Friday, September 12, 2014

Sale's Thesaurus


At the urging of his then-teammate Adam Dunn, White Sox lefty Chris Sale has been sneaking vocabulary words into his postgame comments.  Yesterday, after throwing eight inning of two-hit shutout ball, Sale worked “quixotic” into the conversation.  Personally, I would’ve used “splendiferous.”  How better to describe a starting pitcher with an ERA of 1.99 and 192 strikeouts in a mere 163 innings?

Or “fast.”  Just like Mark Buehrle, Sale gets the ball and throws it.  Yesterday’s 1-0 win over the As took 2 hours and 18 minutes.  The Reds blanked the Cardinals by the same score in a time six minutes better.  If only this could be a trend, especially with the possible seventh game of the World Series scheduled for November.

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