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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chicago White Sox manager Robin Ventura said he prefers that pitcher Chris Sale not pitch in Tuesday\u2019s All-Star game, according to &lt;em&gt;The&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/em&gt;.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sale threw 115 pitches in seven innings in 5-1 win on Saturday against the Chicago Cubs after he was chosen as an American League All-Star for the fourth time in his career.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ventura said that he would want to keep Sale from pitching in the game, even though he is the team\u2019s only All-Star.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I also want him to pitch for us for the rest of the year too,\" Ventura said, according to &lt;em&gt;The&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/em&gt;.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Monday, American League manager Ned Yost told&amp;nbsp;ESPN's Mike &amp;amp; Mike that Sale will pitch in the game.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I'm going to pitch him; I've talked to Robin,\" Yost said.&amp;nbsp;\"We're OK. He's definitely going to pitch in the game.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ventura says Sale throwing a sideline session is different from throwing against a lineup of All-Stars.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"That's always a touchy thing, but knowing him, he's pitching on three days, he hasn't done a lot between starts,\" Ventura said, according to &lt;em&gt;The Chicago Tribune&lt;/em&gt;. \"That's a lot to ask of a guy, and you know he's going to crank it up.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sale said that it is not his decision on whether to pitch in the All-Star Game and that he understands Ventura's opinion.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI respect it,\u201D Sale said. \u201CI've got to put this team first and foremost. This is the team I'm playing for and that I have a future with.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI've enjoyed pitching in the past. I would like to. But at the same time, that's a decision for him to make. He's going to make the right one,\u201D he added.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sale, 26, is 8-4 in 18 starts this season with a 2.72 ERA and is second in Major League Baseball with 157 strikeouts.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chicago, which has missed the playoffs in each of the past six seasons, is tied for last place in the American League Central.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Scooby Axson&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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