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FORT MYERS — Chris Sale is making it easy to feel at ease with what he’s bringing to Boston next month by doing the simplest yet most difficult of things: throwing first-pitch strikes.
That was the case against almost every batter he faced yesterday in a four-inning, 56-pitch stint against the Tampa Bay Rays at JetBlue Park. His outing was a brief one because the Rays could do little with him but walk back to the dugout shaking their heads as he struck out five, allowed only one ball out of the infield and threw 46 strikes.