White Sox activate Sale from suspension for start vs Cubs

All eyes will be on Chris Sale – and his uniform – when the Chicago White Sox take the field against the Cubs for the final game of the City Series on Thursday night at Wrigley Field.

Chapman entered with a runner on third and two outs in the eighth and struck out Melky Cabrera on six pitches, with four registering 100 miles per hour or higher.

Lackey earned his first win since June 8.

When the Cubs announced Chapman’s acquisition from the New York Yankees on Monday, the team released a statement from Chairman Tom Ricketts saying they were aware of his 29-game suspension to begin the season under Major League Baseball’s new domestic violence policy.

After Ben Zobrist’s RBI double in the eighth, Russell followed two hitters later with his 12th homer to help the Cubs end a two-game slide and snap the White Sox’s four-game winning streak. The White Sox scratched Sale, sent him home and a day later suspended him five days for “insubordination and for destroying team equipment”. Sale said they were uncomfortable and became enraged when the team wouldn’t switch them out.

The White Sox scored in the first when Melky Cabrera doubled and Tim Anderson ran through third base coach Joe McEwing’s stop sign, stopped, then continued home and beat an offline throw.

Hamels (12-2) allowed two runs and six hits in eight innings, matching his longest start of the season.

Fernandez gave up five runs in five innings and fell to 26-2 at Marlins Park.

Dee Gordon, the 2015 NL batting and stolen base champion, returns to the Marlins after serving an 80-game suspension for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drug policy. Boston lefty David Price (9-7, 4.51) hopes to rebound from two straight mediocre starts when he pitches at Angel Stadium.

Rays 3, Dodgers 1: Matt Moore pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning, Evan Longoria hit a two-run homer and the Tampa Bay won at Dodger Stadium for the first time.

Yadier Molina and pinch-hitter Kolten Wong each stroked an RBI double in the ninth inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals ended Jeurys Familia’s streak of 52 straight saves in rallying past the New York Mets 5-4 on.

PHILLIES 7, BRAVES 5 (at Atlanta) – Aaron Altherr and Maikel Franco homered and Aaron Nola won for the first time in eight starts as Philadelphia beat Atlanta. The homer to left matched a career and season high and was his first since July 5 against the Cincinnati Reds. Ranaudo also contributed the team’s only run, a solo homer, in the 8-1 loss.