HOUSTON – As accomplished as he has been as a Red Sox starter, Garrett Crochet has been far from dominant at Daikin Park.
Crochet, who entered Wednesday’s 6-4 loss with a 17-inning scoreless streak dating to last September, surrendered five runs (four earned) on six hits to the Astros before leaving after five innings. Crochet’s shortest outing of his 2025 Cy Young runner-up season came on Aug. 11 at Daikin, where in four innings he gave up five runs on seven hits in an Astros win.
Yordan Alvarez and Isaac Paredes hit one-out first-inning doubles to get Crochet’s day off to a tough start, and an error by shortstop Trevor Story preceded a Christian Walker single that scored Paredes.
The big blow against Crochet came in the fifth when Carlos Correa broke a 2-2 tie with a two-out, three-run homer to left field. With Crochet a strike away from getting out of the inning, Correa connected on a 1-2 83.1 mph sweeper. Crochet hit Alvarez two batters earlier to put two runners on.
Crochet, the man Boston wanted on the mound in hopes of ending a four-game losing streak, totaled 93 pitches (63 strikes) in his five innings. The left-hander struck out seven, walked none and hit two batters.