{"id":24223,"date":"2019-08-19T19:18:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=24223"},"modified":"2019-08-20T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:03:09","slug":"chirs-sale-injury-update-boston-red-sox-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/08\/19\/chirs-sale-injury-update-boston-red-sox-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sale Injury Update: Boston Red Sox Ace Won&#8217;t Need Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/boston-red-sox\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> received the best news they could hope for on Monday. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1163555229880786945?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ESPN<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Jeff Passan<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/salech01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chris Sale<\/strong><\/a> won&#8217;t need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnto01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tommy John<\/a> surgery following his appointment with Dr. James Andrews. Sale was placed on the injured list earlier in the week with an elbow injury.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chris Sale Injury Update: Ace Won&#8217;t Need Tommy John Surgery<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is obviously great news, but it doesn&#8217;t mean Sale&#8217;s completely in the clear. The Red Sox still don&#8217;t have a solid return date for their ace, although he&#8217;s probably done for the season. Passan went on to note that Sale received a PRP shot in his left elbow, which will reportedly help his elbow naturally stabilize. Sale will check in with Andrews in roughly six weeks, but MLB.com&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Ian Browne<\/strong> reports that the team does not expect\u00a0Sale to return in 2019, even if they can make a playoff push.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Red Sox don&#39;t expect Chris Sale to pitch again in 2019, Dave Dombrowski confirms via text.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Browne (@IanMBrowne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanMBrowne\/status\/1163581439889350656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even before the injury, this hasn&#8217;t been a good year for Chris Sale. Through his first 25 starts, Sale allowed a 4.40 ERA in 147.1 innings of work. The underlying numbers were a little better, as Sale owned a 3.40 FIP and a 2.95 xFIP during his time on the mound. Still, this isn&#8217;t what the Red Sox expected when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/redsox\/2019\/03\/22\/chris-sale-boston-red-sox-extension\/3251221002\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed him<\/a> to a five-year, $145 million contract prior to the start of the season. For the second straight year, the Red Sox ace will miss a sizable portion of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Sale&#8217;s disappointing season is a perfect encapsulation of the 2019 Red Sox. One year after winning 108 games and the World Series,\u00a0<strong>Dave Dombrowski<\/strong> essentially opted to bring the exact same team back for another run at a title. It didn&#8217;t work out, as the Red Sox currently own an underwhelming 67-59 record and are 6 1\/2 games out of the second wild card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"QZsWWqgKSzRCuZk2KwEzDg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1168052869\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'QZsWWqgKSzRCuZk2KwEzDg',sig:'7iEmnhmbx5yyfS4RcEp-sOd4YhAZbckz2ze-NfdQcpU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1168052869',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jeff Passan, Boston Red Sox ace Chris Sale will not need to undergo Tommy John surgery for his elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":24224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[4,35],"tags":[68,198,3046,3047,3048,69],"class_list":["post-24223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redsox","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-chris-sale","tag-dame-dombrowski","tag-ian-browne","tag-jeff-passan","tag-mlb"],"modified_by":"Evan Thompson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223","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\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}