Morning sports update: Chris Sale anticipates a ‘fun time’ pitching against his former team
Pitcher Chris Sale is set to face his former team in Chicago, as the Red Sox take on the White Sox Tuesday night.
Chris Sale expecting ‘fun time’ against former teammates: “I’m playing against my friends. It might be hard not to smile out there on the mound at a couple of them. It’s fun. These are my buddies. It’s going to be a fun atmosphere and a fun time.” (ESPN)
Price uneven in season debut, White Sox get past Red Sox 5-4: Price, who missed the first part of the year with a strained left elbow, walked two, hit two batters and surrendered Cabrera’s three-run homer in the third. But the 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner had some nice moments as well, allowing just two hits and striking out four while throwing 88 pitches, 58 for strikes. (Boston.com)
Dustin Pedroia exits game against White Sox with left wrist sprain: “Really no speculation on it,” Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski told reporters after his team’s 5-4 loss. “We’ll just wait and see what happens. He did have an X-ray. The X-ray was negative. That was done. The X-ray was negative and now we’ll do an MRI tomorrow on the left wrist and just see what it is.” (WEEI)
Tiger Woods says medication, not alcohol, led to DUI arrest: “I want the public to know that alcohol was not involved,” he said. “What happened was an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications. I didn’t realize the mix of medications had affected me so strongly.” (Boston.com)
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Sports writer loses job over tweet on Japanese Indy winner: A veteran sports writer is no longer working with The Denver Post after he posted on Twitter that he was “uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend.” (Boston.com)
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Holy Cross baseball in NCAA tournament field for first time since 1978: Holy Cross (23-27) drew the No. 4 seed in the Corvallis (Ore.) Regional and will take on host and No. 1 overall seed Oregon State (49-4) on Friday night. (Boston Herald)
Andrew Hawkins had inside info on Patriots from his older brother: “I think it’s awesome. If it were up to me, he would have been there when he was a restricted free agent a few years ago,” Artrell said, adding that he was “heavy-handed” when asked by his brother about what he should choose. (ESPN)
