RED SOX POSTCAST: Crochet Dominates over 8 Scoreless; Red Sox Clinch Series Win vs. Jays

The Red Sox (87-71) improved to 4-1 on their current 6-game Road Trip with a 7-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays Wednesday night at Rogers Centre in Toronto. With Wednesday's win, the Red Sox are a season-high 16 games over .500 for the 3rd time this season. The Sox have won the first 2 games of the series and will go for the series sweep Thursday night. ----  Crochet Day: Garrett Crochet was terrific in earning his 18th victory of the season Wednesday night. Crochet is now tied with Yankees starter Max Fried with an AL-Best 18 wins on the season. The Sox lefty went 8 scoreless innings and retired 10 in a row to finish off his outing.  Crochet allowed only 3 Hits. He walked no one and struck out 6.  Crochet allowed the leadoff man to reach only once over his 8 Innings and 5 of his 6 strikeouts on the night came against the 1st batter of the inning. It's also his 6th scoreless outing of the season.     ----- Sox at the Dish: The Sox pushed across 3 runs in the 1st Inning against Blue Jays starting pitcher, Max Scherzer. Masa Yoshida delivered with an RBI Single and Romy Gonzalez made it 3-0 with a 2-run Single. Yoshida led off the 5th with a Home Run off Scherzer to make it 4-0. It's Yoshida's 3rd Home Run of the season. Carlos Narvaez provided some more cushion with a 2-out, 3-run Home Run in the 8th to put the Sox in front, 7-0.  It's the 15th of the season for Narvaez, who has 5 RBIs in the Series.   ----- #'s of the Night:   --The Sox have won 3 straight road series and 5 of their last 6 series from Fenway. The Sox went 14-12 in their 26 regular season road series for 2025.     --Masa Yoshida collected his 4th straight 2-hit game with a Double and Home Run in the win over the Jays Wednesday night. Yoshida has hit safely in 5 straight      and 7 of 8.  He has 7 RBIs over the last 8 games.  --Jarren Duran went 0-for-0 with a walk and 2 strikeouts in Wednesday night's win. Duran is 0-for-9 with 5 strikeouts over the first 2 games of the series.  --The Red Sox are now 32-19 against the 4 AL East Opponents and 5-7 vs. the Blue Jays with 1 more to go between the 2 teams.   --The Sox improved to 35-2 over their last 37 games when scoring 5 or more runs. ----- What's on Tap?: The Sox and Blue Jays play for the final time in the regular season with Thursday's series finale at Rogers Centre.  Brayan Bello is slated to start in the series finale.  The Sox have 4 games remaining over the final 4 days of the regular season schedule with 3 at Fenway (vs. Tigers) and 1 more against the Jays in Toronto. The MLB best 2 out of 3 Wild Card Round gets started on Tuesday, September 30.              -----  LOCKED ON RED SOX POSTCAST- Join us all season long as we go live within minutes of the last out with our latest Locked On Red Sox POSTCAST. We are part of the Locked On Red Sox YouTube Page. Locked On Red Sox - YouTube -----  On the X: We can continue the Red Sox and Baseball conversation on Social Media. Follow on the X (formerly known as the Twitter)  Steve Lenox (@LenoxOnBaseball) / X.     -----Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! 5-Hour ENERGY Enough with boring, flavorless caffeine, it’s time to give your caffeine a flavor upgrade with 5-hour ENERGY®️ shots. Get the favorites you love or be bold and try something new in-store and online at https://www.5hourENERGY.com or Amazon today.  Nutrafol See thicker, stronger hair with less shedding in just 3–6 months with Nutrafol. For a limited time, get $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to https://Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code LOCKEDONMLB.   Zippix Go to https://ZippixToothpicks.com and use promo code LOCKEDON for 10% off your first order.Zippix Toothpicks—energy and focus, anytime you need it. Rugiet Ready to level up your confidence ? Head to https://rugiet.comand use promo code LOCKEDONMLB for 15% off your first order.   Monarch Money Take control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONMLB at https://monarchmoney.com/lockedonmlb for 50% off your first year. Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime. FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is around the corner, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)