A White Sox Pitcher will start the All-Star Game for the first time since Mark Buehrle in 2005. Sale’s 14 wins at the All-Star break are the most since Ubaldo Jimenez was 15-1 at the 2010 break. He and Jimenez are the only pitchers with 14 wins at the break since 2003.
Sale was historically dominant in his first nine starts. He won all nine with a 1.58 ERA, a 0.71 WHIP and a .163 batting average against. He was the first White Sox pitcher since Eddie Cicotte in 1919 to win his first nine starts and the first MLB Pitcher to do so since Brandon Webb in 2008. Only two other pitchers have won their first nine starts, Sal Maglie started 9-0 with the Giants in 1952 and Andy Hawkins 10-0 in 1985…
