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CHICAGO -- Chris Sale is going to use his All-Star break in San Diego to forget about his worst start of the season.Freddie Freeman, Tyler Flowers and Nick Markakis all homered off Sale to lead the Atlanta Braves to an 11-8 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Friday night.Chicago turned its third triple play this season in the third -- the only inning Atlanta didnt score against Sale (14-3) in his five innings. The White Sox ace, bidding to become the majors first 15-game winner, allowed 10 hits -- including a career-worst seven for extra bases -- and a season high eight runs.Sale, a candidate to start the All-Star game for the American League, wants to block out his worst performance of the season against the league-worst Braves as soon as possible.No doubt. Pretty embarrassing. Its about as bad as I possibly think Ive been in a while, Sale said. Stuff like this happens. You take the good with the bad, and this certainly was the bad. You just take it, you throw it away, you discard it. You almost dont even notice that it happened.Atlantas Adonis Garcia had his first four-hit game, including two doubles and two RBI. Gordon Beckham added three hits and Jeff Francoeur had three RBI.Markakis hit his third homer in two nights to boost his season total to five. Freeman had his team-leading 15th and Flowers -- Sales longtime batterymate with the White Sox -- added a two run shot and an RBI double to help the Braves win their second straight after a four-game skid.I think you know who won that battle. Hes seen me more than anybody, you tip you cap and move on, Sale said.Flowers said catching Sale didnt necessarily give him an advantage.Its a lot different then staring at someone squatting and knowing what is coming then standing sideways and looking left and trying to figure out what is coming so I really dont think so besides knowing the pitches that he has, Flowers said. I figured he was going to try to pound me in. Thats a pitch I used to struggle with at times, especially with higher velocity. I was just trying to be on time for a fastball and I was able to do that a couple of times.The Braves 15 hits equaled a season high for a nine-inning game and included nine for extra-bases.Flowers thought the Braves had a good approach against Sale.Yeah, but I also think he wasnt as sharp as he usually is, Flowers said.Chicagos Todd Frazier hit his 24th homer and Adam Eaton added solo shot off Atlanta starter Matt Wisler (4-8), who gave up six runs and eight hits in five innings but got his first win since June 16.The Braves scored four runs in the fifth on three straight doubles to the wall to break a 4-all tie.The White Sox became the first team in the majors to turn three triple plays in a season since the 1979 -- when Oakland and Boston did it.With Chase dArnaud on second base and Beckham on first in the third inning, Freeman hit a soft liner that rookie shortstop Tim Anderson trapped. Anderson tagged dArnaud as he tried to retreat to second for the first out. Anderson stepped on second to force out Beckham, then threw to first baseman Jose Abreu to get Freeman.Chicago also turned triple plays on April 22 against Texas and May 18 against Houston.DERBY DAYFrazier, the defending All-Star Home Run Derby champion, is pumped to take his cuts at Mondays competition in San Diego. We have a little plan, Frazier said, and you look at who Im stacked against and there are some big guns.Frazier, second in the American League with 24 homers, will take on Colorados Carlos Gonzalez in the first round and hit second in the matchup, which Frazier prefers. You know how many home runs you need to hit, he said. 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Regardless of the content, the piece would be just another headline, just another brick in the imaginary wall that has been slowly closing around her.But then, not writing about her would feel like giving up -- surrendering the space to certain voices, who right now dont seem to understand that their conversation, as elevated as their language might be, is really nothing more than a witch hunt in disguise.What am I talking about, exactly?Since May, a steady stream of articles -- see here,?here?and here -- have highlighted the supposed hysteria that will descend on the 2016 Olympics if Semenya does what many expect her to do: win gold in the 800 meters. You might remember Semenya as the protagonist of one of the most explosive sports stories of 2009, when she was flagged for sex-verification testing, the results of which were subsequently leaked. In the weeks after, we found out that, to comply with track and fields regulation on what constitutes a female athlete, the then-18-year-old needed to undergo some sort of treatment, the specific details of which went unpublished.So heres the newest twist, the one that has sparked the latest hand-wringing. A year ago, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that using natural testosterone levels as the measure for sex verification, which most sports were doing, is unjustified. The CAS told the governing bodies of sport, including the IAAF and International Olympic Committee, that they had two years to prove that increased levels of natural testosterone (known as hyperandrogenism) provided