TORONTO -- Patience is a virtue -- one the White Sox seem to currently lack.

Amid Chicago’s six-game losing streak, manager Pedro Grifol has preached the need for an improved offensive approach:

"Shrink the zone, wait for your pitch."

The White Sox entered Tuesday night’s game with the highest chase rate in baseball (37.3%), and the ill-advised swings continued in a 7-0 loss to the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.

Luis Robert Jr. saw back-to-back breaking balls below the zone in his opening at-bat, swinging over both of them. On the second whiff, Chicago’s leadoff man spun in the batter’s box as he watched the ball sail well beyond his outstretched bat.

Plate approach is a delicate balance -- too aggressive and you’ll get yourself out, too patient and you’ll miss an opportunity. For Grifol, the key is to have faith that your pitch will come, and to be ready for it.

"Stay in the strike zone, you're going to get your pitch to hit, something to do damage with," Grifol said.

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The discipline goes beyond balls and strikes, though. In Tuesday’s loss, Chicago’s manager saw improvement in his team’s selectivity, but trouble came with decisions in the zone. In the second frame, three White Sox batters got out on regrettable swings. First, Gavin Sheets popped out in foul territory on a low changeup, followed by dribbling groundouts from Andrew Vaughn and Yasmani Grandal. All three pitches were strikes, but none were converted into damage.

"We just didn't get pitches to hit, and when we did, we didn’t do anything with them," Grifol said. "From my view, [José Berríos] mixed it up pretty good, but the pitches we did get to hit, we either fouled them off or hit them into the ground. We didn’t square them up the way we’re capable of doing."

The White Sox need only look across the diamond on Tuesday to see the impact of a good approach. The Jays swung at 28% of pitches outside the zone from Chicago starter Mike Clevinger, working three walks and pushing his pitch count up to 100 by the fifth inning. Conversely, the visitors chased 38% of Berríos’ deliveries outside the zone, as he worked seven shutout frames.

Berríos’ changeup proved especially challenging for Chicago’s bats. In the fifth, Jake Burger tracked the offspeed pitch in on his hands, but he couldn’t hold back on a strikeout swing, slashing over the delivery to end the inning. The White Sox chased 39% of Berríos’ changeups outside the zone on the night.

But even though the collective approach is lagging, there have been moments of progress for this lineup.

In Monday’s series opener, Robert worked a two-out walk against Chris Bassitt, coming around to score the White Sox first run in the third. Vaughn worked a walk of his own on Tuesday, building on his team-leading and career-best 26.3% chase rate.

"[Vaughn’s] done a great job. He’s done a really good job," Grifol said. "You know, he’s limited his chases, the percentages are down. That’s the whole idea. I mean, that’s what we’re working for, trying to get everybody to shrink the strike zone and stay in the strike zone, get good pitches to hit."

That approach, however, can’t come from just one or two batters. When selectivity spreads across the lineup, runs come around more easily. And when the good takes outnumber the bad chases, wins will follow.

"Going from the amount of chases that we’re having right now to no chasing is not going to be an overnight thing," Grifol said before the start of the Toronto series. "However, it can improve. That’s what we’re expecting."