After spending more than two months on the injured list, Atlanta left-hander Chris Sale is expected to return Saturday evening when the Braves continue their four-game road series against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Sale (5-4, 2.52 ERA) was having a productive season before he suffered a fractured rib on June 18. The reigning National League Cy Young Award winner has 114 strikeouts in 89 1/3 innings this season and has allowed more than three earned runs only once in 15 starts.

That lone rocky outing came against the Phillies on April 8, when he allowed five runs and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings. Atlanta won 7-5. Sale is 2-2 with a 4.50 ERA in six lifetime starts against Philadelphia.

In last week's start at Triple-A -- his third rehab outing -- Sale gave up one run with five strikeouts in

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