Broken wrist ends Sale’s season
Chris Sale’s injury-plagued Red Sox tenure has taken yet another surreal turn.
The left-hander is out for the rest of the season after he fractured his right wrist during a bike accident on Saturday, the team announced Tuesday morning. Sale underwent surgery on Monday and the Red Sox expect the seven-time All-Star to be ready for spring training.
Sale was already sidelined after he fractured his left pinky during a start against the Yankees on July 17, when a line drive by Aaron Hicks
hit his pitching hand. It was just Sale’s second start of the season. He played catch Friday for the first time since surgery to repair the finger.
The 33-year-old did not make his season debut until July 12 after he was diagnosed with a fractured rib cage during spring training. Sale’s 2019 season was cut short due to elbow inflammation, and he missed the COVID-shortened 2020 season after Tommy John surgery. He returned in August 2021.
Sale, who signed a fiveyear, $145 million contract extension with the Red Sox in 2019, has pitched just 48 ¹/3 innings over the past three years.