Garrett Crochet reaches a pair of milestones as Red Sox rout Yankees, 12-1

Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald on Aug 23, 2025

Published in Baseball

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NEW YORK — On Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours away from Garrett Crochet’s scheduled start at Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox southpaw was surprised to find himself besieged with autograph and photo requests.

From the Yankees fans young and old, who stood behind the rope line that rings the dirt behind home plate during batting practice.

“It was the first time. A lot of kids. Typically adults are a little more set in their ways, so that was more surprising to me,” Crochet told the Boston Herald. “It’s cool to hear. Tomorrow they won’t feel that (way).”

Indeed, the majority of the 45,412 fans who paid to attend Saturday’s contest were rooting against Crochet as he picked up his 200th strikeout of the year, the 500th of his career, and the Red Sox won, 12-1, to improve to 3-0 in series play with the Yankees this season.

Though Crochet and Aaron Judge have overlapped in the majors since the southpaw’s 2020 debut, they hadn’t faced off until this season. Between Crochet’s two starts against the Yankees in June, he struck out their captain six times in seven at-bats; Judge’s lone hit was a solo homer.

He struck Judge out twice on Saturday, too. The latter was Crochet’s 200th of the season, a feat achieved by only three other Red Sox pitchers within their first 26 games of the season: Chris Sale (‘17, ‘18), Pedro Martinez (‘99, ‘00, ‘02) and Roger Clemens (‘88).

Free Will

When Will Warren faced the Red Sox for the first time on June 6, they’d hit him hard — four earned runs, three hits and four walks in 5 1/3 innings — but he and the Yankees had emerged triumphant. Entering Saturday, the ninth game of the rivals’ season series, it was New York’s only win.

Warren staved off the Sox until the fifth that day.

On Saturday, the Boston bats pounced earlier, hit harder, and sent Warren on his way sooner. One batter into the fourth, his afternoon was over.

The Yankees rookie was able to curtail the Red Sox the first time through the order. He worked around a four-pitch two-out walk to Jarren Duran in the first, and catcher Austin Wells easily threw Ceddanne Rafaela out on a steal attempt to end the second.

Then, the Red Sox loaded the bases three times between the first outs of the third and fourth frames. Carlos Narváez’s one-out single snapped his 0-for-7 skid and turned the lineup over. Leadoff man Roman Anthony singled to put runners on the corners, and Warren walked Alex Bregman to fill up the diamond for the first time.

Warren responded by getting Duran swinging on three pitches. For a moment, the Red Sox looked to be in danger of yet another bases-loaded squander.

Then, it was Story Time.

True Story

Trevor Story entered the contest 7 for 15 with the bases loaded this season. The veteran shortstop lined Warren’s second pitch, a 1-0 sweeper, to left for a two-run double.

Story’s 22nd double of the season was the first of three clutch hits in the contest. When Giancarlo Stanton led off the bottom of the fourth with a first-pitch, 370-foot homer only gone at Yankee Stadium, Story responded in kind: he turned on Warren’s first pitch of the fifth, and sent it 373 feet — good enough to be a homer in 13 ballparks — to the same vicinity of right-center.

How fitting that the man who wears No. 10 is the 10th player in franchise history to have a 20-homer, 20-double, 20-steal season.

Relentless

With over a century of stunning upsets between these two eternal rivals, a 5-1 lead can feel as tight as a margin of one when entering the ninth inning in enemy territory.

By the time it was the Yankees’ last chance to bat, however, they were staring up a 12-1 Red Sox lead.

Boston plated seven runs, their most in a ninth inning (or extras) against the Yankees since at least 1969 (the oldest data available from Elias Sports).