{"id":920849,"date":"2026-10-04T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920849\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:36:09","slug":"braves-to-start-chris-sale-on-extra-rest-in-game-3-of-nlds-vs-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920849\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves to start Chris Sale on extra rest in Game 3 of NLDS vs. Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2014 Chris Sale will start on extra rest for the Atlanta Braves<\/a> in Game 3 of their National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The NL East champions picked reliever Ray Kerr to start against two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell in Game 2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Atlanta lost the series opener 5-3 in a bullpen game on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, we want full-strength Chris Sale,\u201d Braves manager Walt Weiss said before Game 2. \u201cI know him at 80 per cent is really good, but that\u2019s what it came down to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerr started the NL Wild Card Series clincher against Philadelphia on Thursday, tossing 3 1\/3 scoreless innings while striking out two in his post-season debut. The 32-year-old left-hander missed all of the 2025 season and the start of this season while recovering from Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n

Sale will have five days of rest before Game 4 on Wednesday. The Braves used him to get the final four outs against the Phillies after just one day of rest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe needed to win that series, and that was our best chance to do it,\u201d Weiss said. \u201cSo I have zero regrets about pitching Chris Sale in that last game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sale was 14-9 with a 2.16 ERA in the regular season and his 96.1 mph average four-seam fastball velocity was a career high. The 37-year-old left-hander often was given extra rest and that helped him stay strong and strike out 200 in 162 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Weiss said Sale is not hurt or sore.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve given him extra rest all year, and it\u2019s served him very well,\u201d he said. \u201cIt allowed him to do what he did the other night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sale will oppose 2025 World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 3 at Truist Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime you could have Chris Sale on the mound, you feel good about it,\u201d Braves third baseman Austin Riley said.<\/p>\n

Right-hander Tyler Mahle started Game 2 of the Wild Card Series after sustaining an abdominal pull during his pregame warmup. He threw a bullpen Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s responded well to treatment,” Weiss said. “I think he\u2019s going to be just fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atlanta’s rotation has battled injuries this season.<\/p>\n

Left-hander Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez would have been part of the post-season rotation before he was placed on the 15-day injured list late last month with lower back inflammation. The Braves also have lost starting pitchers Spencer Schwellenbach, Spencer Strider, Reynaldo L\u00f3pez and Hurston Waldrep.<\/p>\n

The best-of-five Division Series shifts to Atlanta on Tuesday and Wednesday, if necessary. A fifth game, if needed, would be played in Los Angeles on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Chris Sale will start on extra rest for the Atlanta Braves in Game 3 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-920849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}