HOUSTON -- After Chris Sale’s Game 1 performance yesterday, the Red Sox are no longer interested in rushing him back to pitch in a potential Game 4 on short rest.
“Hundred pitches thrown yesterday, I would think he’s probably Game 5 availability first,” manager John Farrell said on Friday. “So that would be my thought initially.”
Rick Porcello threw 10 pitches in Game 1 and would likely be available to start a potential Game 4, unless he’s used out of the bullpen again in Games 2 or 3. Left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez would be another option.
Sale gave up seven runs, including three homers, in five-plus innings in one of his worst starts of the year in Game 1.