BOSTON -- There was a time earlier this season when people were talking about Chris Sale as a candidate to win both the Cy Young Award and Most Valuable Player Award.
But the lanky left-hander, in his first year with the Red Sox, has cooled off, stopping that talk, with Cleveland's Corey Kluber apparently forging ahead in the Cy Young Award race while the MVP talk is all but gone.
Sale, who has lost three of his last four starts to fall to 15-7 with a 2.85 ERA, faces the Tampa Bay Rays for the fifth time this season when he goes against right-hander Matt Andriese in Saturday night's second game of a three-game series at Fenway Park.