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Chris Sale establishes individual season strikeout mark

Chris Sale set an individual season-mark for strikeouts on Wednesday night and likely has seven more chances to increase his total.

With a fourth-inning whiff of Travis Shaw, Sale established a new personal mark for strikeouts, a figure he increased to 229 before the game ended. Sale, who had 29 strikeouts in his previous two starts, struck out seven over seven scoreless innings. He exited with the score tied but the Boston Red Sox eventually topped the White Sox 3-0.

“It’s cool,” Sale said. “But at the end of the day, there’s really only one stat that matters and that’s wins.