Chris Sale wrote baseball history on Thursday with his last throw of the night.
The Atlanta Braves -Saas has fueled the Philadelphia Phillies’ Edmundo Sosa to end the sixth inning, the 2500th strikeout of Sale’s career.
The left-handed person became the fastest in baseball history to reach the 2500-K milestone and to get there in 2,026 innings. The record was previously held by Randy Johnson, when he blew his 2,500e Slagman after 2,107 2/3 innings in 1999.
“I appreciate it for what it is, but I am not trying to get too entangled at the moment in things like,” Sale said after the Braves had broken off a 9-3 victory to achieve a split of a daily double header in Philadelphia. “I know what our work is here. And regardless of whether you have a good or a bad one, the next is the most important.”
Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said about the sale: “He does a kind of Hall of Fame things. That guy is probably such a big baseball fan as everyone, only the history of the game and the competition. He is a ball player and it is really cool to see.”
After allowing two hits and three walks during the beating of eight Phillies, the sale is 3-3 with a 3.06 ERA up to and including 12 starts this year.
Although his figures are considerable, they are far away from the production he managed last year on their way to winning the National League Cy Young Award. Sale won the Pitching Triple Crown through the competition in Leiden in victories (18), ERA (2.38) and Strikeouts (225). He only took three losses and at the top of the Majors in the least homers allowed per nine innings (0.5) and most strikeouts per nine innings (11.4).
Sale, 36, is an eightyfold all-star that helped the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series 2018. He threw for the Chicago White Sox (2010-16), Boston (2017-19, 2021-23) and Atlanta (2024-25).
He has a career 141-86 record with a 3.04 ERA in 384 career games, 304 starts.
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