Braves' Playoffs: Pitcher Chris Sale's Health in Focus

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00:00If they lose tonight, they're finished and his triple crown season basically is one he

00:09can brag about to his kids and his wife.

00:12And other than that, it won't matter.

00:14I mean, honestly, he'll get a Cy Young and it won't matter.

00:18Their season ends because he couldn't pitch.

00:21It's like returning to Boston again with this guy with the injuries.

00:24What is wrong with him?

00:25Is his back really fried?

00:26Yeah.

00:27So he was down about four miles an hour the last start and everybody kept saying, oh,

00:34maybe it's his arm, but I believe it's his back.

00:37And it's one of those where you wake up and you go, okay, how do I feel today?

00:39Well, I can't go get a side session in.

00:42Now all of a sudden, even if he felt great tomorrow and you said, or today, fly him out

00:47to San Diego, he hasn't thrown a baseball enough.

00:50Now I will tell you, based upon the way he's attacked it this year, this has got to be

00:54killing him.

00:55It's got to be.

00:56I agree with you, whether it's Otani, whether it's Judge, whether it's Lindor, whether it's

01:00Jackson Merrill, Churio, everybody starts at 0-0.

01:04Everything is gone in October and you have to prove it all over again.

01:08It would be incredible if after all the injuries this year, the one given that you had, and

01:13he was the one given that you had, he's not able to go at all in a post-season series

01:18that you get bumped.

01:19It would just be, I don't want to say fitting as to how this year went, but it would be

01:23closer to fitting than anything else.

01:27They have, I think, been really average with all of the problems that they've had with

01:32injuries and it's not your fault, my fault, it's nobody's fault, it's not their fault.

01:37They had a brutal season and when you don't have a Cunha and it goes on and on and now

01:43you lose this guy, it's just, it's almost like the writing's on a wall that it was just

01:48never meant to be.