Chris Sale has been here before. His team is staring down a two-game losing streak, at the risk of suffering a home sweep, and is in the middle of a brutal offensive stretch where their 3.82 runs/game for the month of May doesn't tell the whole story. 

They hit .245/.305/.368 as a team in May (85 wRC+), and struck out in a truly prodigious 24.7% of their trips to the plate. After three runs and nine hits in two games against the Padres, the Sox need an ace pitching performance to save them from themselves.