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After a slow start this season, defending NL Cy Young Award winner Chris Sale was heading for an … More All-Star appearance when injured diving for a ball. (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images) Getty Images Chris Sale’s hopes of retaining the National League’s Cy Young Award – and Atlanta’s hopes of an eighth straight playoff appearance – disappeared during one diving stop by the star left-hander. Latest Injury Sale, who won his first Gold Glove for defensive excellence last season, lunged for a ninth-inning infield nubber, stretching to his full 6’6″form, to rob Juan Soto of an infield hit during a 5-0 Braves win against the Mets last Wednesday. He got the out but also knocked himself out – perhaps for months – with a fractured left rib-cage. Atlanta’s ace had a similar injury three years ago, suffering a stress fracture in his right ribs while pitching a spring training exhibition game for the Boston Red Sox. He missed the first half of that season as a result. Sale, 36, threw a season-high 116 pitches, missing his first complete game in six years when Brandon Nimmo blooped a two-out double down the left-field line with two outs in the ninth. He still lowered his earned run average to 2.52, third in the National League behind Logan Webb and Paul Skenes. He was also a strong candidate to start the July 15 All-Star Game in his home stadium, Atlanta’s Truist Park. Sale has started the Midsummer Classic three other times, all of them in succession during his lengthy American League tenure. When healthy, Chris Sale’s deceptive sidearm motion helps him ring up high strikeout totals. (AP … More Photo/Mike Stewart) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Now in his second season with the Braves, who obtained him from Boston…

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