Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale pitches only once every five days, but that gives him plenty of time to brush up on his vocabulary in the meantime.
For every start, the team's video coordinator, Brian Johnson, assigns one polysyllabic gem for Sale to use in post-game interviews, and the word must be used correctly in a sentence.
MLB.com has a small selection of Sale's 50¢ words on tape, and compiled the dates and accompanying words Sale has used so far.
The words:
Juxtapose (April 11)
Consternation (April 17)
Ameliorate (May 22)
Acquiesce (May 27)
Capitulated (June 1)
Nascence (June 7)
Ruminate (June 12)
Repudiate (June 18)
Antithetic (June 23)
Dichotomy (June 28)
Cacophony (July 4)
Adjudicate (July 9)
Ubiquitous (July 21)
Voracious (July 26)
Prescience (Aug. 1)
Amalgamation (Aug. 6)
So far, Sale has used each word correctly in a sentence (including nascence, which deserves a pat on the back), but he suspects his streak will end at some point, maybe on a fluke.
As he tells MLB.com, "One of these times, I'm going to have to blurt it out, whatever it might be. [...] Just, 'Oh, yeah by the way, this,' and walk away."
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