Lackey bests White Sox ace, earns split

“It makes me feel proud when I go out there and the fans are cheering,” Chapman said through catcher Miguel Montero, who served as his translator.

Kris Bryant, who homered against Sale in the All-Star Game, hit an RBI double off the center field wall in the first inning off Sale.

Ben Zobrist added an RBI single in the third and doubled and scored in the eighth as the Cubs earned a split of the four-game series and spoiled Sale’s night.

The lefty was scratched from his start Saturday, sent home and then suspended for cutting up a number of collared throwback jerseys the team was supposed to wear for the game.

Sale said they were uncomfortable and became enraged when the team wouldn’t switch them out, feeling the team was putting marketing over winning.

“We’re here to win games, and from this point forward I think that’s our main focus,” Sale said. “I hope it is, too.”

The incident provided plenty of fodder for heckling Cubs fans at Wrigley Field. The Cubs tweeted out their lineup before the game with the line “Throwback Thursday, anyone?”

Several teammates hugged a smiling Sale when he arrived in the clubhouse before the game.

“I knew who they were before this, but I found out who they really are and what they’re about,” he said.