TORONTO—Dana Eveland pitched six innings, Travis Snider homered and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the White Sox 7-3 Thursday night.Alex Gonzalez matched a career high with four hits and had three RBI as the Blue Jays improved to 7-3. One night after a stadium-low crowd of 10,610 watched an 11-1 loss, attendance rose slightly to 10,744 for the series finale.Eveland (2-0), who pitched 7 1/3 scoreless innings against Baltimore on April 10, followed that with a solid outing against the White Sox, allowing two runs and three hits in six-plus innings. He walked three and struck out four.He didn’t allow a run until White Sox rookie catcher Donny Lucy hit a two-out solo homer to left in the fifth, the first of his career.The second-deck shot snapped Eveland’s season-opening streak of 11 1-3 scoreless innings, the longest by a Blue Jays pitcher to start his Toronto career. Mike Flanagan pitched 10 2/3 scoreless innings after joining the Blue Jays in a trade with Baltimore in 1987.Shawn Camp replaced Eveland after a leadoff walk in the seventh and struck out Alex Rios but gave up a two-run homer to Alexei Ramirez, his first.Snider opened the scoring with a solo drive to right in the second, his first, off Freddy Garcia.Toronto added three more in the third on back-to-back doubles by Gonzalez and Adam Lind and a sacrifice fly by John Buck.Garcia (0-2) allowed seven runs and eight hits in three-plus innings, walked three and struck out three. He left one batter after Mike McCoy’s RBI double in the fourth. Gonzalez greeted left-hander Randy Williams with a two-run double.After nine starts in right field, Jose Bautista made his first appearance of the year at third base in place of Edwin Encarnacion, who sat out with a sore right arm. Manager Cito Gaston said Encarnacion was expected to miss “a couple of days.” Encarnacion missed most of spring training recovering from a sore left wrist, the result of surgery last October.Toronto first baseman Lyle Overbay went 0 for 5 with four strikeouts, dropping his average to .077.

NOTES—Casey Janssen worked the eighth and Jason Frasor, who lost the closer’s job to Kevin Gregg(good luck on THAT!) on Wednesday, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth…..Snider made a diving catch of Lucy’s liner to left in the seventh. … Former Blue Jays 3B Kelly Gruber attended the game, as did Toronto Raptors players Jarrett Jack and Sonny Weems. … McCoy had two doubles.