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Sale Strong Again For WooSox, Throws Most Pitches of 2021

Chris Sale Tosses 4.2 Innings, Matheny Homers Worcester to 2-1 Win
(Timothy R. Dougherty / Double Eagle Photography)
August 7, 2021

MOOSIC, P.A. — Chris Sale put up his second strong outing with the Worcester Red Sox (45-36), Tate Matheny blasted a go-ahead ninth inning homer and the WooSox beat the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (48-30) 2-1 to take the series at PNC Field on Saturday night. Sale went 4.2 innings with zero

MOOSIC, P.A. — Chris Sale put up his second strong outing with the Worcester Red Sox (45-36), Tate Matheny blasted a go-ahead ninth inning homer and the WooSox beat the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (48-30) 2-1 to take the series at PNC Field on Saturday night.

Sale went 4.2 innings with zero runs, eight strikeouts, three walks and two hits in an 89-pitch night, his highest pitch count in 2021. The left-hander had at least one strikeout in every single inning, highlighted by striking out the side in the third to strand the go-ahead run on third base.

His night ended two outs in to the fourth after getting Estevan Florial to swing over the top of a slider, the 19th and final batter faced by Sale in a start that Boston manager Alex Cora characterized as “feel[ing] like it’s the last one” earlier this week.

Sale exited in a 0-0 game, and that was the score entering the top of the ninth inning. Working against SWB reliever Adam Warren, Jeremy Rivera singled with one out. Tate Matheny was next—he worked the count to 3-2 and then smacked a two-run shot over the right field wall to break the deadlock and put the WooSox on top 2-0.

Matheny’s fourth Triple-A homer was his second game-winning shot of the week, as Zack Kelly allowed a run on an RBI groundout by Armando Alvarez then got a strikeout to close Worcester’s seventh win in eight games.

Despite the scoreless night through eight innings, Worcester had seven hits in that span. Yairo Muñoz was the team’s early offensive spark, singling up the middle to lead off the game and extend his Red Sox Triple-A record hit streak to 29 games. With two hits on Saturday, Muñoz is the active Triple-A East hits leader with 88.

Out of the bullpen, Brandon Brennan put up 1.1 innings of scoreless ball and struck out two, while Durbin Feltman added a runless seventh and eighth. After giving up three runs in his first WooSox outing in July, Feltman has now held opponents to zero runs in three of his last four outings. Because of Matheny’s homer, the right-hander also grabbed his first Triple-A win.

The WooSox conclude the six-game series Sunday at 1:05 p.m. against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. Radio coverage starts live at 12:45 p.m. on 100 FM The Pike and the WooSox Radio Network. On the mound, Worcester's Kutter Crawford (1-0, 3.27) goes against Matt Krook (2-3, 4.97).