“I said my side”, Sale said. “I want to let them know where my head’s at, where my heart’s at”.
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Padres 8, Blue Jays 4: Adam Rosales hit a two-run home run, Alex Dickerson and Brett Wallace each hit solo shots and San Diego beat Toronto to avoid a three-game sweep. Hector Rondon pitched a ideal eighth, and Aroldis Chapman worked a 1-2-3 ninth – striking out Jose Abreu and Avisail Garcia – in his Cubs debut after being traded by the Yankees on Monday. The Sox though will focus on the task at hand and do get Quintana going tonight who has been excellent this season and matches up well with the Twins despite their bats heating up as evidenced by last night’s 6-2 thrashing of the Orioles.
“I was locked in”. “They said their side, and I said my side”.
Baez went deep on a full-count pitch against Ranaudo (1-1) to chase the right-hander. Zobrist doubled in the eighth, reached third on an error and scored on Addison Russell’s fielder’s choice grounder to shortstop off reliever Nate Jones. “But for them to do what they did today, and the previous four or five days, it says a lot about who they are and how much they care about me”. “It was fun to hear the crowd cheer for me”.
Chapman had 20 saves in 21 chances this season with the Yankees before the Cubs acquired the hard-throwing lefty on Monday for a package of prospects.
“It was a pretty exciting moment”, Chapman said.
Kris Bryant, who homered against Sale in the All-Star Game, hit an RBI double off the center field wall in the first inning off Sale.
“The way it started out, it was maybe a little bit of nerves as he was out there, and he settled down”.
White Sox manager Robin Ventura said on Wednesday that he doesn’t anticipate any issues related to Sale’s return.
Cubs: LHP Jon Lester (10-4, 3.09 ERA) starts Friday at Wrigley Field to begin a three-game interleague series with Seattle and RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (11-6, 3.96). The fourth game is Thursday night.
David Price threw eight scoreless innings to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead heading to the ninth.
Ranaudo said he last homered in high school in New Jersey.
“I’m here to win, ” he said.
Sale had returned from the team-imposed suspension for cutting up throwback uniforms in a snit before his last scheduled start Saturday and got back to business by trying to help the Sox take their third of four games against the Cubs in the City Series. “Players always have their teammates’ backs, and that’s no different with our clubhouse”.
“He might have a little more on it than in the past because he’s probably going to come out a little strong, but he has had these situations before where he has had a long layoff”, Ventura said. He could possibly start Sunday against the Twins or Tuesday against the Tigers.
Lackey (8-7) out dueled White Sox ace Chris Sale (14-4) and picked up his first win since June 8 to end an eight-game run that included three no-decisions. Sale went on to throw six effective innings, but it wasn’t enough as the Cubs won 3-1 to earn a split in Chicago’s rivalry series.
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2001 – Vinny Castilla hit three homers and drove in five runs, but Houston still lost 9-8 to Pittsburgh.
