Sale rejoins team with tough-luck loss

CHICAGO — Chris Sale was a pitcher, make that a pretty good pitcher, Thursday night during a 3-1 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

If the five-time All-Star has his way, the mound is where the focus will remain for the remainder of the 2016 season.

Sale returned from a five-game suspension to pitch the finale of the Crosstown Cup series, a suspension given Saturday for violating team rules, insubordination and destroying team equipment. That equipment, of course, was the 1976 throwback jerseys that he felt impeded performance.

But after losing for the fourth time against 14 victories, Sale looked more toward the future than past transgressions.

“It is what it is. I know that’s very cliche to say, but you move on,” said Sale, sitting in the visitors’ dugout and surrounded by media following his first outing since July 18. “You move forward, and the main focus from this point forward is winning ballgames.

“This is what I signed up to do, play baseball. It felt incredible. It was nice to get back out there and pitch again.”

The White Sox staked Sale to a 1-0 lead on Melky …

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