{"id":10385,"date":"2015-07-02T18:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T22:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2015-07-02T18:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T22:33:36","slug":"chris-sale-named-al-pitcher-of-the-month-for-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/07\/02\/chris-sale-named-al-pitcher-of-the-month-for-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sale named AL pitcher of the month for June"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Left-handed pitcher Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox has been named American League Pitcher of the Month for June.<\/p>\n

Sale, 26, went 2-2 with a 1.83 ERA (9 ER\/44.1 IP) and 75 strikeouts in six starts to become the first White Sox pitcher to win the award since May 2012 when Sale received his first career monthly honor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He led the major leagues in strikeouts and strikeouts per 9.0 IP (15.23) in June and ranked among the AL leaders in opponents on-base percentage (1st, .219), innings (T1st), opponents average (3rd, .176), strikeout-to-walk ratio (4th, 9.38) and ERA (5th).<\/p>\n

Some other noteworthy accomplishments by Sale:<\/p>\n

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  • His 75 strikeouts broke Juan Pizarro’s franchise monthly record of 61 set in August 1961 and were the most in the major leagues since Nolan Ryan set the modern-day record of 87 with California in June 1977.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • Sale, Sandy Koufax (76 in May 1965), Sam McDowell (76 in May 1968) and Ryan (five different months) are the only pitchers in the last 100 years to record 75-plus strikeouts in a single month (STATS LLC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • His average of 15.23 strikeouts per 9.0 IP this June is the third-highest monthly total in major-league history behind Hall-of-Famer Randy Johnson (15.79 in July 2001) and Kerry Wood (15.43 in May 1998).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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        • Has joined Hall-of-Famer Pedro Martinez as the only pitchers in major-league history to strike out 10 or more batters in eight consecutive starts. He also fanned 12-plus batters in five straight starts from May 28-June 19, joining Martinez and Johnson as the only pitchers in history to accomplish that feat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          • Leads the majors with 141 strikeouts, the second-highest total in White Sox history before the All-Star Break, one behind Wilbur Wood’s mark of 142 set in 1973.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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            • Is on pace to record a franchise-record 301 strikeouts, which would be the highest total in the major leagues since teammates Randy Johnson (334) and Curt Schilling (316) with Arizona in 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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              • \u00a0His average of 12.28 strikeouts per 9.0 IP would be the highest total for a starting pitcher in the majors since Johnson averaged 13.41 in 2001.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                • Sale, who is attempting to join LHP Billy Pierce (1955-59) as the only pitchers in Sox history to make at least four straight All-Star Teams, has gone 4-3 with a 1.78 ERA (15 ER\/76.0 IP) and 115 strikeouts over his last 10 starts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                  • His 766 strikeouts through his first 100 career starts are the highest total in major-league history, according to Elias.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                    • Has struck out 10 or more batters 27 times in 100 career starts, 12 or more 16 times and has recorded six games with 10-plus strikeouts and no walks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                      Left-handed pitcher Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox has been named American League Pitcher of the Month for June. Sale, 26, went 2-2 with a 1.83 ERA (9 ER\/44.1 IP) and 75 strikeouts in six starts to become the first White Sox pitcher to win the award since May 2012 when Sale received his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,229,503,501],"coauthors":[251],"class_list":["post-10385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chris-sale","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10386,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions\/10386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}