Braves' Chris Sale reaches 2,500 strikeouts faster than any pitcher in MLB history

Atlanta Braves starter Chris Sale reached 2,500 strikeouts, faster than immoderate pitcher successful MLB history, during the team’s 9-3 triumph implicit the Philadelphia Phillies Thursday nighttime astatine Citizen Bank Park. 

Sale, 36, struck retired Phillies’ 3rd baseman Edmundo Sosa with his signature wipeout slider to extremity the sixth inning.

Sale surpassed the 2,500-strikeout people successful 2,026 innings, breaking the grounds of 2,107⅔ innings acceptable by Randy Johnson.

Sale pitched six shutout innings, yielded lone 2 hits and 3 walks and struck retired 8 batters successful the win. 

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The Atlanta Braves' Chris Sale pitches during the 2nd inning successful the 2nd crippled of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies Thursday, May 29, 2025, successful Philadelphia.  (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Sale became the 40th pitcher successful large league past to scope 2,500 strikeouts, joining Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer arsenic the lone progressive pitchers to person reached that plateau.

The eight-time All-Star won his archetypal vocation Cy Young with the Braves past play portion starring the National League with 225 strikeouts.

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The Atlanta Braves' Chris Sale pitches during the archetypal inning successful the 2nd crippled of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies Thursday, May 29, 2025, successful Philadelphia.  (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Sale spent the archetypal 7 seasons of his vocation with the Chicago White Sox and was traded to the Boston Red Sox. Sale was an integral portion of the 2018 Red Sox squad that won the World Series. 

Sale spent six seasons with the Red Sox earlier they traded him to the Braves anterior to the opening of the 2024 season.

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The Atlanta Braves' Drake Baldwin, left, and Raisel Iglesias observe aft the Braves won the 2nd crippled of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies Thursday, May 29, 2025, successful Philadelphia.  (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

The Phillies and Braves played a doubleheader and divided it. The Phillies won the archetypal game, 5-4, earlier the Braves bounced backmost down Sale’s beardown outing. 

The Braves (26-29) statesman a three-game bid with the Red Sox (27-31) Friday astatine 7:15 p.m. ET. The Phillies (36-20) statesman a three-game bid against the Milwaukee Brewers (29-28) Friday astatine 6:45 p.m. ET. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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