Chris Sale knows it will be hard not to crack a few smiles when he takes the mound at Guaranteed Rate Field on Tuesday night against some of his former White Sox teammates.
That doesn’t mean the Red Sox left-hander is going to take it easy on them.
“I'm still going to compete, that's for sure,” Sale said. “They're still my friends, but I'm not going to give them anything.”
The White Sox wouldn’t expect anything less from their fiery former ace, who spent the first seven seasons of his career on the South Side, including five as a starter.