After signing a six -year, $ 170 million contract extension last week to stay with Red Sox in addition to this season, Garrett Crochet will take Haugen in Boston for the first time in his new uniform when he opposes Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday.
Crochet (1-0, 1.38 era) was named Boston’s opening day start after being acquired from Chicago White Sox in December, and he turned twice on the club’s season opening road. After making a decision against Texas Rangers on March 27, he followed up with a dominant outing on Wednesday against Baltimore Orioles.
One day after unlocking its long-term business, the 25-year-old left-hander beat the first eight rounds of a 3-0 victory, spread only four hits and a walk while he knocked out eight.
“That’s why we undertook him,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said.
Crochet’s latest effort snapped a four-game Boston skid. It also started a five-game Red Sox-winning line that ended with a 6-2 backlash in the series opener to Toronto on Monday.
Crochet lasted eight rounds at first when he beat at the University of Tennessee and said he had not “sniffed it since.”
Now he is ready to beat in front of the home fan for the first time in Boston.
“This is something I felt at home with directly,” Crochet said. “They made an immediate impression on me, and I couldn’t be more excited to have a Red Sox uniform over the next few years.”
Crochet has met Blue Jays only three times in his career, including a start, when he threw six speech-free rounds on May 21, 2024. Toronto, he is 2-0 with a 0.00 era in eight rounds.
Red Sox was able to use another spark from crochet after being held to five hits, including two of Jarren Duran, in the opener of the series.
Duran was in the news earlier Monday after his mental health match, including a suicide attempt, was revealed before Netflix’s documentary about Red Sox 2024 which was released.
“It requires a person with courage and being transparent and genuine to do it. I hope that’s how we see it, right?” Said Cora. “He will affect others and he will save lives with what he did with Netflix.”
Toronto’s trend with strong starting plateau continued with a seven-insert, a run from Jose Berrios, which was moved up one day to the series opening. Blue Jay’s rotation has covered an American league leader 61 rounds.
As a result of the Berrios movement, Easton Lucas (1-0, 0.00 era) begins on Tuesday. The leftist threw five rounds of speechless, one-hit ball against Washington Nationals in its first major league start on Wednesday.
George Springer went 4-for-4 and had three two-out RBI to lead Toronto’s 13-hit effort on Monday. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Also had several hits in their first game after landing a reported 14-year extension of $ 500 million.
The deal has not been confirmed and a physical remains, but it is undoubtedly decisive for the future for an organization that has missed several major free agents in the latest offseason.
“I feel that this is a very exciting day for Blue Jays fans as a whole, to have a guy like vaddy who will be here for what it looks like and sounds like his whole career,” SPRANger said. “I think wholeheartedly that his name will hang on the stadium one day.”
Toronto manager John Schneider presented what the big money business would mean for the 26-year-old first bass man.
“It’s different. It comes with a lot … Things,” he said. “It’s one thing to go out and perform. Expectations come from it, then there are expectations – whether you like it or not – that you have to be a voice, be a face and put an example.”
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