{"id":144095,"date":"2025-09-15T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144095\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:14:07","slug":"garrett-crochet-stems-tide-for-boston-red-sox-in-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144095\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Crochet stems tide for Boston Red Sox in series finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox<\/a> went out and picked up Garrett Crochet<\/a> for a game like this.<\/p>\n

Facing the rival New York Yankees<\/a> in a race for the AL’s top wild-card spot, Crochet was given a big first-inning lead and matched his season high with 12 strikeouts over six innings in Boston’s 6-4 victory Sunday night that salvaged the finale of a three-game series.<\/p>\n

“We already talked about it being a must-win game, just trying to do everything I could,” said Crochet, who is 16-5 with a 2.63 ERA. “We were just trying to re-right the ship. The offense came out big early and I was trying to do my best to maintain the lead.”<\/p>\n

The Red Sox acquired the 26-year-old left-hander in a trade with the Chicago White Sox<\/a> during the offseason. Then, they didn’t wait very long to lock him up, signing him to a $170 million, six-year deal during the first week of the season. The contract starts next season.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox are 1 1\/2 games behind the Yankees, who hold the top wild-card slot. Boston is second. The top wild-card team hosts the runner-up in a three-game series.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Boston came out and scored six runs in the bottom of the first after Crochet fanned two in a 1-2-3 top half.<\/p>\n

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“It was huge. He set the tone early there in the top of the first,” Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story<\/a> said. “To put up a six-spot, it felt like a million with Crochet going.”<\/p>\n

Red Sox manager Alex Cora said the team managed Crochet’s workload after the All-Star break so his big lefty would have more down the stretch.<\/p>\n

“For all those questions about workload and (velocity) down, I think the last (pitch) was 99 mph.” Cora said. “We took care of him to take care of us. Hopefully the rest of the month and the next one he’s a huge part of it.”<\/p>\n

Crochet knows his team is counting on him.<\/p>\n

“Especially as we’re nearing the end here, I don’t want to have any regret on my mind here in the next couple of weeks,” he said. “Just trying to do everything I can to put us in a good spot.”<\/p>\n

Asked what he thought it would be like to face the Yankees in the postseason, Crochet said: “It would be cool because it means we’re in the postseason. I think that’s the main focus. It doesn’t matter who we’re playing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox went out and picked up Garrett Crochet for a game like this.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-144095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}