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Posted at 12:45 PM EST. 

8:10 PM EST. Chris Sale has filthy stuff. Chris Sale had not lost in nine starts going into last night’s game against Cleveland and proceeded to get whacked. The greatest pitchers that this game has ever seen rarely go extended periods without a clunker now and again and so it caught up to Sale last night. That brings us to not one of the greatest pitchers in the game.

Colby Lewis has not lost in nine starts this season and will bring his 2.75 ERA and 1.10 WHIP into this start. Colby Lewis sits among the 20-worst pitchers by strikeout rate among qualified pitchers over the last two plus years. He has the second-worst ground-ball rate among that group. He has the fifth-worst fastball velocity. He basically only has two pitches and only one of them rates as above-average on whiffs or grounders currently. He’s was fifth on the Rangers’ starting-pitcher depth chart before the season and the team was probably hoping that Chi-Chi Gonzalez and/or Nick Martinez would take that job from him. Colby Lewis is living off an 87 mph fastball, a decent slider, and little else. Blowups are on the way so when he’s favored, we’ll be there to fade him. 

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