about the weather in Chicago tonight   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2xzQwJAAtZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2xzQwJAAtZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJays\/status\/1676764297811165187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clash between the Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago White Sox has been postponed because of enormous rain in Chicago, and the franchises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":439348,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19032,17863,18517],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"The postponement is because of heavy rain."},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439347"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439347"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}