Chaim Bloom, the chief baseball officer, said before the game that Chris Sale suffered a setback in his recovery from a fractured rib cage.
He had a personal medical issue that paused his throwing for a little while.
He said that it was not baseball related and that he should be back throwing in a few days.
We were hoping to have him back around when he was eligible, so I think that will be pushed back. I think we will have him back in a few weeks to start a major league game.
Sale signed a five-year, $145 million contract with the Red Sox. He had Tommy John surgery on his 31st birthday in 2020 and went just 6-11 with a 4.40 ERA.
He went 6-1 with a 3.16 earned run in nine games.
The last-place Red Sox had lost 12 of their last 16 and had a poor start.
The weakness of Boston has been its poor offense, which entered Saturday 25th in the majors in runs per game.
The record speaks for itself, he said. The lineup has been up and down. There are a lot of guys that are not performing as expected.
In the playoffs, the Red Sox won a wild-card game against the Yankees and then beat the Yankees in four games in the divisional round before falling to the Astros in the ALCS. They were nine games behind the Yankees.
That is real. We've dug ourselves a hole, no question, and we haven't played well. Panic isn't going to help. We need to play better. We have put ourselves in that situation. There is a difference between panic and urgent. We need to show more seriousness.
There are game notes.
Bloom said LHP James Paxton, recovering from Tommy John surgery, hit a "little bump in the road, elbow soreness that we had checked out. It doesn't look like anything major." ... LHP Rich Hill, put on the COVID-19 related injured list on Friday, tested positive, manager Alex Cora said before the game.
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