MLB playoffs 2025: Garrett Crochet pitches October masterclass as Red Sox take wild-card Game 1 over Yankees

Crochet surrendered just 4 hits and threw a career-high 117 pitches as he staked his team to a series lead in his playoff debut.

NEW YORK — All Garrett Crochet wanted to do after delivering the most impressive playoff pitching performance of the 2020s was play “Clash Royale” on his phone. 

So he did.

In the afterglow of an unforgettable October masterclass, the Boston ace plopped his substantial backside onto a sofa in the Yankee Stadium visitors clubhouse and did some mobile gaming. He looked entirely unbothered, like someone who had just completed a moderately difficult workout and not a 117-pitch gem in Game 1 of the wild-card round en route to a 3-1 Red Sox victory that put Boston just one win away from sending the Yankees home and moving on to the ALDS.

By Jake Mintz

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