Chris Sale and Reynaldo Lopez Boost Braves' Pitching Staff

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00:00Okay, so the pitching has been the big surprise. Alex Anthopolis getting Chris Sale. Boy, that

00:08has worked out, Grant. If he is healthy, this is a superstar player and ace. Again, the

00:14if healthy, we have to use that because it just hasn't been over the last several years.

00:17And then the addition of Rinaldo Lopez. Let's talk about those two pitchers. We got a minute

00:21to go here, Grant, on those two. Yeah, well, I'll keep it short, sweet, and

00:25to the point. Chris Sale has looked like the guy pre-injury, the 2018 and before version

00:30of Chris Sale. He has been the leading pitcher on this Brave staff with all respect to Rinaldo

00:34Lopez being a very nice surprise and obviously a very important pitcher now in this rotation

00:39because as I said, when Spencer Strider went down, everybody's getting a battlefield commission.

00:43They're going to have to step up. They're going to have to lead and they're going to

00:46have to do so in every spot of the rotation. But Sale, 5-1 with a sub-3 ERA coming off

00:51a really great performance his last time out with 10 punch outs. And these other guys

00:55have fallen in line and you've still got a Max Fried. So it's a great starting rotation.

00:59Sale and Lopez have made it that much better without Strider. It's obviously going to be

01:03an adjustment and maybe to your point, they go out looking for a little bit of help around

01:06the trade deadline.