WORCESTER — Chris Sale called his five-inning rehab start for the WooSox at Polar Park, Saturday, his “first real day of work in two years.”
Coming back from Tommy John Surgery, the Red Sox ace made his fourth rehab start in Worcester Saturday. He gave up five hits and a walk while striking out seven. He threw 81 pitches including 51 strikes and left in position to earn a win, up 3-1, after the top of the fifth in front of 9,508 fans.
Below is an inning-by-inning breakdown of his effort.
First inning:
After Sale got Christian Colon to loft a very high pop-up on the second pitch of the game, Corey Dickerson sliced a base hit to left-center field and Tyler White followed with a soft-line drive single to right-center.
Working from the stretch in a bit of an early jam, Sale bore down. He struck out shortstop Kevin Smith for the second out. Rightfielder Cullen Large took the first five pitches from Sale for a full count. Despite it being only the first inning, the crowd worked up a small roar as Sale went into his wind-up and erupted when Large couldn’t catch up to the high fastball ending the inning.
Marwin Gonzalez and Sale have yet to be active Boston Red Sox teammates yet, but Gonzalez, who was also rehabbing in Worcester gave his future teammate a cushion with a solo home run to right field.
Second inning:
Sale stretched his strikeout streak to three when Logan Warmouth looked at the third strike on the inside corner to lead off the second.
Nash Knight reached out and poked the first pitch he saw from Sale into right for a single, but Vinny Capra and Rodrigo Vigil stranded him at first with a pair of shallow flyouts to the outfield.
Third inning:
The third inning was what the sellout crowd was hoping to see when it bought tickets. Sale got Colon to chase three breaking balls and wiped him out with a slider for his fourth K.
Any confidence Dickerson gained from his first-inning single seemed to evaporate when Sale made him look silly on a 79 mile-per-hour change up for strike two. The crowd thought ball one was strike three, but it didn’t matter. Sale threw the ball by the Buffalo DH on the next pitch for strikeout No. 5.
Tyler White was late on fastball to give Sale a 1-2-3 inning all on whiffs.
Fourth inning
After a dominant third, Sale was very hittable in the fourth. He was fortunate to escape with just one run allowed. Smith launched a ball to deep left-center that looked like a home run off the bat. If not for Tate Matheny it would have been. The centerfielder leaped and reached over the wall to pull it back in.
Large lined a double to the gap in left field and Warmouth followed with a well-struck lineout to center. Nash Knight’s RBI double down the left-field line was inches from being foul. But it was fair clearing third and then kicked off the jut-out in left allowing Large to score the tying run.
Sale walked Vinny Capra, but Vigil struck out to end the inning.
Matheny picked up Sale again with a two-run home run to stake him to a 3-1 lead going into the fifth.
Fifth inning:
Sale induced a ground out to shortstop between two flies to right from Colon and White to cap a 1-2-3 inning.
Kevin McCarthy replaced him to start the sixth.
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