
BOSTON — There was Chris Sale on Friday night — not the Sale with arms raised in triumph after finishing off the Dodgers to give the Red Sox a World Series championship in 2018, but the Sale who has been mostly ordinary or injured in the five years since.
Sale made just his 30th start in the last three years in the Red Sox’ 3-2 win over the White Sox, who traded him in a blockbuster during the winter meetings before the 2016 season.