The Red Sox (14-18) look to overcome last night’s walk-off loss when they square off against the White Sox (14-15) behind old Chisox stater Chris Sale (0-5, 6.30 ERA) tonight in Chicago (8:10 p.m., NESN).
Sale is the biggest disappointment this season on a team full of them, but maybe a trip to the South Side is exactly what he needs to set himself right. I’m grasping at straws, but things have to turn around for him eventually; why not tonight? Other than the facts Tzu-Wei Lin (playing center!) and Sandy León is playing at all, I can’t think of a good reason the Sox can’t put some good wood on starter Reynaldo López (2-3, 6.