BOSTON — When the final out of Saturday’s game sailed into right fielder Wilyer Abreu’s glove, Garrett Crochet didn’t know what to do.
He’d never pitched a complete game before.
“I was like, ‘Where do I stand?’” Crochet said with a laugh. “It was incredibly satisfying. It felt really good and nice to keep the streak going, too.”
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The 26-year-old ace left-hander dazzled Saturday, pitching on a tightrope as he completed a 1-0 shutout of the Tampa Bay Rays in 100 pitches. The win gave the Boston Red Sox their ninth straight victory, the longest active win streak in the majors, and the team’s longest since April 2021.
Crochet allowed just three singles across nine innings, striking out nine and not walking a batter. He threw 72 of his 100 pitches for strikes, recorded 14 swings-and-misses and retired 11 batters in a row from between a two-out single in the second and two, one-out singles in the sixth. First baseman Abraham Toro made a terrific play on a soft bunt to throw out a runner trying to score.
“You have to be precise and perfect, and the timing was amazing,” manager Alex Cora said of the game-saving play.
But though the defense was clean and the offense was light, the story of the day was Crochet’s weaving together yet another masterpiece.
The 1-0 complete-game shutout marked the first for a Red Sox pitcher at home since Pedro Martinez’s on July 23, 2000.
Through the first 3 1/2 months of his Red Sox career, Crochet’s name has been etched alongside Martinez’s on more than one occasion.
Through 20 starts, Crochet has posted a 2.23 ERA. He leads the majors in innings pitched (129 1/3) and strikeouts (160). And though he was named to the American League All-Star team, he’s foregoing the chance to pitch so he can focus on staying healthy for the Red Sox.
“Being able to use my workload in games that matter for the Red Sox, that’s what I’m focused on,” Crochet said when asked why he planned not to pitch in the All-Star Game.
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— Red Sox (@RedSox) July 12, 2025
Last year with the Chicago White Sox, Crochet was on an innings limit in his first year as a starter and his first since returning from Tommy John surgery. He made 32 starts and pitched 146 innings but was limited to four-inning starts in the second half. Determined to have as strong a second half in Boston as his first half, Crochet knew the All-Star break would do him well.
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“I’ll try to dial it back as much as possible, but I think that no game does that as best as you can,” he said of the extra rest ahead of his next start July 20 in Chicago.
Cora has grown to admire that work ethic and focus from a pitcher who’s in just his second full season as a starter.
“He’s a leader, to be honest with you,” Cora said. “Every five days, we know he’s going to be on the mound, but what he’s doing in the clubhouse — you see him in the dugout, he’s always into games, talking to pitchers. … He’s very similar to Alex (Bregman) in that sense.
“He’s very smart. With the contract stuff, it comes with the territory. You have to be that guy. We haven’t had a guy like that in a while. We have had some good ones through the years, and now that he is the ace of the Red Sox, he’s doing an amazing job.”
After trading for Crochet this winter, the Red Sox were determined to sign him long-term and completed a six-year, $170 million deal just after the season began. Crochet has lived up to the contract and then some.
“The day we traded for him in Dallas, I was like, ‘OK, cool, this is going to be good for us,’” Cora said. “We were talking about adding an arm like that. Obviously, he’s still learning; this is the first full go for him (innings-wise). But just talking to him early on, when I saw him in spring training, the way he conducted himself in the clubhouse and the way he helped his teammates, I was like, ‘This is a true ace, this is a leader.’ And, obviously, since day one in Texas all the way to this game, he’s been very consistent.”
Saturday, with his pitch count so low, Crochet tried not to think about a complete-game shutout. It wasn’t until the sixth inning, when he finished with 67 pitches after Toro’s tremendous play on the bunt, that he allowed himself to think about the complete-game feat.
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“I did the best I could until the sixth inning, not looking at my pitch count, but from then on, I was looking at it every inning,” he said. “Coming into the dugout, there was no conversation. I just kind of had my head down, went right into the tunnel. But thankful for AC, for having trusted me to get the job done.”
Crochet nearly completed the feat last month against the New York Yankees until Aaron Judge smoked a solo homer into the Monster Seats with one out in the ninth inning, tying the score. Crochet said he thought back to that game to keep his emotions in check as he walked out to the mound in the ninth inning, as the sellout crowd roared upon seeing him take the ball.
“It was really awesome, really special,” he said of the ovation.
Catcher Carlos Narvaéz, who helped Crochet navigate the gem, drove in the game’s only run in the fourth inning after Roman Anthony hit a one-out double.
“I think every outing I’m impressed more. The guy is amazing,” Narvaéz said of Crochet. “I’ve said it before: He’s a potential Cy Young right there.”
Only the second half will tell.
(Photo: Winslow Townson / Getty Images)
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