Braves’ Chris Sale finishes third in NL Cy Young voting

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The Atlanta Braves couldn’t have known they were getting a perennial Cy Young contender — and a pitcher who’d draw comparisons to Randy Johnson — when they acquired the injury-prone Chris Sale from the Boston Red Sox at the end of 2023.But that’s exactly what they’ve gotten. Sale finished third in this year’s NL Cy Young voting, two years after winning the award in his debut season with the Braves, and has four top-3 finishes and nine top-6 finishes going back to 2012.Sale had logged just 151 total innings from 2020-23, but he rediscovered his elite form in Atlanta. He’s been an All-Star in each of his three seasons with the team and has even joined his idol Johnson in the record books. And yes, nobody can match The Big Unit, but Sale’s pretty darn close.The left-hander reached 200 strikeouts for the ninth time in his career by fanning the final batter he faced in his regular-season finale against the Cincinnati Reds. He and Johnson are the only left