{"id":3837,"date":"2022-04-03T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/sales-rib-healing-well-feels-night-and-day-mlb-com\/"},"modified":"2022-04-03T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:22:11","slug":"sales-rib-healing-well-feels-night-and-day-mlb-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/sales-rib-healing-well-feels-night-and-day-mlb-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale's rib healing well, feels 'night and day' – MLB.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ian Browne
FORT MYERS, Fla. — An upbeat Chris Sale<\/a> has noticed a huge difference in recent days as he recovers from a stress fracture in his right rib cage that he sustained while pitching during the lockout.
\u201cNight and day,\u201d said Sale on Saturday. \u201cI can run. I can jump. I can twist. I can start doing some things. There is nothing going on with the muscle. It\u2019s just the bone, which is a good thing. But you have to make sure the muscles don\u2019t do something before the bone is ready to handle it.
\u201cThey attach. This pulls on this. And if this pulls too much, it can be irritated or do something to it. Dotting the I\u2019s, crossing the T\u2019s, making sure we\u2019re exactly where we need to be — not around where we need to be, and do this thing the right way and go with it.\u201d
Boston\u2019s lefty ace underwent a follow-up MRI on Thursday, and the Red Sox's medical staff interpreted the results to him on Friday.
\u201cIt said the bone is healing, everything is shrinking,\u201d said Sale. \u201cThe edema is going away. So, yeah, good news.\u201d
The timetable for Sale\u2019s return to the Red Sox is dependent on when he can start a throwing program. Does the stress fracture have to be completely healed before Sale can play catch?
\u201cThat\u2019s something I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not 100 percent [sure],\u201d said Sale. \u201cThe way I feel right now, I feel like I could go throw today and be alright. But there is a difference between going out and throwing and being alright, and going out and throwing and being great. I think that\u2019s along the lines of what they want me to be before we start doing this.\u201d
JBJ misses theft, but goes deep<\/strong>
Jackie Bradley Jr.<\/a> found himself in the Boston bullpen while unsuccessfully trying to rob a home run from Pirates shortstop Diego Castillo in the sixth inning of Saturday\u2019s game.
In his next at-bat, he swatted his second home run of Spring Training. Coming off the worst season of his career offensively, Bradley has been swinging the bat better during the latter part of the spring.
\u201cJackie\u2019s gonna play against righties,\u201d said Red Sox manager Alex Cora. \u201cHe's not gonna get many at-bats against lefties unless we're leading in the game and we need his defense in the outfield. But I do believe, compared to where he was early in spring, where he's at right now, it's good.\u00a0
\u201c[Hitting coach] Pete [Fatse], and the group, they've been working hard with him on a few things. I think at the end of the day, it\u2019s just, get ready on time so you\u2019re able to recognize and make sound decisions. I think so far he's been solid.\u201d
Next up for Nate? Yankee Stadium<\/strong>
Righty Nathan Eovaldi<\/a> stretched out to 5 2\/3 innings in Saturday afternoon\u2019s 7-2 loss<\/a> to the Pirates, allowing three earned runs while walking none and striking out seven.
Up next? A start against the Yankees for Opening Day on Thursday.
\u201cYeah, I\u2019ve been looking forward to this start for the last week or two,\u201d Eovaldi said. \u201cSo it\u2019s just [a matter of], try not to jump too far ahead, and now I\u2019m past this last start of Spring Training so it\u2019s full go, lock in on the Yankees, and be ready to go.\u201d
Lack of velocity from Barnes a concern<\/strong>
If there is one area of the Red Sox that looks unsettled heading into the season, it is the bullpen. Cora has yet to reveal who his closer will be when the season starts.
Matt Barnes<\/a> is hoping to win back the ninth inning after pitching himself out of that role down the stretch last year. But the righty\u2019s fastball has mainly been in the 92-93 mph range this spring, and that continued on Saturday, when he allowed a run on two hits in one inning.
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\u201cI mean, the velo\u2019s not there. We see it. It's 92-93,\u201d Cora said. \u201cRight now, I don't know if it\u2019s his mechanics or the short spring, but last year, from the get-go, the velo was there. His first outing, he was throwing 96-97. I think maybe he\u2019s hit 95 a few times, but he's been inconsistent with the velocity.\u201d
\u201cHe has two more [outings in Spring Training] if I'm not mistaken. Hopefully his velo picks up before we get [to Opening Day], because that was a game-changer last year — velo and attacking. So we\u2019ll take a look at it and keep working with him. That's something that caught my attention today.
\u201cToday's, what, the third or fourth [appearance]? You saw the kids throwing 95-96. We\u2019re in the stage of the spring, regardless of where we\u2019re at, 19 days, 20 days, whatever, we\u2019re almost there, and we need to get going.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ian BrowneFORT MYERS, Fla. — An upbeat Chris Sale has noticed a huge difference in recent days as he recovers from a stress fracture in his right rib cage that he sustained while pitching during the lockout.\u201cNight and day,\u201d said Sale on Saturday. \u201cI can run. I can jump. I can twist. I can start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}