Ron Washington on Chris Sale

[caulfield12]

"That was a pretty good breaking ball that Sale threw and he (Baker) just stayed with it and crunched it.

 

After the first inning, Sale went more to his change-up and his breaking ball. He was able to get it over for strikes and he was able to backfoot some of them. He made us swing at some pitches that were balls and....you know. cause we were all over his fastball. He changed his approach and it worked for him."

 

Elvis Andrus said "it feels like Sale is throwing from first base...almost as if the first baseman is pitching rather than a pitcher."

 

On the unique delivery/angles of pitches and if there's another pitcher like him.

 

"I haven't seen one. He's one of a kind, I'd imagine. He's the first lefty I've seen that throws from that angle in the starting rotation and can manipulate the baseball the way he does. You know what I was saying, we got him off his fastball but he had enough good secondary stuff that he went to it and he was able to get out of some jams."

 

Source: Rangers' pregame show with Eric Nadal/KESN Radio.

 

 

FWIW, counting Santiago last night, the Rangers actually saw 8 lefthanders starting against them in their last 10 games. With Dubront and the Red Sox, it will be 9/11 on Friday.

 

First Sox road series win. First Rangers home series loss.

 

 

Edited May 3, 2013 by caulfield12

[witesoxfan]

The Sox have played Texas pretty tough the past few years. For whatever reason, they seem to match up well with them. My guess would be that it's because they are a team predicated on throwing fastballs while not doing a ton on the basepaths anymore, but it's hard to put a finger on a lot of this stuff.

[Balta1701]

The Sox have played Texas pretty tough the past few years. For whatever reason, they seem to match up well with them. My guess would be that it's because they are a team predicated on throwing fastballs while not doing a ton on the basepaths anymore, but it's hard to put a finger on a lot of this stuff.

It's actually kind of wierd, because outside of Hamilton, I have gotten the impression that Texas was a team that was really good at piling up the pitches on people and that's never worked well for the Sox.