The White Sox announced Sunday they suspended pitcher Chris Sale five days for “violating team rules, insubordination and for destroying team equipment,” GM Rick Hahn said in a statement.
The suspension is retroactive to Saturday and ends Wednesday, opening the door for Sale to pitch Thursday in the final game of the Crosstown series.
Before Saturday night’s game against the Tigers, in which the White Sox were scheduled to wear their 1976 throwback jerseys, Sale was scratched from his start, and the White Sox released a statement saying Sale was sent home after a “clubhouse incident.”
That incident apparently involved Sale cutting up the throwback jerseys because he didn’t want to wear them, a story first reported by FanRag Sports’ Tommy Stokke.