Braves place P Sale on IL with fractured rib cage

MIAMI -- The Atlanta Braves placed reigning NL Cy Young Award victor Chris Sale connected the 15-day injured database Saturday due to the fact that of a fractured near rib cage.

"He was doing his exercises (Friday) and felt similar thing wasn't right," manager Brian Snitker said earlier the Braves' crippled Saturday against the Miami Marlins. "So they had him looked astatine and it showed what it showed."

In his erstwhile start, against the New York Mets connected Wednesday, Sale sprinted disconnected the mound and made a diving halt of a grounder deed by Juan Soto and threw him retired for the archetypal retired successful the ninth. He past struck retired Pete Alonso and was lifted aft allowing a azygous to Brandon Nimmo.

"It's conscionable a freak thing. An unfortunate thing," Snitker said. "I saw him aft the crippled that nighttime and helium was doing his postgame workout. And past I saw him the adjacent time and I deliberation helium possibly felt a small uncomfortable the adjacent day. But past (Friday) is erstwhile helium wanted to get it checked out."

Sale is 5-4 and has a 2.52 ERA done 15 starts this season. The 36-year-old left-hander threw a season-high 116 pitches and 8 2/3 innings against the Mets.

"It's a pugnacious stroke for america and him," Snitker said. "It was going truthful good. That's a unsmooth one."

After six seasons with the Boston Red Sox, Sale was traded to the Braves successful December 2023. Sale won the pitching Triple Crown successful his archetypal play successful Atlanta, finishing with an NL precocious successful wins (18) and strikeouts (225) and a league-low ERA of 2.38.

Snitker doesn't person a timeline erstwhile his prima pitcher volition return.

"With bones similar that, they've got to heal earlier you tin commencement the process, but I person nary thought however agelong it volition be," helium said.

The Braves began Saturday astatine 34-40 and 11 games down NL East-leading Philadelphia. They had won six of seven, including a three-game bid expanse against the Mets, earlier losing the bid opener astatine Miami connected Friday.

In the corresponding determination retroactive to Thursday, the Braves recalled left-handed pitcher Austin Cox from Triple-A Gwinnett.