Atlanta Braves ace Chris Sale became the fastest in Major League Baseball history to reach 2,500 strikeouts in the team's win over the Philadelphia Phillies Thursday.

At 7-0, Ray currently leads the majors in wins, with a nice 2.56 ERA that’s inside the Top 15. He’s got a gettable 6.5-strikeout line against the Marlins, and he’s been good at hitting that lucky seven punchout level.

In the modern baseball era, Blake Snell leads the majors in strikeouts per nine innings (11.17) for pitchers with at least 1,000 innings pitched. Chris Sale sits second (11.11) while reaching the 2,500 plateau in Ks on Thursday.

Chris Sale made MLB history Thursday, becoming the fastest pitcher ever to reach 2,500 strikeouts — and he's not slowing down.

Trade deadline deals are all about instant gratification for contending MLB teams looking to shore up their roster for a World Series run.

After Kansas City's Michael Wacha and Detroit's Tarik Skubal were locked in a classic pitchers' duel for seven innings, the host Royals managed to break through via Vinnie Pasquantino's RBI single in the eighth for a 1-0 win on Saturday.

The Seattle Mariners promoted infield prospect Cole Young to the majors on Saturday ahead of their game against the Minnesota Twins. Young, 21, will be making his big-league debut. (The Mariners announced Young's arrival among a slew of other moves,

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SEATTLE – Southpaw MacKenzie Gore became the first pitcher this season to reach 100 strikeouts in the Nationals’ 9-3, 10-inning win over the Mariners on Thursday at T-Mobile Park. Gore fanned eight batters to bring his season total to 101 strikeouts in his first 12 starts.

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You can't really fake a 14-strikeout game. You can fake a good start. Bad pitchers have good starts all of the time. Bad pitchers have good months fairly regularly. Bad pitchers can even fake their way through entire seasons where they dodge every landmine and end up with a sparkling ERA over 30-something starts.