Chapman earned his first save with his new team Thursday night, striking out two and getting the final four outs in the Cubs’ 3-1 victory over the crosstown White Sox. The right-hander is 4-8 with a 5.40 ERA on the season and was roughed up for six earned runs on six hits and three walks in just two innings his last time out against the Boston Red Sox.
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Cubs: RHP John Lackey (7-7, 3.79) has dropped five straight decisions since his last win on June 8 at Philadelphia.
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. Ben Zobrist added an RBI single in the third. The White Sox scratched Sale, sent him home and later suspended him five days for “insubordination and for destroying team equipment”. The left-hander said they were uncomfortable and became enraged when the team wouldn’t switch them out.
Chris Sale will be pitching for the first time tonight after the “throwback cutting” incident that occurred this past Saturday.
The White Sox scored in the first when Melky Cabrera doubled and Tim Anderson ran through third base coach Joe McEwing’s stop sign, stopped, then continued home and beat an offline throw.
Tyler Saladino doubled off former closer Hector Rondon in the eighth. The southpaw struck out two in the outing. Chapman reached 103 miles per hour on the radar gun Wednesday facing the White Sox in the ninth inning.
Chapman and Cubs interpreter/coach Henry Blanco came under criticism Monday after the pitcher flubbed his introductory news conference with Chicago reporters.
Chris Sale’s stance on player comfort guaranteed him the majority of the Major League Baseball headlines heading into Thursday’s action, but he could not emerge from the controversy with a win with the Chicago White Sox.
“He’s a passionate guy about a lot of different things”, Cooper said.
Cubs – Maddon said OF Jorge Soler (left hamstring), now on a rehab stint at Triple-A Iowa, “is on the verge of coming back”. It makes sense why, as Sale is an elite starter who is under team control through 2019 for a paltry $42 million. Twins 2B Brian Dozier, riding a six-game hitting streak, is 9-for-40 with four homers off Quintana.3.
“I want to win a championship in Chicago”.
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Minnesota is in a cross roads right now as they are playing some of their best baseball of the season but it seems like they are generating success because there is no pressure to contend with as they are so far back in the AL Central.
