Braves' Sale fastest to reach 2,500 career K's

PHILADELPHIA -- Chris Sale became the fastest pitcher to scope 2,500 strikeouts, pitched six scoreless innings and the Atlanta Braves bushed the Philadelphia Phillies 9-3 connected Thursday nighttime to divided a doubleheader.

The Phillies won the day crippled 5-4.

Sale (3-3) struck retired Edmundo Sosa successful the sixth inning for his eighth strikeout to scope the milestone. He did it successful 2,026 innings, surpassing the grounds of 2,107⅔ acceptable by Randy Johnson.

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

Sosa was the past hitter Sale faced. He allowed conscionable 2 hits successful six shutout innings.

Austin Riley had a double, a homer, and 4 RBI, Ozzie Albies homered and drove successful three, and Luke Williams had a brace of RBI for the Braves, who snapped a three-game losing skid.

Zack Wheeler (6-2) allowed six runs successful 5⅓ innings for the Phillies, who mislaid for conscionable the 2nd clip successful their past 13 games.