The Chicago White Sox are back in Major League Baseball's postseason for the first time in 12 years. In the first round of the playoffs, they face the Oakland Athletics in a best-of-three new-fangled Wild Card round as the MLB expanded the playoffs bracket to 16 teams in the abbreviated 2020 season.

In Game 1 for the White Sox, tall right-handed starting pitcher Lucas Giolito threw a gem, throwing six scoreless innings of perfect baseball before giving up a soft single up the middle to the Athletics' lead-off hitter Tommy La Stella in the bottom of the seventh.

Any time a perfect game or no-hit bid goes interrupted, blame gets placed on potential “jinxers,” like Yahoo Sports' MLB coverage tweeting news of Giolito's then-perfect game at the very same moment La Stella spoiled it.

Of course, the “jinx” brought strong reactions on social media from White Sox fans and baseball fans seeking to watch a perfect game.

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Despite Giolito losing his perfect game bid, the Sox are in great position to take a 1-0 lead over the A's in the first slate of American League Wild Card games, which started on Tuesday. An All-Star last year, Giolito has the Sox cruising to the finish line of Game 1 as AL MVP candidate José Abreu powered a two-run homer earlier in the contest (via White Sox on Twitter).

Giolito made 12 starts in the 60-game MLB season this summer and fall, throwing 72.1 innings with a 4-3 record, 3.48 ERA, 3.19 FIP, and 1.037 WHIP.