female athletes with a demonstrable advantage.The ruling meant that Semenya could immediately stop taking testosterone-suppression drugs. Of course, nobody knows if she actually did stop, or if she ever started in the first place -- only that the highest court in sports said no cis-gender woman could or should be forced to take them. In other words: Testosterone levels were not a legitimate barometer for deciding which female athletes were female enough to compete.And yet, in the buildup to these Olympics, a few people have once again focused the microscope on Semenya, who won the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics and who has been burning up the track lately. In July, she ran the 800 in 1 minute, 55 seconds -- the fastest time in the world this year and two seconds off the world record.What has happened since the CAS ruling is actually embarrassingly simple. Since the highest sports court in the world decided that Semenya is free to compete without restrictions, certain people have moved the conversation to another venue -- the court of public opinion.Guess which one is more vicious.This conversation is supposedly about fairness and protection. Or, rather, protecting female athletes whose appearance reflects societys standard of femininity. Ross Tucker, a South African professor of exercise physiology who has banged the drum the loudest (and who did not respond to multiple email requests for an interview), offered this quote to the Guardian: If Semenya can eventually run 1:51 she is better than [Usain] Bolt comparatively. But Bolt doesnt compete in a protected category for people with fast-twitch muscle fibers. He isnt subjected to the same classification issues as Semenya is by virtue of the fact were trying to protect women.As Stanford bioethicist Katrina Karkazis has saaid: Protect women from what? Protect women from .dddddddddddd.. other women? Or protect more traditionally feminine looking women from women whose appearance is more masculine? Because the reality is, until you do invasive sex testing on every single female athlete in international competition -- and to be clear, I am absolutely not advocating for this -- we have no clue whats happening inside the body of each athlete.We have no idea on what point of the biological sex continuum each female athlete resides, and who might have what advantages. And without that knowledge, the people currently ringing the alarm bells on Semenya are actually engaging in discriminatory behavior. They are singling out Semenya because her physique was deemed too masculine, which led to her being flagged for sex verification testing, which means she is now one of the few female athletes whose sex test results have been made public.Hundreds of other female athletes might possess the same hormones as Semenya, but because their physiques are deemed more feminine, theyll never be flagged for testing, and so well never know.The CAS verdict was, in hindsight, almost predictable. Over the course of sporting history, every previous sex testing measure has been deemed flawed: naked parades, physical examinations, chromosome testing -- all are now seen as archaic, outdated and inadequate.In fact, an adequate test does not exist -- of course it doesnt. Biological sex exists along a continuum of unknown length, not on a binary. And finding the midpoint of a line of unknown length is impossible. Perhaps thats hard for some to comprehend, considering that, for thousands of years, weve had just two options (blue or pink, suit or dress) for how to outwardly express a thousand variations of biological sex.No wonder so many people think there are only two sexes.And no doubt this appears to be a tricky issue. Truth is, weve separated sports into two categories, so we must police those categories, right? If women are a protected class in sports, then we must institute measures -- even if those measures are imprecise or flawed -- to protect them.Right?Not quite.Stick with me.The articles I linked to above make it seem as though the very future of womens sports is at stake -- as though a Semenya victory in the Olympics would shatter womens sports into a million pieces because the categorization would be obliterated.But consider this: Until 1966, international competitions were still using physical examinations to determine which female athletes could and could not compete. No complicated science. No chromosome tests. No testing of hormones. No scans of internal organs. Just a simple glance at a naked body to ensure that no men were masquerading as women. So its possible that hundreds of women (and some men, for that matter) have competed, unbeknownst to anyone, with myriad different internal makeups.And have womens sports imploded?No. So why would it now?Kendra Harrison just broke a 28-year-old world record in the womens 100-meter hurdles; Katie Ledecky is about to rewrite the Olympic record books in swimming. And no one is concerned.Womens sports have carried on nicely for decades, with female athletes of varying backgrounds and advantages, genetic or otherwise, running and swimming against one another, largely without incident. And the courts have said sex testing, as it currently exists, is flawed and unfair.So ask yourself this: Exactly why is Caster Semenya still on trial? ' ' '