{"id":102629,"date":"2025-06-21T15:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=102629"},"modified":"2025-06-21T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:46:28","slug":"braves-place-chris-sale-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/21\/braves-place-chris-sale-injured-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Place Chris Sale On The Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braves ace left-hander <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/salech01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Sale<\/a> has been placed on the 15-day Injured List with a fractured left rib cage, per multiple reports. He suffered the injury while making a diving play on a ground ball in the ninth inning of Wednesday&#8217;s game. Left-hander <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/coxau01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Austin Cox<\/a> was recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Braves?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Braves<\/a> today recalled LHP Austin Cox to Atlanta and placed LHP Chris Sale on the 15-day injured list, backdated to June 19, with a fractured left ribcage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Braves (@Braves) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Braves\/status\/1936476717402542501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Chris Sale heads to the Injured List<\/h3>\n<p>The unfortunate injury occurred in the midst of an impressive encore season to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/02\/23\/chris-sale-follows-historic-season\/\" target=\"_self\">Sale&#8217;s Cy Young campaign<\/a> a year ago. The star hurler was on a heater recently, with a 1.41 ERA and 90:22 K\/BB in his last 11 starts. On the whole, he carries a 2.52 ERA, 2.65 FIP, and 26:114 in 15 starts for the year. In his last start against the Mets, he tossed 8 2\/3 scoreless innings with seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a crushing blow for Sale, who was starting to shed the injury-prone label he adopted during his Red Sox tenure. In addition to effectively ending any back-to-back Cy Young hopes, the injury will surely keep Sale from representing Atlanta in their home stadium for the All-Star game. He would have been strongly considered to start. The Braves haven&#8217;t yet announced a timeline for his return. Similar injuries typically require a recovery period of around 1-2 months.<\/p>\n<h3>Tough blow for an already beleaguered rotation<\/h3>\n<p>Sale&#8217;s absence will stretch a beat-up Braves starting rotation even thinner. With Reynaldo Lopez and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/29\/braves-aj-smith-shawver-injured-list-elbow\/\" target=\"_self\">AJ Smith-Shawver already out<\/a>, the unit&#8217;s depth will be tested in the coming months. The remaining group consists of Spencer Strider, Spencer Schwellenbach, Grant Holmes, and Bryce Elder, with the last spot in flux. 20-year-old Didier Fuentes, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/19\/didier-fuentes-promoted-by-braves\/\" target=\"_self\">called up<\/a> for a spot start Friday, is a candidate to replace Sale in the short term. However, that probably won&#8217;t cut it for a team whose season is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/05\/atlanta-braves-pitching-woes-drop-fifth-straight-series\/\" target=\"_self\">slipping off the tracks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Dale Zanine-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braves ace left-hander Chris Sale has been placed on the 15-day Injured List with a fractured left rib cage, per multiple reports. He suffered the injury while making a diving play on a ground ball in the ninth inning of Wednesday&#8217;s game. Left-hander Austin Cox was recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett in a corresponding move. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5472,"featured_media":102643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35],"tags":[6439,3770,198,29002,28763,336,28523,3820],"class_list":["post-102629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-braves","category-news","tag-aj-smith-shawver","tag-bryce-elder","tag-chris-sale","tag-didier-fuentes","tag-grant-holmes","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-spencer-strider"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102644,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102629\/revisions\/102644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}