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Ventura is impressed with Sale’s endurance
- Updated: September 13, 2016
CHICAGO — White Sox manager Robin Ventura declared Chris Sale the best American League pitcher earlier this season, and the left-hander has done nothing to alter that opinion since the All-Star break.
Sale has thrown 76 2/3 innings over 10 starts, allowing 58 hits and 17 walks, while striking out 82. He has a 2.47 ERA, .212 average against, .276 OBP against and .319 slugging percentage against during that time, having worked at least eight innings in each of his last five starts. But Sale is only 1-5 over that span, and the White Sox are 2-8 in those 10 starts.
Sale made history on Sunday by becoming the first pitcher in franchise history to notch four straight seasons with 200 strikeouts.
“Every time you watch him, you see something a …
