In the history of baseball, no less than forty launchers withdrew 2,500 strikers on sockets, from the icon of the Nolan Ryan renown temple to Christy Mathewson, via Bartolo Colon and Pedro Martinez, to name only them.
However, no one has ever joined this club faster than the Atlanta Braves launcher, Chris Sale.
Indeed, Sale withdrew the third goal player from Philadelphia Eduardo Sosa to marble with two withdrawals in sixth round last night (Thursday) to record the 2500th stick withdraws from his career. The left -hander accomplished this feat in just 2,026 rounds, the smallest total required to reach 2,500 withdrawals on taking in the history of baseball.
A candidate possible to one day reach the pantheon of baseball, Sale ranks second behind Blake Snell in the withdrawal of withdrawals on outlets by nine sleeves.
Last year, the 36 -year -old man made a return to the surprising game and a little out of nowhere with the Braves, won the triple crown with 18 victories, 225 withdrawals on sockets and an average deserved points of 2.38 and which was finally recipient of the Cy Young Trophy.
Sale was one of the best launchers in the 2010s, chaining seven consecutive participations in the star match during this decade for the White Sox of Chicago and the Red Sox from Boston from 2012 to 2018. It is among others this epic sequence which now allows it to reach the impressive brand of the 2,500 withdrawals in the stick.
The next active player to be able to reach this board is Gerrit Cole des Yankees de New York. He points to 61e Row of history with a total of 2,251 withdrawals on sockets.
