White Sox Chris Sale Caps Off Historic 8-Game Streak In Win Over Cards

The Chicago ace joins now only Pedro Martinez for historic feat

Chicago White Sox ace, Chris Sale, has been proving since 2010 that the 12 teams who didn’t draft him, made a big mistake. One team in particular isn’t the happiest of campers. The Colorado Rockies, who drafted a young Chris Sale out of high school, but he didn’t sign as he intended to play college baseball, which he did at Florida Gulf Coast. Once drafted by the White Sox, he spent little time in the minor league system. Sale pitched 11 games, showed his high caliber repertoire and his major league career started.

Finishing in the top 5 for Cy Young voting over the past three years, Sale is making a strong case to finish first in 2015. Last night, he extended an eight game streak that is going down in the history books. In his last 8 starts, Sale has recorded 10 plus strikeouts in each of those games. The only other player to accomplish the same feat was, former 8x All-Star, 3x AL strikeout champion, Triple Crown and 3x Cy Young Award winner and Hall of Famer, Pedro Martinez.

After last night’s 2-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals he capped off the historical run. The numbers over those games show dominance. A 1.80 era is impressive, but even more impressive is the 97 strikeout to 9 walks ratio. That shows an effectiveness that can take over a game. Cardinals, with the best record in baseball, were held to one run, which was a fourth inning Randal Grichuk home-run.

What we have here, is an ace who is demanding the respect in the CY young votes and in the batters box. A 2.87 era, along with 141 strikeouts with a week until the All-Star break, means he’s certainly on the right path.

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