TORONTO -- Pick a ballpark, any ballpark, and Lance Lynn is bound to feel at home.

Since July began, Lynn has fared particularly well when pitching away from Guaranteed Rate Field, and that includes allowing just one run on four hits over seven dominant innings in a 2-1 loss against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre on Monday night.

Lynn, who has now pitched enough innings to qualify as the American League’s ERA leader (2.20), owns a 1.45 ERA in his past five road starts. He has pitched at least six innings and allowed exactly one run in each of those.

But one mistake from Monday’s outing will stick with Lynn: a hittable fastball in a 3-0 count with two outs to Toronto’s most dangerous hitter, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. That pitch produced his lone blemish, and he was quick to own it.

“Yeah, it was stupid,” Lynn said. “There’s no other way to say it. I told Tony that when I got in: ‘That was all on me.’ I was trying to throw a ball and it ran over the plate. When you got back and look at it, it’s not a terrible location. But to throw a 3-0 strike -- there was never an intention to throw a strike.

“Actually, I wanted to go up and away and be done with the at-bat and get on to the next guy. And I threw it right where he seemed to be looking for it. You definitely don’t want to do that there. It was not the idea, not the play and not what I was intending to do.”

White Sox manager Tony La Russa said, “No comment,” when asked about the pitch, but he was clearly not pleased by the result.

“I think it's one of those situations where it's right out there in front,” La Ryssa said. “And everyone can decide what the comment would be if I decide to comment, but I'm not going to comment.”

The Blue Jays hit Lynn hard, bashing 11 balls in play with an exit velocity of 95-plus mph. Most of those balls found a glove, though, allowing him to work through seven innings in just 86 pitches.

Lynn told La Russa and pitching coach Ethan Katz he could “give them another one,” but they opted to turn things over to Craig Kimbrel. This was a change for the decorated reliever to bounce back, after La Russa had expressed regret about pulling Kimbrel amid struggles in his last outing.

Instead, Kimbrel was charged with the game’s decisive run on a wild pitch. After yielding an infield hit, Kimbrel’s second wild pitch of the eighth inning -- a four-seamer he cranked well out of the reach of catcher Seby Zavala -- allowed pinch-runner Breyvic Valera to hustle in from third. Kimbrel has given up a run in three of his past four outings, and he has a 5.79 ERA in 10 appearances with the White Sox.

The team's faith in Kimbrel, an eight-time All-Star and the league’s active saves leader, hasn’t waned. The White Sox are still waiting on the lockdown leverage reliever they acquired at the Trade Deadline. He’s adjusting to a non-closer role, and that adjustment has proven bumpy in the box scores.

“We’ve got a lot of confidence in him,” Lynn said. “Whenever you come to a new team in the middle of the season, you’re trying to just find your way. … Once we get the things rolling that we need to get rolling -- and guys are kind of getting in more of a flow of how things are going to be -- everything’s gonna run smoothly.”

The White Sox have scored just five runs over three losses since Tim Anderson last played. The shortstop is still day to day with leg soreness, though he took part in regular pregame activities on the field Monday, including batting practice.

Once the game began, Lynn kept the White Sox on level footing against the Blue Jays, but their struggling setup man couldn’t work a clean inning.

“I look at [Kimbrel's] stuff; it's nasty,” La Russa. “He hasn't pitched as regularly as he was when he was saving, for whatever reason. As long as he's healthy, I look at what he's throwing up there -- we're really fortunate to have him.”