The single-season record for fewest hits per nine innings for a pitcher with at least 150 innings is 5.3, set by Nolan Ryan in 1972. Right now, Chris Sale is at 3.8.
He's allowed just 19 hits in 45 1/3 innings this season and four (four!) in his last four starts.
Granted, one of those starts was shortened by rain, but still, working backward, that's two hits in nine innings, no hits in three innings, one hit in six innings and one hit in seven innings. And he spent time on the DL with an elbow injury during part of that stretch.
I don't have much to add in terms of Fantasy analysis. I just know we rarely get a chance to talk about players of Sale's caliber and wanted to make sure numbers like those got the attention they deserve. Sale is awesome -- everybody knows that -- but he may be even better than some of us realized.
I can think of only five starting pitchers I'd take over him in Fantasy right now: Clayton Kershaw, Adam Wainwright, Yu Darvish, Max Scherzer and Felix Hernandez.