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White Sox 2, Tigers 1: Chris Sale a winner on record-setting night

Sale set the White Sox single-season record for strikeouts en route to seven innings of one run ball, picking up his 13th victory of the season to close out a historic year.

The Condor set the record in the second inning by freezing James McCann with a backdoor breaking ball, giving him 270 for the season to break Ed Walsh's 107-year-old record.

It was Sale's third strikeout of the night, and he went on to finish with a total of 274 after fanning seven over seven-plus innings.

Sale's evening probably should've ended when J.