Garrett Crochet outduels Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski to give Red Sox much-needed win

Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald on Apr 7, 2026

Published in Baseball

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BOSTON — After too many short, run-filled starts the Boston Red Sox, owners of the worst record in Major League Baseball, badly needed Garrett Crochet in top form Tuesday night.

They got their wish. And when all was said and done, the Red Sox were 3-8 on the season, having won, 3-2.

Crochet went 6 1/3 innings and held the Milwaukee Brewers to two earned runs on five hits, two walks and seven strikeouts. He became the first Red Sox starter to record an out in the fifth inning since Sonny Gray went six in Friday’s home opener.

“And more,” manager Alex Cora said when asked if he got exactly what he needed from Crochet.

Unfortunately, the Milwaukee Brewers had their own ace to play, and the Boston bats looked powerless against Jacob Misiorowski in the early innings.

As the temperatures dipped into the 30s (with “Feels Like” numbers in the 20s), the only source of heat in the ballpark was the pitchers mound, where Crochet and Misiorowski’s duel stretched into the sixth.

The flame-thrower known as “The Miz” opened with five consecutive strikeouts and reached double digits for the fourth time in his career. His four-seam fastball averaged 98.8 mph and touched 100+ mph 21 times. He faced the minimum until two outs in the fourth (Isiah Kiner-Falefa ground into an inning-ending double play to erase Ceddanne Rafaela’s leadoff walk in the third).

Aside from 1-2-3 first and fifth innings, Crochet wove in and out of light traffic throughout his start. Things looked particularly dicey in the bottom of the fourth, when Crochet issued a walk to Gary Sánchez and a fielder’s choice and missed-catch error on second baseman Marcelo Mayer (from shortstop Trevor Story) ensured both Sánchez and batter Joey Ortiz were safe. Story turned a successful inning-ending double play on the next batter.

Misiorowski blinked first. The Brewers starter issued three consecutive one-out walks to load the bases in the bottom of the sixth before manager Pat Murphy went to his bullpen.

For the third game in a row, the Red Sox scored first, took a lead of at least three runs, then felt their hope turn into anxiety as their starter loaded the bases in the following frame. Story’s two-run double to left field broke the scoreless tie, and Caleb Durbin’s pinch-hit RBI-groundout plated another run before DL Hall escaped further damage with a Rafaela groundout.

Crochet gave up a leadoff single to shortstop Joey Ortiz, a one-out single to right-fielder Sal Frelick, and walked center fielder Blake Perkins to load the bases in the top of the seventh. But it was a familiar face who finally knocked the Sox starter out: David Hamilton, hit by Crochet’s 107th and final pitch of the night to get the Brewers on the board.

Zack Kelly managed to finish the seventh with the lead intact, though it shrank to one with Christian Yelich’s pinch-hit RBI groundout. Garrett Whitlock set the Brewers down in order in the eighth, and Aroldis Chapman did the same in the ninth.

For the first time this year, a one-run lead held. The Red Sox, who struck out 11 times and only tallied three hits, did just enough.