Chris Sale
American baseball player (born 1989) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Christopher Allen Sale (born March 30, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox. He bats and throws left-handed and is 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall.
Chris Sale | |
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Atlanta Braves – No. 51 | |
Pitcher | |
Born: (1989-03-30) March 30, 1989 (age 35) Lakeland, Florida, U.S. | |
Bats: Left Throws: Left | |
MLB debut | |
August 6, 2010, for the Chicago White Sox | |
MLB statistics (through April 26, 2024) | |
Win–loss record | 123–81 |
Earned run average | 3.11 |
Strikeouts | 2,222 |
Teams | |
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Career highlights and awards | |
MLB records
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A native of Lakeland, Florida, located within the Tampa Bay area, Sale played college baseball for Florida Gulf Coast University. The Chicago White Sox selected him 13th overall in the 2010 MLB draft and he made his MLB debut on August 6, 2010. He was traded to the Boston Red Sox prior to the 2017 season and was a key member of their pitching rotation that helped the team win the 2018 World Series.
Sale was an MLB All-Star for seven consecutive seasons from 2012 to 2018, and led the American League (AL) in strikeouts in 2015 and 2017. After reaching 300 strikeouts in a single season for the first time in 2017, he was selected as the AL Sporting News Starting Pitcher of the Year. Sale was the quickest to reach 2,000 career strikeouts in the fewest innings pitched (1,626).