BOSTON -- Chris Sale has pitched well enough to be 2-0 in a Boston Red Sox uniform.
But Saturday the left-hander faces the Tampa Bay Rays and Jake Odorizzi still looking for his first victory with his new team as the teams meet in the second game of a four-game series at Fenway Park.
And he comes into the game with his fellow starters having been rocked in two of the last three games.
"The first time through I thought it was what we anticipated, guys going into the seventh inning first time out, but two of the last three nights it's shown up on the flip side of that," Red Sox manager John Farrell said after Rick Porcello was hammered in Friday night's 10-5 loss to the Rays -- which came two nights after Steven Wright was blasted by the Baltimore Orioles.