Chris Sale

Boston Red Sox starter Chris Sale made his second start of the season today after a lengthy stint on the injured list.

Immediately, the seven-time All-Star knew something was wrong. The hard-hit ball struck Sale on his left hand. His next one won't be coming for a while.

2:20pm: The Red Sox announced to reporters, including Chris Cotillo of MassLive, that Sale's pinky finger is broken. “Left fifth finger fracture” is the ...

Despite the mounting injuries to the rotation, the club began today’s game 48-44, just one game behind the Blue Jays for playoff spot. The lefty also underwent Tommy John surgery in 2020, missing all of that season and most of the 2021 campaign. He missed the first few months of the season due to a stress fracture in his rib cage. After months of rehab and getting himself back into game shape, he’s now had the incredible bad luck to be struck on his pitching hand and suffering yet another injury. While the extent of the injury won’t be known until testing is done, the television broadcast showed obvious damage to the hand, with Sale immediately leaving the field without hesitation. 2:20pm: The Red Sox announced to reporters, including Chris Cotillo of MassLive, that Sale’s pinky finger is broken.

The Boston Red Sox appeared to suffer a major blow against the New York Yankees on Sunday (BOS-NYY GameTracker) when ace lefty Chris Sale was forced to exit his start because of an apparent injury to his pitching hand. Sale suffered the injury in the ...

The struggling Red Sox, who came into Sunday's rubber match having lost five of their last six and nine of their last 12, are already afflicted by injury problems in the rotation. This was just Sale's second start of the 2022 season. As you can see, Sale immediately walked off the field, and his left pinkie finger appeared to be misshapen.

Sale was removed in the first inning of his start Sunday against the Yankees after he took a comebacker to his left pinkie finger, Brendan Kuty of The ...

Chris Sale's second start of the season came to a quick end due to an apparent pinkie injury. Read more on Boston.com.

DJ LeMahieu hit a double to open the game and Sale hit Aaron Judge with a pitch on the following at-bat. Sale fell to the ground and grimaced for a moment, before tossing his injured hand around, and ran straight into the dugout. The Red Sox announced later on Sunday that Sale suffered a “left fifth finger fracture,” otherwise known as the pinky finger.

Chris Sale (and the Red Sox) cannot catch a break. A D V E R T I S E M E N T. In what was just his second start of the season — and just his 11th start ...

In case you forgot, Sale signed a five-year, $145M extension with the Red Sox in early 2019. He was shut down later that season and eventually got Tommy John surgery ahead of 2020. He appears to have broken his finger on a line drive off the bat of Aaron Hicks.

Sale suffered the injury in the bottom of the first when a line drive off the bat of Aaron Hicks struck him on the hand, and the Red Sox later announced the ...

The struggling Red Sox, who came into Sunday's rubber match having lost five of their last six and nine of their last 12, are already afflicted by injury problems in the rotation. This was just Sale's second start of the 2022 season. As you can see, Sale immediately walked off the field, and his left pinkie finger appeared to be misshapen.

Chris Sale is injured again after getting hit with a comebacker in the first inning of Sunday's game.

Here’s a video of the play. More than an hour after Sale left the game, the Red Sox announced that Sale’s finger is broken. Sale immediately gave a throat-slash sign to the Red Sox dugout, walked toward the dugout and came out of the game.

Chris Sale just made his season debut on July 12, hurling five innings vs. the Rays after dealing with a stress fracture to one of his ribs in March. Now, he ...

He would make his season debut on July 12, pitching five innings in a no-decision vs. Sale exited Sunday's Yanks-Sawx matchup after taking an Aaron Hicks line drive off his pitching hand. Chris Sale just made his season debut on July 12, hurling five innings vs.

Sale immediately walked off the field with a disfigured pinkie finger at Yankee Stadium on Sunday.

The struggling Red Sox, who came into Sunday's rubber match having lost five of their last six and nine of their last 12, are already afflicted by injury problems in the rotation. Sale suffered the injury in the bottom of the first when a line drive off the bat of Aaron Hicks struck him on the hand. This was just Sale's second start of the 2022 season.

NEW YORK -- Red Sox left-hander Chris Sale left Sunday's 13-2 loss to the Yankees with a left fifth finger fracture after he was hit on his hand by a line ...

I get back up, dust yourself off, clean it up and get back to it.” Sale said it’s not fair to the team if he pouts about his most recent injury. I have to get back up,” Sale said. For that to happen, it's a good thing he's got the tenacity that he has. “It's well documented how hard he works and what he's had to overcome to put himself in this position. “As soon as I hit the ground, I looked down, the finger is gone.

Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale prematurely exited his second start of the season Sunday after getting hit in his left pinky by a line drive against the Yankees.

Sale, who missed all of the 2020 season due to Tommy John surgery, allowed zero runs on three hits in five innings pitched in Boston’s 3–2 loss to Tampa Bay. Sale’s injury adds another frustrating setback for the Sox ace in what only was his second appearance of the season. The devastating injury occurred in the bottom of the first inning after Yankees outfielder Aaron Hicks drilled the left-hander’s 87 mph changeup, sending it flying back toward the mound at an exit velocity of 106.7 mph.

By LARRY FLEISHER Associated Press. NEW YORK (AP) - A fast glance at his finger told Red Sox lefty Chris Sale, sadly, all he needed to know.

It's just so unfortunate that he didn't even get a foothold before it happened," he said. The 33-year-old Sale was making his second start since returning from a fractured rib. He's got all the high character qualities that you're going to need to have to overcome something like this. "It's well documented how hard he works and what he's had to overcome to put himself in this position. Sale immediately ran off the field, holding up his fractured finger. I soon as I hit the ground, I looked down, the finger is gone."

Take his chronic fragility, throw in a dose of selfish stubbornness, and the verdict is in: His $145 million, five-year contract extension in 2019 is a ...

Luck — both good and bad — is part of the game. Toni Nadal, coach and uncle of Rafa, once said of del Potro: “He has been the one who has had the most bad luck in tennis because he has been playing with problems for many years.” Or who remembers Mark Prior, the onetime Cubs ace who electrified baseball with his hard-throwing right arm, a standout 2003 season followed by full shoulder reconstruction and retirement by age 33. Sale could commiserate with the Mets’ Jacob deGrom, whose back-to-back Cy Young seasons of 2019-20 have been followed by nothing but heartbreak. It’s just [expletive] after [expletive] after [expletive]. It’s just more [expletive] to deal with. “I just want to play baseball . . . But this is par for the course for me. “Hopefully there’s nothing that’s going to take him out for a long, long time.” Sale is the king of bad luck. Sale’s $145 million, five-year contract extension in 2019 is a complete bust. Prior to that, Sale missed three-quarters of the 2021 season and the entirety of 2020 while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. To recap: Sale was making just his second start of the season after suffering a stress fracture in his right rib cage during an off-site offseason workout. Seriously, is there a player in recent memory whose run of bad luck has been longer and more sustained than what Sale has faced these past two-plus years?

Here's something heavy they need to consider. Rafael Devers grimaces on a dugout bench at Yankee Stadium The Red Sox lost their last two games to the Yankees by ...

But there has to be a limit, doesn’t there? Optics, let’s be clear, are not a primary driver of team behavior around here, at least when it comes to teambuilding. Seems to check a lot of the same boxes the potent-but-injured Kyle Schwarber did a year ago, given what was available then. Their big chip is Bogaerts, but it’s not as though he’s any more of a long-term acquisition than Martinez would be. Two years ago, the Red Sox wrangled Nick Pivetta and Connor Seabold from the Phillies for Heath Hembree and Brandon Workman, neither of whom are in the majors right now. A back-and-forth battle with as many as seven teams for three wild-card slots in which nothing is promised?

Sale immediately walked off the field with a disfigured pinkie finger at Yankee Stadium on Sunday.

This was just Sale's second start of the 2022 season. The struggling Red Sox, who came into Sunday's rubber match having lost five of their last six and nine of their last 12, are already afflicted by injury problems in the rotation. The Red Sox later announced the injury as a left fifth finger fracture, or pinkie fracture.

The Red Sox announced that Sale underwent an open reduction and internal fixation of a left fifth finger proximal phalanx fracture. The procedure was performed ...

The “open reduction” starts with the surgeon using an incision to access the bone and realign it, so it heals properly. “This aligns the bone and allows it to heal but doesn’t make the healing any faster. The Red Sox announced that Sale underwent an open reduction and internal fixation of a left fifth finger proximal phalanx fracture.

Boston said in a statement that Sale had an "open reduction and internal fixation of a left fifth finger proximal phalanx fracture." The club didn't reveal a ...

The Red Sox starter screamed in pain and walked immediately off the field. "One look at this finger, I knew [it was broken] immediately," Sale said on Sunday. "That feeling of just that kind of cold water rushing through your body when something like that happens. The team called the surgery successful but did not give a timetable for his return.

It was another setback in an injury-plagued year for the Boston ace, his future for the rest of the season uncertain.